Ondřej Kročil

Palacký University Olomouc · Department of Economic and Managerial Studies

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a conscious leadership competency framework to be used in business training as well as in managerial study programs. Design/methodology/approach First, using literature review, the current state of knowledge in conscious leadership competency frameworks was examined. Subsequently, a framework analysi...

Social entrepreneurship is a concept that has significant benefits for society. To shape the appropriate conditions for the development of this generally beneficial phenomenon, we need to ask what motivates entrepreneurs to give priority to social entrepreneurship over commercial entrepreneurship. Although several studies are looking at the motivat...

Purpose Drawing on Weick’s sensemaking perspective, this study aims to describe how Czech social entrepreneurs shape the shared meaning of the crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and what approaches to the crisis the sensemaking process leads to. Design/methodology/approach This study is based on the principles of grounded theory. Through in-de...

Social enterprises are organizations that make society more resilient, but at the same time they have their own vulnerabilities and are threatened by a number of factors that can throw them into a crisis. Nevertheless, a crisis in social enterprises and their crisis preparedness are not topics that the literature adequately deals with. The aim of t...

Purpose A qualitative approach based on grounded theory was utilized, with data collected through 26 semi-structured interviews with social entrepreneurs. Alas’s Triangular Model provided the framework for data analysis and interpretation. Design/methodology/approach This study explores how Hong Kong social enterprises approached crisis and change...

Hong Kong faces significant business and social uncertainty, which affects social entrepreneurs’ perceptions of risks and vulnerabilities. This study examines their narratives, taking into account the influence of Chinese propaganda, discourse and fear. Their experiences are likened to Foucault’s panopticism, where entrepreneurs feel constantly mon...

Purpose In societies marked by inequality, organizations use management techniques and business strategies for sustainability, social impact and ethical activities, with stakeholders often promoting education to effectively address these challenges. This paper establishes an original relation between the development of social entrepreneurship and a...

As one of the essential parts of government administration public procurement system utilizes a significant share of GDP. The purpose of public procurement system is to award timely and cost-effective contracts to qualified contractors and to keep safe that buying of goods and services in the public authorities is done in the legal manner. Furtherm...

The concept of shared mobility involves a type of transportation based on advanced digital technologies which make it possible to approach mobility as a service. This concept seeks to reduce the need for individual ownership of means of transport and enhance the effectiveness of their use. The aim of this paper is – to identify the reasons for the...

The aim of this paper is to explore the research interest of scientific articles authors in the concept of social entrepreneurship in the Visegrad Group countries. To explore it, the methodological approach of a systematic literature review is used. In total, 44 scientific articles from Web of Science and Scopus database were analyzed. The research...

With the increasing challenges our society faces, ranging from environmental issues to the current coronavirus crisis, interest in a new way of investing, known as impact investing, has also been increasing. In addition, recently, an even more conscious way of investing, known as integral investing, has appeared. In this article, the concepts of im...

Social enterprises use a variety of tools to communicate with the public. These tools include, in particular, enterprise websites, online stores integrated into these websites and social media profiles. Nowadays, especially social media is an important corporate communication platform. Because all these tools work with personal data, social enterpr...

Since the mid of 1970‘s Czech livestock production has been directly infl uenced by the occurrence of Infectious Bovine Rhinotracheitis (IBR) whose occurrence affects the economics of livestock agricultural production in the Czech Republic. IBR is a highly contagious, infectious respiratory disease that is caused by Bovine Herpesvirus-1. For this r...

Employment policy as part of the social policy of the state has two basic objectives - achieving full employment and protection against unemployment. There are many groups of people who are highly vulnerable to unemployment on the labour market. For these people, the existence of so-called integration social enterprises, which can offer them a job...

The theory of enterprise financial management offers number of methods used in practice which serve as basis for investment decision making and as a mode of feedback on its effectivity and impacts. Most of these methods are appropriate mainly for enterprise financial management whose main objective is market value maximisation or profit maximisatio...