Przemysław Zbierowski

University of Economics in Katowice · Department of Entrepreneurship

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2023/2024 Global Report: 25 years and Growing

Entrepreneurship, or the act of starting and running a new business, is a key catalyst of economic development. It is also an important driver of economic recovery: from the effects of the recent COVID-19 pandemic as well as more recent shocks, such as the war between Russia and Ukraine, with its related supply chain issues and rising energy costs....

Purpose Drawing on the social exchange theory, the authors extend the high-reliability literature by examining employees' subjective experience of working in contexts engaging in mindful organizing (MO). Ultimately, they ask the question about how MO affects employees' attitudes and behavior toward work and organization, such us organizational comm...

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How can entrepreneurs protect their wellbeing during a crisis? Does engaging agility (namely, opportunity agility and planning agility) in response to adversity help entrepreneurs safeguard their wellbeing? Activated by adversity, agility may function as a specific resilience mechanism enabling positive adaption to crisis. We studied 3,162 entrepre...

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all walks of human life be it economic, health, social or mental well-being. The nationwide lock-down for over two months and subsequent easing of restrictions over multiple months in 2020 has put significant stress on the Indian Micro-Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), which contribute nearly one-third of Indi...

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs including the selfemployed) account for 90% of businesses globally and provide 70% of employment worldwide. These businesses, typically entrepreneur led, are threatened by the Covid-19 pandemic, meaning that millions of jobs are at risk. This report presents insights from a global study conducted during the...

This report contains insights from a study of UK entrepreneurs and SMEs that captured their situation during the first nationwide lockdown to control the Covid-19 pandemic (May-July 2020). It also reflects how impacts differed for women and men entrepreneurs and those located in and outside of London. We capture entrepreneurs’ long-term outlook bey...

PurposeThe purpose of the paper is to propose the framework of effects of various aspects of positive leadership on components of long-term well-being.Methodology/approachThe paper is conceptual in nature. I use the established frameworks considered as related to positive leadership and assess the effect of each of their dimensions on components of...

Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to investigate the combined effect of prosocial motivation and organizational citizenship behavior on entrepreneurial orientationMethodology/approach: The research was carried out on a sample of 406 enterprises using multi-source cross-sectional design. The main analytical technique is hierarchical regression an...

The main purpose of this paper is to assess the possible impact of new technology-based firms on the social and economic development of Central and Eastern European (CEE) and Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries by analyzing the share of such firms among entrepreneurs and society and by investigating data on their expected growth, inn...

Purpose: The paper attempts to clarify the concept of positive leadership. Over the last decade a couple of models of positive leadership have been produced. The paper is purely conceptual its objective is to introduce some order and attempt to clarify what positive leadership really is.Methodology/approach: The method used in the paper is literatu...

W artykule opisano tematykę społecznej efektywności organizacji. Jego celem jest po pierwsze przedstawienie efektywności organizacji w perspektywie pozytywnej, a także wpisanie w ten obraz koncepcji efektywności społecznej. Po drugie zaś, istotne w artykule jest zaproponowanie miary efektywności społecznej, która może być wykorzystana w badaniach e...

Purpose: Being encouraged by positive scholars I make an attempt to use positive way of thinking to further explore the process of entrepreneurship. More specifically, I aim at looking for positive antecedents of entrepreneurship and its positive consequences. The purpose of the paper is to formulate propositions for further empirical research. Met...

Objective: The objective of the paper is to describe the approaches to positive leadership and propose research directions on its impact on corporate entrepreneurship. There is much debate within positive leadership domain and the question arises if positive style of leadership supports the entrepreneurship within corporations conceptualised as ent...

In recent decades economic integration and globalization processes facilitate the firms’ internationalization. The main determinants of that process are divided into three categories - internal factors, external factors and personal characteristics of an entrepreneur. The latter is considered to be the most important and will be the research subjec...

Las Pequeñas y Medianas Empresas (Pymes) familiares son parte importante de la economía en varios países del mundo, como una de las principales impulsoras de empleos. La forma en que operan, la manera en que se conforman, así como la organización de los miembros de la familia que se encuentran en ella, puede ser determinante. Esta investigación, da...

Purpose: Entrepreneurs start up their businesses for a variety of reasons. Among those are selffulfillment and expected increase in quality of life. The paper aims at measuring the difference of well-being of entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs in cross-country analysis. Also presented are results for entrepreneurs at various stages of activity, op...

Purpose: Despite the dynamic growth of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) there have been very few attempts to discover a structure of positive phenomena at organizational level and, taking a step further, conceptualize and operationalize organizational positivity. The paper attempts to fill that gap by proposing a coherent concept of positi...

Purpose: The field of Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) experiences recently a dynamic growth. Many conceptual frameworks are created and empirically tested. Recently the model of positive orientation with positive leadership as one of its dimensions has been conceptualized and operationalized. The purpose of the paper is to measure the inf...

Entrepreneurship was one of the areas of social life that underwent the most dramatic change during the period of political and economic transition in Poland. Some early changes were introduced to the law and regulations concerning private ownership of the businesses even in the mid-1980s, but the real burst of entrepreneurial activity took place i...

There is some evidence that positivity at organizational level is related to intrapreneurship. Based on extensive literature review we hypothesize that intrapreneurship and organizational positivity are related to each other and both play a role in achieving high organizational performance. Therefore, we ask a central research questions: Are positi...

Purpose – The Polish economy is continuing its expansion through the adoption of free market economics in the post-communist era. To encourage this growth in a future where difficult global economic conditions are likely to persist, it is essential that entrepreneurial activity is encouraged within the next generation of graduates. This study aims...

The paper presents an attempt to empirically answer the question about the source of success for small and medium enterprises (SME) made on the basis of two recently developed theoretical concepts namely High Performance Organization (HPO) and Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS). The aim of the study is to combine the model of HPO with the ac...

(...) Program Rozwoju Technologii Województwa Śląskiego na lata 2010-2020 (PRT) jest strategicznym planem rozwoju technologicznego regionu integrującym zarówno identyfikację jego potencjału, jak i narzędzia umożliwiające prowadzenie skutecznej polityki wsparcia dla protechnologicznego rozwoju regionu z uwzględnieniem obecnego oraz przyszłego okresu...

The process of starting anew after failure has been poorly recognized so far. To explain why some individuals become serial, while others remain novice entrepreneurs we propose to consider their learning abilities. We follow the assumption that entrepreneurs who can learn by failure are more likely to become serial entrepreneurs (Ucbasaran, Wright,...

Streszczenie: W artykule zaprezentowano sposób, w jaki firmy osiągają wysoką efektywność w kontekście regionalnego potencjału innowacyjnego. Większość autorów twierdzi, Ŝe potencjał innowacyjny regionu jest pochodną innowacyjności jego mieszkańców i firm tam funkcjonujących, region sam w sobie jest kontenerem lepiej lub gorzej urządzonym (np. infra...