Tatjana Volkova

BA School of Business and Finance | BA · Management

In this paper, we identify the synergic link between the organisational elements sustainability and digitalisation by implementing digital sustainability reporting (DSR) in the context of the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). Founded on bibliometric analyses and a literature-based scientific discussion, this conceptual paper prov...

This study aimed to identify emerging trends and topics in strategic management and sustainable development research in the context of global disruptions, especially when they combine into polycrises, contributing to a state of uncertainty known as the non-ergodic world. The authors employed the Scopus database to collect and analyse academic liter...

Idea management is a process that allows an organization to capture, develop and implement new ideas. In the COVID-19 pandemic, idea management systems (IMS) can play a vital role in improving innovation results and financial performance for organizations. IMS is a software-based platform that enables organizations to manage their idea management p...

This article aims to identify the relationship between sustainability and strategic management to determine whether sustainability can be considered a strategic management research fashion. This involves a bibliometric analysis of recent academic literature from 2021 to 2023 to identify the latest academic research, key trends, collaboration and ke...

This article aims to identify the relationship between sustainability and strategic management to determine whether sustainability can be considered a strategic management research fashion. This involves a bibliometric analysis of recent academic literature from 2021 to 2023 to identify the latest academic research, key trends, collaboration and ke...

Topicality: Management literature largely frames business contributions to a society based on concepts of ‘responsibility’ and ‘business case’. Even though the ‘responsibility’ discourse is considered less effective, experiments on the ‘business case’ did not result in a strong positive intention of corporate managers towards society. The underpinn...

The increase in studies on how digital transformation based on the application of digital technologies affects the sustainable development of various sectors of the economy has been observed. Although digital transformation is important for the financial sector sustainable development, the drivers and links between them are weakly addressed by rese...

Objective - to conceptualise the framework of the shared value in the context of circular businesses and explore the effect of a collaboration on creating shared value. Within circular businesses the value is created not only for customers or business owners, but also the positive impact on the environment and the social value for the society is de...

As a result of increased digitization and increasingly dynamic work environments, web-based idea management system (IMS) research has significantly increased in practical and academic relevance. A Web-based IMS is a manageable, systematic tool to generate and evaluate ideas. The following research gap was identified in IMS literature by the authors...

The research aims to clarify how different web-based IMS types influence creativity in organisations. IMS tools could be used by private, public organisations, as well by higher education institutions and research institutions. By involving all these organisations in the IM process, the creativity and thus innovation potential is increasing, but me...

INTRODUCTION There is increased international pressure to develop sustainable and circular businesses. This raises the question of entrepreneurs’ green awareness and the ability to adopt green values in their business and management practices. While this has become a hot topic on the agenda of policymakers and researchers, there is a critically low...

COVID-19 has deepened the vulnerability of millions of people. This has reinforced the need for stronger social protection systems globally. Literature on social protection have emphasized the role of government even though it is not the main provider of social protection in many parts of Africa. The aim of this research is to explore non-state soc...

Web-based idea management systems (IMS) have helped many organisations to adapt their creativity processes to the new way of working in response to the global pandemic. IMS provide a systematic and manageable idea generation and evaluation process in the virtual environment. Many well-known organisations in various industries, for example, Etsy, Pa...

This paper aims to identify the different idea management system (IMS) types impact on innovation capacity and to support companies in the selection of the most appropriate IMS approach. The main findings of the research indicate the following: First, the application of active IMS stimulates innovation culture more than the application of passive I...

Topicality: Success in every organization is tied to the quality of its leadership performance. The importance of solving societal challenges, including delivering shared value, is growing. While there are several findings when investigating the current literature, it is evident that there is a research gap in literature on social enterprise strate...

Research background: the authors have explored that there are different idea management system (IMS) application types that could be used both locally and globally for diverse reasons and expected outcomes. There is ongoing research on how IMS could be applied for manageable idea management process. But there is a question – how do these IMS types...

The circular business models (CBMs) are not broadly adopted yet due to the lack of widespread practices of combining environmental and economic vales, but the value co-creation may facilitate. This paper aims to develop the conceptual framework of the value co-creation in CBMs based on the Quadruple Helix perspective. The purpose of this paper is t...

Topicality/Problem. Idea management systems (IMS) are manageable, systematic tools, tool kits or complex systems that helps to generate and evaluate ideas and are an important element of organizational development. Many well-known organizations (e.g. Volkswagen, Microsoft, GE Healthcare, Procter and Gamble, Boeing, Siemens, etc) are successfully ap...

The fast development of new technologies has a significant impact on the financial sector development. Digitalization leads to the development of new business models, transformation of value chains, new product delivery channels, relationships between companies in the financial sector and structural landscape of the financial sector changes to the....

The development of new technologies provided by Information and communication technologies, robotics, artificial intelligence and their application have an essential influence on the business model of the financial sector companies. Changes are taking place through a variety of technology processes in different industries of the financial sector s...

Research background: Authors have explored that there are different idea management system application types that could be used both locally and globally. But there is the question – how organizations can benefit from these systems during COVID19? Purpose of the article: The article aims to clarify how external and mixed web-based idea management s...

Product development teams at ICT companies are using various innovation tools (e.g., Business Model Canvas, Lean Startup) and management methodologies (e.g., Lean Startup, Kaizen). The aim of this chapter is to align selection of innovation tools with company growth in subsequent stages of product development before and during commercialization sta...

Purpose. This paper aims to provide an overview of the current challenges of cybersecurity insurance, focusing on the identification of development constraints and opportunities and the key impact factors of this recently emerging insurance market in Latvia. Methodology. The authors used theoretical and empirical research methods, e.g., a literatur...

Purpose-Idea management system application considers idea quantity, idea quality and involvement (number of involved persons in idea management) as key to idea management success. The purpose of this paper is to examine how different idea management system application types impact idea management system results. Methodology-The authors conducted em...

Idea management system application considers idea quantity as the key to idea management success. The purpose of this paper is to examine how different idea management system application types impact idea management system results. The authors conducted empirical research by conducting a survey based on adaptive structuration theory framework. In t...

The development of information and communication technologies (ICT) has a significant impact on the business model of companies operating in the financial sector. Digital transformation leads to changing existing business model rapidly, as well as necessity of developing new processes specifically related to the use of ICT in business processes, de...

Purpose: To investigate strategic foresight capability and its role in enabling the process of management innovation. Approach: The research follows a narrative literature review, divided into three phases, during which the key topics-strategic foresight, management innovation and managerial cognition-are researched for their potential interaction....

Research background: Web-based idea management systems provide local and global idea management potential for many well-known and established companies, such as Boeing, Panasonic, Volkswagen, Volvo and P&G. Based on previous research done by the authors, there is an existing gap in the available literature and research on the subject: (1) there is...

This chapter presents a postmortem analysis of the collapse of a Latvian enterprise software company Clusterpoint that attempted to enter the global market with a Cloud-based database-as-a-service (DBaaS) offering to compete with MongoDB and other vendors in the NoSQL database category. The beginning of Clusterpoint is dated back to 2006 when three...

Foresight has been on the political and research agenda already for decades, nevertheless there is still no common understanding up to which extent application of strategic foresight impacts environmental sustainability. This is also not sufficiently explored in the body of literature within the research community. Thus, the study aims to contribut...

The purpose of this paper is to propose outline for a new product development framework to be utilized by Latvian ICT companies and technology startups. Design/methodology: To achieve this objective, semi-structured expert interviews with 12 executives from Latvian ICT companies and startups were held to identify common factors for these companies...

As the important part of European integration there is a goal till the year 2010 to create the unite higher education area, which means: considering the needs of European labour market in designing and improving study programs; encouraging the students and staff mobility within the unite higher education area; unification of the systems of evaluati...

The purpose of this research is to examine information technology and communications (ICT) product development methods and management principles within the ICT sector of Latvia. This paper introduces definitions of innovation and startup, identifies the main product development methods used in order to develop innovative products with high added va...

Purpose of this conceptual study is the identification and analysis of key success factors to increase value proposition based on design thinking of hotel executives and value co-creation with customers in the hospitality industry. Globalized dynamic markets and ever-changing customer needs and demands require ongoing experimentation and communicat...

During the last decade software developers have put increasing focus on developing information systems supporting decision making, collaboration, knowledge and idea management. Idea management systems (IMS) - manageable systematic tools to generate and evaluate ideas - are an important element within this trend. Web-based IMS are used by many well-...

The objective of this study is to conduct an analysis of regional development and competitiveness in the EU and Latvia under current conditions of economic globalization. This paper makes an attempt to evaluate a theory of regional development and regional competitiveness concept in relation to regional competitiveness in the light of current globa...

Organizations with well-developed strategic foresight capabilities have higher level awareness about the emerging pattern of external environment threats and opportunities and make better decisions to respond to these challenges. Scholars emphasise that even though topics on leadership and leadership capabilities have become increasingly popular, t...

Employers form the opinion about higher education institutions by employing their graduates and encountering learning outcomes in the process of their application. Therefore they can provide valuable information for higher education stakeholders, not only about the labour market but also about higher education itself from an external perspective. T...

This paper highlights the current critical business challenges in the architecture industry. The initial study reviews the latest statistics of the architecture industry, research findings in the discipline of architecture management, knowledge and education gaps, as well as current business needs and development perspective. The review of the Latv...

Employers can give a valuable insight into the employability competencies and desired improvements in the higher education quality assurance system. The main aim of the paper is to find what kind of employability competencies are highly valued by employers, how employers see their involvement in higher education and what further quality assurance a...

The need for socially responsible products and environments has increased noticeably in recent years and the latest research shows that the design thinking (DT) approach is a potentially effective way to develop and implement creative ideas and innovation. A shift to a more comprehensive and transformative design management (DM) approach in the con...

This paper aims to investigate the experience and to identify the drivers of transforming traditional universities into Entrepreneurial Universities for ensuring sustainable higher education in Latvia. Due to the wide scope, Entrepreneurial University characteristics, the present research study is limited and focuses on the university providing acc...

As never before, turbulent business environments, scarcity of resources, hyper-competition and globalization have put significant competitive pressures on many businesses. Rapid specialized technology developments and increased global access to geographically unlimited markets allow consumers seemingly to have infinite choices for the best satisfac...

The aim of the report is define the market potential of the private life and pension industry in the Baltic region. The authors used the Tornquist function to develop the market growth and saturation approach. The research outcome is a cross-country comparison of market growth, saturation and its dynamics to support strategic decisions by financial...

Purpose ‐ The purpose of this paper is to identify the dominant strategy and business models of companies and to analyse the awareness of design and the stage of design application in business in its broader sense from the perspective of business executives in the manufacturing sector and professional designers in the design industry that lead to c...

The purpose of the research paper is to provide an overview of similarities and differences in human resource management (HRM) in three Baltic countries and to present possibilities to improve HRM practice. The methodology of the study is based on the comparison of the results of different HRM surveys conducted in Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia duri...

For successful management of companies managers need not only to organize and to manage basic activities and to ensure the appropriate supporting functions, but they also need to evaluate these functions. One of the most important systems of conduct of a business is Human Resources management (HRM). The necessity to evaluate HRM in companies of Lat...