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In recent years, various occupational fraud cases involving Malaysian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) have bankrupted the SMEs. Occupational fraud among the SMEs’ employees includes asset misappropriation, corruption, and financial statement fraud. This study aims to model an effective fraud prevention technique for SMEs in…

Edible insects are generally high in protein and can be considered as meat substitutes. Nevertheless, in European countries edible insects’ consumption is actually very low mainly due to food neophobia. The purpose of this paper was to explore the readiness of people to consume insects…

Over the years, society has put greater emphasis on simplifying everyday tasks and welcoming the idea of a digital world (Juan et. al., 2004). Speech recognition has advanced substantially over the last decade. Today, more people rely on digital assistants to accomplish everyday tasks. Amazon,…

Early cost estimation is a common prerequisite for the profitability assessment of the development of complex products. Thus, the combination of numerous technical and economic factors poses a challenge for product developers when little more than the desired functionality of the product is known. In…

The main idea of public management is that management methods in the private sector are superior to those in the public sector and can be borrowed. The public sector is considered less innovative, overly bureaucratic, rigid, expensive and too centralized. Increasing the performance of human…

Business angels’ investments are an important funding source of start-up companies at the earlier stages of development. Analysing the existing scientific literature in terms of the investment criteria applied by business angels made it possible to identify more than 200 various criteria.  Within the framework…

The main goal of the research was to answer the question whether the type of production affects the financial efficiency of very small farms. The subjective scope covered very small farms in Poland. The basic source of data were statistics collected as part of the…

Are managers sentenced to carry out logistical planning processes using a spreadsheet? Is Industry 4.0 a distant vision of the future or maybe a reality? The article presents the implemented and proven in practice method of Logistics Planning 9A (PL9A), a process-integrated and computer-aided methodology…

This study focuses on the findings revealed for the age of exploited persons in Romania, specifically through analysing differences by demographic characteristics in relation to the human trafficking phenomenon. The dataset that is modelled and analysed in this study originates from the National Agency against…

National culture is a master variable that defines ways in which societies function and differ one from another. Organizations competing on the global market need to take national culture into account when organizing their daily operations. There exists a significant body of literature that deals…