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Nowadays a modern private lending instrument - a commercial peer-to-peer network for peer-to-peer lending is rapidly growing. Peer-to-peer lending is a form of lending where the borrowers can be natural and legal persons and the creditor can be anyone. The use of Internet peer-to-peer lending…

The research problem was formulated as a question: are demand-supply shocks affecting the opening up of a negative or positive output gap? The hypothesis was formulated: demand-supply shocks have a significant impact on the opening up and deepening of the negative output gap, thereby causing…

This study examines the indirect influence of the cultural values of uncertainty avoidance, short-term orientation, and individualism on a country's risk-taking levels using the risk-takers national-centric and cultural theories in 50 countries. The authors used secondary data from several sources to test their hypotheses using…

Industry 4.0 promises to be the future of competitiveness for companies all around the world. While start-ups focus on this area and big companies try to implement smart principles in production, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are waiting for their time to come. This article…

The rapid development of blockchain technologies over recent years has formed a basis for numerous services that emulate and facilitate already existing functions of financial intermediaries, including money transfers, payments and currency exchange. This paper analyses development of staking, being a derivative of technical developments…

Koszalin University of Technology, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Department of Finance, Poland

Current research on monitoring the progress of the Circular Economy transition shows that despite the variety of methods, techniques and tools available, no coherent approach to assessing progress has been developed so far. It is not possible to capture the complexity and multiple dimensions of…

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of primary (investors, consumers and employee) and secondary (environment, regulator that requires mandatory environmental disclosure under the Directive 2014/95/EU and standard setters) stakeholder groups on company’s environmental disclosure. Design/methodology/approach: The sample comprised 71 selected…

The current situation in the field of business innovation is focused on digital data. Everything we can count, and measure helps us reach a better solution. Business decision-making is the most important activity, and digital data helps you make the right decisions. UAVs (Unmanned aerial…

This literature research paper focuses on human factors related to electronic waste (e-waste). From an analysis of the two last decades of academic literature on e-waste, a list of variables emerges as a convenient way to identify concerns and topics judged relevant, namely: awareness, attitudes…