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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…

The article deals with a problem of high political and social significance: providing environmentally friendly food to socially vulnerable categories of the population. This category includes pregnant and nursing women, children, school children, clients of social institutions, and segments of the population whose real incomes…

The level of exploitation costs to be covered by the user of a technical object depends, to a great extent, on the accuracy of the investment decisions made. The selection of the optimal investment decision (i.e. the purchase of a technical object) in terms of…

Nowadays, cities are a source of benefits and problems related to social, economic and environmental aspects. There is no doubt that the benefits of urbanization are drawing more and more people to live in urban centers. However, such a situation favors the creation of many…

As a rule, the problem of improving the operational effectiveness of the enterprise is in the responsibility of its key managers. The concepts of Lean manufacturing and Six Sigma (Lean Six Sigma) transpose these tasks on all the processes and areas of the creation of…

The research is aimed to analyze the simplifying ways of getting access to finance by SMEs through such FinTech tool as Blockchain smart lending. The main focus of the paper is to give insight on potential benefits and probable risks of being involved into Blockchain…