Vol. 14(2) June 2021
Corporate sustainability as a value leverage for crisis
management - The hybrid organizational model of the Benefit Corporation in the context
of the health emergency by COVID-19
Prencipe Antonio, Boffa Danilo and Corsi Christian
Page No: 1-6
The research work aims to investigate how the Benefit
Corporation can constitute a valid and functional hybrid business organizational
model in order to be able to face with a sustainable approach to business management,
the negative socio-economic effects generated by the COVID-19 emergency. This organizational
model appears to be functional in the management of adverse business scenarios according
to the approaches of the theoretical frameworks of crisis management and disaster
management.
From the empirical analysis of the global population of Benefit Corporation companies
formed by 2,974 units extracted from the "Corp Impact Database as of 2019, it emerges
that their positive involvement towards community, customer, environmental, workers
and sustainable governance dimensions can hopefully have a greater capacity to adapt
to crisis contexts such as that of COVID-19. Therefore, it is possible to propose
the hybrid organizational model of the Benefit Corporation as one of the fundamental
pillars of post-crisis socio-economic recovery COVID-19.
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Constraint Analysis in Mushroom Cultivation among
Women Mushroom Cultivators in the State of Bihar, India
Sonam, Kala Shishir and Prabhakar P.
Page No: 7-11
Mushroom cultivation is considered as one of the ample
opportunities bearing occupations for mushroom growers specially for the women for
their livelihood. Mushroom Training Centre in the DRPCAU Pusa University is enthusiastically
involved in conducting various training programs on mushroom cultivation. The main
objective of the training program on mushroom cultivation is to promote mushroom
cultivation as a self-employment venture to improve the socio-economic condition
and livelihood of women mushroom cultivators. In this research work, we have discussed
the present scenario and addressed the opportunities and challenges in mushroom
cultivation among the woman mushroom cultivators. A total of 60 women mushroom growers
from 4 blocks of district Samastipur, Bihar, India were selected as respondents.
The data and information obtained from respondents highlighted that a large number
of respondents (98.33%) have faced lack of proper marketing channels and management.
Majority of respondents (86.66%) reported that the mushroom cultivation process
is a time consuming, wasteful, less profitable, low esteemed and cumbersome activity
while 95 % of respondents expressed that mushroom cultivation marketing is generally
dominated and exploited by the middlemen. The marketing constraint was among the
most serious issue in mushroom cultivation together with lack of proper marketing
channels, scarcity of quality spawn which are hampering the growth of this self-esteemed
venture.
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If managers lead, do employees follow? – Rethinking
the role of followership for modern leadership
Busse Ronald and Böttger Julia
Page No: 12-32
Followership is well-researched and yet a partially biased
topic. Being a follower is not perceived as achievable as it is with being a leader.
This work aims to clarify the awareness and impact of followership by interviewing
a group of managers, employees and leadership consultants. Results have been analysed
according to the qualitative content analysis procedure by Mayring.
The results show that followership (1) can have serious negative consequences, such
as demotivation or resigning, when going into the wrong direction. (2) Followership
provides further opportunities to tackle the topic of motivation and self-organization.
(3) Different to cults, a positive employee-followership can be built on trust without
requiring high sympathy. Conclusively followership pictures itself as the next big
topic for the upcoming leadership decade.
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A survey of Self-Help-Groups and Microfinance outreach
in Haryana, India
Kumari Sumesh and Mor Surender
Page No: 33-43
This study examined the progress SHGs led to microfinance
activities like number of SHGs, the volume of savings, number of SHGs borrowed from
banks, loan disbursed, loan outstanding for SHGs and loan outstanding against SHGs
in India as well as in Haryana State of India by using secondary data for the period
2007-08 to 2018-19. The study reveals that the growth rate of bank loans disbursed
in Haryana has fluctuated compared to the consistent national average. The findings
show that the year 2008-09 was the best for India's progress due to the progress
in all the parameters of SHGs led microfinance. On the other hand, the year 2008-09
captures remarkable progress in terms of the number of SHGs and number of SHGs with
outstanding loans and the year 2017-18 in terms of highest growth of SHGs and outstanding
loans against them for Haryana. The correlation analysis indicates a dire need to
reduce the outstanding loan against SHGs, the volume of borrowing by SHGs and the
loan outstanding against SHGs in Haryana.
The study suggests that the spread of microfinance activities is the need of the
hour to tackle the increasing unemployment problem in the State besides generating
employment in gainful economic activities. Therefore, strengthening and providing
financial support besides a rebate in their banks' outstanding loan against them
as SHGs have advanced loans to the poor and vulnerable chunk of the population,
which is still to be realised.
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The role of e-commerce in the higher education: the
need of value addition in the delivery of e-learning in India
Sibi Akbarali P.T.
Page No: 44-57
There is a scarcity of research on the adoption and use
of e-learning in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs), as well as on the factors
influencing students' use of e-learning. As a result, this study investigates factors
influencing the use of e-learning in HEIs by examining various models proposed by
various scholars. The study is a qualitative investigation. Secondary data is gathered
by consulting related research works around the world in order to study and comprehend
the factors that influence the use of e-learning and then a slightly modified theoretical
model for HEIs in India is proposed.
The HEI that implements technology with ease of use, high speed and effective service
delivery on the one hand and highly motivated and positive attitudes of teachers
and students who fully participate in the teaching and learning process on the other,
will undoubtedly lead to effective e-learning and strong e-loyalty.
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An Empirical Analysis of Assets as a Risk Management
Strategy in Portfolios
Busse Ronald and Limmer Michael Georg
Page No: 58-78
In many ways investing is like playing tennis. On an
amateur level, the player with the fewest mistakes will win, not the one playing
aggressively and taking the biggest risks. The relevance of the work aims towards
a growing crowd of young, inexperienced investors, who have come to the stock exchange
in the past 12 months since the Corona Crash, in order to participate in the capital
market. The specific goal of the work lies in combating the ignorance of the new
investors in order to prevent avoidable negative experiences with the capital market
by performing an emotion-free analysis.
The fundamental stock analysis should serve as a risk management approach. Companies
that are of no interest and pose too many risks for the investor, should be sorted
out from the beginning. These investigations are applied to the expansion of the
DAX, as part of which a complete fundamental analysis is carried out on Siemens
Healthineers on the basis of the developed template. The final result of the analysis
suggests that Siemens Healthineers is a useful addition to the DAX based on the
indicators examined and that the functionaries' goal of making the DAX more crisis-proof
is achieved.
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