Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Innovation as an Impetus to Change in Organization Management
(Anna Francik, Katarzyna Szczepañska-Woszczyna and Zdzis³awa Dacko-Pikiewicz, Department of Management, WSB University, Dabrowa Górnicza, Poland, and others)
Chapter 2. Determinants of Innovative Development
(Zbigniew Jan Makie³a, Department of Organisation and Management, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland)
Chapter 3. Determinants of Innovative Activities of Enterprises
(Anna Wolak-Tuzimek, Faculty of Economic and Legal Sciences, Kazimierz Pulaski University of Technology and Humanities, Radom, Poland)
Chapter 4. The Organizational Factors of the Innovativeness of Enterprises in a Strategic Perspective
(Danuta Rojek, Faculty of Management, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland)
Chapter 5. Supporting Small Business Act Initiative in Slovakia in the Field of Innovation
(¼ubica Lesáková, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic)
Chapter 6. Social Innovativeness of Selected SMEs in Poland: A Comparative Case Study
(Ryszard Borowiecki, Barbara Siuta-Tokarska, and Tomasz Kusio, WSB University, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland, and others)
Chapter 7. Socially Responsible Innovations in the Process of Building the Value of Cultural Organizations
(Łukasz Wróblewski, Department of Management and Engineering Production, WSB Unversity, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland)
Chapter 8. The Development of the Innovative Network Centred Approach and the Concept of the Open Innovation University
(Gabriela Kormancová, Lenka Theodoulides, and Lukasz Arendt, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia)
Chapter 9. Selected Aspects of Human Capital in Business Innovation Processes
(Vladimíra Klementová, Lenka Hvolková, Marcela Kova¾ová, and Ladislav Klement, Department of Corporate Economics and Management, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University, Banská Bystrica, Slovak Republic)
Chapter 10. Innovation and Managerial Competencies in Organizations
(Katarzyna Szczepañska-Woszczyna and Waldemar Jêdrzejczyk, Department of Management, WSB University, Dabrowa Górnicza, Poland, and others)
Chapter 11. Managerial Effectiveness in People Management for the Perspective of Experienced Happiness and Sense of Life
(Magdalena Kraczla, PhD and Anna Porczyñska-Ciszewska, PhD, Department of Social Sciences, University of D¹browa Górnicza, D¹browa Górnicza, Poland, and others)
Chapter 12. The Complexity of Workplace Management Policies in an International Company in the Polish Market
(Bo¿ena Gajdzik, Department of Engineering Production, Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland)
Chapter 13. Negotiation in M&A. Culture as the Hidden Factor for Success
(Iulian Warter, PhD and Liviu Warter, PhD, Center for Socio-Economic Studies and Multiculturalism, Iasi, Romania)
Chapter 14. A Company’s Culture before M&A. A New Evaluation Framework for Managers’ Perceptions
(Liviu Warter, PhD and Iulian Warter, PhD, Center for Socio-Economic Studies and Multiculturalism, Iasi, Romania)
Chapter 15. Innovations of Tourism Businesses Supported by EU Funds: Fostering Cooperation in Destinations
(Lubos Elexa, Ludmila Elexova, Tomas Gajdosik, Zuzana Gajdosikova and Pavol Kral, Faculty of Economics, Matej Bel University in Banska Bystrica, Banska Bystrica, Slovak Republic)
Chapter 16. A Model of Niche Development Management as a Source of Innovation Processes in the Public Sphere
(Franciszek Piontek, Barbara Piontek, Department of Management, WSB University, Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland)
Chapter 17. Resource Constraints of a Welding Company Implementing a New Welding Process with Micro-Jet Cooling
(Bożena Szczucka-Lasota, Bożena Gajdzik, and Tomasz Wêgrzyn, Department of Transport, Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland)
Index