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DuPont analysis among European dentistry companies to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

Tomas Heryan, Karin Gajdova

Although health economics belongs to the highly respected economic disciplines within the research literature, there is a considerable gap related to the investigation of dentistry in particular, even after the global pandemic of COVID-19 disease. Fundamentally, the DuPont framework is a well-known complex analysis to evaluate companies from the point of view of financial performance. The investigation of the return on equity as a relation between the return on assets and the equity multiplier,…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-1-010 more

Educational attainment as a predictor of poverty and social exclusion: Empirical analysis of Serbian case

Marija Dzunic, Natasa Golubovic, Vesna Jankovic-Milic

This study examines the impact of education on the risk of poverty and social exclusion in a single-country framework. Relying on household and individual level data from the annual EU-SILC survey obtained in Serbia in 2020, we estimate the market and non-market benefits of education in the context of combating poverty and social exclusion in developing countries. Based on a representative sample of the adult population in Serbia, we explore to what extent the risk of poverty and social…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-1-003 more

Effectiveness factors of small and medium-sized enterprises from the perspective of corporate culture: A case study in Slovakia

Silvia Lorincova, Milos Hitka, Jozef Durian, Daniel Rauser

To reach business success, a company can use and manage a lot of seemingly inconspicuous and useful tools. One of them is corporate culture. The purpose of the paper is to define the factors that affect business efficiency from the perspective of corporate culture. The Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) was used. For data analysis, the Beta regression method, inductive statistics, and Tukey’s test were used. Based on the research results, it can be stated that there are…

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A comparative analysis of multivariate approaches for data analysis in management sciences

Rizwan Raheem Ahmed, Dalia Streimikiene, Justas Streimikis, Indre Siksnelyte-Butkiene

The researchers use the SEM-based multivariate approach to analyze the data in different fields, including management sciences and economics. Partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) and covariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) are powerful data analysis techniques. This paper aims to compare both models, their efficiencies and deficiencies, methodologies, procedures, and how to employ the models. The outcomes of this paper exhibited that the PLS-SEM is a…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-5-001 more

The impact of environmental, social and governance policies on companies’ financial and economic performance: A comprehensive approach and new empirical evidence

Gratiela Georgiana Noja, Bianca Raluca Baditoiu, Alexandru Buglea, Valentin Partenie Munteanu, Diana Corina Gligor Cimpoieru

In the last decade, the use of integrated reports (IR) comprising information on non-financial indicators from the environment, social, and governance (ESG) category has increased in time. Companies are now focusing not only on financial reporting but are notably including non-financial issues in their public reports. In doing so, they seek to align activities with the expectations of their stakeholders and the society in which they operate, as well as with various regulations, which are…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-1-008 more