Lívia Ablonczy-Mihályka

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Cultural Influence on Sustainability Discourse: A Comparative Analysis of CEO Letters in the Cosmetics and Fashion Industry

Lívia Ablonczy-Mihályka Zsuzsanna Pálffy

Publication Name: Journal of Ecohumanism

Publication Date: 2024-08-03

Volume: 3

Issue: 4

Page Range: 2779-2792

Description:

The national cultural background of a company's founders and managers significantly influences corporate culture and communication. Over the past two decades, the link between culture and sustainability practices has been demonstrated, including how sustai nability embeddedness is reflected in CEO letters. This study examines if companies in the cosmetics and fashion industries reveal cul tural influences on sustainability in their CEO letters. These letters, the most influential part of annual reports, convey the CEO's vision, operations, and performance. Using quantitative and qualitative content analysis, the research investigates whether national culture influences the content of CEO letters by analysing letters from 15 companies across 10 countries. The study found no statistically significant correlation between Hofstede's cultural dimensions and sustainability narratives in CEO letters. However, feminine cultures tend to have stronger sustainability orientations. These findings suggest that companies should adapt their sustainability communication to align with local cultural values, thereby enhancing stakeholder engagement, particularly for multinational beauty and fashion companies.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.62754/joe.v3i4.3796

SUSTAINABLE APPROACH OF CORPORATE EMBEDDEDNESS: GOOD PRACTICES OF SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED FAMILY COMPANIES

Lívia Ablonczy-Mihályka Zsuzsanna Pálffy

Publication Name: Journal of Community Positive Practices

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 24

Issue: 2

Page Range: 115-135

Description:

Academic literature explores the term sustainability embeddedness as the highest degree of integration of sustainability into corporate strategies, however, its interpretation lacks the conceptual meaning applied in regional economics. While the focus of sustainability practices is often local, companies embed in the local space, conversely, increasing local embeddedness and commitment are leading companies to move from compliance-based sustainability practices towards sustainability embeddedness. The results based on interviews with small- and medium sized family businesses in Győr-Moson-Sopron County, Hungary illustrate that sustainable embedding as suggested as a new approach of the study are applied by this group of companies, the study concludes with a collection of good practices

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.35782/JCPP.2024.2.06

Varying Levels of Trust across Multi-Level Governance: a Sustainability Perspective

Lívia Ablonczy-Mihályka Zsuzsanna Pálffy

Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Transactions

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 114

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 1045-1050

Description:

Social sustainability, the third pillar of sustainability alongside ecological and economic dimensions, focuses on maintaining the well-being and viability of communities, as a healthy functioning society is a prerequisite for sustainable operation. Trust, a common measure of social sustainability, is a fundamental pillar of a sustainable, resilient, inclusive, transparent and accountable society. This research aims to analyse how trust as a measure of social sustainability interacts with different levels of governance and institutional performance in the Visegrád Four countries. The study found that although there is a significant correlation between various factors of institutional trust at the national level, there is no meaningful relationship between general and institutional trust across the examined countries (Czech Republic, Hungary, Slovakia, and Poland). The analysis found that institutional trust is influenced more by endogenous factors, such as perceived governance effectiveness and citizen satisfaction, than by general trust. However, no strong correlation could be shown between Word Governance Indicator and institutional trust. The findings show that trust does not progressively decline towards higher levels of institutions; instead, proximity and citizen engagement boost trust at the local level, while different mechanisms likely drive trust at higher government levels. Additionally, the research highlights that in post-communist societies, strong traditions of particular trust limit general trust in institutions, emphasizing the complexity of trust dynamics within different governance levels.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3303/CET24114175

A Sustainable Model of Corporate Embeddedness: Navigating through a Fuzzy Concept

Lívia Ablonczy-Mihályka Petra Kecskés Zsuzsanna Pálffy

Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Transactions

Publication Date: 2023-01-01

Volume: 107

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 163-168

Description:

Corporate embeddedness and sustainable corporate behaviour are closely linked. Consequently, recent literature has introduced the term sustainability embeddedness. However, the concept is still at an early stage, and both its conceptualisation and practical implications remain incomplete. From the literature review, it can be determined that the term sustainability embeddedness can be classified as one of the so-called fuzzy concepts because its use in different literatures is associated with different meanings. The main goal of the study is to review the previous interpretations and to contribute to the literature on the concept with a specific explanation, placing it in the set of previous definitions. A further aim of the research is to identify the best sustainable practices of corporate embeddedness using the quintuple helix model. The goal is to demonstrate how sustainability practices can enhance mutually beneficial relationships between companies and other actors within the local space. The study serves as a literature basis for later research, in which, as a continuation of the collection of practices, small and medium-sized family businesses in Győr, Hungary, will be examined. Along the theoretical model of the study, practical implications can be identified as they may serve as an incentive practice for regional small businesses, which helps to deepen their degree of embeddedness, thus exploiting additional local benefits for the local space.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3303/CET23107028

TIME-SPACE ASYMMETRY VERSUS TIME-SPACE SYMMETRY

Tamás Dusek Lívia Ablonczy-Mihályka Petra Kecskés Zsuzsanna Pálffy

Publication Name: Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management

Publication Date: 2022-11-01

Volume: 17

Issue: 4

Page Range: 68-81

Description:

The interpretation and the analysis of physical spaces is generated from the symmetry axiom which is valid in geographical spaces but might not be valid in other forms of spaces, the so called non-geographical ones. In the case of such spaces which can be expressed by time, network and cost, the opposite of symmetry can be found: distance asymmetry which means that the distance from one object to another and back are not equal. This research is motivated by the fact that while distance symmetry has been widely studied distance asymmetry has been not investigated in suburban areas of Győr. The purpose of the study is to give a typology of the sources of distance asymmetry, especially with regard to time-spaces, to demonstrate some real life practices and finally, to present.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

Challenges Faced by Female Leaders Through a Lens of a Western Hungarian Research

Lívia Ablonczy-Mihályka Jázmin Lőre

Publication Name: Societies

Publication Date: 2025-09-01

Volume: 15

Issue: 9

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

In the global work culture of the 21st century, the image of female leaders is marginal. The stereotypical opinion links the terms leaders and managers to the male gender and predetermined gendered characteristics typical to men. The aim of this study is to redefine certain perspectives through empirical research based on previous literature regarding gender stereotypes in leadership and challenges facing female leaders. This paper looks at the main issues that concern female leaders throughout their careers and even after reaching a higher position and discusses the differences between male and female workers on the top levels of the organizational hierarchy. The research was conducted in the Western Transdanubia region of Hungary. The research was based on eight semi-structured interviews with mid- and senior managers, which were analyzed through thematic analysis to identify patterns and challenges. As an exploratory qualitative study with a region-specific sample, the findings provide valuable insights but should be interpreted cautiously as they cannot be extrapolated to a comparable situation. The findings of the study indicate that gender gaps in the corporate world can be attributed to the presence of stereotypes resulting from gender roles embedded in patriarchal societies, gender-based discrimination in the labor market. As the results suggest, these non-quantifiable problems are of great importance in terms of the position of women in the labor market and society.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3390/soc15090262