Reisinger Adrienn

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Corporate Social Responsibility in the EU Regulation: With Special Focus on the SMEs

Reisinger Adrienn

Publication Name: Civil Szemle

Publication Date: 2024-09-18

Volume: 21

Issue: 4

Page Range: 111-131

Description:

The paper aims to introduce the milestones in the EU regulation on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in general with a special focus on small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). EU regulation is introduced based on EU documents and international and Hungarian literature. The debate about CSR began in the 1990s in Europe and after the turn of the millennium several papers, guidelines, and directives attempt to provide a common approach about it. However, CSR relates mainly to big companies still today, smaller firms can also implement CSR. Despite that research on SMEs’ CSR started after 2000, EU documents already highlighted from the beginning of the 2000s the importance of smaller companies as well, and in 2002 the European Commission drew up a strategy for SMEs. The paper illustrates not only the papers and SMEs’ role but also provides ideas about the sense of the EU regulation on CSR and collects the reasons why could it be beneficial to have a debate and approach about CSR at the EU level. The paper also presents some information about how the SMEs’ CSR features comply with interview research among SMEs in Győr, Hungary in 2021–2022. It is possible to believe that learning the European approach may contribute to thinking in a more integrated way about how to behave socially responsibly and how to manage social impact.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.62560/csz.2024.04.6

The event-driven social responsibility in small and medium-sized enterprises

Reisinger Adrienn Roland Zsolt Szabó

Publication Name: Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management

Publication Date: 2024-09-01

Volume: 31

Issue: 5

Page Range: 3927-3939

Description:

Since the survival and growth of small firms depend largely on their ability to acquire legitimacy within the institutional environment, social responsibility plays an important role in their lives. The aim of this study was to investigate how a disruption in the normal course of business can lead to an evolution and change in the social responsibility activities of small and medium-sized enterprises. Such disruptions, called critical incidents, interrupt the normal functioning of the business. The case-based exploratory study found that such critical events can have a positive impact. In particular, they can initiate the integration of socially responsible business practices. This is a journey from philanthropic donations to fully integrated socially responsible practices, often driven by internal triggering events such as organisational growth, unanticipated changes in management, or generational change, which allow new values to be brought on board. When such an internal event is followed by a highly critical but external event, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the transformation gains momentum. The findings also suggest that social responsibility can be a new source of competitive advantage.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1002/csr.2775

Corporate Social Responsibility Approach by SMEs’ Managing Directors in the Hungarian City of Győr—Empirical Evidence

Reisinger Adrienn

Publication Name: Palgrave Studies in Governance Leadership and Responsibility

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: Part F3204

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 121-139

Description:

The chapter aims to introduce the managing directors’ approach about corporate social responsibility (CSR) in a Hungarian city of Győr. Getting information about how managing directors are thinking about the topic is a crucial one in SMEs CSR research. Interview research was made with 50 SMEs in Győr in 2021 and 2022 to investigate CSR approach. Results show that in medium sized companies managing directors know more likely the term CSR but it does not relate with their CSR knowledge or use of CSR term. The research provides information for both academics and practitioners by exploring managing directors’ knowledge and approach to CSR.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-61551-1_6

CSR and SMEs’ competitive advantages—Results from a Hungarian city of Győr based on managing directors’ personal perception

Reisinger Adrienn Norbert Kovács

Publication Name: Journal of Infrastructure Policy and Development

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 8

Issue: 12

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Today it is obvious that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is more than just a volunteer activity, it is also related to the operation of the firms and to competitive advantages. Many factors influence CSR and CSR-competitiveness relations; firm size could be the most crucial one. Originally CSR is related to large companies, although smaller firms can be active in CSR mainly in different ways with different background. Based on this idea the paper aims to explore the correlation between small and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) corporate social responsibility (CSR) and competitive advantages. An interview research was conducted among thirty SMEs in a Hungarian city of Győr in 2021/22 to reveal how owner-managers interpret CSR, competitiveness and their relations. As SMEs cannot provide exact data on this topic the personal perception method was used to explore the CSR-competitiveness relation. A moderate relation was observed between CSR and competitiveness and the research revealed that different methodologies have to be applied for SMEs than large companies which results from the fact that SMEs’ CSR is less formal and lacks exact data.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.24294/jipd.v8i12.8588

The spatial extent of the operations of small and medium-sized companies in Győr based on the personal evaluation of the executives

Reisinger Adrienn Norbert Kovács

Publication Name: Teruleti Statisztika

Publication Date: 2024-01-01

Volume: 64

Issue: 5

Page Range: 661-686

Description:

Economic processes from territorial perspective can be analyzed using various approaches such as identifying the territorial levels at which firms operate. This involves understanding where firms source their inputs from, the location of their markets and the extent of their relations with stakeholders. The paper aims to measure the spatial extent of firms based on a personal perception of small- and medium-sized enterprises’ (SMEs) owner-managers. Based on structured interviews in 2021–2022 with thirty SMEs in Győr, Hungary the paper looks for the answer to what is the spatial extent of the operations of the surveyed firms in the dimensions of inputs, outputs, relationships and corporate impacts? Exception of one of the surveyed companies, all of them are present at least at the regional level and some of them have already entered international markets as well. Firms are mostly considered local in the case of the workforce, while stocks are mainly purchased from international markets. The results of the research characterize the spatial extent of the firms, which can serve as useful information about the territorial role of SMEs for both practitioners and scholars.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.15196/TS640505

Value and value creation from a company approach – theory and practice

Reisinger Adrienn Nárai Márta

Publication Name: Civil Szemle

Publication Date: 2022-01-01

Volume: 19

Issue: 3

Page Range: 5-28

Description:

The topic of the paper is the value and value creation from firms’ perspective with theoretical and empirical approaches. The aim of the study is to give an overview about the value and value creation frameworks related to different scientific fields and its approaches from small and medium sized enterprises’ (SMEs) views. The fact that nowadays companies’ operation is a very complex one which requires a knowledge that covers as much knowledge and factors as possible gives the relevance of the topic. Such a factor could be the understanding the meaning of firm value and firm value creation beyond the financial and economic approaches. This may help companies to be more conscious about their operation and their social and economic impact. The paper gives an overview about the Creating Shard Value (CSV) framework, too which is widespread in the international literature and practice but in Hungary only few study mention it, so its introduction could be useful for the Hungarian academics and practitioners. The paper introduces also some results of an interview research between August 2021 and July 2022. A research is aimed to know the business-society relation among SMEs in Győr, Hungary, the value creation is a part of this research. Forty SMEs were involved in the research. The main result is that the term firm value creation is a diverse concept which could be interpreted from several approaches. Its knowledge could lead to a more conscious leadership of a company.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

EXAMINING THE VISIBILITY OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ON THE WEBSITES OF HUNGARIAN STATE UNIVERSITIES

Reisinger Adrienn Zsolt Dános

Publication Name: Deturope

Publication Date: 2021-01-01

Volume: 13

Issue: 3

Page Range: 58-72

Description:

The paper investigates university social responsibility at Hungarian universities by examining their websites. Although the concept of university social responsibility has existed for nearly 20 years, the scope of its research and theoretical literature still falls far short of that of corporate social responsibility. There is extant literature on the topic including case studies from around the world showing the importance of university social responsibility. Nevertheless, the scope of thematic analysis of the topic is very narrow with only a few pieces of comprehensive systematic research published so far, and the theoretical literature only highlights the work of some major researchers. Due to the complexity of the topic, the amount of previous literature attempting to explore the effects of university social responsibility is also limited. The aim of this paper is to investigate how terms relating to social responsibility appear on the websites of Hungarian universities. In autumn 2019 research was carried out involving twenty-one universities. The paper analyses how social responsibility is visible on university websites based on given keywords. The research employed quantitative content analysis. The hypothesis was that based on visibility the same university categories can be formed according to the size and profile of the institutions. According to the authors’ present knowledge no such research has been carried out in Hungary so far. There are some university website researches in different countries but with different purposes with the special focus on sustainability. So the method of the present research is an attempt to find out how to measure the social responsibility visibility of universities and how to make categorizations based on the analyses. The limitation of the research is, among others, that universities have different search engines on their websites, which can lead to the misinterpretation of results. The main findings are that the visibility of social responsibility based on website analyses depends not only on the size and profile of the institutions; therefore, the investigation of visibility can contribute to the creation of new categories proving that social responsibility is far beyond the size or profile of the universities. The findings can help institutions develop the conscious communication of their social responsibility activity, and provide assistance to the research community.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.32725/det.2021.019

Active citizenship and civic competencies in the Hungarian City of győr

Reisinger Adrienn Daniel Robert Szabo Norbert Kovács

Publication Name: Citizenship Teaching and Learning

Publication Date: 2020-03-01

Volume: 15

Issue: 1

Page Range: 5-23

Description:

This article is based on the premise that participatory democracy needs active citizens, and active citizens need civic competencies. The goal of this study is to illustrate previous research into active citizenship and civic competencies and to add the own concept of the authors to the literature. The article also provides empirical results from a survey into active citizenship carried out among citizens in Győr, Hungary, 2017. A total of 254 citizens filled out the online and offline questionnaire. The survey sample methods included random and snowball sampling. The sample does not represent the population of Győr, 64.3 per cent were women and about half of the sample were graduate citizens, so the results can be interpreted only to the respondents. Results offer an insight into what citizens think of the concept of active citizenship and which civic competencies they regard as important active participation in society. The article also demonstrates guidance for practitioners and researchers and it adds to the literature on active citizenship. It is possible to believe that knowing what kind of civic competencies people need could be useful to know how to be more active in the society.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1386/ctl_00017_1

The Role of the Civil Sector in Contribution to Social Well-Being and in Shaping Active Citizenship

Reisinger Adrienn Márta Nárai

Publication Name: Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics

Publication Date: 2019-01-01

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 101-118

Description:

Nowadays social and economic issues can have unfavourable consequences; social problems both at the global and local level are outstanding and it is essential to find solutions because of the efficient functioning of the economy and the society. Also, state and for-profit actors can take part in solving these problems, but there are lots of services which can be provided only by civil organizations. The first part of the paper presents the concept of civil organizations and current issues of them in Hungary. After that, it describes the way of their contribution to the active citizenship and to social well-being based on theoretical and empirical background. We made a questionnaire research in 2013 among civil organizations at the regional level in Hungary; we would like to show the main results of it. This paper presents a review of the main participatory forms of the organizations through which they can contribute to the improvement of the services and to the expanding of the supply. An important message of the paper is that civil organizations cannot operate without active citizens, our study will also show the methods how civil organizations can contribute to the active citizenship and what kind of elements and barriers have this process. This paper can add to the literature of the civil organizations and can be useful both for policy makers, researchers and citizens.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-89872-8_8

Services of economic development organisations in GyŐr

Reisinger Adrienn Petra Kecskés Katalin Czakó

Publication Name: Deturope

Publication Date: 2017-01-01

Volume: 9

Issue: 3

Page Range: 85-100

Description:

Economic development of a municipality is highly depended on organizations and institutions, which services target local entrepreneurs and other economic actors. In the summer of 2015 we have collected and mapped the services of organizations with the function of economic development in the Hungarian city, Gyor. Through our research we could identify the services and the characteristics of linkages and cooperation of the economic development organizations (EDOs). Most important findings of the study are the followings: activity of the organizations has a wide range. Some of them are presented in more organizations at the same time. Level of diversification is quite low. Directions of cooperation are mainly based on personal or ad hoc relations. We conducted that EDOs know about each other, despite of this fact the number of linkages is low. In this paper we provide findings about Gyor, but the results can be used for other settlements' economic development, too.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

A survey of the influential factors of students' entrepreneurial career choice expectations

Reisinger Adrienn Norbert Kovács

Publication Name: Tarsadalomkutatas

Publication Date: 2014-09-01

Volume: 32

Issue: 3

Page Range: 278-294

Description:

In this paper we investigate the effect of family background and institution background on career choice intentions of Hungarian students based on the database of GUESSS 2011 international survey. Models, attitudes, morals from home often exert significant influence on children's walk of life. Our research focuses on the strength of familial and institutional effects on students' career choice expectations. The novelty of our study is that we analyse the factors in the whole sample and in the following parts of sample: students with and without family business background. In the first part of this study we show the former researches conducted in this topic, after it we show the career intentions of the higher education students in Hungary. The main part of our study is the analyses of the influential factors of career choice expectations of Hungarian students.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1556/Tarskut.32.2014.3.5

European funds in the nonprofit sector of West-Transdanubia and Gyor

Reisinger Adrienn Hajós Barbara

Publication Name: Civil Szemle

Publication Date: 2013-01-01

Volume: 10

Issue: 1

Page Range: 35-53

Description:

The paper seeks answers to the question: how successful were the nonprofit organisations in the West-Transdanubian region and in Gyor receiving EU funds between 2004 and October 2012 (the authors also show the national data to make better analysis). The study shows how many applications were successful and how many supports required and got the organisations during the first (2004-2006) and second (2007-2013) planning periods. The paper also presents the most popular Operational Programs regarding the number of the projects and the amount of the EU support. The authors introduce detailed the successful organisations in Gyor. The aim of the study is to show how were the nonprofit organisations successful getting EU funds in West-Transdanubia and in Gyor, and what types of projects were supported in these areas.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available