Bálint Filep
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Publications - 8
Creating a business model in the context of changes in the macro environment
Publication Name: Journal of International Studies
Publication Date: 2025-01-01
Volume: 18
Issue: 1
Page Range: 284-296
Description:
In recent decades, the development of product-profit corporate business models has emerged as a significant topic of interest for corporate managers and academics. This paper examines the creation of product-profit corporate business models in a specific industry during a crisis period. The study sample comprised over 260 companies over 2021 and 2022. The research employed correlation analysis, one-criteria ANOVA, and Dimensional Analysis to test four hypotheses. The research results showed that the components of the corporate environment (microenvironment, meso-environment, and macro-environment) are interconnected. The significance of the meso-environment in generating business models was confirmed, highlighting its impact on competitiveness and profitability. The findings indicated a shift in the conceptualization of business models based on corporate margin creation. Economic, political-legal, and technical-technological factors were found to play increasingly important roles. The study also disproved the hypothesis regarding the time dimension in corporate or business strategy innovation. Corporate practice has reduced the time intervals for innovation from years to the current timeframe of months. This suggests a disconnect between corporate practice and scientific research in business model projection. Overall, this article addresses the scientific knowledge deficit surrounding specific business models for individual industries. It provides insights into effective business model projection and implementation strategies sought by business managers.
Open Access: Yes
UNDERSTANDING AND ACCEPTANCE OF SYSTEMS ENGINEERING IN AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT
Publication Name: Decision Making Applications in Management and Engineering
Publication Date: 2023-04-01
Volume: 6
Issue: 1
Page Range: 70-91
Description:
Systems Engineering (SE) is a new engineering method for many firms in Automotive Product Development that expectedly advances their development processes to meet their stakeholder needs more effectively. Literature suggest that understanding and acceptance are key factors in the implementation, however comprehensive modes for their increase are barely discussed. In this paper, we propose a Participatory Action Research based on multiple research elements to find an effective technique for gaining understanding and acceptance on SE in a validated model environment of automotive industry called Formula SAE. We present practical outcomes at each steps of the implementation process and analyze the effect of improvements in the context of strategy, structure processes.
Open Access: Yes
Sustainability Opportunities and Barriers at Universities, Development of a Sustainable University Environment
Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Transactions
Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Volume: 107
Issue: Unknown
Page Range: 505-510
Description:
Nowadays, one of the most crucial environmental, social, and economic questions is how to build a sustainable future for the following generations. This is a vital challenge because we live in a historical age due to the over-utilization of CO2-intensive technologies. Thanks to this practice, greenhouse gas emission is increasing yearly; biodiversity is decreasing dramatically. It is essential for our environment that universities play a leading role in the actions that can eliminate these adverse effects. This paper introduces the status of the uptake of sustainability-related issues and targets in the Higher Education (HE) sector. It emphasizes the necessity of the comparable evaluation of these activities by introducing current sustainability ranking systems. Some barriers disable the transition to a sustainable working model for universities. The paper identifies these barriers and makes suggestions for eliminating them through the example of Széchenyi István University’s practice and sustainability action plan. The main obstacles to sustainability in the HE sector incorporate budget constraints, resistance to change, lack of planning and focus, lack of applicability, and continuity of actions. The suggested sixteen action points in this paper could support the immediate change in the attitude to sustainability-related topics at operational levels. These suggestions support the attitude formation at each level of the decision-making process.
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.3303/CET23107085
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF QUALITY OF LIFE: CASE OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Publication Name: Economics and Sociology
Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Volume: 16
Issue: 4
Page Range: 289-308
Description:
The article is devoted to the study of economic and social drivers of quality of life. The method of weighted sums and the Fishburn formula were employed to assess the level of quality of life. Using Ward's method and the Kalinsky-Kharabash test, three clusters of countries were identified. The relationship between indicators was modeled with the Johansen, Dickey-Fuller and Phillips-Perron tests. Five indicators of social development (children out of school, unemployment, literacy rate, hospital beds, total population) and six indicators of economic development (GDP, minimum wage, government expenditure on education, current health expenditure, state expenditure on physical culture and sports industry) were chosen to establish the relationship between the indicators. The research was focused on the data of 30 European countries. Two hypotheses were proposed and tested in the study. Hypothesis H1 was that public spending on education, health care, and sports stimulates an increase in the quality of life. This hypothesis was confirmed for all countries. Hypothesis H2 assumed that the number of children out of school, the level of unemployment, and illiteracy negatively affect the quality of life. This hypothesis was confirmed only for a small number of countries.
Open Access: Yes
Business – education collaboration in R&D investment: Analysis of development gaps and critical points using MAR-splines
Publication Name: Journal of International Studies
Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Volume: 16
Issue: 2
Page Range: 57-71
Description:
The purpose of the article is to determine development gaps and critical points in the system of business – education collaboration in R&D investment using MAR-splines. The study attempts to confirm hypotheses about the impact of business – education collaboration in R&D investment on the sustainable development, and, in turn, the influence of chosen factors on the level of cooperation of business and education in R&D investment taking into account development gaps and critical points. These factors include the values of gross domestic expenditure on R&D spent by the business enterprise sector and by the higher education sector, and the level of the informal economy. The study is based on the sample of the 10 countries leading the ranking of Sustainable Development Index for 2011-2018 (time limits are set due to the availability of all studied indicators in the statistical databases of the World Bank, UNDESA, OECD and WIPO). Critical points and knots are determined using MAR-splines and two-way median-spline plots in STATA software. It has been proven that the business – education collaboration in R&D investment contributes to increasing the level of sustainable development if the value of this indicator is in the range of critical points from 62.04 to 68.96 (1% growth increases the estimate of sustainable development by 0.7%). In turn, development gaps and critical points have also been found for factors influencing the level of business-education R&D collaboration.
Open Access: Yes
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND INCOME INEQUALITY: ROLE IN COUNTRY RESISTANCE TO COVID-19
Publication Name: Economics and Sociology
Publication Date: 2022-01-01
Volume: 15
Issue: 4
Page Range: 286-302
Description:
The pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) significantly slowed economic development and exacerbated income inequality. However, the scale of this destructive influence varies considerably among countries. Thus, the purpose of this study is to identify changes in causality patterns between economic development and income inequality due to COVID-19. To fulfill the task, an Index of Economic Development (IED) is developed using the multivariate analysis tools, Cronbach's alpha and the Fishburn formula. The Gini index was chosen as a core proxy of social inequality. The research covers a sample of 15 European countries. The period of the analysis is 2000-2021. A set of regression equations are constructed to determine the relationship between economic development and income inequality in the studied countries. A dummy variable is integrated into the equation to determine the impact of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Modeling is carried out on the panel data. The most acceptable functional form of the regression model is clarified based on the Hausman test. Modeling results make it possible to identify patterns of changes in the impact of income inequality on economic development, and vice versa. The change in their causality due to COVID-19 is substantiated.
Open Access: Yes
The impact of global socio-economic changes on the regional role of universities
Publication Name: Economic Annals Xxi
Publication Date: 2021-07-10
Volume: 190
Issue: 5-6
Page Range: 33-47
Description:
Economic and regional development and rapid, often unpredictable changes across the globe in technical fields have an effect on everything, including universities, training, research and services as well. Universities must find their place in this continuously changing environment, they need to continuously reinterpret themselves and their own roles, whilst ensuring that education and knowledge transfer take priority. The pace of change is increasingly accelerating with technological novelties and innovations by high-tech industries surpassing themselves at an astounding rate. Therefore, knowledge, as the facilitator and creator of these results, plays an increasingly important role for those who wish to rank among the winners of the competition both locally and globally. Today, the primary creators of knowledge are still educational institutions, and universities are the fundamental platforms of research. However, it is not enough to be «only» a university, they must educate and research and become part of the developed world alongside participants who would like to provide scientific answers to practical problems. In our paper we address the question of breaking points along which the role of universities can be transformed in order to remain open to the needs of both their narrower and wider environment while maintaining theirfundamental mission, thus becoming successful players on the global stage. The development of high-tech industries has resulted in a science-driven period when economic development is unimaginable without the scientific results and the interconnection of individual disciplines. This development will presumably lead to the deterioration of certain individual knowledge and the deepening of others. Higher education must also adapt to this with the development of an education system that strengthens digital skills and serves regional expectations. Nowadays entrepreneurial universities have emerged, which are able to operate with an entrepreneurial approach, thereby responding independently to challenges from outside. The ability to co-operate must be a key aspect of university existence, and the deepening of educational, research and business partnerships is a prerequisite for success. In order to spread management approach and create an entrepreneurial ecosystem, successful R&D work and innovation, it is also necessary to involve external, tender resources and grants, besides own resources. However, these resources need to be used well, but the lack of a pre-planned, conscious strategy results in less efficient use. Regional cooperation, common thinking, training and innovation, science workshops and science parks all contribute to the development of institutions and related regions.
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.21003/EA.V190-04
The most important city development initiatives of Hungary
Publication Name: Regional Statistics
Publication Date: 2019-01-01
Volume: 9
Issue: 2
Page Range: 20-44
Description:
Recently, Hungary's urban development issues have been gaining increasing attention, while directions and institutional frameworks of regional politics are in a constant change. In this context, the study discusses the contents and connotations that can be linked to the territorial concept of major Hungarian cities; it also examines the changes in the position of these cities in the urban system. Major cities have a key role in territorial development as they facilitate spatial processes, and hence it is crucial to identify the weight and directions these centres with complex functions represent in development concepts. The formation or even restructuring of spatial processes require time. Since the democratic transition in 1989-1990, different development directions were assigned to major cities in short cycles. Cities have failed to adapt to these ever-changing objectives. The first part of this study presents the layers of the concept of major cities and characterize such categories as regional centre, city, county seat, and city with county rights. The second part tries to locate these centres, exploring changes in their developmental emphases, and also identifies pathways in the frequently changing territorial politics of the posttransition period.
Open Access: Yes
DOI: 10.15196/RS090204
