Editors: Patrycja Klimas, Aneta Lipińska Language editing: Lidia Pernak, Dominika Świech, Agnieszka Śliz Typesetting: Paweł Sobczyński Cover design: Marcin Szadkowski All articles published are subject to reviews. ©Copyright by Społeczna Akademia Nauk (University of Social Sciences) ISSN 2543-8190 Online version is the original version of the journal: piz.san.edu.pl Table of Contents Patrycja Klimas, Aneta Lipińska | Preface ....................................................................................5 Arkadiusz Kawa, Justyna Światowiec-Szczepańska | Value Network Creation and Value Appropriation in E-commerce ....................................................................................9 Anna Adamik, Michał Nowicki | Co-creating Value in the Era of Industry 4.0 ..............23 Bogdan Nogalski, Przemysław Niewiadomski, Agnieszka Szpitter | Reconnaissance of the Ability to Profile a Business Model Focused on Market Niches – Expert Self-assessment in the Machine Sector.......................................................................................................41 Katarzyna Caban-Piaskowska | Characteristics of Business Models of Creative Company 53 Maciej Urbaniak | The Role of Initial Evaluation of Suppliers in Building Partner Relations..67 Karina Sachpazidu-Wójcicka | Open Sources of Innovation and its Influence on Firms Innovativeness ................................................................................................................79 Zbigniew Jan Makieła | Entrepreneurship and Innovation – the Modern Concept of Regional Development .................................................................................................95 Marta Najda-Janoszka | Towards Platform Defined Business – Complementarity at the Spotlight .............................................................................................................107 Agata Sudolska, Andrzej Lis | Sustainable Enterprise and Organization: Systematic Literature Review ...........................................................................................................119 Ewa Beck-Krala | Evaluation of Rewards Programs as an Element of Sustainable Employee Rewards – Research Results ............................................................................................133 Katarzyna Czainska | Managerial Aspects of Employing People with Asperger Syndrome in Poland ......................................................................................................................147 Aneta Kuźniarska | Pillars of Creating Sustainable Personnel in an Organization ..........159 Anna Wziątek-Staśko | Organisational Culture as Factor Determining the Level of Trust in an Organisation .........................................................................................................173 Marta Tutko | Problems of Quality Culture Assessment in Higher Education .....................191 Katarzyna Baliga-Nicholson, Roman Batko | The Digitized Voice Is Calling: Re-imagining Organizational Practice And “Consciousness” ...............................................205 Czesław Mesjasz | Conceptualizations of Information and the Impact of Information Overabundance on Modern Management .......................................................................217 Ewa Sońta-Drączkowska | From Agile Project Management to Agile Organization? – a Literature Review ........................................................................................................231 Jerzy Rosiński | Creating an Evolutionary Teal Organization on a Step-by-step Basis. A Case Study ...........................................................................................................................243 Marcin Geryk | ISO 26000 among Other ISO Standards ...............................................257 Joanna Martusewicz, Arkadiusz Wierzbic | The Level of Maturity and the Use of Management Methods in Business Excellence Models .....................................................273 Joanna Radomska | Does the Company Size Influence the Operational Risk in Strategy Implementation Process? ...............................................................................................287 Zbigniew Matyjas | Graphene Flakes – Prospects for Commercialization .......................299 Preface This Issue of Entrepreneurship and Management offers twenty-two academic papers fa- cing the most current hence still under-researched problems considered in the latest works placed within the Management Sciences. The included papers focus on the Emerging Challenges in Modern Managements exploring them through the most up-date and currently pressing managerial problems faced in both management theory and practice. To outline the general scope of the pa- pers we decided to use a “world-cloud” technique which takes into account the frequen- cy of words used in a particular text. Here, a “word-cloud” has been created using words used by Authors in the titles and abstracts of their papers to show the main lines of their considerations – see the figure below. Figure 1. The thematic scope of the Issue Source: based on titles and abstracts taken from articles from this Issue, prepared using https://tagcrowd.com. As expressed by the size of the words in the above word-cloud, the papers included in this Issue focus on organization, whereas they consider in details a wide range of orga- nizational aspects from the perspective of such managerial problems as management, innovation, business models, sustainability, and value creation. Those aspects are the anchors, the key points, the crucial topics identified, recognized and revealed within the articles. Nonetheless, in order to make you more familiar with as well as more interested in the included articles it is reasoned to announce them using three critical perspectives, namely the theoretical background, the methodological design, and the industry focus adopted. First, the considered managerial concepts, theories, perspectives and standpo- ints applied as the theoretical lenses for both theoretical and empirical investigations. In general, the vast majority of papers included in this Issue refers to strategic manage- ment, however, five specific areas of consideration may be distinguished, namely: · relational view on competitive advantage discussed through Resource-Based View (RBV) and justified by the evidence for profitability of synergistic combination of value creation and co-creation, exploitation of open, co-operative and network approach to innovations; · business modeling shown form the perspective of structural/architectural (e.g. bu- siness model canvas) and conceptual/dominance logic (e.g. view on pre-dominant goal of organization) approach applicable either in more traditional or more creative industries; · entrepreneurship considered not only at organizational level, but also at industry and regional ones in the context of creation, maintenance and increasement of oppor- tunities for longitudinal survival and development; · sustainability seen as a broad concept useful in the context of improving enterprise management (including quality management and human resource management) or implementing corporate social responsibility approach; · current strategic issues regarding the newest practices in the field of risk manage- ment, project management, development of suitable organizational culture, creation of turquoise organization, building a business excellence, and knowledge manage- ment (including managerial focus paid on organizational consciousness and imagina- tion, information overabundance, opportunity recognition and exploitation, or know- ledge transfer). Second, the methodological approaches applied by Authors in order to handle the current managerial issues and unresolved tensions. Given the methodological perspec- tives, this Issue offers both theoretical and empirical papers developed using a wide ran- ge of research methods. On the one hand, the Authors present the results of theorizing and conceptualizations based on own, original theoretical considerations, or insights drawn from critical literature reviews or analyses of examples from business practice. On the other hand, the set of articles included in this Issue provides some empirical findings based on original field studies carried out using both qualitative and quantitative appro- aches. Among the research methods applied, there are those following qualitative tech- niques such as non-participatory observation, structured and categorized interviews, as well as those following quantitative techniques including descriptives and statistical analyses aimed at identification of interdependencies, directional, and dependence re- lationships between and among management-related variables. Third, an industry focus adopted in Authors’ explorations and explanations used to give a practical and business context. From more utilitarian perspective this Issue brid- ges managerial aspects significant in both digital (e.g. value creation, co-creation, explo- itation, and appropriation in e-commerce) and non-digital sectors (e.g. quality assess- ment in higher education, business model canvas suitable for jewelers). Furthermore, it provides both conceptual and empirical considerations presented in the articles refer- ring to both traditional industries pushed by technology, innovation or knowledge (e.g. graphene commercialization, effectiveness of agricultural machinery manufacturers) and those driven by creativity, ingenuity or insightfulness such as