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<sec><h3>Background</h3><p>The state sector continues to play a significant role in the development of the global economy. Proper corporate governance is crucial to ensure the positive contribution of state-owned enterprises to the efficiency of the economy and its competitiveness. Despite the increasing importance of state-owned enterprises for the development of global gross domestic product and the quality of public services provided, research on corporate governance in state-owned enterprises is not widely represented in the world literature.</p></sec>
<sec><h3>Research aims</h3><p>This article provides a bibliographic analysis of the existing scientific work on corporate governance in state-owned enterprises. The aim of the analysis is to systematise the scientific output in this field, to demonstrate the scale of interest in this subject among researchers, and to indicate the predominant directions of research, taking into account their geographical origin.</p></sec>
<sec><h3>Methodology</h3><p>This study uses a systematic literature review.</p></sec>
<sec><h3>Findings</h3><p>The results of the research show that the existing scientific work in this field is insignificant in relation to the number of state-owned enterprises operating worldwide and their importance for the development of the global economy. Research by dominant research groups from the point of view of geography has shown that there is a clear variation in the dominant direction of research on corporate governance in state-owned enterprises, which is an indication of the different interests of researchers in different geographic areas. Analysing the factors underlying the differentiation just described could provide an incentive for further empirical research in this area.</p></sec>
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Corporate governance in state-owned enterprises. A systematic literature review: an international perspective

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<sec><h3>Background</h3><p>The concept of sustainable human resource management is becoming a core subject of sustainability reports. Current discussions in the literature focus on how to integrate human resource management (HRM) with sustainability issues and emphasise the concept of “sustainable human resource management” rather than “sustainability and human resource management.” This focus requires a more comprehensive company perspective through the lens of company goals, people, processes and the strategic orientation dimensions of an HRM–sustainability relationship. Within this perspective, new approaches are needed to concentrate on sustainable HRM issues.</p></sec>
<sec><h3>Research aims</h3><p>The aim of this study is to analyse the contents of the sustainability reports in terms of sustainable HR characteristics and HR orientation dimensions. The content analysis design is based on an integrated approach of the classification of sustainable HR characteristics through HR orientation dimensions. The sustainability reports of seven financial institutions from the Borsa Istanbul Sustainability Index (BIST) are analysed for the year 2019 in order to determine to which degree sustainable HR is actively involved in the sustainability reports.</p></sec>
<sec><h3>Methodology</h3><p>In this study, an in-depth content analysis is performed on corporate sustainability reports of selected companies in order to form the link between HR orientation and sustainability. This content analysis stands on the integration of two different approaches drawn from the literature (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_ijcm-2021-0010_ref_009">Ehnert, 2014</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="j_ijcm-2021-0010_ref_023">Ulrich, 1997</xref>).</p></sec>
<sec><h3>Findings</h3><p>The results revealed that there are significant differences between the people-oriented scores and process-oriented scores in private banks, while the scores are more balanced in public banks. Additionally, findings support the shift in the public sector from the traditional bureaucratic model to a new management approach that transfers private sector management techniques to the public sector.</p></sec>
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Visiting Professor, AGH University of Science and Technology

The Link Between Sustainability Reporting and the Core Characteristics of Sustainable Human Resource Management

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<sec><h3>Purpose</h3>
<p>There is more and more literature dealing with home education, but this area still seems to be insufficiently explored. The aim of the article is to describe the processes and contexts of home education from the management perspective.</p>
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<sec><h3>Design/methodology/approach</h3>
<p>Initial recognition of the research subject through a literature review. A synthesising research approach was adopted, integrating the results of literature research and on this basis determining the directions of development of home education in Poland from specific perspectives.</p>
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<sec><h3>Findings</h3>
<p>One of the more interesting conclusions is the direction of changes in the law on home education: clear though slow changes towards liberalisation. Management of the educational process by parents is characterised by freedom, which translates into a variety of management styles, but two tendencies can be distinguished: conservative and liberal. Taking into account the historical aspect, the characteristic feature of home education today is its egalitarianism, not elitism.</p>
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<sec><h3>Originality/value</h3>
<p>The history of Polish education is quite complicated. Poland's enslavement by foreign countries resulted in many years of limiting education, including its various forms. Home education as an alternative to elementary schools was reactivated after 1989 and is still in statu nascendi. The article presents in a synthetic way the evolution of home education in Poland, thus outlining the trends in the development of home education from the perspective of management.</p>
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Home education as an alternative form of education in Poland: Management perspective

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Corporate governance in state-owned enterprises. A systematic literature review: an international perspective

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Home education as an alternative form of education in Poland: Management perspective

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