Diversity management is a marginal strategic issue in transportation and logistics companies. The industry falls short of taking full advantage of the significant benefits that gender and cultural diversity can offer. The business reality of logistics sector companies proves that there are enterprises that announce and maintain proper practices leading to diversity. One of such companies is Deutsche Post DHL (DP-DHL) which manages diversity at advanced level. In the light of the above, the aim of the paper is to point out the importance of diversity management in the context of CSR and responsible management of human resources. The paper also aims at presenting the practices of diversity management (DM) of DP-DHL

The paper is an attempt to transfer the dimensions of entrepreneurial orientation (EO) onto the family ground. It constitutes an attempt to emerge the model of family entrepreneurial orientation (FEO) as the family background determining attitudes and entrepreneurial intentions. The research was conducted on a group of students who were asked to respond the questions concerning their families, and particularly, the ones formulated with reference to the existing concepts of entrepreneurial orientation referring to organizational entrepreneurship. There was conducted explanatory and confirmatory factor analysis. The reliability of the scale was analyzed using Cronbach’s alpha reliability estimate.

The aim of the paper is the analysis of the possibilities of measurement of entrepreneurial network performance in manufacturing firms, using Data Envelope Analysis (DEA) method – a non-parametric approach, allowing for the assessment of the effectiveness of the entrepreneur’s social networks in the context of generating information effects. The research uses data obtained from 30 randomly selected Polish enterprises to explore the levels of entrepreneurial networks and their information effects (as performance indicator). The research limitations are the following: the research is limited exclusively to Polish randomly selected entities, and the results cannot be generalized. The originality/value of this paper consists in the fact that this study constitutes both the contribution to the development of the discipline of management and practical guidelines for managers-entrepreneurs since it should be pinpointed that the recognition of the efficiency of gathering information from social networks can be the basis for the conscious creation of the effectiveness of acquiring information from social networks, and thus the conscious use of social networks in economic activity. The novelty of the results presented consists in filling the gap while conducting the research taking into account the assessment of entrepreneurial networks performance using DEA method.

Growing ecological awareness of the society and increasing pressure from stakeholders cause that enterprises face new challenges, also the entities of the transport and logistics sector. This sector considerably brings about emission of pollutants of the natural environment. In the paper there is presented the essence and significance of environmentalism in the activity of enterprises, the importance of the environmental aspect in the operation of transport and logistics companies, the characteristics of well known, in the subject literature. The final part of the paper includes the case study of the Polish company from the transport and logistics sector as a role model of the company responsible for the natural environment, whose development of the environmental strategy brought about market success and competitive advantage in the industry.