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    Cross-border Entrepreneurial Education, Development and Knowledge and Technology Transfer: Experiences with the Cambridge–Riga Venture Camp Programme—A Reflective Report
    (SAGE, 2021) Bērziņa, Kristīne; Barrell, Alan; Paalzow, Anders; Baltins, Elmars; Storgårds, Jan; Purmalis, Karlis; Irbe, Madara Mara; Ozolins, Modris
    Over a 6-year period, a collaboration has been developed between a group in Cambridge, UK, and two Latvian Universities, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga and other organisations, including Riga City Council, supported by the British Embassy Riga and the Latvian Embassy in London, enabling structured processes to be developed to identify aspiring entrepreneurs based in Latvia and Estonia and provide education, coaching, mentoring and encouragement first in the home territory, leading to an intense whole-week development venture camp in Cambridge for selected candidates. The programme was extended to provide ongoing business development support for a number of entrepreneurial companies with global potential, and the developing venture camp activities attracted, supported and helped accelerate the evolution in Riga of an innovative ecosystem providing leadership in the Baltics. Practical examples of cross-border knowledge and technology transfers have been recorded as part of the Cambridge–Riga Venture Camp process. This report presents the development, content and outcomes of this innovative project aimed at supporting the emergence of entrepreneurial and innovative capabilities of Latvian delegates to the project. Detailed appendices including data and narrative based survey of outcomes and assessments containing structured feedback from delegates participating in the 2020 Cambridge-Riga Venture Camp are available as the Supplementary material online. This is an interim report, since the activity is ongoing and continuously developing.
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    Tourism SME sustainability social and economic challenges during pandemic: cases of Russian Federation, Georgia and Latvia
    (E3S Web of Conferences, 2021) Bērziņa, Kristīne; Tsoy, Marina
    . Until 2020, the tourism industry was characterized by a growth rate, the statistics highlight that globally 2019 was the tenth year with a consecutive annual growth. However, the Covid-19 pandemic marked a major turning point in the development of tourism, instead of tourism overdevelopment, the underdevelopment issues appeared in front pages of the industry news. The effects of the pandemic are intensified by the fact that tourism is a labour-intensive industry and that most companies in the sector are SMEs (small and medium sized enterprises). At this time, it is crucially important to look at sustainability issues, therefore the aim of this study is to analyse the social and economic dimensions of sustainability for tourism SMEs. Descriptive statistics as well as qualitative research methods were used to study the challenges posed by the pandemic, indepth interviews were conducted with tourism SMEs from three different countries. The conclusions show the situation from an enterprise perspective in Russian Federation, Georgia and Latvia
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    Теоретические подходы к социальному капиталу: перспективы науки управления
    (2015) Bērziņa, Kristīne
    Социальный капитал, как концепция науки управления, возник только в 20-м веке. Использование этого термина стало расти в геометрической прогрессии после публикации Патнемa в 1995 году. Управленческий подход социального капитала рассматривает инвестиции в социальные отношения с ожидаемой прибылью на рынке и анализ комплекса неформальных ценностей и норм, которые являются общими для членов сети сотруднечества и дают им возможность взаимодействовать друг с другом. Хотя анализ теоретических аспектов социального капитала достаточно обширен, наименее изученными являются количественные исследования по расчету стоимости социального капитала на предприятиях.