DARK SIDE OF BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT IN FUNCTION OF ECONOMIC (UN)DEVELOPMENT

Mario Bogdanović

Economy of eastern Croatia yesterday, today, tommorow, 2015, vol. 4, 248-258

Abstract: Key problem in economic development represent so called dark side of business and management. Under dark side of business and management is meant the abnormal, disfunctional, subclinical, but socialy pathological, criminal and unethical aspect of business and management, which can not be thinked only as rare, exceptional or isolated phenomena, but part of normal community and everyday individual, group, organizational, institutional (social) behaviour. Dark side of business and management constitutes numerious real phenomena which are represented by behaviours in interpersonal, business, instututional or social system and can be classified into numerious appearance forms. Without knowing not only for economic development positive but also negative, dark sides of business and management it is not possible substantialy to understand the barriers which arises in economic development. The purpose of this paper is to enlighten the influence of dark side of business and management on economic development by identifing its obstructive factors in Republic Croatia (RC), but also in broader international sense by means of the knowledge which about this phenomena exist in the real business world throughout the planet. The aim of this paper is on the basis of existing researches about different appearance forms of dark side of business and management and identified obstructive appearance forms (from institutional corruption to the individual dark behaviors) explore its impact on economic (un)development and also to give the basic solutions for reducing the dark side of business and management on the functional level. By the insight and synthesis method it is determined predominate harmful potential impact of dark side of business and management on economic development. Also it is determined the lack of basic and management knowledge about particular specific appearance forms of dark side of business and management what needs new researches in this area.

Keywords: dark side of business and management; obstructive factors to economic development; economic development and stagnation; human resource management. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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