TY - GEN A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill A1 - Mißler-Behr, Magdalena T1 - ICT, Economic Effects and Business Patterns: A Text-Mining of Existing Literature T2 - ICCMB 2020: Proceedings of the 2020 the 3rd International Conference on Computers in Management and Business N2 - Information and communication technologies (ICT) determine our everyday routines to a large degree, but also reshape existing business patterns and bolster economic development. So far, scholars tried to explain the role played by telecommunications in economic development and business, albeit some significant research gaps in this research field still exist. Our bibliometric analysis of the most up-to-date articles' abstracts clearly demonstrates that the role of ICT on entrepreneurship, location strategies of new ventures and innovative activity of firms remains heavily underinvestigated and, hence, deserves much more attention from the side of academic community. Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3383845.3383851 SP - 40 EP - 45 PB - ACM CY - Japan ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill A1 - Mißler-Behr, Magdalena T1 - Is Ultra-Broadband Enough? The Relationship between High-Speed Internet and Entrepreneurship in Brandenburg T2 - International Journal of Technology : (IJTech) N2 - Recent improvements in broadband infrastructure in Europe have introduced augmented possibilities for both businesses and individuals. As expected, the provision of high-speed internet connections for European users will be an important step towards Industry 4.0 as well as a better entrepreneurial milieu. Still, though scientific literature is replete with examples of how modern communication technologies boost productivity and economic performance, not much research indicates how broadband technologies may bolster entrepreneurship, especially at a very detailed, municipal level. The aim of this study was to find out whether high-speed broadband provision had any effect on higher firm entry rates in Brandenburg, Germany. This region was chosen because of its favorable position in the vicinity of the capital state, Berlin. We carried out an ordinary less square estimated regression analysis using a dataset built for 417 municipalities. The results show that ultra-broadband provision had no significant impact on well-performing municipalities and those located close to Berlin, with no impact in the general model, and also had a negative correlation in underperforming and peripheral areas (significant at a 5% level). This leads to the conclusion that advanced broadband infrastructure does not automatically translate into higher firm entry rates; there is no such urgency in the need for speed, as it might appear at first glance. KW - Broadband KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Germany KW - ICT Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.14716/ijtech.v11i6.4435 SN - 2087-2100 SN - 2086-9614 VL - 11 IS - 6 SP - 1103 EP - 1114 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill ED - Belykh, V. ED - Alekseenko, A. T1 - Cryptocurrency Regulation in Europe: A Brief Overview T2 - Ensuring the Rights of Investors in the Context of the Digitalization of the Economy: the Experience of European and Asian States N2 - Recent changes in digital technologies did not just provide augmented opportunities for firms and individuals, but rather influenced almost all spheres of everyday life. Among them, hardly any other one has experienced so much changes than payment systems. However, existing systems are based on traditional currencies, and there is a debate whether they will remain safe and stable in the long-term perspective. Cryptocurrencies are somehow treated as a possible solution here, but does it satisfy all countries? In this modest review, we tried to summarize positions of all European jurisdictions towards digital tokens. Y1 - 2020 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.31085/9785392335985-2021-128 SN - 978-5-392-33598-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.31085/9785392335985-2021-128 SP - 100 EP - 105 PB - Prospekt CY - Moscow, Russia ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill A1 - Mißler-Behr, Magdalena A1 - Hellebrand, Adrian T1 - Ultra High Speed Broadband Internet and Firm Creation in Germany T2 - Innovations in Digital Economy : Second International Scientific Conference, SPBPU IDE 2020, St. Petersburg, Russia, October 22–23, 2020, Revised Selected Papers N2 - Latest changes in broadband internet provision, as it was expected, will improve the life quality of millions of people around the world and will simplify the business routine, so that even new companies would be able to compete with well-established ventures. However, while there are numerous examples how modern digital infrastructure increases productivity or economic growth, very few papers try to link the availability of high-speed internet and the appearance of new firms. With our previous research at the municipality level in Brandenburg, we started to cover this research gap for the case of Germany. Our current study is focusing on possible effects of (ultra-)broadband provision on firm entry rates in 401 German administrative districts and independent cities. Results of our regression analysis demonstrate significance of basic broadband availability for the whole country (and very strong for less-urbanized administrative districts), while the ultra-high-speed connections have a weak and negative influence on new business formations. Hence, the advanced digital infrastructure does not seem like an important prerequisite for a better entrepreneurial milieu, at least in the case of Germany. Y1 - 2021 UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-84845-3_3 SN - 978-3-030-84844-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84845-3_3 SP - 40 EP - 56 PB - Springer CY - Cham ER - TY - GEN A1 - Khan, Naveed Ahmad A1 - Michalk, Silke A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill A1 - Hafiz, Ali Javed T1 - If You Aim Higher Than You Expect, You Could Reach Higher Than You Dream: Leadership and Employee Performance T2 - Economies N2 - Leadership is about lifting a person’s vision, raising their productivity to higher standards and creating a personality beyond their usual capabilities. Our study examines the Pygmalion effect and leader-member exchange (LMX) on employee task performance via organizational commitment. The data was collected from 280 middle-level managers from top ten banks in Pakistan. This study offers three main contributions to the literature. First, our results discover a strong link between the Pygmalion effect, LMX and employees’ task performance through mediation of organizational commitment. Secondly, our study indicates that leaders should have higher quality relationships with employees and higher task performance expectations. Finally, most previous studies focused on leadership approaches or have been conducted in western developed countries. To our knowledge, this study is a unique contribution to the literature on leaders’ expectations in changing and diverse environments, as in underdeveloped countries like Pakistan. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7099/10/6/123 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/economies10060123 SN - 2227-7099 VL - 10 IS - 6 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill A1 - Mißler-Behr, Magdalena ED - Markopoulos, Evangelos ED - Goonetilleke, Ravindra S. ED - Luximon, Yan T1 - Broadband Development and Firm Creation: Dif-in-Dif Estimates for Germany T2 - Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, AHFE (2022) International Conference Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-1-958651-07-0 U6 - https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001527 SP - 250 EP - 259 PB - AHFE International CY - New York, USA ER - TY - GEN A1 - Khan, Naveed Ahmad A1 - Mihoci, Andrija A1 - Michalk, Silke A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill A1 - Javed, Hafiz Ali T1 - Employee Performance Measures appraised by Training and Labour Market: Evidence from the Banking Sector of Germany T2 - Administrative Science N2 - Our paper examines the impact of training outputs and employment factors on several facets of employee performance while supporting managerial decision-making in the banking sector. First, we introduce four performance measures in individual productivity assessment. Second, three identified groups of covariates are associated with these measures, namely, the training method success, delivery of knowledge, and labor market performance feedback. Based on our empirical results from Germany, we suggest that response-related decisions are accompanying bank employees’ profiles and appraisal. In particular, we form decision-making functions and finally show that the banking industry successfully balances between internal and external factors in optimizing employees’ performance. Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3387/12/4/143 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/admsci12040143 SN - 2076-3387 VL - 12 IS - 4 SP - 1 EP - 13 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill T1 - Scientific text-mining with KH coder: troubleshooting and solutions T2 - 2024 5th International Conference on Computer Science, Engineering, and Education (CSEE), 27-29 February 2024, Shanghai, China N2 - More and more routine tasks are being handled with the help of computer technologies. Science is not neglected; for example, computational linguistics programs greatly simplify the analysis of scientific literature, although not without shortcomings. In this paper, we discuss some of the common challenges that arise when conducting literature analysis in KH Coder, a free distributed software offering analysis of text documents in multiple languages. The proposed solutions, in our opinion, will help researchers obtain more reliable and qualitative results depending on the objectives of the text-mining of relevant scientific literature. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/csee/2024/768500a013/1Y5FeVRMJna SN - 979-8-3503-7685-2 SN - 979-8-3503-7686-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/CSEE63195.2024.00011 IS - 1 SP - 13 EP - 17 PB - IEEE Computer Society CY - Shanghai, PRC ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bilous, Vadym A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill T1 - Are SMEs Ready for AI Embedded Mobile Robots? T2 - Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies N2 - The introduction of both mobile robots (MR) and AI-embedded mobile robots (AIMR) into the industry is very slow compared to other types of industrial robots (IR) and automation systems. Many scientific articles and studies are focused on the programming and design of MR. At the same time, integration issues, topical problems and related obstacles are almost entirely absent from the scientific literature. The authors of this paper acknowledge that the complete analysis of this area is a very challenging task. Therefore, for the purposes of this study, we focus on the local problem of analysing the introduction of MR and AIMR in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The authors offer the analysis of the current challenges and trends in the introduction of mobile robots into SMEs. They also propose solutions to these problems based on their own as well as external experience in the design, programming and implementation of mobile robots. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://openaccess.cms-conferences.org/publications/book/978-1-958651-87-2/article/978-1-958651-87-2_32 U6 - https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004035 VL - 111 / 2023 SP - 285 EP - 296 PB - IHIET 2023 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Bilous, Vadym A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill T1 - Can small and medium enterprises benefit from AR technology? Current challenges and trends T2 - Human Interaction & Emerging Technologies N2 - Albeit augmented reality (AR) technologies first have been discovered in the third quarter of the 20th century, their widespread use began just two decades ago. Existing paper trails show that AR has a wide range of industrial application: it simplifies human-machine communication, improves human-machine interfaces (HMI) for quick information exchange in training (including feedback to study the workflow), correction of errors, machine maintenance, assembly assistance etc. However, broader industrial acceptance of AR, prior to all by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), recently faced considerable problems and the expansion of AR solutions does not match the high potential it has demonstrated. That results in a limited practical use, mainly for demonstration and advertising purposes. This short review is to present the state of the art of the industry, challenges that SMEs face in adopting AR technologies, and several practical examples of a (commercial) adoption of AR. Some prospects for further development of AR and its ongoing integration into industry are briefly discussed in the summary. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://openaccess.cms-conferences.org/publications/book/978-1-958651-87-2/article/978-1-958651-87-2_37 U6 - https://doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1004040 VL - 111 / 2023 SP - 333 EP - 348 PB - IHIET 2023 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill A1 - Baniodeh, Amer A1 - Mißler-Behr, Magdalena T1 - Introduction of 3G Mobile Internet and Its Effect on Start-Up Formation: A Case of Palestine T2 - Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing N2 - The ongoing digitalisation forces both induviduals and firms to keep up with modern technologies, invest in digital literacy and up-to-date skills. However, some regions suffer from poor Internet quality and remain digitally underdeveloped. A prominent example is Palestine which lacks digital freedom due to the restrictions posed by Israel authorities, but also faces a number of internal problems that hamper entrepreneurship. In our paper, we tried to find out whether the recent introduction of 3G mobile Internet in 2018 boosted the business activity in Palestine. Results of our survey of technologically driven start-up founders and experts working closely with them demonstrated that recent improvements in Internet quality are positively associated with the business development, though this effect is largely offset by poor legislative base and low investments in human capital in Palestine. Y1 - 2023 UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-42788-6_2 SN - 978-3-031-42787-9 SN - 978-3-031-42788-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-42788-6_2 SP - 18 EP - 32 PB - Springer, Cham CY - Digital Economy. Emerging Technologies and Business Innovation. ICDEc 2023 ET - Vol. 485 ER - TY - THES A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill T1 - Broadband and Firm-Entries: A Deeper Look to Germany, Palestine and Lithuania N2 - Die Veränderungen der letzten Jahrzehnten in der Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologie (IKT) haben das Leben von Millionen von Menschen und die Ökonomie auf der ganzen Welt erheblich verändert. Einerseits hat eine bessere Breitbandinfrastruktur die Lebensqualität der Haushalte verbessert und die Alltagsroutinen vereinfacht. Andererseits profitierten die Unternehmen durch eine höhere Produktivität ihrer Mitarbeiter sowie durch das Entstehen neuer Geschäftsmodelle, die nicht mehr so stark vom Standort des Unternehmens abhängen. Der letztgenannte Aspekt sollte ein zusätzlicher Motivationsfaktor für kleine und mittlere Unternehmen sein, da sie mit der Entwicklung des Hochgeschwindigkeitsinternets möglicherweise erfolgreich mit den Marktführern konkurrieren können – solche Ziele wurden beispielsweise in der Digitalen Agenda für Europa im Jahre 2010 formuliert (European Commission, 2010). Dennoch fehlen in der wissenschaftlichen Literatur Studien zum Zusammenhang zwischen den Verbesserungen der IKT und dem Unternehmertum und Firmengründungen. Die meisten von ihnen beziehen sich auf den Forschungsstand in den entwickelten Ländern, vor allem in den Vereinigten Staaten. Diese Dissertation versucht einerseits, die bestehende Forschungslücke für Deutschland zu schließen, da bisherige Studien auf veralteten Daten aus der DSL- Ärabasieren oder sich auf die Firmenproduktivität bzw. Wirtschaftsleistung beziehen. Andererseits versucht die vorliegende Arbeit die Situation in weniger entwickelten Ländern zu untersuchen, und berücksichtigt daher zwei spezifische Fälle: Palästina (dort hat die Einführung der 3G-Konnektivit¨at die Wirtschaftstätigkeit angekurbelt) und Litauen (ein unterdurch- schnittliches EU-Mitglied mit einem komplexen historischen Hintergrund). Die wichtigste Schlussfolgerung, die diese Dissertation zieht, ist, dass Breitbandverbindungen in der Regel einen statistisch positiven Zusammenhang mit der Zahl der Unternehmensgründungen haben, was im Einklang mit anderen aktuellen Studien steht. Ob die Wirkung von Hochgeschwindigkeitsanschlüssen durch andere externe Effekte wie das Vorhandensein hochqualifizierter Arbeitskräfte (Komplementarität der Fähigkeiten) oder unternehmerische Ausbildung verstärkt wird, liegt aufgrund der Unzulänglichkeiten der statistischen Daten außerhalb des Rahmens dieser Arbeit und soll vom Autor in Zukunft untersucht werden. N2 - Recent changes in information and communication technologies (ICT) have considerably changed the lives of millions of people and the economy around the world. On the one hand, a better broadband infrastructure improved the life quality of households and simplified their everyday routines. On the other hand, companies have benefited from increased employees’ productivity and the emergence of new business models that do not depend any more to a large extent on the location of the company. The latter circumstance was expected to be an additional motivating factor for small and medium-sized firms, as with the development of high-speed Internet, they could possibly successfully compete with market leaders; such goals, for example, were voiced in the Digital Agenda 2010 for Europe (European Commission, 2010). Nevertheless, the academic literature lacks evidence linking the improvements of ICTs with ntrepreneurship (firm entries) and mostly reveals the state of the art for the developed countries, predominantly for the United States. This dissertation attempts, on the one hand, to cover the existing research gap for Germany as previous studies are based on outdated data from the DSL era, or refer to the firm productivity or economic performance. On the other hand, we try to investigate the experience of less developed countries and hence include two specific cases: one is Palestine (where the recent introduction of 3G connectivity boosted the business activity) and the second is Lithuania (an underperforming EU member with a complex historical background). The main conclusion from this dissertation is that broadband, as a rule, has a statistically positive relation to the number of firm entries, which stays in line with recent studies. Whether the effect of high-speed connections is amplified thanks to other externalities, such as the presence of a highly qualified workforce (skill complementarity) or entrepreneurial training, remains beyond the scope of this work due to statistical data imperfections and is expected to be researched by the author in the future. KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Broadband KW - Germany Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:co1-opus4-67911 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill T1 - Broadband and firm entries in Lithuania T2 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference (CECNet 2024), Matsue, Japan, 5-8 November 2024 N2 - The ongoing digitalization had a global impact on economic patterns. With better broadband infrastructure, new businesses rely more on digital tools and technologies, are able to grow faster, and reach customers in remote markets. However, despite the growing importance of high-speed internet, there is a lack of research linking broadband provision to firm entries. This paper fills this gap by examining the relationship between the improvements in mobile internet speed and the firm entries in Lithuania over the 5-year time period from 2014 to 2019, the active phase of implementation of the Digital Agenda for Europe. As a result, we observed a negative and significant at 10% level relationship between changes in internet speed and business creation, which contradicts the recent findings in the existing literature. Y1 - 2024 UR - https://ebooks.iospress.nl/ISBN/978-1-64368-563-2 SN - 978-1-64368-563-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA241373 SP - 464 EP - 471 PB - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill T1 - Still not a remedy for academics : the use of generative AI-powered tools in bibliometric analysis T2 - Electronics, Communications and Networks : proceedings of the 15th International Conference (CECNet 2025), Hong Kong, 24-26 November 2025 N2 - Artificial intelligence (AI) based tools hold great promise for automating time-consuming and labor-intensive tasks where humans are prone to making mistakes. So far, AI solutions are actively used in healthcare, IT, and large data processing. Yet, their ongoing adoption across all areas of everyday lives – by both professionals and individuals – raises ethical concerns, before all in education, where a risk of misjudgments or incorrect data manipulations remains high. However, the up-to-date literature barely addresses the problems of AI integration in real-world settings for academic and teaching purposes, focusing on generalized literature reviews. At the same time, some findings report the problem of large language models (LLM), which are known for persistent hallucinations. In this preliminary paper, we portrait the existing AI-powered platforms for bibliometric analysis – both traditional academic search engines with generative extensions (Scopus AI, WoS Research Assistant, etc.) and commonly used LLM chatbots. Our major outcome is that no one of the solutions on the market is able to substitute researchers in text-mining, but rather a combination of different tools may simplify the routine tasks. We also admit that more research is needed to compare existing tools in different settings, with different data sources and bibliometric analysis tasks, in order to develop evidence-based guidelines and pedagogical safeguards to support responsible integration of AI tools into scholarly and educational contexts. KW - Artificial intelligence (AI) KW - Jigher education KW - Bibliometric analysis KW - Large language model (LLM) Y1 - 2025 SN - 978-1-64368-634-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA251515 SP - 57 EP - 63 PB - IOS Press Books CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - GEN A1 - Sarachuk, Kirill T1 - Need for speed, or for digital skills? : broadband development and firm dynamics in Germany T2 - Digital economy : emerging technologies and business innovation : 10th International Conference on Digital Economy, ICDEc 2025 Tunis, Tunisia, May 15–17, 2025 : proceedings N2 - In 2010, Germany adopted its first 10-year digital transformation strategy, Digital Agenda for Europe, in order to secure the provision of high-speed Internet connections for all its households and to promote entrepreneurship. However, the goals voiced in the first edition of the European broadband development plan (and, subsequently, in national plans) were rather ambitious, given the spatial varieties between different EU members, rural and more urbanized areas. That may explain why existing studies for European countries provide mixed outcomes, highlighting the positive role of broadband development, but arguing its limited effect for declining and rural areas. Our contribution to understanding the role of recent digital transformations is twofold. First, for German counties and independent states, we were able to support the view that better penetration of broadband contributes positively to the firm dynamics, both in rural and urbanized areas. Second, we admit that the digital infrastructure may not be sufficient by default, and individuals do need to possess the relevant-to-market skills so that the society may benefit from augmented broadband externalities. We suggest that further policies have to target on better complementarity between relevant skills and digital transformation and not just each component isolatedly. KW - Germany KW - High-speed broadband Internet KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Digital transformation Y1 - 2025 UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-08603-7_30 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-08603-7_30 SP - 485 EP - 501 PB - Springer Link CY - Berlin ; Heidelberg ER -