Journal of Security and Sustainability Issues

Since its inception, the European Union, as one of the most comprehensive and elaborate models of regional economic integration, has been striving to achieve a high degree of internal cohesion and natural convergence in the level of performance of individual national economies in its Member States as well as to maintain and improve its position as a major player the complex geoeconomics space of a globalized world economy. In order to achieve these key objectives, the European Union has been working since 2000 to implement large EU-wide strategies, one of which is the Europe 2020 strategy currently in place. The present article concentrates on the evaluation of the level of implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy in the conditions of the Slovak Republic in the context of analysis and evaluation of the level of fulfilment of individual objectives in the monitored time series.

The authors have investigated the features of legal support for cybersecurity in some of the leading countries of the world, have established the organizational basis for its support, as well as the main aspects of NATO and the EU’s activities and standards in this area. In particular, the essence of the concept of cybersecurity is determined by referring to the views of both foreign scientists and Ukrainian scientists, and fixing this definition in normative documents of international importance (international standard ISO/IEC 27032:2012). Actual strategic goals in the direction of ensuring cybersecurity in countries such as France, the UK, the United States, as well as the settlement of these issues at the legislative level in Ukraine are highlighted. It has been established which state bodies operate in the indicated countries, whose powers include ensuring cybersecurity. Attention is paid to the settlement of cybersecurity and cyber protection issues at the international level, in particular at the EU and NATO levels. Particular attention is paid to NATO standards – TEMPEST. The content of the norms of the current legislation of Ukraine in the field of ensuring cybersecurity and the nature of the priority tasks of the National Cyber Security Coordination Center under the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine are disclosed, which are normatively enshrined in the relevant Regulation. The features of the regulatory and organizational support of cybersecurity in some leading countries of the world and in Ukraine are structured.

The first objective of this study is to examine the relationship between the size of the Board of Directors and audit committee on the company’s financial performance; the second is to test the size of the Board of Directors and the audit committee on the implementation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM); the third is to examine the relationship of the application of ERM on the company’s financial performance;, and fourth is to test the relationship of the size of the Board of Directors and audit committee on the company’s financial performance when mediated by the adoption of ERM. The research sample is 70 firm-years Indonesian non-financial companies listed during 2013-2016. Structural equation Modeling (SEM) with the WarpPLS approach has been used for data analysis. The results showed that the size of the Board of Directors affected the company’s financial performance, while the size of the audit committee did not affect the financial performance. The size of the Board of Directors and the audit committee influence the implementation of ERM. The application of ERM affects the company’s financial performance. The application of ERM mediates partially the relationship between the size of the Board of Directors and the company’s financial performance, but the application of ERM does not mediate the relationship between the size of the audit committee and the company’s financial performance. The results of the study have implications for agency theory and resource dependence theory where a large Board of Directors is a solution to the problem of resources for supervision in improving organizational performance through the effective implementation of ERM.

This study aims to identify and analyze the influence of environmental management accounting on future performance with innovation as an intervening. Innovation is one strategy to produce a competitive advantage. With the competitive advantage achieved, corporate performance is expected to be increased. However, companies are expected to implement a strategy that not only emphasizes business continuity, but also can carry out its business process with the concept of sustainable development. Using 122 manufacturing companies which are listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange, this study tests the hypotheses using path analysis. The paper provides empirical insights about how environmental management accounting does not affect future performance while innovation can mediate the effect of environmental management accounting on future performance.

This study examines the tone of language in sustainability report, focusing on the construction industrial sector of companies listed in Indonesian Stock Exchange year 2010 until 2018. This study analyzed 152 sustainability report using sentiment analysis method wrote in python code. This study shows that around 68%-79% of disclosures in sustainability reports show positive sentiment. These results indicate a high level of corporate accountability in the construction industry related to sustainability. This research contributes to stakeholders in making comprehensive decision related to company’s accountability.

This research presents factors related to narration of GHG emissions disclosure in Indonesia. This phenomenon is important since in the era of advanced information technology firms are now becoming observable to many more interests. Either direct or indirect, positive or negative contribution of it will be noticed by the management in order to keep its reputation. Studying from empirical and logical facts, this research draws 390 public companies listed in IDX and published their annual report for the period of the year 2017. GHG emission disclosure data was acquired from online software TMAILC. This research confirms some factors may support the decision to disclose. They are size of board of commissioners, their independence, and companies’ sensitivity. It is also tested moderating effect of companies’ sensitivity. The result shows that it is significant.

This study was conducted to determine the effect of research and development intensity (RNDI) on firm performance (FP) with green product innovation (GPI) as an intervening variable. Companies which are always innovative with market developments will get two benefits. First, achieving competitive advantage. Second, obtaining economic benefits, therefore it will increase firm performance. This study uses 170 company observations from listed companies in Indonesia Stock Exchange at 2013-2017 as sample of research. The samples were choosen by purposive sampling method and were analized by path analysis method using STATA software. The result shows that RNDI has an effect on FP, RNDI has an effect on GPI, and GPI has an effect on FP. They indicate that GPI can mediate the effect of RNDI on FP in partial.

The Indonesian government has taken the initiative to gradually convert fossil based diesel fuels into biodiesel. This initiative aims to save the state budget as well as to encourage the use of renewable and environmentally friendly alternative energy. This study aims to analyze the effectiveness of the initiatives through investigating the effect of crude oil prices and implementation of the initiative on the price of crude palm oil as the raw material of biodiesel. The results of the study revealed that the crude palm oil increase as the crude oil price increase and the initiative in force, but not as much as the increase in the crude oil. The results imply that the initiative, at a certain level, able to save the state budget from subsidies for energy. This study used ordinary least square to analyze data from 2004, January until 2019, March.

Decent quality of air plays an important role to support all creature’s life. This study examined the impact of foreign investment and the consumption of renewable energy supplies on the air quality in eight ASEAN countries over the period from 2005-2014. This research is a quantitative research that applies panel regression model. The selected random effect model shows, foreign investments affect the quality of air significantly as more investments will lead to more economic activities, thus increasing the consumptions of energy and the level of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) emissions. Further, the use of renewable energy will reduce CO2 emissions. The governments have to support the development of renewable energies and put smart policies to facilitate their development in the economy.

The paper highlights theoretical and practical approaches to the development of a sustainable type of tourism in the region. The concept of “sustainable tourism development” has been clarified, the relationship between its components on the basis of the author’s approach has been identified, which allows finding its most promising segment – international cruise tourism. The paper also discusses the optimization model for the development of international tourism in a region. Among the main segments that influence the development of cruise tourism in the region, sea, river and expeditionary cruises are considered. The profitability of the segments that affect the sustainable development of international cruise tourism in the region has been calculated.