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A crisis in an enterprise is an extremely difficult situation which company managers need to deal with. The enterprise may take all kinds of remedial actions. Ranging from conservative measures, through moderate to very radical ones. These steps may be aimed at counteracting the effects of the past or focused on looking towards the future of the organisation. The type of actions that managers take depends on many factors discussed in the paper. These factors result from the organisation's external and internal environment, the nature of the crisis, as well as the manager's personality. The paper proposes an original model of determinants of managers' behaviour in a crisis situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper presents the results of the study on the importance of open organisational culture as an element of positive potential of an enterprise in a crisis situation. The aim of the study was to demonstrate the link between the open organisational culture as part of the organisation's positive potential and the kind of crisis occurring in the enterprise. To achieve the research objective, the results of the pilot study carried out in 2015 among enterprises in different types of crisis were used. The results show that building the open organisational culture which is part of the positive potential of the organisation is one of the key elements of entrepreneurial activity. In the light of the results obtained, it can be said that modern enterprises need to deal with various problems generated by their dynamically changing environment. In such situations, it is important to make certain changes in organisational culture while taking remedial (anti-crisis) action. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]