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Public investment project’s whole life cycle cost and benefit management model
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)An essential role in maintaining sustainability has the economic growth, where one of the con-ditions is the volume of public investments in the national economy. A situation, when a limiting fiscal policy is being implemented ... -
Brand risk scenarios development: theoretical insights
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)The brand functioning in the markets characterized by uncertainty has become especially vulnerable asset of an organization. Brand vulnerability – is the premise for the formation of brand risk. In the context of the later ... -
Art as a diversification tool of investment portfolios
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)The paper constitutes an argumentation of art investments as portfolio diversification tool, presents the analysis of the specifics and conception of investments in art. Moreover, it represents the structure of art market ... -
The effect of regulatory incentives on bilateral foreign direct investment
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)In general, the promotion of foreign direct investment (hereinafter “FDI”) is considered to be one of the positive measures influencing MNCs decisions to invest in a country. Regulation is treated as a negative aspect in ... -
Evaluation of competitive conditions in the PRC banking industry
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)As a fundamental component to any country’s overall economic system, People’s Republic of China’s (PRC) banking industry recently has seen rapid growth in line with the economic development of the country. This paper ... -
Partial index tracking: satisfying different investment profiles with the same subset of stocks
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)Pasive portfolio management aims to minimize the unsystematic risk of the portfolios by imitating the behaviour of a stock index. Partial index tracking enables passive portfolio management by only considering a subset of ... -
Behavioural finance during economic downturn in Lithuania
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)In the global world of information technologies everybody can operate in financial markets and manage financial instruments. However to forecast markets and to earn profit becomes more and more complicated since financial ... -
Aggregate assessment of a company's financial viability
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)Identifying the adequate level of financial viability refers to the most vital economic issues, since inadequate financial viability can result in the lack of resources for development, insolvency and bankruptcy of the ... -
World top investment strategies adaptation to the Nasdaq OMX Riga
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)The authors of the publication are studying the strategies of world’s best and most influential stock market investors. The objective of the publication is to determine most important points of different investment strategies ... -
Ways of improving risk management function in insurance companies
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)The concept of this work is improvement of risk management function according to Solvency II directive framework. The authors have created an insurance company’s risk catalogue for identification, classification and ... -
Corporate financial performance and value creation: the coherence of intangible assets and corporate social responsibility
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)The paper analyses the importance of intangible assets and corporate social responsibility to a modern enterprise. Referencing to the literature, the article provides the answer to the questions of the existence of the ... -
Marketing as core instrument to implement sustainability strategy for a business world. The case of fast moving consumer goods
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)This paper analyses sustainability through the context of business. There are many different approaches to marketing and sustainability correlation; in this paper some different aproaches are presented. Nowadays rising the ... -
With sustainability engineering to sustainability efficiency
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)This paper is an attempt to perceive the universal sustainability, when it comes to a discrete country or region, where actually the religious, political, social-demographic, economic, environmental, creative, technological ... -
Interest rate as main determinants of the economy
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)In the context of globalization and post-industrial society the financial sector of economy manages the real sector. And that is why in order to deal with the processes of production and distribution of wealth in society ... -
Infrastructure development: economic growth effects
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)The development of infrastructure, while demanding considerable financial resources, is expected to give positive returns and facilitate economic growth in many countries and regions. The aim of this article is to investigate ... -
The impact of the inflation and unemployment values from the previous period on the Phillips curve
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)The article deals with formulation of a dynamical model which expresses the relationship between the rate of inflation and the rate of unemployment more accurately and which has become to be known as the Phillips curve. ... -
Do multinational enterprises push up wages of domestic firms in the italian manufacturing sector?
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)This paper analyzes the effects of foreign direct investment on wages paid by domestic firms in the Italian manufacturing sector over the period 2002–2007. In particular, the authors investigate the im-pact of multinational ... -
Graphical presentation of risk assessment in management decision making process
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)The paper introduces the integration of the risk graphic presentation into the complex approach of the evaluation and selection of management decision. The graphic presentation is an easy and accessi-ble way of the risk ... -
Environmental protection in the Slovak Republic: economic aspects
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)The contribution investigates the effective utilization of some economic instruments for environmental protection, the aim of which is to financially stimulate the ecological behaviour of enterprises. The information on ... -
A behavioural approach to strategy management: main dimensions
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)The article presents the review of the strategy literature especially due to approaches to strat-egy. The author presents the role of the following schools according to a strategy and strategic manage-ment: a planning ...