Browsing 7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012” by Title
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National identity and culture grounded competitive advantage: innovative business models
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)Fastest growing and most successful firms appear to have taken advantage of environmental changes and developed novel business models to create and sustain competitive advantages. This research aims to present the close ... -
The need for intelligence about business and social environment
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)In contemporary business environment we face seemingly intractable economic, institutional, technological and social challenges. Intelligence combines many of the most important features of many other concepts; it extends ... -
The need of bankruptcy prediction in the company
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)The obvious symptoms show up in a company’s financial statements about a year or two before a company goes real bankruptcy. The aim of the article is to define the concept of bankruptcy and to provide the main aspects of ... -
Needs and measures for innovations of SMEs in the Baltic Sea Region
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) are the growth drivers of EU economy. In the Baltic Sea Region 99 % of all companies are considered SMEs and thus the backbone of the economy. To stay competitive versus low labour ... -
New aspects of multinational firms activities in the context of global financial crisis: experience in Italy
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)In this paper authors examine the effects of ownership status and exporting activity on the like-lihood of survival for firms operating in the Italian manufacturing during the recent economic crisis. In particular, they ... -
New concept of tourism product: matching supply aspects
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)Due to economical hardships each of the countries reevaluates its own policies and looks for opportunities to optimize evolution of any development, searches for encouraging possibilities for those really purposive, repaying ... -
New management models based in cloud-computing
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)This paper aims to widen the current state-of-the-art techniques of New Management Models. In recent years, the appearance of new web 2.0 tools, the exponential increase in open-source, remote collaboration software ... -
New theoretical concepts of marketing communications in the context of globalization processes
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)All over the world the market of marketing communications (MC), especially advertising, is saturated, cluttered with different types and contents of messages. Consequently, integrated marketing communications (IMC) are ... -
Opportunities for implementing HerMes 5.2 in the human resource management teaching
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)Computerized information systems are essential and indispensable part of the modern business management. Analysis of literature revealed the growing need for building new competencies in the Human Resource Management ... -
Overview of the current leadership theories: What it means to lead?
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)Like all terms in social science, the concept of leadership is obviously arbitrary and subjective. Over the last decade, important advancements have been made contributing to our understanding of effec-tive leadership. ... -
Palestine: in statu innovandi
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)Rebuilding Palestine as a nation is regarded one of the world’s most difficult state building processes. It has to be supported by sound economic development. Innovation is a key factor for eco-nomic progress and competitive ... -
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 ... -
Performance measurement system to evaluate the efficiency of e-business
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)Despite the significant growth of information technologies investments, evidence on their in-fluence on organization performance remains inconclusive. Nowadays is very important to realize whether expected economic benefits ... -
Preference of forms of customer loyalty programs by clients of internet pharmacies
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)Tough market changes require new trading directions to go in servicing the target markets. In particular, it is about offering new ideas, emotional and symbolic values strengthening relationships of shoppers to the company ... -
Pricing peculiarities of apartment house management in Latvia
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)Topicality of the mentioned theme is determined by fact that there are no common understanding in Latvia about formation of administration price and its content. Aim of the research is to analyse in common a price formation ... -
The process of assuming managerial risk in contemporary economy
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)Generally, managers are extremely reluctant in assuming risks; this reticence is based on manager’s individual experience and on the influences of the specific risk factors. The process of undertaking managerial risk implies ... -
Proposal of investment portfolio of Hedge Fund
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)This paper deals with the Hedge Fund as a alternative investment opportinuty. The key of Hedge Fund success is stable and robust investment strategies with high focus on risk management. This paper describes one part of ... -
Proposals for legislative changes as funding to support the development of private equity and venture capital in the Czech Republic
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)The essence of the paper is the formulation of draft amendments to the legislative and institutional conditions necessary for the development of private equity financing and venture capital in the Czech Republic. Changes ... -
Psychosemantics of employee’s images when identifying a typology, responsibility and communication of organisational changes
(7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)This paper provides a typology of organisational changes, i.e., changes of structure, culture, strategy, human resources, technologies and system. Leaders of organisations, teams of employees and even external consultants ... -
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 ...