• Opportunities for implementing HerMes 5.2 in the human resource management teaching 

      Dimov, Dimcho (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? 

      Belinskaja, Larisa; Paulienė, Rasa (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 

      Wallner, Thomas; Prauhart, Andreas Sami (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 

      García, Fernando; Guijarro, Francisco; Moya, Ismael (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 

      Paliulis, Narimantas Kazimieras; Uturytė – Vrubliauskienė, Laura (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 

      Lostakova, Hana; Curdova, Marketa (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 

      Geipele, Ineta; Geipele, Sanda; Plavina, Baiba; Stamure, Iveta (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 

      Dobrin, Gabriel-Ionel; Cechin-Crista, Persida; Miculeac, Melania-Elena (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 

      Budík, Jan; Doskočil, Radek; Niebauerová, Lenka (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 

      Rajchlova, Jaroslava; Baranykova, Michaela (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 

      Bersenaite, Jurgita; Saparnis, Gintaras; Saparniene, Diana (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 

      Adamsone, Liena; Feldmane, Andra; Šenfelde, Maija (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 ...
    • Public, private and academic sector interaction for high technology development 

      Petrauskaitė, Neringa; Chlivickas, Eugenijus (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Successful development of high technologies due to its specifics and complexity of the problem to be solved is pursued on the basis of ‘triple helix’ model. Scientific researched has proved that the same development model ...
    • Quantitative methods for support of managerial decision-making in logistics 

      Vlckova, Vladimira; Exnar, Filip; Machac, Otakar (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      The present entrepreneurial environment can be characterized by the speed of changes, rapidly developing ICT, and application of differentiated CRM, particularly in the area of logistics services. These all place high ...
    • Ranking and evaluating new Asian suppliers with European suppliers based on performance criteria 

      Aslan, Imran; Çınar, Orhan (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      The scope of this article is to select, monitor, improve, and reward new suppliers’ performance. The firm’s management has decided to extend its suppliers activities in Far East and Turkey. Supplier Quality Engineering ...
    • Reasons of labour force migration in Romania 

      Ichim, Vasile-Liviu (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      The migration phenomenon must be constantly analyzed by reporting it to the social and eco-nomical reality of a certain period of time. At the moment the migration is generated, mainly by factors of economical nature and ...
    • Regional economic systems: competitiveness and innovative development 

      Drozdz, Jolanta; Volkov, Artiom (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      The evolutionary theories and the focus on innovation in endogenous growth theory have made the innovative process central to any economic growth investigation. This paper is aimed to evaluate the regional disparities of ...
    • Relationship with customers: empirical research on networking in pharmacies business 

      Pecinova, Zuzana; Ehlova, Zuzana (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Building and strengthening long-term relationships with customers on the principle of mutual benefit is an effective strategy to manage businesses and their networks in today's highly competitive en-vironment. Ever more ...
    • Research on applying radio frequency identification technology at Lithuanian companies 

      Meidutė, Ieva; Davidavičienė, Vida; Raudeliūnienė, Jurgita (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      In the present article, supply chain management is analysed as a key factor in business com-petitiveness. Since information and its management are seen as important elements of competitive advantage, various information ...
    • Research on knowledge workers 

      Mládková, Ludmila (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Research on knowledge workers and their management started in autumn 2010 and it still continues. The objective of the research is to verify some aspects of knowledge work and the management of knowledge workers. First ...