Browsing 7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012” by Institution "Kaunas University of Technology"

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    • Benefits of inter-organizational networking in a context of globalization 

      Kinduris, Vytenis; Jucevičius, Robertas (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Inter-organizational networking is said to be one of the most important tendencies of recent time. The numerous benefits provided by cooperation of independent organizations help them to meet the challenges of globalization ...

    • Brand risk scenarios development: theoretical insights 

      Vainauskienė, Vestina; Vaitkienė, Rimgailė (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 ...

    • Conceptual framework for localisation of social networking sites 

      Vitkauskaite, Elena; Gatautis, Rimantas (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Social networking sites (i.e. Facebook, Orkut, Cyworld, etc.) already attracted millions of users, many of whom have integrated these sites into their daily rutines. It is becoming more difficult to enter the market for ...

    • Culture management key challenges in changing economic environment 

      Pauliukevičiūtė, Audronė; Raipa, Alvydas (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      This article analyzes culture management theoretical aspects and identifies key challenges in the context of ever changing economic environment. In times of changing economic conditions (including the rise of creative ...

    • The impact of direct foreign investment on international trade in Lithuania 

      Snieska, Vytautas; Vasiliauskiene, Ligita; Venclauskiene, Deimante (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Direct foreign investment, regarded as one of the factors of economic development, has always been considered an important condition, encouraging productivity, international trade and economic growth. Under the conditions ...

    • Impact of financial crisis on Lithuanian households‘ ability to manage budgets 

      Taujanskaitė, Kamilė; Milčius, Eugenijus (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Households are important integral part of economic system of every country, therefore the processes related to households‘ budgets and their control are permanently in focus of numerous researchers. Majority of publications ...

    • Impact of globalization processes on economic situation in the East- and Central European countries 

      Šliburytė, Laimona; Masteikienė, Rūta (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Globalization is influencing practically every field of today’s modern life. However, the most significant impact of the globalization process is felt in economics. East- and Central European countries, although accomplishing ...

    • The impact of government sponsored venture capital funds’ on innovation in Lithuania 

      Snieska, Vytautas; Venckuviene, Vitalija (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Governments wide world have implemented various instruments seeking to enhance the development of innovative small and medium sized Enterprises (SMEs). Previously, the venture capital market was scrutinized in various ...

    • Innovations in new public governance: methodological aspect 

      Raipa, Alvydas (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Innovations in public governance are directly concerned with reforms and changes as processes of reorganization and modernization of public sector. In this article processes of modern stage evolution of public governance ...

    • An intelligence approach to city development 

      Liugailaitė-Radzvickienė, Laura; Jucevičius, Robertas (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      The recent scientific literature about both development of cities and knowledge management is quite broad but the theoretical concept of how the city has to be managed in order to achieve its developmental objectives in ...

    • The need for intelligence about business and social environment 

      Jucevičius, Robertas; Galbuogienė, Auksė (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 ...

    • Social entrepreneurship as driver of life-quality improvements 

      Rybakovas, Egidijus; Šajeva, Svetlana (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      The research highlights insufficiency in the conceptualization on the general patterns of building strategy for life quality improvements at the local (municipal or regional) level. Life quality im-provements related goals ...

    • Structural characteristics of innovation strategies of firms: institutional and sectoral embeddedness 

      Stankevičė, Inga; Jucevičius, Giedrius (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      The existing research provides little empirical evidence regarding the actual relationship of innovation strategies of firms and wider institutional and sectoral environments. Therefore, the paper is aimed at assessing the ...