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    • National identity and culture grounded competitive advantage: innovative business models 

      Ludviga, Iveta (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 ...
    • Cohesion in the European Union: new challenges for human resource management 

      Lobanova, Liudmila; Melnikas, Borisas (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      The paper considers the problem of improving the management of human resources, closely associated with the cohesion processes, taking place under the conditions of European integration and the European Union development ...
    • Retail business development: internationalization in Croatia, Lithuania and Poland 

      Knežević, Blaženka; Szarucki, Marek (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      An increasing number of retail companies are experiencing accelerated internationalization. Many global retailers are seeking to enter and explore new foreign markets. New market conditions after the transformation from ...
    • Innovative and traditional companies: the main definitions and comparisons 

      Kavaliauskė, Monika; Urbonavičius, Sigitas; Bikas, Egidijus; Saikevičius, Darius (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      In the complex business environment companies seek for new forms of successful operations, where innovations become very important success factor for business development. However, innovative activities might affect financial ...
    • New concept of tourism product: matching supply aspects 

      Jatuliavičienė, Gražina; Mačerinskienė, Aida (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 ...
    • Determining the effectiveness of enterprise marketing based on the 4p`s model 

      Ginevičius, Romualdas; Podvezko, Valentinas; Ginevičius, Adomas (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Globalization of markets is accompanied by the increasing competition between enterprises. In this environment, the results of the economic-commercial activities of enterprises strongly depend on the effective-ness of their ...
    • Aspects of the financial sector management: an evolution of credit unions 

      Dubauskas, Gediminas (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      A possible sustainable growth of credit unions is being examined in this paper. Credit unions have a rich history. Some, however, adhere more closely to their historical roots than others. These credit unions base their ...
    • 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 ...
    • New theoretical concepts of marketing communications in the context of globalization processes 

      Dmitrijeva, Ksenija; Batraga, Anda (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 ...
    • The theoretical base of financial instruments 

      Žaptorius, Jonas; Sulaymonova, Narghiza (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      In this article are given main notion about international standard of financial instruments and tries to explain theory using transaction cost financial method. Specifically how specificity which is one of the three most ...
    • Balancing market share of national and foreign pharmaceutical companies in developing countries on example of Ukraine 

      Chepynoga, Kateryna; Meidutė, Ieva (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      The article describes a common problem of developing countries which is a negative impact of multinational corporations on the domestic pharmaceutical market and describes specific actions that can be undertaken to protect ...
    • 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. ...
    • New aspects of multinational firms activities in the context of global financial crisis: experience in Italy 

      Amendola, Adalgiso; Ferragina, Anna; Pittiglio, Rosanna; Reganati, Filippo (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 ...
    • Development of the sector of high technology: identifying aspects of process determination 

      Ambrusevič, Nikolaj (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      The author of the presented paper aims at discovering the patterns of the development of the sector of high technology in the context of social, economic and technological progress; to develop and prove the suggested ...
    • Different period time series forecasts integration as a tool of increasing the accuracy of stock return prediction 

      Žilinskij, Grigorij (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      One of the key factors in ensuring the efficiency of investment is ability to obtain high-accuracy stock return forecasts. Nowadays, there are many different prediction methods, ranging from simple moving averages to neural ...
    • Can China develop its own luxury brands? A case study of clothing brands 

      Zhou, Changting; Zheng, Xiaosong (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Based on the prediction of Altagamma Worldwide Marker Monitor, Chinese luxury con-sumption will reach EUR18.5 billion in 2015, representing 20% of the global market and becoming the largest luxury market in the world. Since ...
    • The influence of depreciation policies on financial statement analysis: a case study of airline industry 

      Zheng, Xiaosong; Guo, Yingya; Xu, Jiali (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      The public and professionals are gradually taking the quality of financial statement of airline’ companies into account since the global airline industry plays a vital role within the international business community. ...
    • The application of adjusted DuPont model in financial performance evaluation 

      Zhang, Bing; Zheng, Xiaosong (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Enterprise performance evaluation, not only appears in book values, but also is included in the company management. The comprehensive evaluation of the enterprise operation state and the efficiency of management is an ...
    • Estimated new Keynesian Phillips curve in Lithuania 

      Virbickas, Ernestas (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      The paper provides estimates for the New Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC) in Lithuania. The paper considers the baseline NKPC and the hybrid NKPC, the latter accounts for inflation inertia. The analysis covers estimates for ...
    • Foreign direct investements and economic growth in Romania 

      Vintila, Denisia; Zaharia, Rodica (7th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2012”, 2012)
      Transition economies are a special case in what concerns foreign direct investments (FDI) and important attention has been paid to the level of FDI in these countries, considering the assumption that they are essential for ...