8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”
Recent Submissions
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A comparative study of egovernment implementation in the Czech Republic and others V4 countries
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The development of eGovernment is one of the strategic aims of development of an information society in the European Union. The Czech Republic as an EU member must reflect these objectives and eGovernment therefore belongs ... -
Impact of electronic environment on business development: case of Latvia
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)By employing advantages offered by the e-environment, entrepreneurs can ensure expedient and effective communication with the target audience, by promoting products on the global market. By this way companies, especially ... -
On e-recruitment and four ways of using its methods
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)E-recruitment is the fastest growing group of methods of recruitment. Its application encounters less and less obstacles even in countries that are not a leaders in new technologies, as will be shown on data from Poland. ... -
What does it mean to be smart?
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)This paper aims to reveal the essence of the concept smart. The main starting point in analyzing the term smart is a human being and the quality smart is first of all attributed to a human being. The paper is comprised ... -
Strategic tensions of smart development
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The paper discusses the inherent paradoxes and contradictions of smart development. Reconciling the opposites lies at the heart of “smart” approach to management and governance of the complex social systems. Smart ... -
Framework for development of city’s intelligence
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The diversity of theories analysing intelligence of the city brings some misunderstandings as well as fragmented attempts to explain the background for development of this phenomenon. Therefore the aim of the article is ... -
The need of smartness in public governance
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The fast changing environment, complex problems and increased expectations for government performance establishes new requirements for the public governance system. A key challenge for the government is to find new ways ... -
Diversity of theoretical approaches to the concept of smart city
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Recently the term “smart” has become an increasingly popular concept used in many different situations, in urban development context in particular. Often the term “smart city” is used in association with other categories, ... -
Critical analysis of approaches to smart economy
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The article comprises the critical analysis of the theoretical aspects of the concept of smart economy. This article includes analysis of the structural components of smart city, the presentation of variety of definitions ... -
Innovation dimension in the concept of a smart city: is the innovativeness the main attribute of being smart?
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The dimension of innovation in regard to the concept of a smart city is presented in this article. The analysis of scientific literature revealed that innovativeness, although it is called the main tool to compete ... -
The impact of intangible capital on countries’ sustainability during the economical recession
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Intangible capital is an important and a form of capital recently much discussed in scientific literature. Even though the concept of intangible capital is not strictly set yet and vague enough, many authors agree that ... -
Shareholder value sustainability drivers through the prism of out- and underperformers (evidence from Central and Eastern Europe)
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The paper aims to investigate the key attributes of the leading and lagging companies in terms of the shareholder value sustainability. The companies classified as the sustainable outperformers and the sustainable ... -
The development of indicators for sustainable education: methodological and conceptual approaches
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The measurement indicators of sustainable education and its sustainability, as well as the quality of education are widely discussed and controversially perceived in theoretical literature. Sustainable education is ... -
Indicators of sustainable economic growth and their management
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The article discusses fundamentals of formation of sustainable economic growth indicators, criteria and factors of their qualitative and quantitative measurement, which contribute to objective orientation of development ... -
Universally sustainable development as a framework of small countries‘ economic efficiency and national self-sufficiency
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The concept of sustainability and, particularly, of sustainable development dominates in the literature among the most ambitious and controversial concepts. The knowledge and researches of state, evolution or development ... -
Socially responsible and sustainable employment policy trends
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The purpose of the article is to examine social and economic issues and problems systematically in order to determine how the public and corporate social responsibility are understood, processed and increased over time; ... -
Multisectorial, multivariable, multicriteria stohastic optimization models system
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The multisectorial multivariable multicriterial stochastic optimization model system is an adaptive system of stochastic dependencies, which integrates the following items, formed in time and in uncertainty: intersector ... -
The application of utility function for investment decision-making
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The authors of the paper pay great attention to the impact of globalization on financial markets, because financial markets are the leaders of the ongoing process of globalization. Due to the increasing number of investors ... -
Hunting for sustainable investment return in global financial markets
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The main objective of this article is to identify the content of globalization process in financial markets, while offering a universal method of investment, which could generate the sustainable investment return and ... -
Analysis of supply chain financial system in Republic of Lithuania logistics enterprises
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)This paper investigates enterprise logistics process financial system and enterprise logistics process. The authors are made the evaluation of these processes per Republic of Lithuania and abroad countries practice in ...