Browsing 8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014” by Title
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Investigation of insurance company financial stability: case of Baltic non-life insurance market
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The concept of this paper is to investigate main indicators of insurance market stability according to the framework of the Solvency II directive. The authors have investigated financial ratios, planning tools, risk ... -
Investors’ behaviour and performance in various risk environments: results of a classroom experiment
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Investor’s behaviour, his or her risk tolerance and risk aversion depending on the level of risk in investment environment and his or her emotional condition is a very interesting field of financial research. There is a ... -
Japanese management and its practice in company branch based in Slovakia
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Japan is currently one of the most economically developed countries. The economy in Japan has a very high growth rate. In the traditional Japanese industrial firm is used the so-called Japanese management system. This ... -
Key success factors of comp any's intelligence program
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)In the last decades of global trade, there are significant developmental advance due to changes in economic, political, technological, social and other conditions. The consequence of these changes is an increasing need ... -
Labour market performance and decomposition of unemployment: the case of Visegrad group countries
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Generally, economic performance declines and the unemployment rate rises during the economic crisis. This relationship was confirmed in the past several crises. Last crisis was during 2008 and 2009. The aim of the paper ... -
Literature review on the German labor market
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Labor demand and supply are the driving forces for a company´s decision on all human resource management issues. However, the exchange conditions vary from country to country. Only if these conditions are well known a ... -
Management system of building production process in Central Europe
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Management system and its components, the management system of quality inspection, management system of safety and health protection at work and management system of environmental protection are widely used within the ... -
Management tools for supporting supply chain management – evidence from Slovenia
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The main purpose of this paper is to examine usage and key drivers of management tools that support supply chain management practices. Results are reported for 155 Slovenian employees. Use of supply chain management ... -
Methods of internal communication in public administration offices - on the basis of qualitative analysis
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The resources of an organization are represented not only by human capital, material resources and organizational processes, but above all by the professional competence of employees. All of these elements must co-exist ... -
A model of implementing lean logistics principles in Lithuanian transport enterprises
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Business units worldwide apply Lean logistics principles because it enables to manage complicated business situations effectively. For each enterprise, it is advisible to apply Lean logistics as a business management ... -
Modelling conditional volatility in stock indices: a comparison of the arma-egarch model versus neuronal network backpropagation
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)The analysis of conditional volatility is a key factor to correctly assess the risk of several financial assets such as shares, bonds or index as well as derivatives (futures and options). The econometric models from the ... -
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 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 ... -
The nexus between ageing population, innovation, entrepreneurship and sustainable development
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Research on the nexus of innovation, ageing population, entrepreneurship and sustainable economic development is a matter of tremendous interest latterly, as researchers are studying for solution leading to sustainable ... -
A novel conceptual risk management model based on the future’s uncertainties
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Controlling and managing risk is always a critical point for the managers, investors and even consultants. Having clear and better percepts about future can reduce the risk of fail. In addition it is important for a risk ... -
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. ... -
Outsourcing as a measure seeking for cost reduction in public health care sector: Lithuanian case
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Public institutions not much differ from big corporations in which both cost saving and efficiency are the main aims to consider the model of outsourcing. The object of this article is cost reduction in public health ... -
Personnel selection based on a novel model of game theory and MCDM approaches
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Personnel selection is one of important topics in Human Resource Management (HRM) field. There are so many methodologies in this area but this research has tried to present a novel powerful method based on combination ... -
Place marketing attraction factors
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Place marketing is one of the most recent strands of marketing. Place marketing implements interests of a particular place, as well as of the internal and external subjects the place is interested in. Place marketing is ... -
Planning actions of new service technology creating
(8th International Scientific Conference “Business and Management 2014”, 2014)Many business companies attempt to create new service and make use of new technologies in order to better satisfy customers’ needs. Regrettably, realization of these actions is often wrongly planned; systematically ...