• Knowledge management in open innovation paradigm context: high tech sector perspective 

      Žemaitis, Eigirdas (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Open innovation paradigm is new contemporary innovation phenomena. Innovation activities in high tech sector require broad level of collaborative, creative efforts and effective knowledge management models for the companies. ...
    • Local agglomeration economies: what impact on multinational and national Italian firms’ survival? 

      Ferragina, Anna Maria; Mazzotta, Fernanda (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The aim of this paper is to analyze the determinants of firm survival devoting special interest to local agglomeration economies and to their different impact on multinational and national Italian manufacturing establishments. ...
    • New trends in intellectual property and tax burden of innovative corporations 

      Koštuříková, Ivana; Chobotová, Monika (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Intellectual property is an important tool that helps to improve the competitive position of companies on the market. The government makes an effort to promote the protection of intellectual property in the Czech Republic; ...
    • Business clusters formation in Latvia 

      Kulakova, Natalija (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The research paper is devoted to the issue – business clusters formation in Latvia. The purpose of this paper is to research aspects which have influenced the emergence of the business clusters in Latvia as well identify ...
    • Enlargement of the European Union, integral cultural space and transition processes: equal rights and the ecology of culture 

      Melnikas, Borisas (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      This paper analyses the processes and priorities of the creation and further development of integral cultural space in Europe in the context of the enlargement of the European Union. The processes of the creation and further ...
    • Exploitation of quantitative methods for the assessment of regional performance of the Slovak economy 

      Holúbek, Ivan; Vrábelová, Marta; Maroš, Milan (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Regional disparities in the EU regions have lately managed to become the interest of professional and lay public. Since 1989 the Slovak Economy has undergone the transformation process from centrally planned economy to ...
    • Future challenges for innovations in SMEs in the Baltic Sea Region 

      Hogeforster, Max (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) make up for the majority of all enterprises in the Baltic Sea Region and can thus be considered the economic backbone. To stay competitive versus low labour cost countries, these ...
    • Promoting the plurilingual awareness in business environment: case of Rezekne Special Economic Zone 

      Ezmale, Sandra; Rimsane, Inta (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Nowadays, small and medium-sized companies (SME's) can receive the financial and informative support from different programs or trade promotion agencies for developing the export potential. However, the companies seldom ...
    • Definition and characteristics of state aid 

      Sciskalová, Marie; Münster, Michael (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The paper deals with the definition of state aid and the determination of general characteristics of this institute particularly in terms of the decision-making practice of the Court of Justice and the Commission. Especially, ...
    • Methodics of identification level of service quality in railway transport 

      Nedeliaková, Eva; Sekulová, Jana; Nedeliak, Ivan; Ľoch, Martin (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The goal of contribution is characterize methodics of identification level of services quality, which is a result from extensive researches being solved at Department of Railway transport, University of Žilina. The first ...
    • Developing a resilient supply chain 

      Mensah, Peter; Merkuryev, Yuri (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      In today’s global economy, the fierce competition among companies makes them to operate in uncertainties whereby high risks are faced. Should in case these risks become reality, they will absolutely have a negative impact ...
    • Securing enterprises competitive advantage through the management of components of distribution system 

      Meidutė-Kavaliauskienė, Ieva; Vasilis Vasiliauskas, Aidas; Zinkevičiūtė, Virgilija (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Due to increasing competition on the national and global markets, decreasing international trade barriers, development of information technologies and changing customer requirements, enterprises found themselves in a need ...
    • Prediction of transport infrastructure financing needs based on precedences 

      Botlík, Josef; Botlíková, Milena (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      This article solves analyzing and modeling of transport infrastructure financing needs based on precedence analysis. Precedence is calculated for the infrastructure of the selected region and selected segmentation applied ...
    • Importance of personal factor in decisions on locating enterprises 

      Płaziak, Monika; Szymańska, Anna Irena (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      This paper focuses on the personal factor and its importance in entrepreneur's decision-making process when choosing location of a business. The theoretical part of the paper has been supplemented with a case study, which ...
    • Comparative evaluation of the labour income taxation in the Baltic States 

      Skačkauskienė, Ilona; Tunčikienė, Živilė (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The present paper discusses the concept of labour income and its taxation by personal income tax, social security and health insurance contributions, presented in the literature. In order to reveal the influence of the ...
    • Evaluation of the airport service quality 

      Pabedinskaitė, Arnoldina; Akstinaitė, Viktorija (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The article considers the problems of improvement of the quality of airport services provided to airlines taking into account the changes in consumer needs. The quality of airport services for airlines is investigated in ...
    • Critical review of selected housing market models concerning the factors that make influence on housing price level formation in the countries with transition economy 

      Gasparėnienė, Ligita; Venclauskienė, Deimantė; Remeikienė, Rita (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The article includes analysis of the models concerning the factors that make influence on housing price level formation in the countries with transition economy and presents the general principles of these models. The aim ...
    • Estimation of economic development in Papua New Guinea: linear trend analysis or moving average model? 

      Majerová, Ingrid; Pražák, Tomáš (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      A time series analysis is often used for estimation of economic development of countries. However, the prediction based on development of macroeconomic indicators might be analyzed by various models. This article aims to ...
    • Marketing and logistics cooperation problems in Latvian companies 

      Šalkovska, Jeļena; Ribakova, Natalija; Danovičs, Vadims (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      The given article analyses the discrepancies in the tasks of marketing and logistics and cooperation problems between these two areas within a company, as well as defines the role of these disciplines in the common system ...
    • Passenger transport by railway: evaluation of economic and social phenomenon 

      Lingaitis, Vytautas; Sinkevičius, Gintaras (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)
      Transport activity depends on the development of other economic sectors, it is associated with the social and economic development of a country. Therefore, when forecasting economic development of a country, it is important ...