Browsing Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2013 by Issue Date
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Local agglomeration economies: what impact on multinational and national Italian firms’ survival?
(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. ... -
Exploitation of quantitative methods for the assessment of regional performance of the Slovak economy
(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
(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
(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 ... -
Importance of personal factor in decisions on locating enterprises
(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 ... -
Methodics of identification level of service quality in railway transport
(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 ... -
New trends in intellectual property and tax burden of innovative corporations
(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; ... -
Developing a resilient supply chain
(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 ... -
Definition and characteristics of state aid
(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, ... -
The factors of the attractiveness of the capital market of Lithuania
(Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)The integration of world financial markets, the development of new information technologies, the availability and dependability of information and the competitiveness of national stock exchanges have considerably altered ... -
Creative Industries: a new sphere of activities for the University of the Arts? Aspirations, challenges and restraints of creative industries in the context of management education
(Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)As industrial societies are about to change towards a knowledge-based service-economy, it becomes necessary to develop and apply new entrepreneurial ideas. In this context, cultural efforts are also being scrutinized and ... -
EU experts’ attitude towards use of GMO in food and feed and other industries
(Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)This article examines European Union (EU) experts’ attitude towards use of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in food, feed and other industries with an eye to developing a general model of EU experts’ opinion formation ... -
Complex econometric model of monopolization process evaluation
(Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)The research “Complex Econometric Model of Monopolization Process” gives wide description of monopolization process’s nature, foundation source, development procedure and actuality in the field of modern entrepreneurship, ... -
Crowdsourcing application in marketing activities
(Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)Active deployment of information communication technologies between consumers’ enables them contribute actively to various business activities. A crowdsourcing phenomenon is observed recently from perspectives ranging from ... -
Corporate stakeholder management
(Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)Stakeholder relationship management is currently regarded as one of the success factors for strengthening companies competitiveness. Each stakeholder group has its specific claims against the company that are often ... -
Financial literacy in the Slovak Republic
(Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)Money has become integral part of our daily life. It is practically impossible to exist without any specific level of financial knowledge and its consequential implementation. To be able to earn money, save them, protect ... -
Business clusters formation in Latvia
(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 ... -
International branch campus: Framework and strategy
(Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)Internationalisation of higher education institutions (HEIs) is considered to be a top priority in institutional strategy development. Institutions are enhancing internationalisation to increase the quality of education ... -
Waste management sector value changes in Lithuania along the last decade
(Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2014)Waste management sector has negative aspects in public opinion as the pollution causing activity, but there is the other effect side of impact – an opportunity to reduce the environmental pollution regarding long term ... -
Evaluation of the airport service quality
(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 ...