Browsing Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014 by Publisher "Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas"
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Analysing sovereign credit default swaps of Baltic countries
(Business: Theory and Practice, 2015)The paper analyses development of the Baltic sovereign CDS market. The level of commonalities and differences in credit risk of the Baltic countries with regard to CDS spreads is investigated. We apply principal component ... -
Benchmarking in university toolbox
(Business, Management and Education, 2015)In the face of global competition and rising challenges that higher education institutions (HEIs) meet, it is imperative to increase innovativeness and efficiency of their management. Benchmarking can be the appropriate ... -
Challenges in learning for company’s financial viability assessment and management
(Business: Theory and Practice, 2015)Many entrepreneurs in Latvia are limited in choice of tools for the improvement of their financial literacy. Therefore the training course “Financial literacy of entrepreneurs in the field of financial viability management” ... -
Characteristics of Omega-optimized portfolios at different levels of threshold returns
(Business, Management and Education, 2014)There is little literature considering effects that the loss-gain threshold used for dividing good and bad outcomes by all downside (upside) risk measures has on portfolio optimization and performance. The purpose of this ... -
Comparative evaluation of national intellectual capital measurement models
(Business: Theory and Practice, 2015)National intellectual capital is regarded as an important factor of a country’s ability to perform high value added functions including the ability to create innovations. Measuring national intellectual capital is still a ... -
The conflict between strategic method application and theoretical knowledge in small and medium sized companies: the case of the Czech Republic
(Business: Theory and Practice, 2016)The purpose of the paper and presented research is to discover the potential conflict between often used managerial methods and the recommended methods for small businesses to find the gap between theory and practice in ... -
Corporate foresight at the strategic research institutes
(Business: Theory and Practice, 2015)Foresight – that is systematic, in-depth analyses of social, technological, economic, environmental and political development trends in order to anticipate their impact on organisation, sector or a region in a long term ... -
Corruption and stock market development: new evidence from GCC countries
(Business: Theory and Practice, 2016)The theoretical relationship between corruption and stock market development has been debated quite extensively in the literature, yet the evidence on the impact of corruption on stock market development remains contradictory ... -
Dynamic intellectual capital model in a company
(Business, Management and Education, 2015)The aim of this paper is to indicate the relations between company’s value added (VA) and intangible assets. Authors declare that Intellectual capital (IC) is one of the most relevant intangibles for a company, and the ... -
Ethical-economic dilemmas in business education
(Business, Management and Education, 2014)The main purpose of the article is to support the idea of institutionalizing business ethics education at all business schools. Further, the article stresses the importance of using ethical-economic dilemmas in business ... -
Ethics management: how to achieve ethical organizations and management?
(Business, Management and Education, 2015)The last decades´ serious organizational scandals stemming mainly from corruption, conflicts of interest, bribery, and favoritism have accentuated the need for finding methods and tools to achieve more ethical organizational ... -
Exchange rate forecasting with information flow approach
(Business: Theory and Practice, 2016)The purpose of this article is to assess exchange rate forecasting possibilities with an information flow approach model. In the model the three types of information flows are distinguished: fundamental analysis information ... -
Exploring enterprise system engineering skill gaps in the labor markets of Egypt and Tunisia
(Business, Management and Education, 2014)The proposed research is driven by an existing need to develop a master programme in enterprise system engineering (ESE) to the Arab Universities. The main objective of the project is to ensure the development of a top-notch ... -
Forward-looking planning of technology development
(Business, Management and Education, 2015)The main aim of this article is to adapt the Future-Oriented Technology Analysis (FTA) to prospective planning of technology development. Firstly, the article presents the assumptions, methods and idea, as well as the ... -
A framework for the corporate governance of data – theoretical background and empirical evidence
(Business, Management and Education, 2015)In a modern organization, IT and digital data have transformed from being functional resources to integral elements of business strategy. Against this background, our article addresses corporate governance of digital data ... -
The future of evaluation of lower secondary schools’ management
(Business, Management and Education, 2015)Efficiency of educational institutions is a significant issue worldwide. However, there is no commonly accepted way to measure the quality of management of education services. Mainly because it too much depends on the ... -
Identification of preferred sources of information for undertaking studies in the Faculty of Engineering Management at Poznan University of Technology
(Business, Management and Education, 2015)Since 2010 a survey has been conducted among first-year students about sources of information which influence the decision of undertaking field studies in Safety Engineering, Management Engineering and Logistics in the ... -
Implementation of the ABC model in a company dealing with extraction of raw materials
(Business, Management and Education, 2014)ABC method is a new system for accurate product pricing, cost analysis of the causes of individual products and their optimization. The prices of products are accurately taken into account according to all relevant overhead ... -
Intellectual capital approach to modern management through the perspective of a company’s value added
(Business: Theory and Practice, 2015)The importance of value creation in small and medium-sized business companies has always been in focus. The changing environment makes a strong impact on all companies all over the world. Nowadays, the value added, which ... -
Managerial competencies and innovations in the company – the case of enterprises in Poland
(Business, Management and Education, 2014)The determinants of the successful innovation implementation in the company include human capital and competencies of both managers and employees. In order for successful innovation management to occur, a manager must ...