Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Preparing for change - foresight of the innovation-oriented enterprise development
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Conceptual model of the fourth party logistics (4PL) services. Case of Lithuania
(Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)Logistics is concurrent part of every enterprise activity which requires for certain quantity of human and financial resources. Realizing this circumstance as well as benefits that logistics system can provide, many leading ... -
Simulation in logistics studies
(Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)Order picking process is the most laborious activity in warehouse. It consumes almost 55 % of all warehouse labour activities. The study pays special attention to order picking process in a very-narrow-aisle (VNA) warehouse ... -
System of dependencies for quantitative assessment of Enterprise Quality Management Systems
(Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)The ISO 9000 standards require the methods for quantitative assessment of quality management systems (QMS) processes. A systemic approach to the QMS analysis allowed identifying their features. Taking them into account ... -
Value and developments of dual vocational training systems in the Baltic Sea Region
(Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)Youth unemployment is on the rise, while at the same time the number of open jobs is growing. This skills gap between the existing qualifications and actual labour market needs is growing in many countries. Countries with ... -
The role of change management in trust formation in commercial banks
(Business: Theory and Practice, 2015)Trust in commercial banks is considered to be one of the vital factors affecting the success of commercial banks’ activities. However, the level of trust in banks has decreased during last years and is quite low at present. ... -
Model of measurement of customer loyalty towards a service provider
(Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)Model of customer loyalty measurement is practically verified in the publication. Model’s approval for the application in service organizations involves the following procedures: 1) description of main characteristics of ... -
Children-engaging social and environmental initiatives as determinants of corporate reputation
(Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2015)Objective: The paper aims to explore children-engaging social and green initiatives as determinants of corporate reputation. Research Design & Methods: The research data were collected by means of a consumer survey (n=354) ... -
Contemporary adaptation risks of young people to the labour market
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New approach to service ideas conceptualization: process of evaluation and service system design
(Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)Scientific and special literature suggests a lot of different models for the implementation of new services, but most of them are contradictory in terms of both the content and the sequence of stages. Some authors skip the ... -
Peculiarities of young specialists on labour market: case of Latvia
(Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)The youth unemployment issue is topical for European countries. The authors would like to outline what kind of risks Latvia can meet in different sectors of economy focusing on the public sector. Authors summaries published ... -
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 ... -
Plagiarism avoiding in students’ written works in higher education institutions in Latvia
(Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)Plagiarism deterring is common problem for most Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) around the world, but ways this problem could be solved are different. Real situation in HEIs of particular country depend on many aspects, ... -
Mergers and acquisitions: evidence on post-announcements performance from CEE stock markets
(Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)The aim of this paper is to provide fresh-out of sample evidence on short-term and long-term performance following announcement of mergers and acquisitions. The research is based on 109 M&A deals in Central and Eastern ... -
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 ... -
The use of a modification of the Hurwicz’s decision rule in multicriteria decision making under complete uncertainty
(Business, Management and Education, 2014)The paper concerns multicriteria decision making under uncertainty with scenario planning. This topic is explored by many researchers because almost all real-world decision problems have multiple conflicting criteria and ... -
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” ... -
The perspective of e-business in the context of smart society development
(Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)The smart-money, smart-school, smart-technology and other smart-terms appeared recently to show significant changes in the information technology environment of the business. The penetration of ICT in all industries is ... -
The smart learning in development of educational internet-services
(Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)The recently educational innovations have led to the significant changes in the educational market. Almost vanish national boundaries in e-learning, there is appearing of a large number of new vendors and developers of ...