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    • Systems thinking in project management: theoretical framework and empirical evidence from Polish companies 

      Kopczynski, Tomasz; Brzozowski, Maciej (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
      This research examines new directions in project management and systems thinking theory and practice. Relevant literature is synthesized to provide a holistic picture of current knowledge of the topic, highlighting meanings, ...
    • Universal leadership effectiveness: theory formulation, design and measurement 

      Dalati, Serene (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
      The purpose of this research paper is to develop a theoretical framework of leadership behaviours and attributes which are universally endorsed. The model investigates a set of independent variables encompassing leadership ...
    • Restructuring small and middle size enterprises (SME) 

      Tamošiūnas, Andrius (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
      The article presents SME restructuring management model aimed at divergent and sustained competitive performance, specifying measures for improving strategic management, rationalizing management functions as well as ...
    • Exploring enterprise system engineering skill gaps in the labor markets of Egypt and Tunisia 

      Mahmoud, Tariq; Marx Gómez, Jorge; El Alfy, Shahira (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 ...
    • Process maturity of the enterprises in a multi-dimensional perspective 

      Bitkowska, Agnieszka (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
      The process maturity assessment models of companies can support the implementation of business process management. Identification of the level of process maturity of the organization allows to assess the progress of the ...
    • Economic aspects of introduction of new technologies in medium and large enterprises 

      Strumskis, Mindaugas; Gaidelys, Vaidas (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
    • Body language in business negotiations and meetings 

      Peleckis, Kęstutis; Peleckienė, Valentina; Peleckis, Kęstutis (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
      In business negotiations, business talks, as a whole in human communication, is important not only the content of the information communicated in words, but also how those words were said, what was the use of voice ...
    • The conflict between strategic method application and theoretical knowledge in small and medium sized companies: the case of the Czech Republic 

      Šebestová, Jarmila (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 ...
    • Statistical evaluation of communication skills of customer care employees in banks 

      Korenková, Marcela (Business, Management and Education, 2014)
      The effectiveness of the sale of financial products in banks is largely influenced not only by the products themselves, but also by the level of communication skills of customer care assistants. The subject of our research ...
    • Safety audit, cost of health maintaining measures and workers training as the key elements in improvement of occupational health and safety management 

      Paas, Õnnela; Reinhold, Karin; Tint, Piia; Siirak, Virve (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
      The workers health and safety takes increasingly important aspect in the industrial and commercial companies in Estonia. The workforce in ageing and there is a great shortage of high-quality workers. Job satisfaction and ...
    • Value chain approach in higher education management 

      Stankevičienė, Jelena; Vaiciukevičiūtė, Agnė (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
      The paper explores the meaning of value chain framework as an approach which leads to strategic principles incorporation in Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) management. The value chain viewpoint is specifically composed ...
    • Compatibility of the single monetary policy with macroeconomic fundamentals of the Slovak Republic 

      Siničáková, Marianna; Šoltés, Michal; Buleca, Ján (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
      The Slovak Republic introduced single currency – euro in 2009. Thus, from January 2009 on Slovakia does not perform its independent monetary policy but is affected by the euro area policy including common interest rates. ...
    • Shifting value added tax on labor – the case of the book market in Central and Eastern European Countries 

      Bernal, Arkadiusz (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
      In the literature the question whether a tax burden is shifted on labor doesn’t have a clear answer. Using data which refers to book publishers in the Central and Eastern European Countries I try to answer the question ...
    • Characteristics of Omega-optimized portfolios at different levels of threshold returns 

      Vilkancas, Renaldas (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 ...
    • Stochastic networks as an adequate tool of value chain management 

      Rutkauskas, Aleksandras Vytautas; Račinskaja, Irena (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
      Projecting the rational allocation of resources of investment and other development, reaching the optimal created value of business it is necessary to use the logic of stochastic optimization using theoretically formed and ...
    • Corruption and stock market development: new evidence from GCC countries 

      Alsherfawi Aljazaerli, Moaz; Sirop, Rasha; Mouselli, Sulaiman (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 ...
    • Perspectives of government debt management in the Baltic States 

      Stasytytė, Viktorija; Šalienė, Asta (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
      Starting to recover after the global financial crisis, the European countries experienced economic growth. However, public debt of the European Union in percentage of GDP has been still increasing. In order to investigate ...
    • Comparision of exchange market predictions using extremal data 

      Maknickienė, Nijolė; Stankevičienė, Jelena (Contemporary Issues in Business, Management and Education ‘2014, 2014)
      High and low data otherwise then close and open data are not adventitious on time serias curve. Its are extremes and very interesting for traders. Our model based on Evolino RNN ensemble give two distributions based on ...
    • Exchange rate forecasting with information flow approach 

      Mačerinskienė, Irena; Balčiūnas, Andrius (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 ...
    • Risk factors in derivatives markets 

      Martinkutė-Kaulienė, Raimonda (Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 2014)
      Objective: The objective of the article is to analyse and present the classification of risks actual to derivative securities. Research Design & Methods: The analysis is based on classical and modern literature findings ...