The recent financial crisis has proven just how expensive the process for the reestablishing of the financial stability and for restoring the public confidence in the banking system, actually is. Given its effects and the skepticism regarding the effectiveness of the supervisory systems of the...

Although entrepreneurship is a highly studied subject in economic literature in recent years, there are still many aspects that hasn’t been sufficiently detailed or which have not been fully clarified. One of them is entrepreneurship among young people with higher education. In the scholarly...

This paper focuses on describing how capacities and competences could be use for achieving a sustainable competitive advantage within hotels management since tourism has gained a special position in the export of services and regional development and entrepreneurship in Latvia, and played a...

In the sustainable development management, the following important elements are present and operate: rules of conduct, values, aspirations and expectations, beliefs, specific myths, learned behavior patterns, habits, visible symbols of the company, motivation / reward systems, rights and...

The paper synthetically presents a study of the dynamics of the basic didactic means at the level of a faculty. The scope of the analysis was restricted to the didactic activity spaces, as the other basic means are going to be the object of a different study. The period of the study is 16 years...

The purposes of this study are twofold: (i) to propose and apply a scale to measure service recovery in the electronic banking (e-banking) sector; and (ii) to examine the relationship between service recovery and customer loyalty in the setting of e-banking services. An online questionnaire is...

For implementing more effective social marketing programmes for preventing youth’s smoking more information is needed about the backgrounds of their behaviour and choices. The goal of the article is to find out what is the impact of family and friends’ habits on youth’s smoking behaviour...

Nowadays, change and how to lead it successfully has become the foremost topic on the minds of organizational leaders. And for good reasons: change is happening everywhere; its speed and complexity are increasing; and the future success of our organizations depends on how successful leaders are...

The aim of this study, on the one hand, is to outline the types, competencies and functions of interim management, and on the other, to compare the situation of the Hungarian and British managers on the basis of empirical researches. Interim management appeared in Western Europe in the 1960s,...

When defining a maintenance policy, it must be held in mind the fact that there isn’t such a thing like “good maintenance policy” in itself; instead, for each industrial equipment should be adapted a particular maintenance method, coming to a technical-economic compromise through its...