Food industry companies, functioning in an ever-changing and uncertain environment, look for ways to increase their competitiveness, including the improvement of effectiveness and efficiency of the implemented food safety management systems. Directions that can be used for this purpose are...

This paper examines the labour relations practices of multinational corporations (MNCs) such as Pizza Hut, Burger King and McDonald's and large national competitors such as Nordsee and Telepizza in the German and Spanish quick food service sectors. Focusing on the issue of independent employee...

El objetivo de esta investigación es analizar el proceso de formulación estratégica de un grupo de empresas del sector alimentos y bebidas del Estado Carabobo, Venezuela. Para ello se llevó a cabo un estudio no experimental, con especial énfasis en un diseño transeccional descriptivo, y se...

This paper attempts to identify structural constraints to growth and exports within Cambodia's key industries and to consider the policy actions needed to reduce obstacles to trade. The paper places special emphasis on Cambodia's exports to the People's Republic of China (PRC), given the major...

Melitz and Ottaviano's (2008) firm-heterogeneity model predicts that trade liberalization induces a selection process from low to high productivity firms, which translates to an industry productivity growth. A similar firms' selection effect is induced by market size. In this paper, these...

Despite the reunification of Germany more than 15 years ago, substantial differences remain between the regions that once comprised the market-driven West and the socialist, centrally planned East. Although today’s Eastern German economy is less competitive than the Western German economy,...