Robotics and automation are of the most prominent technologies that will probably define how retail operates in the future. This statement is especially relevant in today's industry conditions characterized by rising wages, severe increases in energy costs and smaller consumer spending across...

This paper aims to explore how digitalization can be used as a risk mitigation tool against pandemic-induced demand shocks, when customer movements and activities are constrained by government regulations. Due to the disrupting events of the COVID-19 pandemic, we opted for an exploratory study...

A digitalizálódás napjaink egyik legjelentősebb globális folyamata, amely magába foglalja a mindennapi élet számos aspektusát, és átalakítja a kiskereskedelmi szektort is. A szerzők kutatásukban azt vizsgálják, hogy milyen digitalizációs trendek érvényesülnek a...

In the last few years, the management literature has become noisy with Industry 4.0 (I4.0). Although several concepts and typologies intend to make the phenomenon more understandable, these endeavours generally focus on technological aspects or specific issues. Therefore, integrated approaches...

This paper aims to explore how digitalization can be used as a risk mitigation tool against pandemic-induced demand shocks, when customer movements and activities are constrained by government regulations. Due to the disrupting events of the COVID-19 pandemic, we opted for an exploratory study...

Robotics and automation are of the most prominent technologies that will probably define how retail operates in the future. This statement is especially relevant in today's industry conditions characterized by rising wages, severe increases in energy costs and smaller consumer spending across...

A szolgáltató robotok egyre szofisztikáltabb feladatokat képesek ellátni mind a fizikai, mind a kognitív tevékenységek tekintetében. Az irántuk való kereslet világszinten növekszik, amit jól alátámasztanak azok az előrejelzések is, melyek alapján 2025-re a...

The aim of our research is to investigate a company’s purchasing and manufacturing competitive priorities jointly in order to uncover any relationships between them and also their effect on the supply chain tools implemented by the company. We assume that the supplier selection criteria of the...

Ethics is a critical element of business relationship. This is often narrowed down to corruption in the context of purchasing management, however it is a much more complex problem. Since the large scale research projects of the 1990s only a few studies have been devoted to investigate this...