The aim of the following research paper is to present the state of the business environment five years after the beginning of the crisis, the most general reasons for this state and the erspectives for positive change in the context of the conditions for enhancement of competitiveness of the...

The global economic crisis sets the idea of competitiveness and the ways of its achieving in the center of the economic debate. According to the comparative analyses and studies, Bulgaria is among the countries with lowest competitiveness in EU. At the same time the country is required to...

We study how the opening of a factory store impacts a retailer's demand in its other channels. It is possible that a factory store may damage a retailer's brand image and lead to substitution away from its higher quality core channels. Alternatively, the opening of a factory store may have...

Organizational theorists have long acknowledged the importance of the formal and informal incentives facing a firm%u2019s employees, stressing that the political economy of a firm plays a major role in shaping organizational life and firm behavior. Yet the detailed study of incentive systems has...

We develop a firm-specific measure of organization capital and estimate it for a sample of approximately 250 companies. We test the validity of the organization capital measure within a widely used investment valuation model and show that our organization capital estimate contributes...

We sketch a new synthesis of American business history to replace (and subsume) that put forward by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., most famously in his book The Visible Hand (1977). We see the broader subject as the history of the institutions of coordination in the economy, with the management of...

In an effort to reveal the fine-grained relationships between IT use, patterns of information flows, and individual information-worker productivity, we study task level practices at a midsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project-level and individual-level performance using: (1)...

One of the factors associated with poor performance of the manufacturing sector in Tanzania is limited financial sources. This suggests that manufacturers need to make proper investment decisions. Several studies have associated the performance of manufacturing firms with investment without...

This paper provides an empirical investigation of the hypothesis that companies engage in corporate social responsibility (CSR) in order to offset corporate social irresponsibility (CSI). We find general support for the causal relationship: when companies do more "harm," they also do more...

A popular and widespread, though rarely ever scrutinised method of measuring a complex multidimensional construct y consists of adding the scores (Wert), ..., (Wert) assigned to a unit in in "dimensions". These scores ("indicators") are supposed to represent the in relevant aspects of y....