This paper presents and discusses two case studies in the Portuguese motor vehicle industry – Salvador Caetano’s Ovar Industrial Division (SCOID), a ‘Brownfield site’ with minority Toyota ownership; and Autoeuropa, a ‘Greenfield site’ wholly owned by Volkswagen. Basically, it...

Article on the reform of the modern media market in the Russian Federation on the example of the Omsk region. Using the methodology of general systems theory, the author analyzes the processes, patterns, and problems inherent in this market, and proposes a methodology for monitoring on the media...

Article about system essence of social contradictions between a society and the power inevitably arising at level of municipal management. On the basis of V. Pareto heritage and the theory of self-organising of I. Prigozhin the author analyzes deep problems of formation of a civil society in Russia.

Chinese SMEs have played an important role in stimulating economic growth, increasing employment, expanding exports and promoting science and technology innovations. In 2005 there were more than 10 million SMEs registered in the Industry and Commerce Department, accounting for 99 per cent of all...

This paper discusses using e- and m-business components in supporting and enhancing existing businesses and in creating new business innovations. A framework illustrating two different approaches companies have to adoption of e- and m-business components is proposed. Three cases of how Finnish...

Corporate identity, which has been in the middle of interest of practice for almost 40 years, is still a very important instrument in the field of Marketing and Management despite the currently unfavourable economic situation. Although consumers are checking prices the further the more, brand...

The construct validity of a 10-item Organizational Culture Scale Focused on Artifacts oriented to measure traditional culture was analyzed under the unidimensionality hypothesis of the scale. Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to assess the unidimensional structure, which took into...

This article presents a Spanish adaptation of Denison Organizational Culture Survey, a questionnaire designed to evaluate organizational culture. This survey consists of 60 items, grouped in 12 sub-scales, which identify 4 cultural dimensions. These dimensions have been widely study and their...

The intense concentration process taking place in the financial systems of the major countries has attracted substantial attention from stakeholders and academics. The impact of M&A on value creation and efficiency / effectiveness improvements of banks involved appears, on the whole,...