The intensive development of global markets correlated with the modern consumer's demands led to a new complex approach concerning the food sector and its' main determinants. Old market theories that describe the food market mechanisms as a simple three point process: "to produce – to sell –...

Today’s technologies offer many opportunities for communication and for developing the social, political and economic environments. Social media is one of the channels highly used for personal and business communication in our informational society. However, the various facets of the social...

The Turkish low voltage switchgear sector is made up of several local and international companies. Generally, local companies operating in this sector try to get a competitive advantage by fabricating cheap products , in order to cope with the competition that focuses more on quality. What's...

This paper presents a conceptual model showing the involvement of design in the development of sustainable businesses, based on the analysis and synthesis of scientific research undertaken and the results published by the authors during the last decade. The starting point is the consumer with...

Healthcare organizations in Germany exploit the benefits of the ISO 9000 family of international standards as it became compulsory to implement a quality management system in accordance with ISO 9001 requirements. Until the innovative ISO 9001:2015 proposal it was no direct connection to the...

Current economic developments make the use of scientific resources, especially academic research, to be no longer just an option for companies wanting to remain competitive, but a necessity. This statement is based on the research conducted by the authors during the last three years on the...

The article approaches the problem of companies' success in today's economic context, characterized by a generalized market with increasing competitive and client requirements. In order to stay on the market and to make profit the companies must change or improve their way of thinking, such that...