The book deals with outsourcing as one of the possible forms of company management ranging from the so-called hierarchy to the marketplace, outlines the features of these outsourcing forms and presents possible strategic assessments on which management decisions for entering the outsourcing...

Supply chain management emphasises the key issue for all its participants to compose the supply chain as a whole, conquering other supply chains instead of competing among themselves. The enterprise success is related to and dependent on the success of its supply chain. Unbalanced production...

The empirical analysis investigates the causes of the catering industry inflation pre- and post-adoption of the Euro in Slovenia. The empirical analysis on the factors of inflation in the catering industry is based on the monthly statistical data during the period 2000–2007. It confirms that...

The research studies structural changes in agriculture and incomes of households in the Skofja Loka region based on an empirical analysis of income diversification in a sample of agricultural households (AHs) in 2001 and 2006. The analysis was conducted from three points of view: for the entire...

The topic of this book is business English in Slovenian tertiary education. If the most important findings are summarised, the following is needed in Slovenian tertiary education with regard to business English teaching: (a) student-centred and learning-centred approach, (b) communicative...

In the monograph with the title Preservers on Banach Algebras we are observing the problem of characterizing mappings on some algebras that preserve a certain subset or a certain property or a certain relation. In the last few decades a lot of results on preservers on matrix algebras, as well as...

The recent economic crisis has further increased the gap between the group of innovative companies and the ones relying on an efficient exploitation of the traditional factors of production. Building a work environment where every employee is able to develop his/her creativity and his/her...

The attention that has lately been paid to the importance of knowledge in companies is not a recent phenomenon. Companies have always been based on knowledge. Knowledge is an important resource and undoubtedly one of the sources of sustainable competitive advantage. We tackled the doctoral...

The monograph Knowledge Management in Modern Organizations reveals the significance of, as well as the relationship between, theory and practice of knowledge management, which represents the basis for business excellence in business enterprises. The book defines a holistic approach to...

Production process inevitably collides with hidden production. Shadow economy does not account for all of the hidden production. Namely, it covers the (otherwise legal) production that is hidden due to tax evasion, non-compliance with regulations and standards, or social-benefit fraud. As a...