This paper discusses the merits and limits of the recent European energy policy aimed at reducing carbon emissions, devoting particular attention to the European trading system of carbon permits and to the measures that the European Union has adopted to promote renewable energy sources. From the...

As the discipline of strategic management grows from the lessons to be learned from the current financial crisis, it is important to take strategic perspectives at how industries, represented by specific companies, could be affected by such economic disasters, both in terms of internal and...

As the discipline of strategic management grows from the lessons to be learned from the current financial crisis, it is important to take strategic perspectives at how industries, represented by specific companies, could be affected by such economic disasters, both in terms of internal and...

The global economic crisis showed effects in the West Balkans in the second half of 2008, multiplying the already existing economic problems. To investigate the relationship between the domestic economic activities and the economic dependence of these countries on foreign economic relations, we...

In this paper, authors follows the findings of Davidsson that from the entrepreneurship determinants point of view entrepreneurial activity originates in three waves: the wave of objective ability, need and opportunity for entrepreneurship, the wave of perceptive ability, perceptive need, and...

Service organisations, as well as manufacturing ones, may be responsible for significant negative environmental impacts. To minimise them and to aim to those market segments that are sensitive to environmental issues, service organisations could improve the environmental soundness of their...

This paper analyses the impact of the dynamics in large enterprises in the wood industry on the dynamics of small enterprises and the shadow economy in this industry. We use unique firm-level survey data for the sample of small enterprises in the wood industry in Slovenia. We find a relatively...

Focusing on employment issues, this paper investigates the impact of government control on state-owned enterprise's (SOE) excess employment, and hence on its performance and the compensation-based incentive mechanism. The results show that the excess employment in SOEs does not result in a...

Sustainability and sustainable development became two of the most popular expressions of our time in politics, science and business. However, a movement towards sustainability is only possible if companies develop concepts in production and logistics integrating both economic and ecological...

Focusing on shareholder value (SHV) maximising banks vs. stakeholder value (STV) maximising banks, we ask: Why do they coexist? What does the recent crisis suggest for their respective sustainability? On the first, we conclude STVs – often cooperatives, catering also for parties other than...