Major conceptual contributions of a number of Nobel-laureates in putting forth a framework linking the citizenry's right to know and access to information with development, have already had a major influence in various fields. However, implementation of transparency-related reforms on the ground...

This chapter summarizes the salient results of the World Business Environment Survey (WBES). It shows that important dimensions of the climate for business operation and investment can be measured, analyzed, and compared across countries, and that governance is key to the business environment...

Building from the 2002/03 contribution to the Global Competitiveness Report ("Governance Crossroads"), this paper argues that governance continues to be at a crossroad, its underperformance being evident in most regions and across many countries. This ('governance policy gap') contrasts with the...

The main aim of the paper is to identify the succession strategies (especially the ways in which they attempt to balance the strive to maintain family’s control over the company with the goal of firm’s growth) of the first generation of Polish entrepreneurs. Research survey was conducted on...

The paper verifies the existence of relations between development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the particular factors of regional environment as well as demographic parameters of entrepreneurs and their enterprises. SMEs localized in Southern Poland in accordance with NUTS -1...

The main focus of the article is to elaborate on the importance and role of small and medium-sized enterprises in Slovak economy. The authors show development tendencies of SME sector in Slovakia in the years 1993-2006. Where it was possible the authors enumerated the data for the year 2007. The...

In this article the problem of international trade of Polish e-shops were analysed. The first part of this article presents the characteristics of Polish online shops engaged in foreign sales. The focus of this part is on the European Union market. The following chapter introduces most important...

The first part of this article presents the methodology of the research and a detailed description of surveyed online stores. Analysis concerning how long e-shops exist, it’s profitability, the number of deliveries and the number of e-shop employees were shown. The following chapter introduces...

In this article research in area of inventory control in Polish internet shops is presented. The first part of this article shows the results of studies on demand forecasting methods most commonly used by online shops. The second part presents a comprehensive analysis of replenishment strategies...

This article concerns the subject of demand forecasting and stocks status planning in online shops. One described the ways of materials management and setting the groups of most important products. The second part of the article contains the analysis of surveys results. They were conducted in...