In this paper the employment of university/college graduates is examined. Based on international standards a competency profile of these graduates is developed. A survey is conducted to measure employer expectations versus student performance with respect to 26 attributes. The research is...

Data mining algorithms become more and more popular to satisfy the Basle II requirements, like to predict the probability of default. Not all of these models can be understood easily from economical point of view, which involve the importance of stress tests. In this paper we try to map a retail...

With the growing accessibility of electronic local governmental services local governments are facing new challenges both from the point of view of the organisation of duties and of their client services. If we analyse the network of relationships local governments have grown into with the...

The changes that have been introduced lately in Hungary affected several levels of regional organization. Yet they have not realized an overall system that could be put in effect after criteria have changed. In my research I map how the local press’s influene and thematizing scope depend on...

The bullwhip-effect is a very costly phenomenon. Recent days the length of different supply chains become longer and longer. Due to the delays in the adaptation of changes, supply chains can be dynamically unstable with respect to perturbations in the consumption rate. It can lead to stock-outs,...

The present study gives an overview primary of the private law rules of the miscellaneous regulations of the consumer protection on the example of car distribution, presenting its civil law and competition law regulations.

In the 21st century the economic environment has been changing fast. To be successful company managements need a system. This system makes marketing costs measurable. If the costs are measurable, spendings will be more reasonable, and in this way marketing costs can be reduced. Of course, to set...

These last years, some European regions and then European institutions have realised the importance of SMEs as instruments of development. The action of DG Enterprise and DG Regio of the European Commission has grown to a large extent out of this realisation. However, access to finance often...

The financing of the SMEs is always a hard thing in the European countries. Especially is it a fateful question for a country that is so much dependent on SMEs like Hungary. Since Hungary is on the way of reorganization, every government take it a priority to facilitate the SMEs to reach...

In our more and more globalised world, as a consequence of the cessation of commercial obstacles, the consumers are able to find more varied products coming from different countries, and this is exactly the case in the food market as well. Together with this, following the development of...