The article examines and analyzes the existed management practice of global designer brands, using the examples of Armani Group and Gucci Group. The model of brand portfolio matrix structure based on such variables as profit and time is proposed. The proposed model is possible to apply to mono-...

The objective of this research is to test multifaceted measurement of the innovation activities of companies based on “Innovation Radar†methodology. The authors conducted both qualitative and quantitative studies: first, the methodology was assessed during fifteen in-depth interviews...

The results of survey of specific sets of deliberate intra-firm activities called intra-firm orientations are discussed. The authors distinguish between entrepreneurial orientation, change orientation and knowledge orientation. Factor analysis and structure equation modelling methods are used to...

The research provides a comprehensive review of research on outsourcing from a variety of research domains and traditions. The received perspective on explaining outsourcing of transaction cost economics is supplemented fi rst with the resource-based view of the fi rm and second with the...

The article examines the optimal production output decisions problem in case of shift work and import opportunities over finite and infinite horizons in case the firm does not know the exact demand (informational uncertainty of demand). We develop the optimal production output strategy, which...

Contemporary literature posits that knowledge workers differ significantly from other employees by their structure of motives. However, there are too few empirical studies to support this idea. This paper presents results of an empirical study aimed to discover what motives are most important...

Supply chain management is an effective strategy of building competitive advantages. It attracts attention of the researchers who try to explain the nature of this concept, to find the determinants of its evolution and to examine the perspectives of its development. One of these perspectives is...

A real option is the opportunity to make flexible decisions in a continuously changing environment. Real options were used by people long before this concept was formally introduced to academics and the public. Meanwhile research analysis provided better understanding for existing options and...

The paper uses the concept of life cycle which is based on the comparison between organizations and living beings and attempts to explain the reasons of organizational change that take place in the companies over time. Based on the generalized five-stage model, the paper presents the results of...

The article investigates the potential of sustainable competitive advantage creation by managing buyer-seller relationships in industrial markets. We analyze the effectiveness of the efforts that the firms undertake in order to deploit the relationships' potential and their multiple effects on...