This volume focuses on the latest findings concerning financial environment research and the effects on business. Major topics addressed range from finance-driven globalization, contagion risk transmission, financial sustainability, and bank efficiency, to oil price shocks and spot prices...

How Polish Firms Use the EU Funds for Innovative Projects? -- Competitive Intelligence Among SMEs -- Workplace Bullying in Malaysia -- Team Context and Team Performance -- Discussion Frames in Motherhood Blogs -- Strategic Partnerships in the Construction Industry in Latvia -- A Proposed...

Is small still beautiful? The recent economic and financial crisis has shown that developed countries in which firms are smaller suffered the biggest GDP plunges. Today, economic growth depends more than in the past on sound and well-organized firms, which means more innovation, a better...