On the verge of XX – XXI centuries, a whole row of changes has happened in the development of the world economical system, and the impact of those has become quite noticeable in the economic life as of separate countries, so in the general planetary scale. Now, science, having been included...

Over the past three decades, business managers and academic researchers have shown considerable interest in understanding how information systems (IS) can lead to competitive advantages for firms. Although in the United States researchers have found that IS competences lead to competitive...

The article analyses the recent emergence of multinational companies (MNCs) from Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs), especially the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovenia. The majority of MNCs from CEECs concentrate their activity regionally, though some global MNCs...

In the theory and practice of the organization and management in the developed countries, the organizational culture becomes more and more important source of discreet, obscure but powerful and long sustainable competitive advantage, if it is developed as especially effective and established to...

One of integration’s advantages it is represented by the increasing grade of economic opening toward the rest of the world, with benefic effects over intercepted foreign direct flows, reciprocal flows of working force and work productivity. Given this context and taking into account analyses...

The discourse on the competitiveness of emerging economy firms continues with globalization. This paper joins the dialogue by providing a framework of the competitiveness of business groups and their affiliates in international operations. The goal is to address the vast literature on emerging...

Ten years after the introduction of ISO14001, in this paper we present empirical evidence about the competitive advantages that managers associate to this environmental practice, from a sample of industrial firms located in Spain. The results indicate that the potential competitive advantages...