The market of writing instruments is a part of paper and office supplies market. The main selection criterion applied by the Romanian consumer regarding the stationery products is the price. However, in the market of writing instruments, the situation is rather atypical since this is a...

The paper compares the supply network strategies of ID (district firms) and non-ID (non-district firms) with a dual aim: to provide an overview of emerging strategies and to identify similarities and differences between business models. The quantitative analysis developed in the paper is based...

The paper represents a case study of Japanese banks operating on the Russian banking market. We particularly analyze motivation, organizational representation, entry modes and strategies of Japanese banks. We argue that in case of Japanese banks both the specificity of the home country (Japan)...

Die traditionelle Budgetsteuerung ist überholt und verursacht mehr Schaden als Nutzen. Die klassische Budgetsteuerung ist zu zeitaufwändig, zu unflexibel, zu bürokratisch und verhindert heute die Nutzung des vollen Potentials eines Unternehmens. [Daum, H./2006]. Trotz dieser These findet man...

Unsicherheit und Wandel sind heute beinahe Selbstverständlichkeiten. Trotzdem stellen sie die Unternehmen vor grosse Herausforderungen. Insbesondere die langfristige strategische Ausrichtung ist im Kontext von Unsicherheit und Wandel eine anspruchsvolle Aufgabenstellung. Das vorliegende Working...

The emergence of the Soviet university system is considered in the light of language practices that reproduced and maintained it. It is claimed that the nucleus of these practices is constituted by the discourses of military mobilization and of planning. These types of discourse show...

Consisting in the ability of a leader to obtain some persons’ effective involvement in the implementation of a certain action course, the leadership implies a combination of native and acquired skills by means of an adequate training, to which the contextual situation of the leaders is added....

Raportul de tara al Comisiei Europene pe anul 2001 exprima punctul de vedere oficial potrivit caruia România a înregistrat progrese în directia crearii unei economii de piata functionale dar nu va fi capabila, pe termen mediu, sa faca fata presiunilor concurentiale si fortelor pietei din...

Snížení poptávky v USA, Evropě a dalších zemích donutila asijské země zamyslet se nad novými cestami, jak rozšířit vzájemný obchod a stimulovat spotřebu na domácím trhu. Uspět právě v této oblasti je výzvou pro evropské i asijské podnikatele. Zdá se, že ani velké...