From the Western countries a new dangerous phenomenon is approaching the Central and Eastern Europe. The pressure on psychical performance while studying and at work is becoming that hard that many individuals are reaching for stimulants. When cigarettes, coffee and energy drinks do not help...

The aim of our research was to identify non-economic reasons for bank mergers and substantiate their influence compared to economic reasons. We expand the current economic literature, which acknowledges the existence of personal motives and managerial self-interest, but mostly fails to proof...

Academics and practitioners have criticized management control systems (MCS) and most of them have proposed to improved their functionalities, i.e. to increase their possibilities. However only a few studies have focused on the competencies of the users of these MCS. This paper proposes a...

The objective of this study is to review the manner in which oral histories address the 'problem' of memory, and to use an example from a 2002 oral history project concerning accounting partnerships in New Zealand to illustrate aspects of this problem. Many of the interviewees in 2002 recalled...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the theoretical approaches presented by the literature on the human factor. In order to achieve such objective we have performed a qualitative research by analyzing the content of several papers published in internationally renowned journals, classified...

Companies are sometimes reluctant to implement telework in their teams because managers may lose control over their teleworking employees. The question we try to answer in this paper is: Does telework have an impact on the manager-employee relationship and, if so, what sort of impact is it? We...

Successful companies are aware of the needs for long-term strategic development, which is based on relationship marketing with customers. That is necessary to touch the customers’ emotion and irrationality of purchase decision. For this touch, companies use marketing communication tools to...

The privacy literature has recognized a dichotomy between reported values of privacy and actual behavior. People tend to say they value privacy highly, and then behave in ways which seem to contradict these statements. In this experiment, the consequences of privacy loss were controlled using a...