I have worked for many years as senior consultant and advisor for the majority of European Pulpamp;Paper companies, the majority of Nordic Packaging and Nuclear companies and other industries, and have found that values corresponding to billions of dollars are destroyed in the industry. Not...

A number of theorists have proposed mechanisms suggesting that corporate social responsibility produces better financial results. Others subscribe to the theory that, realistically, less ethical means are necessary. This article contains an analysis of these perspectives drawing on observations...

We question the broad applicability of the assumption of profit maximization as the goal of the firm and investigate how variance in objective functions across different ownership structures affects competitive behavior. While prior work in agency theory has argued that firms may fail to engage...

Organizational competitiveness should not be analysed only in terms of performance (competitiveness “as result”), but also by taking into account the capacity to defend and constantly renew its sources of competitive advantage (competitiveness as “driver of competitive advantage”). The...

A company crisis can be defined as a short-term, undesired, unfavourable and critical state in the company (organization) which has derived from both internal and external causes and which directly endangers the further existence and growth of the company. In crisis not only short-term measures...

The issue of competitiveness has become a hot topic at each actor of the economy from the economic regions to that of any organization. For these reasons, the owner or manager is interested in taking action on the development of small and medium sector, and thus, increase its competitiveness....

In the last decade a process improvement technique, known as Six Sigma, is implemented by many pioneers of the industry as an approach used to more productive and increase profits in all business process from production to human resources management, from finance to marketing. The companies...

The aim of the paper is to study how itâ€(tm)s possible to enhance the cognitive enterprise model by the theory of autopoietic systems. I propose a model that considers the organization as a closed system in which all cognitive activity is necessary to develop coherent operations needed to...

The book deals with theoretical concepts and ways of practical implementation of information sytems in companies. A successful information system project has to be based on the information strategy of the company. Taking the business strategy into consideration the information system value for...