Year 2016 marked the 25th anniversary of an introduction of the main measures of the Czechoslovak transformation process, which moved the country from a centrally planned economy towards a free market economy. Approach to the transformation varied among economists, who promoted two main ways of...

Year 2016 marked the 25th anniversary of an introduction of the main measures of the Czechoslovak transformation process, which moved the country from a centrally planned economy towards a free market economy. Approach to the transformation varied among economists, who promoted two main ways of...

Penoles began operations in 1887 as a mining company. It currently controls more than 20active companies involved in exploration, mining, foundation and refining of precious metalsand industrial and developing inorganic chemical product which integrates differentcompanies involved in the...

The objective of this paper was to determine and analyze the main competitiveperformance indicators of the pulp producing agro-industries of the local tropical fruits’agricluster of the Metropolitan Region of Belém and Northeast of Pará. The competitiveperformance was evaluated by using...

Purpose – This paper investigates and reports on the management accounting practices in the British food and drinks industry.Design/methodology/approach – The data is generated by a large-scale postal questionnaire which was informed by preliminary interviews. Further interviews were carried...

Konditionen stehen im Mittelpunkt des Verteilungskonfliktes zwischen der Industrie und dem Lebensmitteleinzelhandel. Der Konditionenstreit behindert dabei gemeinsame Ansätze zur Optimierung der Wertschöpfungskette (z.B. Ansätze des Efficient Consumer Response). Erst langsam setzt sich die...

That childhood obesity is an alarming public health problem is clear and widely appreciated. What is altogether unclear is what our society should do about it. Some people think the solution lies in using tort law to sue McDonald's, Coca-Cola, and other corporations. We reject that notion....

The dynamic and often hostile competitive landscape of the twenty-first century has created significant threats to existing patterns of successful competition. A review of the extant literature and research about innovation and entrepreneurship identifies their importance to ensuring corporate...

Standard economic intuition of revealed preference implies that when two parties freely enter into a contract then neither should be worse off. In this study, we develop a simple model showing that introducing the opportunity to contract can lower welfare for some, and perhaps all, contracting...

Recent developments in intra-industry trade (IIT) literature focus on the relationships between IIT and adjustment costs associated with changes in trade pattern. The effects of trade liberalisation depend, inter alia, on whether trade is of an inter-industry or intra-industry nature. The belief...