The importance of green innovation management is growing in practice and academia likewise. To our knowledge, a recent and comprehensive literature review is lacking. In this paper we contribute to a clarification of the concept “green innovation” and provide an overview of the existing body...

Technological advancements, especially in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have enhanced greatly the competition spurred by the globalization of the world economies. Even small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are no more immune to the challenges that the globalization brings...

The internationalization of corporate research and development (R&D) is an increasing trend with implications for both R&D managers and policy makers. In this research, 62 foreign-owned R&D facilities from information and communication technology (ICT) industries as well as life sciences...

Magistro baigiamajame darbe nagrinėjama ES fondų finansinės paramos žemės ūkio subjektų veiklos plėtros galimybėms ekonominis efektyvumas. Susisteminus išanalizuotą lietuvių ir užsienio mokslinę literatūrą, atskleidžiamas skirtingas ekonomikos teorijų atstovų požiūris į...

Das Ziel dieser Diplomarbeit soll ein wirtschaftlicher Vergleich zwischen zwei Ziegelwerken mit unterschiedlicher Kapazität sein. Die Grundlage dieser Beurteilung stellen zwei von ihrer Technologie baugleiche Produktionsstätten dar. Zur Vereinfachung wird auch die Annahme getroffen, dass in...

Für viele landwirtschaftliche Betriebe stellte der ökologische Landbau in der Vergangenheit eine wirtschaftliche Alternative zum konventionellen Landbau dar. Sinkende Erzeugerpreise, steigende Preise für Produktionsfaktoren, geänderte agrarpolitischen Rahmenbedingungen und die zunehmende...

The performance of the often young and independent businesses studies in entrepreneurship research is not only difficult to assess (Brush & Vanderwerf, 1992) and hard to predict (Cooper, 1995), but also a challenge to interpret. Is discontinuation a sign of failure, and always a worse outcome...

Empirical research conducted on economic sectors in the U.S., Germany, Australia and Scotland has shown that factors such as age, size, location, legal form, and industry are related to business growth rates. Much of this research has focused on manufacturing firms thus providing little...

This paper reports on the nature and extent of intrapreneurship (or corporate entrepreneurship) practiced by Australian businesses. We examined the relationship between measures of corporate entrepreneurship and firm growth and profitability, and utilized measures devised by earlier 3...