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Developing an integrated business excellence system and proposing its implementation as the Hellenic National Business Excellence Award

Mavroeidis, Vasileios; Mylonakis, John - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 3, pp. 31-43

Most of Business Excellence – Total Quality models provide a static view and processing of Total Quality issues. This paper proposes a system of Business Excellence taking into consideration: current European practices of Total Quality and competitiveness, a modular, open architecture like...

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Compartmentalising gold prices

Sanderson, Rohnn - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 2, pp. 99-124

Deriving a functional form for a series of prices over time is difficult. It is common to assume some linearly estimable form for prediction purposes. While this can produce accurate short run forecasts it fails to identify longer trends and patterns that may exist in financial data....

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Discriminación arancelaria y decisiones de localización de las empresas

Méndez Naya, José - In: Estudios de economía 33 (2006) 1, pp. 5-19

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of economic integration among countries on firms investment decisions when such decisions are taken strategically. It is shown that, in this context, the traditional "tariff jumping" argument is not always applicable and that localisation...

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Análisis del efecto inmediato y diferido de la orientación al mercado sobre los resultados organizacionales : un estudio longitudinal

Cauzo Bottala, Lourdes; Cossío Silva, Francisco José - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 18 (2012) 3, pp. 228-236

The aim of this work focuses on analyzing the effect, both immediate and delayed, of Market Orientation (MO) on organizational outcomes. A longitudinal study has been done over a time horizon of 3 years in the Spanish financial sector. Regarding the methodology, we have developed a qualitative...

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Internationalisierung der Unternehmensforschung : neue Standorte gewinnen an Bedeutung

Belitz, Heike - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 18, pp. 3-9

Deutsche und ausländische Unternehmen haben ihre Forschungsund Entwicklungsinvestitionen in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren beständig gesteigert. Mit gut 45 Milliarden Euro lagen die Aufwendungen im Jahr 2009 um ein Drittel über dem Niveau von 2001. Während die ausländischen Unternehmen...

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Generating economic growth : an analytical survey

Thompson, Maria - In: The open economics journal 1 (2008), pp. 25-36

The theoretical richness and variety of the new growth literature can make it difficult to capture the essence of growth models. With this paper, we wish to provide one possible integrating view of the nature of the growth generating processes. Revisiting the models that constitute the core of...

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Collaboration and innovation in Sweden and Bulgaria : a study of a mature industry

Hoveskog, Maya; Antonova, Diana - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 121-151

flows for collaboration and innovation. Companies from the two countries as well as Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and … positive relationship with the companies' research and development (R&D) activities and innovation is developed. It was found … out that the set of variables employed can predict the innovation and R&D of companies, laying of electrochemical and …

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Lifestyle production : transformation from manufacturing to knowledge based production using innovation

Dilling-Hansen, Mogens; Jensen, Susanne - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 4 (2011) 1, pp. 35-54

increased market size and the competition. Innovation is a prerequisite for a successful transformation process and this paper … innovate; innovation is a prerequisite for firm survival in the four industries. -- transformation ; lifestyle production … ; innovation …

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The startup process

Acs, Zoltan J.; Amorós, José Ernesto - In: Estudios de economía 35 (2008) 2, pp. 121-132

Entrepreneurship is considered to be an important mechanism for economic development through employment, innovation and … development, the factor-driven stage, the efficiency-driven stage and the innovation-driven stage. Second, to examine the …

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The network connections among enterprises

Kozioł-Nadolna, Katarzyna - In: E-Finanse : finansowy kwartalnik internetowy 7 (2011) 1, pp. 62-72

. Remaining in an innovation network has a lot of potential advantages regarding an innovation process: access to a bigger … database of ideas, sharing risk, sharing innovation costs, access to new markets and technologies, synergy effect. Such … briefly. -- innovations ; innovation network ; transnational corporations …

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