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In today´s globalised hypercompetition dominated world, companies are often fighting for survival. The article tries to find a way out in the usage of military strategies represented e.g. by the well respected work of the chinese general Sun Tzu "The Art of War". The company´s goal is to...

If consumer businesses in Asia are to meet the chalenge, they will have to fundamentally change the way they think about strategy, operations, organization and marketing. As the world witnesses profound changes to the traditional model of global finance, some Asian countries have proven...

Рассматривается методика расчета ставок платы за пользование грузовыми вагонами в системе совместного использования вагонов, стоимость жизненного цикла...

Рассматриваются тенденции развития железнодорожного транспорта, международного сотрудничества железнодорожных администрации, методика расчета ставок платы...

To obtain the maximum benefit from diversification, financial theory suggests that investors should invest internationally because of the larger potential for risk reduction stemming from the lowe correlation existing between assets of different countries. The question that we raise in this...

In this paper, we develop a nonlinear programming (NLP) model to jointly determine the optimum financial incentives and price discount levels for each rate class. The model aims at maximizing net revenues. It includes nonlinear relationships representing the impact of incentives on productivity...