This paper presents a model-based analysis of the introduction of green products, which are products with low environmental impacts. Both consumers and firms are simulated as populations of agents who differ in their behavioural characteristics. Model experiments illustrate the influence of...

Vor dem Beginn der Fußball Europameisterschaft (EM 2008) haben nur etwa ein Fünftel der befragten Erwachsenen geglaubt, dass das Auswahlteam des Deutschen Fußball Bundes (DFB) die Europameisterschaft gewinnen wird. Nach dem Auftaktsieg der DFB-Auswahl ist dieser Wert sofort gestiegen. Man...

Part of a larger research, this paper ranges among the matter of ideas confrontation concerning the causes of the economic crises and those keys to be passed. Paper aims at finding and praising the defining elements of our economy, in the purpose of better understanding the nowadays crisis, and...

This paper introduces readers to the Polish economy. This 38 million people growing market economy is the sixth country in Europe as for inhabitants and youngest country in Europe with some 50% of the population below 35 years. Therefore, Poland has a remarkable opportunity for new economic...

В статье рассмотрены проблемы управления развитием современных российских компаний, адаптированные к специфике работы предприятий сферы обслуживания...

В статье рассматривается принципиально новое понятие «сервисный капитал» как категория современной экономики; раскрываются его природа, условия формирования...

The phrase "modern economy" reveals the appearance of activities more complex and more efficient in which the scientific and technological contribution is determined under terms of quantity and quality in the organization of economic life. From the perspective of expanding services, information...

This work considers the application of a platform strategy in order to promote the adoption of advanced network infrastructures by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). First, we analyse the incentives of industrial players in a context where SMEs playing an important economic role and where...

This study extends Baumol's (1967) two-sector (manufacturing and services) unbalanced growth model to analyze a situation in which, first, services are used for both final consumption and intermediate inputs into manufacturing production, and second, the productivities of the manufacturing and...