Because modern sophistication in the trade, transport, handling, blending and distribution system that makes the feed to reach farmers in the formula "just in time" protein sources are now in difficulty. The paper follows two main objectives: to understand farmers’ perception of safety and...

Integration of Central and Eastern countries in European Union assumes obtaining certain benefits. Upon joining the European Union internal market and free movement of labour, absorption of European funds could help the convergence go on and reduce disparities between countries. This study aims...

Forwarding the economic and social progress has been and still is a key target of the European policies. In March 2010 the European Commission launched the 2020 Strategy for a smart, sustainable growth and favorable to inclusion that would continue the Lisbon strategy from 2000. The objective is...

In this paper the hypotheses on motives for vertical integration as proposed by Stigler are empirically tested using a panel dataset from Malaysian manufacturing under both fixed-effects and random-effects specifications. Because the degree of multinational participation is expected to influence...

The proposed paper intends to promote the knowledge in the field of small and medium enterprises information systems using a novel methodology based on Value Analyses principles, and particular on function analysis. Customer based software engineering could be a possible solution, as it has the...

In order to survive in a turbulent economy and to survive the economic crisis, enterprises should be able to adapt quickly to the continuous changes that occur in the increasingly dynamic business environment. This paper identifies the limits of the traditional design methods used to develop the...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a modification of a standard four input production process where energy is used in an inefficient way due to partly unnecessary waste of energy. The changes in production efficiency investigated using stochastic frontier methods, show declining technical...

This paper intends to formulate the hypotheses for the factors that influence individuals to adopt Information Technology as a mean to conduct the traditional services. The hypotheses are developed based on previous works utilizing the theories on technology acceptance and on related findings...

The electronic revolution in commerce is strongly affecting the performance of the economies. Banking over the internet has attracted increasing attention over the past several years from bankers and other financial services industry participants and this is due to the rapid and significant...