Tipping is a phenomenon that illustrates the importance of social norms and psychological reasons in motivating economic behavior. People tip because this is the social norm and disobeying norms results in psychological disutility. Tipping is also economically important: in the United States...

This paper studies how idiosyncratic productivity risk impacts aggregate employment dynamics when there is a trade-off between workers' productivity and costs of job creation and destruction. In our analysis, increasing idiosyncratic risk induces a producer to move workers out of structured jobs...

In this paper we investigate the effect of increased foreign competition on home employment. The interaction of both product and labour market responses to foreign competition will be of key importance to understanding the impact of foreign competition on domestic employment. In a simple...

Knowledge spillovers have been recognized as an important source of innovation and economic growth in both industry and firm-level data. A firm may reap benefits by locating near other firms in the same geographical region. In this paper, we examine how physical proximity influences a firm's...

I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement authorities, such as evaluation of M&As or investigation of monopolization (dominance) conduct, should be directly used to investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in...

Taking into account the commercial evolutions, the three components (dimensions) of operational management may be emphasised, which support logistics, such as: management of flows necessary for responding to the intensification of the commercial exchanges; management of the interfaces used for...

Costs are in all aspects of each company. Some of the most noticeable costs of business are the costs associated with storage, transportation and distribution the products of the company. In this case a significant impact on reducing these costs is to use the services of logistics centers,...

The importance of quality management practices in the achievement of operational results and customer satisfaction in logistics has been asserted in many studies. Satisfy the customer through the control of the triptych "Quality, Cost, Time." Therefore, the survival of enterprises must include...

The aim of the study is to present and describe a possible interaction between currently en vogue economic spheres – project management and marketing. On the basis of the research carried out, the authors identify key elements of marketing instrumentary which might be applied by project...

This paper describes and analyses the importance and usefulness of different controlling tools, which are used by two companies of the case studies. The organizational structure of the companies and their main key parameters are shown and analised. The paper focuses only on the sales activities...