After the two studies of 1998 and 2003, the latest “EAA-LR” research, undertaken in 2010 and based on the results of 2009, is permeated by a context of recession, both economic and agricultural, and even more apparent than during the 2003 study, having particularly affected the wine growing...

Das 'Herbeisteuern' einer erfolgreichen Entwicklung des Unternehmens in einer zunehmend komplexer werdenden Markt- und Umweltsituation zeigt sich als immer schwieriger. Das Ineinandergreifen unternehmensinterner und -externer Problem- und Wandlungszusammenhaenge kann nicht mehr mit einem strikt...

(VF)À partir des résultats d’une enquête réalisée auprès de 83 entreprises, cet article montre que les systèmes de mesure de la performance des PME n’adoptent pas, dans la majorité des cas, la structure «équilibrée» du Balanced Scorecard. La mesure de la performance tend à...

Notwithstanding a growing interest towards performance management systems for universities, little is known on their application to academic departments. Being an institution dedicated to research, a department presents specific characteristics: creativity, professional autonomy, low degree of...

In recent years, cultural organisations have introduced and tested new management tools to achieve their institutional goals of efficiency, effectiveness and social cohesion. This process has been widely linked to New Public Management for public sector cultural organisations, but the...

A current issue of organizations for the last 20 years is represented by the analysis of the information relevance, management tools and their influence on the decisional process. The main challenge however resides in the way organizations, in general, and control tools, in particular, respond...

Accounting, especially strategic management accounting, provides significant contributions to companies for decisions in environments of intense competition. Accounting, which has positive effects of company strategy development and management, has become a required facet of marketing, another...

The current study takes a contingency theory approach to the relationship between market leadership and a variety of marketing strategy concepts making up a firm’s strategic profile, including a firm’s Miles and Snow strategy type, market growth, service growth, service focus, market...

A company crisis can be defined as a short-term, undesired, unfavourable and critical state in the company (organization) which has derived from both internal and external causes and which directly endangers the further existence and growth of the company. In crisis not only short-term measures...

Cards are currently used by billions of customers worldwide for cashless payment transactions and for cash withdrawals and are therefore of great national economic importance. Since cardholder confidence in an orderly and proper handling of financial transactions is of utmost significance, great...