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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

We report that the price of a 6.5oz Coke was 5¢ from 1886 until 1959. Thus, we are documenting a nominal price rigidity that lasted more than 70 years! The case of Coca-Cola is particularly interesting because during the 70-year period there were substantial changes in the soft drink industry...

The ubiquitous contention within the Industrial Networks literature - that business relationships are one of the firm´s most important resources - has not been, in our viewpoint, thoroughly explored. Hence we argue that the ‘Resource-based View of the Firm’ (‘RBV’) may complement the...

We analyze product and marketing actions and their consequences on firm competitive outcomes. These actions are investigates in relative terms compared to a firmÕs direct competitors. Our results shed new light on how a firmÕs choices regarding product portfolio and marketing postures affect...

This is a discussion of Ratfai (2007), presented at the 2007 Macroeconomics Workshop of the Rimini Center for Economic Analysis on "The Macroeconomics of Price Setting," May 10-11, 2007, University of Bologna, Rimini, Italy.