Demographic change belongs to the mega-trends of the 20th and the 21st century. The ongoing aging process in major industrialized countries gives rise to the relative scarcity of raw labor and the relative abundance of physical capital. Standard macroeconomic models suggest that this depresses...

This dissertation contains three essays at the interface of agricultural and development economics. The motivation for this lies in the fact that various studies have shown the agricultural sector to be the main income source for the majority of the global poor and it will hence have to play a...

The Information service sector e.g. utilities, telecommunications and banking has grown rapidly in recent years and is a significant contributor to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the world’s leading economies. Though, the information service sector has grown significantly, there have been...

Die vorliegende Dissertation behandelt in fünf wissenschaftlichen Artikeln Grundfragen aus dem Themenfeld der Konsumenten-Marken Beziehung. Artikel 1 befasst sich mit der Fragestellung, was Konsumenten dazu führt, eine Marke in Betracht zu ziehen. Artikel 2 untersucht den Zusammenhang von...

High-speed internet or broadband internet, typically contrasted with dial-up access over a modem, is now an important access option for internet users for both work and everyday usage. As a result, the availability of high speed internet access is considered by international organisations to be...

Klientų lojalumo valdymo idėja sulaukia vis daugiau įmonių dėmesio, o šiandieninėje ekonomikos recesijoje, klientų išsaugojimas ir jų lojalumo didinimas tampa svarbiausia veiklos kryptimi. Daugiausiai dėmesio įmonės pradėjo skirti ne naujų klientų paieškai, o santykių su...

Šio baigiamojo bakalaurinio darbo tikslas: pateikti vadybinius sprendimus, kaip galima stiprinti knygynų tinklo „Pegasas“ klientų lojalumą. Šiam tikslui pasiekti buvo iškelti tokie uždaviniai:• ištirti išorinę knygynų tinklo „Pegasas“ aplinką;• atlikti vidinę knygynų...

The movement or flow of employees into, around and out of organisations(‘employee flow’) has long been a central issue in human resourcemanagement and industrial psychology. This is especially so for the specificelement of employee turnover, but also applies to staffing and internal...

The South African economy has, over the last 18 months, experienced severe change. The good times have been replaced with bad. The once buoyant consumer riding the crest of the wave and with an unquenchable appetite for debt, who revelled in the trappings of what money could buy, is long gone....