Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of entrepreneurship that can help researchers, policymakers and practitioners develop entrepreneurial responses to the current economic, environmental and socio-spatial crisis. Design/methodology/approach The paper adopts a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate on the social wellbeing aspects of human sustainability. Linked to this is the investigation on how economic stability and social wellbeing are interactively integrated together to establish the stability along with sustainability. What is...

The article focuses on the changes in the economic balance of power in the world economy, particularly as result of long term trends related to globalization and in correlation with the implications of the current economic crisis. The analysis is done in the framework of the G20 meeting which is...

The Cretan tourism sector has been characterised by a large and rapid growth from 1970 to 2000 and has gone on the primary industry of the island. Despite the fact that this growth has seemed stagnant over the last few years, tourism is still of vital importance for the local economy....

Construction market has a tremendous impact on our national economy. Whathappens in the construction industry reflects society's demands, both from a perspective ofdemographic trends and especially of the financing. The current economic slowdown requires toreview the way marketing is done. The...

It is now clear that the global economic crisis has hit the Russian economy. The resulting shock clearly shows not only the global economic imbalance but also the distinct characteristics of emerging Russian markets. The Russian economy already changed its structure under the high economic...

The current economic crisis, deeply globalized, has its source in the major financial turmoil triggered in the U.S. at the end of 2007 and early 2008 because of the unrealistic bubble of the sub –prime loans based mostly on real estate transactions overestimated. That is why we consider...

Contemporary world is one of profound interdependencies: national economies can not function autarchically, market penetration through the identification and taking over of niche areas is conditioned by international specialization, domestic development is influenced by the economic and...