It is our goal to analyze the efficiency of the operations of one company by its technical endowment and its way of using the assets during the production cycle as to achieve basic operational efficiency, including the maximization of the results to the level when shareholders would want to get...

The financial crisis has highlighted the need for an EU framework for bank recovery and resolution. The European Commission proposed on Wednesday a series of measures to introduce European standards in terms of bank recovery and resolution. These standards ensure that in future the authorities...

This study empirically investigated how small and medium-sized Chinese apparel enterprises (SME) formed their strategy as a response to the characteristics of business environment in order to achieve competitive business performance. An environment-strategy-performance model was proposed and...

Many authoritative scholars of Business Administration reported limits to teaching exclusively through frontal lectures, as traditionally taught in degree courses in Economics. The IFAC (International Federation of Accountants) recommends a less passive approach to teaching by providing more...

In this paper, we use the work of the philosopher, Charles Taylor, to investigate the role of culture on internationalization decisions. Using parameters related to key constructs such as positive liberty, social ontology, expressivism, civic republicanism and common spaces, we look at how...

The number of nonprofit organizations (NPOs) has been growing worldwide in the last few decades. In Japan, the number of NPOs started skyrocketing in the late 1990s and now has reached almost 50,000, a significant increase from fewer than 10,000 in the early 2000s. Despite their increasing...

In England, public sports facilities and libraries provided by local government are being transferred to management and delivery by volunteers. The catalyst for this development has been reductions in local government budgets. However, case studies explore if this asset transfer “offers a way...

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to workflow management, the management of business processes with information technology. By defining, analyzing, and redesigning an organization's resources and operations, workflow management systems ensure that the right information reaches the...

In this paper, a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis is implemented for the project of Yueyang-Zhuzhou Oil Product Pipeline, considering all members of society as whole. We focus on the social welfare aspects of the project as well as the project's risk resistance capacity.