Numerous studies have shown that innovation is the main driving force behind business value creation or the production of value-added. But what exactly is innovation, and why has it become so critical to business success and what connections it has to information technology? The article...

The Constitution of the hungarian republic is the basis, the basic law, which has to be studied to get acquainted with the management of the hungarian self governments (actually the Constitution gives the right of local self governance for the villages, towns, capital city and its districts and...

Since the political changes in Eastern Europe took place, banks in this region have experienced a significant reorganization in structure, core activities and business understanding. These changes have led to the development of banking entities which are flexible, open to the new banking...

Corporate disclosure is critical for the functioning of an efficient capital market (Healy & Palepu, 2001) and investor relations has more and more importance in comunication between company and its investors. In recent years many publicly traded companies use internet as a new channel to inform...

In our opinion an individual’s value system has an influence on their motivation of food consumption. An individual’s relation to time influences the circumstances of food consumption and preparation, as well as the criteria system of food purchase and in this aspect it may become – as a...

The purpose of the operation of the system of local governments is to meet the qualitatively and quantitatively specified supply demands of the local society at the highest possible level. Today the local governments provide more than half of public services via corporations and public-service...

Human resources (hereinafter referred to as HR) have always been playing a decisive role in economic life. The company’s competitiveness, success and market position greatly depends on its human factor organising and running it from the background. Although competency-based HR practices are...

The concept of country image has been under constant attention of academic research in marketing, however the focus has been aimed much more at investigating country of origin image than country image. Researchers agree that a strong theoretical background to country image would be necessary and...

During the last decade the public sector has been affected by the introduction of significant reforms in the public accounting system in the international context. During the reform process different countries have put into practice numerous intermediate variants between the extremes of cash and...

This brief paper aims to discuss (as a review) the notion of organisational/corporate abilities, a term that, albeit frequently used in the business world, often presents ambiguities in terms of its meaning. We tried to uncover an exact definition for it using different approaches, as well as...