The purpose of this paper is to explore different aspects of SMEs’ strategic decision-making processes in international business. In particularly, we want to understand if exist a relationship between SMEs’ decision-maker characteristics (e.g. international experience, nationality, skill),...

The study was conducted in district Swat during 2007 to assess the degree of inequalities existing among rural rice farmers’ income and land holdings. To this end, primary data was collected through structured questionnaire using a sample of one hundred rice farmers allocating to three tehsils...

Following the outbreak of global economic crisis, firms have had to realize that competitive advantage is one of the tools to ensure their long-term success in the market and that it also helps to eliminate the impacts of such crisis. Enterprises are, as a result of crisis, forced to find new...

Internet marketing gaining independence by providing opportunities to promote any product in the short term. The purpose of this article is to outline such modern methods of internet marketing as spam and doorway, which must be considered in the planning and implementation process of product...

The paper analyzes Adam Smith’s views on monopoly focusing on Book IV and V of The Wealth of Nations and argues that Smith has left his analysis of monopoly in an embryonic form while the majority of scholars have assessed it starting from premises different from those, actually though...

According to news published recently, "the (Portuguese) government prepares to announce the creation of a new institutional body, in the domain of the Ministry of Economy, which will be responsible for making policy decisions and the organization of the port sector (...) this new public entity...

The paper aims at investigating the dependency of the Russian economy on natural resources, underlining the causes and the possible consequences of this growth model. The analysis tries to evaluate if the Russian manufacturing has contracted the “Dutch Disease”, that is, if a boom in the oil...

In 2010 and 2011, foreign businesses and governments welcomed measures believed to dramatically reform a highly controversial branch of China’s indigenous innovation policy which provided government procurement preferences to applicants who can meet restrictive indigenous intellectual property...

The question this paper poses relates to the role of economic theories in gaining wider support around political agendas. That is their ability to describe a problem in such a way, so that the “answer” would appear not as a political demand in favor of one class, but as a prerequisite for...

This article attempts to look freely and without any prejudging political or lobbying opinion on the announced construction of a new container terminal located in Trafaria (Cova do Vapor?)Lisbon, PT. It is assumed that, in financial, environmental and strategic terms, is it not as strictly...