This study presents the impact assessment evaluation of European education and training programmes Socrates II and Leonardo da Vinci II, in Slovenia. The evaluation carried out in 2007 aims to determine the programme objective areas with greatest impact and the areas where objectives were...

Destination management is a key issue of all overall model of destinations’ competitiveness, and seems to be a „panacea” in those countries, which introduces the tool-system in the near past, so as to support the small enterprises of destinations to keep up with keen competition (e.g. in...

In Poland the disabled labour market is still evolving. One of the proofs is that the disabled employment regulation law is the most often modified law act (Ustawa…1997). Author is doing scientific research in the area of NGO’s – Public Institutions partnership observed problem employment...

The aim of this study is to describe the public business services for SMEs in sparsely populated areas. This study’s research problem can be condensed into the following research questions: 1) How are the public business services organised in Oulu South? 2) From the service provider’s...

The article presented a review of definitions of the flexible work arrangements means employment forms, work arrangement forms and working time arrangement forms. The deliberation started in this article is of a literary and empirical character. The research has shown the respondents preferred...

The paper presents the experience and results of a research project that used the technique of backcasting. Backcasting is a preferred method in transition management – especially with regard to sustainability issues – as it facilitates the deliberation of complex socio-economic issues and...

Purporse Supply chain performance measurement - the process of qualifying the efficiency and effectiveness of the supply chain. The aim of this study is to create a supply chain measurement framework for manufacturing industry, define which data should be measured and verify the measurement...

Instead of "closed" type of innovation and knowledge accumulation SMEs utilize the "open" way of knowledge acquiring, where they necessarily share their specific information with the partners, while being supplied with new knowledge which might be vital for their own progress. The agricultural...

How to make improvements to adapt company’s operations strategies in a fast-changing environment are getting more important than before in all sort of companies. This article aims to enrich sense and respond (S&R) approach in dynamic and agile strategic adjustment via presenting new method...

The scope of this article is to come round the topic how to keep a project on track properly with the fundamental parameters, and to provide an improved time-dependent solution for monitoring. Since the milestone reporting is poor to monitor the projects, a much more sophisticated system, the...