The collection contains abstracts of papers accepted for the Fifth International Conference Game Theory and Management (June 27–29, 2011, St. Petersburg University, St. Petersburg, Russia). The presented abstracts belong to the field of game theory and its applications to management. The...

The research examines whether centralized supply chain decisionmaking within the firm plays a role in how the firm transforms investments in process research and development (R&D) into financial performance. This transformation includes the process investment - financial performance chain, which...

Supply chain management is an effective strategy of building competitive advantages. It attracts attention of the researchers who try to explain the nature of this concept, to find the determinants of its evolution and to examine the perspectives of its development. One of these perspectives is...

A real option is the opportunity to make flexible decisions in a continuously changing environment. Real options were used by people long before this concept was formally introduced to academics and the public. Meanwhile research analysis provided better understanding for existing options and...

The paper uses the concept of life cycle which is based on the comparison between organizations and living beings and attempts to explain the reasons of organizational change that take place in the companies over time. Based on the generalized five-stage model, the paper presents the results of...

The article investigates the potential of sustainable competitive advantage creation by managing buyer-seller relationships in industrial markets. We analyze the effectiveness of the efforts that the firms undertake in order to deploit the relationships' potential and their multiple effects on...

The author defines Personnel Training System as the cumulative result of training policy and training structure of a company. This article discusses trends of Personnel Training System development in Russian companies. The author describes four types of training policies. Based on actual...

The article examines and analyzes the existed management practice of global designer brands, using the examples of Armani Group and Gucci Group. The model of brand portfolio matrix structure based on such variables as profit and time is proposed. The proposed model is possible to apply to mono-...

The paper is aimed to contribute in understanding how the concept of real options changes traditional views to many key issues of management. Author proposes new classifications of real options, and provides applications of real options analysis to brand equity valuation and investment in...

This methodological paper is devoted to theoretical analysis of dynamic capabilities sources at micro-level of organization as a social system. The author makes an attempt to integrate theoretical approaches from various disciplines and develop a comprehensive framework to analyze factors of...