Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate if business practices for performance through risk control methods can be applied by defence forces in peace missions called for by the United Nations (UN) in order to improve the efficiency of such missions. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The paper aims at contributing to the cutback management and organizational decline streams of research by providing an in‐depth analysis of the main challenges that public managers have to address in managing public spending and activity cutbacks as a response to the current...

In this exploration of formal international purchasing alliances, a broad overview of why firms become involved in international purchasing alliances is developed. Then, using a data base developed based on formalized international alliance activity reported in The Wall Street Journal ,...

The article reviews how lean production can be taken into supplier bases in both Japan and the West. The exemplar supplier network as demonstrated by Toyota and Hitachi in Japan are seen to be the result of a lengthy process whereby all members of the supplier network, both direct and indirect...

Purpose – In the past few years Indian companies witnessed competition from their Chinese counterparts in acquiring overseas petroleum resources. In an attempt to avoid competition with each other the two governments have taken various measures, which finally led to the two countries signing a...

Presented study was a part of ESPON TERCO project (European Territorial Cooperation as a Factor of Growth, Jobs and Quality of Life) and was aimed at verifying the hypothesis that territorial cooperation underpins socio-economic development. Based on the literature review a conceptual model of...

В первой части статьи рассказывается о реформировании национальной системы бухгалтерского учета в Китае c 1978 г. Этот процесс разделен на четыре этапа. Вторая...

Осуществление инновационной модернизации экономики РФ в контексте реализации задач ФЦП «Исследования и разработки по приоритетным направлениям развития...

Обоснована роль международного сотрудничества в инновационной модернизации национальных экономик и их интегрирования в инновационные мегасети для...

В статье исследуются основные формы международного сотрудничества Российской Федерации со странами СНГ и ШОС в сфере нанотехнологий и наноматериалов,...