Development of small and medium enterprises is among the priorities of the economic development in Slovakia. The most important development factor is the establishment of a favourable business environment, requiring simplification and a more transparent legislation, reduction of administrative...

Magyarországon a politikai és gazdasági átalakulások lehetõvé tették a rendszerváltás után, hogy vállalkozások nagyszámban jöjjenek létre. A vállalkozások hozzájárultak a foglalkoztatottság növeléséhez, munkahelyteremtéshez, befolyásolták a mindenkori GDP eredményét....

usually the analisations of Total Quality Management deal with the technical and operational, also logistical aspects. However, Human Resources play key role in the effective adoptation of TQM philosophy. This article examines the role of HR factors in TQM, and through the analisation of these...

This paper is concerned with Academic Rankings of World Universities (ARWUs) which have been published on the web most recently and have attracted wide attantion. One of these systems developed by academics at the Institute of Higher Education of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, is...

Aufgrund der Erfahrungen unserer Geschäftsberatungs- und Forschungstätigkeit im vergangenen Jahrzehnt kann festgestellt werden, dass das Change- Management seit der Wende ein aktuelles Thema und Aufgabe in Ungarn ist. Die Änderungen betrafen die ungarischen Unternehmen und Unternehmungen in...

One of the aims of the new electoral law of Hungary has been to define a fairer apportionment into voting districts. This is ensured by a set of rules slightly more premissive than those laid out in the Code of Good Practice in Electoral Matters of the Venice Commission. These rules fix the...

Few elections attract so much attention as the Papal Conclave that elects the religious leader of over a billion Catholics worldwide. The Conclave is an interesting case of qualied majority voting with many participants and no formal voting blocks. Each cardinal is a well-known public figure...

The evaluation of scientific output has a key role in the allocation of research funds and academic positions. Decisions are often based on quality indicators for academic journals and over the years a handful of scoring methods have been proposed for this purpose. Discussing the most prominent...

We study coalitional games where the coalitional payoffs depend on the entire coalition structure. We introduce a noncooperative, sequential coalition formation model and show that the set of equilibrium outcomes coincides with the recursive core, a generalisation of the core to such games. In...