Cities represent a challenge and an opportunity for climate change policy. As the hubs of economic activity, cities generate the bulk of GHG emissions and are thus important to mitigation strategies. Urban planning will shape future trends and the concentration of population, socio-economic...

Debates exist between those who claim that environmental policy will impose additional burdens and costs on industries, thus impairing their competitiveness, and those who claim that improved environmental performance can spur competitiveness. These arguments often surface when new environmental...

Survival of fittest & fastest is the mantra of today’s business game. To compete successfully in this business era, the retailer must focus on the customer’s buying experience. To manage a customer’s experience, retailers should understand what “customer experience” actually means....

Achieving and maintaining competitive advantage in an increasingly unpredictable and changeable business climate under the new rules of global competition and sustainable development became the major challenges facing the worldwide companies’ management during the last decades. Our paper aims...

The paper provides an overview of the role and feasibility of information security in supply chains. After the clarification of basic notions the authors will arrive at establishing requirements postulated for supply chain member companies based on the properties of logistics information...

As a discipline, marketing has always followed the social and economic development, thus being a reflection of prevalent social and economic relations. Accordingly, growing environmental awareness at all levels and the emergence of a new consumer segment – the so-called green consumers – has...

In order to achieve competitive advantage, each company has to determine its strategic position in relation to its suppliers and buyers, and to realize how behavior of supply chain participants influence on overall supply chain functionality. Supply chains with high level of synchronization of...

Success of the contemporary enterprises (also) depends a lot on their capacity to manage all important supply chains in which they are involved. For that reason the enterprises must rethink and innovate their management (in general) and especially the management of supply chains. Supply chain...

In the framework of the marketing mix, distributive marketing instrument has the basic task of allowing the consumer to purchase the product, in keeping with his wishes manifested through time and place of delivery. Logistics management is responsible for defining the optimum level of service...