Using the United States retailer Target as case material, the paper argues that there should be a moral element in the application of benchmarking and business analytics. The paper offers Confucian ethics as a moral foundation for the application of these powerful business tools.

Dieser Beitrag entstand im Rahmen des internationalen Forschungsprojekts „Gründungen und Entrepreneurship bei Studierenden“ (GESt-Studie), welches das Ziel hat, Gründungsambitionen und unternehmerische Kriterien bei der Zielgruppe der Studierenden verschiedener Länder...

Although much has been done about competitiveness of SMEs in the last years, there are many open questions. In this paper we set out to use public Internet information and investigate big number of companies’ web sites. We present a methodology that uses a business intelligence tool for online...

In der Umfrage wurde die Antwort gesucht, wie die Unternehmen ihre Situation im Vergleich zu den Konkurrenten sehen. Die Fragestellungen über das Prinzip Benchmarking richteten sich auf die Marktposition, und –aktivität, Technisches Umfeld, Organisations- und Managementtätigkeit und auf...

This study explores the research area of my Searching Lab. In Information and Knowledge technology there are numerous new opportunities; more than really we could imagine. New professions have been appearing, such as the e-coach, and the Cloud computing became a much hyped up term. Whether the...

In this paper, the dominating models of Business Management are listed and their effect on business is stated. It is argued that in the last decades, no new models enriched the toolkit for this field, although economy alters permanently. Because of her promising impact on economic growth, the...

The main goal of our research was to examine the importance of transferring tacit and experiential knowledge as well as social capital of founders for innovativeness of the next family generation, i.e. successors in smaller family firms. Data were collected through in-depth case studies,...

Foreign direct investment is the way by which transnational corporations increaseits profitability by getting the share on a new foreign market, by reducing the production costs or by exploiting other factor inputs (such as availability of raw materials for production and others). The drivers,...

The importance of a family can not be substituted by anything else, the family in the society is indispensable. There does not exist an official definition of family businesses or related term in Hungary. So far in Hungary we do not have any official report about the role and economic weight of...