The paper analyses small and medium firms’ contractual relations along the food chain in central region of Hungary using survey data. We focus on two specific aspects of contracts: type of contract and contract fulfilment. Contrary to previous studies which concentrated only on producers’...

Indoor air pollution (IAP) produced from incomplete combustion of biomass fuel affects three billion people worldwide and results in two million premature deaths each year. Clean cookstove technology has been proposed as the most cost-effective method for reducing IAP and improving health in the...

This paper investigates selected internal and external to the consumer factors influencing young consumers’ choices of physical or virtual channels for information search and purchase. Situations of channel lock-in and channel change between the mentioned phases of the buying process are...

The current decade brings another request to change the unsustainable lifestyle of society at the expense of society, the environment and the future. One of the suitable ways in which to change this situation is through to development of corporate social responsibility. This paper deals with...

The article presents the example of using relations between the price of wheat flour sold by the milling companies and the price of wheat futures listed on the FOREX market to protect the companies from bakery sector against adverse price movements of raw material – wheat flour. The paper aims...

Visual cues in OTC drugs promotional materials were determined. We performed a content analysis of printed materials. The persons appeared in all of the osteoporosis treating OTC drugs materials. Drug-related products were often visualised. Identity reward visual cues, except drug taking, were...

The need for knowledge in companies will continue to grow, as only the companies with a sufficient amount of knowledge will be able to maintain or strengthen their competitiveness. The study deals with knowledge, which companies either already have, or else acquire for the purposes of effective...

The national culture is a system of values shared by one national group, while the corporate culture is a system of values shared by the employees in a company. Both cultures influence the style of management and communication with employees. The national culture influences the corporate culture...

Social-networking is the first form of communication and in the future it will be the main market in the world and a special showcase for business. Internet is the greatest public space of the world. The social-networking is not simply a way of life to share, to spend the time, we have to face...

This paper investigates the impact of the reduction in the number and size structure of large enterprises in the wood industry on the dynamics of the shadow economy in the wood industry in Slovenia. The empirical results show that the dynamics in the reduction of the number and size structure of...