A disruption occurs when human motivation embraces new technology and allows it to enhance and expand the experience of everyday life - the disruptor is the technology, while disruption is the human being engaged in a new behaviour. The acceptance and appropriation of new technologies creates a...

This paper analyses the growth effects of capital formation, exports and FDI as major drivers of economic development in Eastern Europe. The fundamental innovations are identified by empirically and theoretically motivated short- and long-run restrictions in structural cointegrated vector...

This paper analyzes the relation between nominal exchange rate volatility and several macroeconomic variables, namely real output growth, excess credit, foreign direct investment (FDI) and the current account balance, in the Central and Eastern European EU member states. Using panel estimations...

We analyze the impact of differentiated incentives on performance. While the literature has studied workers with relatively homogeneous tasks, we study teams with heterogeneous tasks and differentiated outputs that cannot be perfectly distinguished – a situation common in manufacturing or...

Investment has been found to be a significant determinant of growth. This paper analyses the effects of institutions and transition progress on investment rates of transition economies since the collapse of the Socialist Bloc. Political institution is measured by the Freedom House's Political...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the retail store decision criteria of customers in founder member states of the European Union and customers in Central and Eastern European (CEE) accession member states. Design/methodology/approach – Based on the literature review we...