The paper starts from the premise that local development policy could be seen as a tool for effective management and usage of comparative and competitive advantages in space and time. By applying the centralized administrative model in managing society and economy, Bosnia and Herzegovina is not...

Background: Social media allow companies to create more "friendly" and personal interaction with their customers on an individual basis affecting the relationship development. Generally, people have more confidence in their friends’ recommendations. On the other hand, companies prefer this...

Career guidance and counselling and its numerous services are meant to address issues bordering on career development, social changes and challenges. One of the modern challenges and threats to effective functioning, productivity and efficient service delivery in organizations is rapid changes...

Although relevant research on environmental sustainability or product portfolio management is quite developed, few studies integrate the two areas. This research aims to shed light on the environmental sustainability practices adopted in product portfolio through a cross-country case study on...

The paper examines demographic and cognitive diversity at top-level management and its impact on the performance of Malaysian-listed companies (Plantation and Energy Sectors). Although many organisations aspire to be socially diverse, diversity's consequences for organisational performance...

The implementation of the sustainability mega-trend has been increasing in large companies, listed for many years in order to respond to stakeholder`s interests. One of the objectives of the paper is to identify how the sustainable investments behaves with business objectives in terms of total...

Strategic company plans are more frequently realised in the form of strategic projects. Project portfolio management is new territory for a lot of companies, especially regarding the evaluation of strategic projects and the final financial and social results. The paper focuses on a pattern...

Being able to manage growth, improve results, change behavioral attitudes and innovate are legitimate aspirations in the search for an improved performance, even though they are not the only ones. At the beginning, it was believed that productive specialization and scale would be sufficient to...

En el trabajo se analizan los niveles de implantación de sistemas de gestión de la calidad (SGC) en empresas del sur de España y norte de Marruecos, y las motivaciones, beneficios o barreras detectadas. Se ha tomado para ello una muestra de 322 empresas. A diferencia de otros estudios,...

El trabajo analiza las características de los emprendimientos del sector no estatal cubano en el servicio de alojamiento turístico y sus efectos sobre las valoraciones de los clientes internacionales. Los datos provienen de una muestra aleatoria simple para arrendadores (90 emprendedores) y de...