The ever-prospering development of information and communication technology (ICT) in recent years has changed how people conduct communication and their commercial behaviors. A large number of industries, such as semi-conductor and biotech sectors, find themselves in a high-velocity environment,...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to compare the critical issues (quality, cost, flexibility, competitiveness, resource utilization and innovation) of sourcing in manufacturing, service and R&D companies in order to explore the most crucial characteristics of R&D supply chain to define the...

Purpose: Rapid productisation (RP) is a new concept originating from practical challenges. RP is a process of quickly supplementing a company’s product or service offering to meet unexpected customer needs. The objective of this study is to describe how an RP is used and experienced in small-...

Organizations nowadays are faced with many competitive obstacles due to the rapid change in technology. Both practitioners and management theorists have called for innovation to take place in production processes and production lines as well as in management practices. Total quality management,...

The banks are motivated to leverage their m-banking activities with the advancement of mobile technologies and the high mobile penetration rate. Despite the availability of the m-banking services, many consumers still posses the attitude of ‘wait-and-see’ which resulted to unsatisfactory...

Purpose: The growing internationalization of the economies of individual countries, imposes on the national regulators the processes of harmonization and standardization in the accounting rules. The last 20-30 years, we have witnessed significant transformation of financial reporting of...

Purpose: Trust is important, because it allows people to form relationships with others and to depend on others—for love, for advice, for help. But trust also involves the risk that people they trust will not pull through for them. The aim of the article is to present empirical research...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the link between reaching a certain level of Project Management Maturity by the company and its projects cost performance. Design/methodology/approach: The world-wide study was conducted in order to measure the influence of the Project...

This paper applies a multivariate GARCH model to analyze the interdependence among gold, stocks and bonds price. Besides, we also examine the relationship between gold and oil price to see if gold could store value during financial crisis term. The empirical results show that gold is a feedback...

Changeability of environment causes that companies are more often vulnerable to functioning in a crisis. Managers around the world identify liquidity management as the primary driver of their decisions. In the turbulent environment in times of financial crisis, liquidity becomes more difficult...