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Working meetings are indispensable events in every company, where employees and business partners have the opportunity to share knowledge and information and also to make important decisions. In the informational society, at the level of multinational companies, which have more conference rooms, it is very important to have an efficient management of them. In most large companies with more meeting rooms, management of their availability is usually based on predefined schedules that can create inefficient situation...

The knowledge economy requires that the process of building of competitive economy involves scientific achievements as a source of new knowledge. At the same time effective management of the innovation processes taking place within European regions is fundamental for European economy to establish its good position in the world. Regional innovation strategies are actually responsible for directing innovation processes. As some time has gone by and first experiences with regard to the functioning of those tools beco...

Motivation has been the subject of numerous books on human resources management. However, it is not frequently discussed in the energy sector, and particularly not in the mining industry. The ongoing restructuring processes in the Polish mining industry make it impossible to identify a consistent motivational scheme. The existing programmes, due to the ever-changing operational conditions of mining companies, are maladjusted to employeesВ’ expectations. This article attempts to evaluate the expectations of miners ...

Managerial behavior and the operating philosophy of the firm's executive level characterize entrepreneurial orientation, enabling entry into new markets. Three dimensions most frequently used to describe entrepreneurial orientation are innovativeness, proactiveness, and risk-taking. Most of the earlier research on entrepreneurial orientation aggregates its features into a single construct to examine its impact on the companyВ’s performance. In this study, the dimensions of the entrepreneurial orientation were deco...

The most important capital of modern enterprises is information, knowledge and intellectual capital, while at the same time in process of building the competitive advantage, the role of material components decreases. Knowledge in the enterprise is partly its property but mostly its owners are employees. Therefore, it is crucial to provide employees with appropriate working conditions in which they could fully use their potential. This may require, among others, such activities as: changing the organizational cultu...

The submitted article analyses the current situation concerning implementation of methods of continuous improvement in industrial companies. The results are based on a survey carried out in 2016 - 2017. The survey was carried out in industrial companies employing 250 to 2,500 employees, mainly in joint stock companies and limited liability companies, with majority of Czech capital. It mostly concerns companies focused on automotive industry both from the production point of view as well as from the finished produc...

Today innovation activity is considered as one of the main conditions for the modernization of the economy and one of the main indicators of competitiveness of the state. The article presents the comparative analysis of innovative activity of Russia and foreign countries and shows the global innovation index of Russia. Based on the analysis, the strong and weak points of the innovation system of Russia have been identified, the main problems hindering the development of innovation activities in Russia have been re...

Recently, advertising and new forms of internet advertising are among the most popular tools to influence buyers. It is the most visible and most discussed form of marketing communication. Advertising has the ability to influence the creation and change of needs, demand, but also consumer interests and habits. Just as advertising can affect consumers' buying behaviour, advertising can also discourage it. The objective of the contribution is the theoretical processing of the research problems in the field of advert...

Recurrent annual regularities of the level of production and sales of hard coal in the Polish market result in the coal companies facing the surplus of production in the, so called, slack season, as well as shortages of coal in the season of increased demand for coal. At present mining companies solve this problem by outsourcing mining workers. However, this is not the most favourable solution because of the negative approach of the mine workers towards this kind of practices. Moreover, planning of employment is c...

The paper considers a problem of gemstones valuation, based on real data. The main goal includes constructing a model that determines the evaluated price of a given stone on the basis of its description, expressed as a set of input variables values. A classic approach, utilising a multiple linear regression tool, is compared with nonlinear multilayer perceptrons. As the dataset contains a number of qualitative variables (e.g. gemstone colour purity, the clarity of the structure and a symbol of the certifying autho...

Among the numerous classifications of economic systems, one of the most common classifications is based on the choice of an approach to managing and regulating the behavior of economic entities. As it is commonly believed, this approach can be based on economic and non-economic criteria for decision-making. In the latter case, they speak of the traditional model of the economy, which in modern conditions (from the standpoint of technocratic analysis) is considered to be backward and inefficient. Indeed, the standa...

The issues of professional implementation and education are among the most important in our life. And it's not surprising, considering how much time each of us spends on study and work and how much depends on it. And of course, the radical changes that are taking place now can not but affect these spheres. Today in Russia, much attention is paid to the discussion of innovation, the digital economy, labor productivity and competitiveness. However, these plans are unrealizable without a systematic approach to the de...

The visual identity of airlines is important component of their business. This is emerging from intermediate service character of air transport which is not primary target of passengers and is significantly unified at the international level. Air transport as a service is intangible, processes and resources are very similar and thus greater emphasis must be placed on the visual identity of companies. The article describes the specifics of the marketing mix of airlines with emphasis on the fifth and sixth P - Peopl...

Economic security of a stable enterprise that gains profit meeting its ownersa?? demands, is based on presence and efficient usage of all required components for marketable goods production in the respective legislative environment. There are two aspects of economic security of an enterprise: operative and strategic. A strategy targets economically safe development of an enterprise, while business activities are to guarantee effective functioning of an enterprise in terms of economic security, which means generati...

The topic of inbound logistics costs has recently become very actual. Inbound logistics involves a relationship with suppliers and also includes all the activities required for income, physical control and warehouse of inputs. Inbound logistics has become an interdisciplinary science that deals with optimal coordination, alignment, interconnection and optimization of the flow of raw materials, materials, semi-finished products, products and services, but it must not forget the flow of information and finance. The ...

Museums are essential memorial institutions that keep information about the lives of our At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, human resources are already a very important part of the factors of production. Apart from land, labor and financial capital, human resources are sum of the unique capabilities of individuals, which can be both inherited and acquired, can be expanded by appropriate investment and lead to the production of goods, both public and private. In today's modern theory, people are less seen ...

Clustering techniques are frequently applied in business and economy, for example in customer classification, enterprise grouping and in other economic data analysis. This paper presents a new clustering method, based on Delaunay triangulation and iterative aggregation of points distributed in the feature space. In the first part of the article we propose a clustering algorithm that utilises this concept. The algorithm iteratively connects specially selected pairs of nodes in the triangulation mesh and leads to sy...

Customer experience is increasingly perceived as the important marketing concept leading to differentiation and as an effective solution for building competitive advantage on the open global market. The core ability of companies adopting the customer experience management approach is to be able to understand customersВ’ perceptions of their business that is often significantly different from the conventional companyВ’s view. Nowadays, the most used way to capture and further analyze this customer view is to create...

This paper focuses on answering question: What are the ideal and most important skills and personality traits that project managers need to have. The aim of the paper is to describe the significance of project manager competencies needed in current changing environment. Project manager is key to the success of each project. For this reason, staffing projects with managers who have the right competences is crucial to achieve project goal. The success of project managers is mainly related to abilities and skills tha...

TodayВ’s world is a world in which urbanization seems to be the rule because most of the planetВ’s inhabitants are living in towns. As humanity has already entered the urban century, cities have increasingly become places where various stakeholders, such as governments, institutions, companies, non-governmental organizations, policy makers, academics and citizens, are interconnected in order to better address social, economic, environmental, demographic, cultural and technological issues. This is why the destiny o...

The purpose of this paper is to study the change in the competitive structure of electronic retailing (e-retailing) compared to traditional trade and to reveal the processes of their mutual influence. The development of two main indicators for assessing the intensity of competition - market growth and concentration is investigated, based on which is compared the dynamics of the competitive structure of e-commerce retail with that of traditional trade. For the purpose of the analysis data from the National Statisti...

The paper deals with the drivers and barriers for the international competitiveness improvements in the pharmaceutical industry in Russia and the United States. The methodological basis of the study is the combination of the competitive advantages theory by M. Porter with the World Economic ForumВ’s Global Competitiveness Index methodology. A grouping of global competitiveness indicators in connection with the determinants of the Porter diamond was carried out and resulted in following seven pillars: factor condit...

The paper presents a new, developed by the author, concept of an artificial neural map, named COMSOM and inspired by classic SOM neural networks. The initial part of the article shows a general idea of COMSOM model and its structure, which includes two layers of artificial neurons: input layer (with typical task of distributing input values to data processing neurons) and basic layer containing usually a great number of processing elements, located inside a rectangular part of an XY plane, and able to move freely ...

The aim of the current paper is to analyze the consumer attitude towards life insurance in Bulgaria during 2018, considering the contemporary European trends and the increased necessity for life insurance. The European life insurance market has been developing with a rapid pace for the past several years, indicating that on average a European spends 1159 EUR annually for life insurance products. According to this indicator Bulgaria is one of the least developed countries among the EU member states. This begs the q...

The pharmaceutical sector is one of the most regulated sectors in the world. In spite of various legislative constraints, companies are spending millions for drug promotions in the market in the fight for consumers, their attention and loyalty. Nowadays the competition between companies is very high especially when several analogous pharmaceutical products with the same effect on human health can exist simultaneously in the market. Therefore, it becomes important for companies to understand consumer behavior in th...

Currently, information about the safety and quality of consumer goods attracts a lot of attention, but there is a question about consumer confidence in the sources of information, their independence, competence and objectivity. Comparative testing of goods and services is one of the most effective mechanisms for informing consumers about the quality of goods developed in the international and European community. Comparative testing is an independent evaluation of similar goods, but different brands and manufacture...

In today's information environment, information usable for decision-making or economic development is the cornerstone of successful business. Companies build and develop managerial accounting systems as a source of information for efficient management of the company's processes. Enterprises operating in the processing industry are under strong pressure from price competition having significant impact on small companies. Moreover, the companies must continually adapt to a changing environment and come up with innov...

Purpose: Creativity constitutes a source of formation of internal innovation in companies executing scientific and research projects. Creativity and innovation constitute an integration of various fields and perspectives of perceiving change. The effect of synergy of team work can bring more benefits than searching for innovation outwards. The key questions made in the paper are as follows: is there a dependency between creativity and the source of formation of innovation in enterprises? What are the sources of cr...

This paper deals with the use of data-driven marketing as the important part of digital marketing. Data are valuable and necessary input for sellers as they are able to make decisions in many fields of digital marketing. This study is focused on the customer satisfaction modelling whereas the main aim is to find out models that optimally describe total customer satisfaction and to determine the importance of individual factors and discover their impact on the total satisfaction. The process of modelling is demonst...

Family firms are said to be better positioned when it comes to developing and mantaining long-term mutually-beneficial relationships due to their unique identity which generates, internally, a commitment to quality, while externally triggers positive perceptions in the minds of their stakeholders. The literature suggests that the “family business” tag is associated with characteristics of trustworthiness, authenticity and credibility by consumers, helping these businesses being able to obtain a competitive adv...

The purpose of the article is to answer the questions whether transport infrastructure in the EU countries is diverse and to what extent and whether the level of infrastructure development has changed over the years 2008-2015. A review of the literature on transport infrastructure in the EU countries and the impact of its state on the socio-economic development of the studied regions has been made. Due to its complexity, 10 indicators describing the condition of transport infrastructure in the EU countries were us...

The parallel development of the digital society and the ideas for sustainable development provokes courier companies to seek innovative solutions based on ecofriendly practices that correspond to the technological changes that take place in the major players in the realization of products, which are the merchants. The aim of this paper is to reveal the place of the courier companies as the main logistics intermediaries in the context of the omnichannel commercial strategy and to outline the trends in the sector fa...

In works on the project management theory and project activity standards, questions of project cost efficiency diagnostics are not included in project works contents and regulations, standing down to providing specific project characteristics. Meanwhile project success and deviations emerging thereat will directly impact on its efficiency level. We propose to carry out assessment of project cost efficiency (for example, their net present value, NPV) in interrelation with the basic project characteristics – the c...

In this article, the issues of the digital economy in the system of economic security that are relevant to modern Russia are considered. This work is devoted to the investigation of the impact of digital threats, challenges and risks of the digital economy on the economic security of the country. In the study, we set the following main tasks: to consider the main factors affecting the economy in the concept of digital transformation in Russia, to identify the key factors of influence, threats and challenges to eco...

For a country or society, sustainable development means an economic activity that can resist, respecting both the individual and the environment. The world today is a reaction to the exceses of a market economy which has not always been misunderstood, leading to an imbalance of scarce natural resources, disruption of life in developing companies or even the global economy. Eco-Economy, under the circumstances, but respects the sustainable yield of the ecosystem on which it depends. How the company will manage to a...

This article is a reflection of civil defence education as one of basic element of education. The research focuses on the period 1938 – 1951; period between the time before World War II burst out and the time of political changes in the Czechoslovakia. The aim of the research is to explore the basic approaches to the implementation of education in relation to civil defence education in Czechoslovakia. The comparative historical analysis is utilized as the research method on the subject of civil defence education...

The aim of the paper is to study the impact of e-commerce on the economic growth measured by GDP growth in Bulgaria. A brief summary of the importance of electronic commerce for the development of the economy is prepared. The research is based on the idea that e-commerce stimulates consumption and therefore economic growth. With the help of the statistical analysis of time-series, the change and the relationship between the indicators: capacity of the telecommunication network on the Internet retail sales, as well...

Nowadays organizations have external requirements to change and adapt more than ever before, and the individuals must be able to continuously develop their skills, personal resources and expertise to meet the organizational changes. This requirement raises the pressure and increases the stress level, as well as the difficulties in ensuring the balance between work and private life. To be able to adapt to the requirements of the employer, be competitive, not to let the stress adversely affect the performance and at...

ERP is the acronym of Enterprise Resource Planning, essentially an integrated management of the fundamental processes of a company, and comprises a multitude of factors, such as: hardware, software, personnel, functions, processes, etc. In the last decades, the term ERP has been identified with ERP integrated software systems that enable the integration of all processes and information from a company into a one software platform. The ERP software represents the pillar of any modern company, because its own set of ...

The article has a theoretical character and its aim is to classify and systematize the determinants of enterprise's fundamental strength, understood as enterprise's potential to create and protect its intrinsic value. In accomplishing this goal, a critical analysis of the literature was carried out both in the context of available solutions in the investigated area, as well as the possibility of assessing enterprise's fundamental strength based on generally available information, mainly periodic reports published ...

The author considers the theme of enterprises’ mergers in high-tech industries and studies the trends at the M&A market in Russia and in the world. The strengths and drawbacks of integration strategy compared with organization growth strategy have been analyzed in the article. One of the ways for rapid growth enterprises is mergers and acquisitions. This strategy allows enterprises to collect and development the portfolio of “economic-geographical assets” which is a key origin of competitive strength in a glo...

In an entrepreneurial university, not only the system, structure and strategy are of paramount importance, but also the entrepreneurial culture, which is a serious change in the culture that has existed so far at the university [1], [8]. In the non-economic fields of social activity, the expansion of economics and management takes place - not only in the area of higher education. Universities make use of economic logic, solutions developed in the field of management and translate the concepts of education drawn fr...

Current paper analyzes the main trends of the ERP-systems market in Russia and abroad. The main highlights of the research are the following ones: analysis of the market leaders; identification of the industry specificity; analyzes of the structure of the use of the most popular ERP-solutions; identification of the development direction as well as the changes of the market of the presented information systems in the medium-term; the forecasts for the dynamics of development in the medium term. As a result, the mai...

The article proposes a methodological approach to forecasting the staffing needs of the innovative economy which makes a provision for creating strategic long-term and mid-term forecasts and their annual adjustment at the operating level. The decomposition by the types of forecasts for such characteristics as level of regulation, purpose, key definitions, methods and approaches, factors, types of information, tools for providing staffing needs at each level has been carried out; the main results are presented. Mod...

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) wanting to meet the demand of extremely competitive environment, more and more often appreciate the importance of knowledge management (KM), which fosters their innovation and development. Yet, due to their character (resulting, among others, from limited human, financial and material resources and a lack of time for creativity development) they require different tools and practical recommendations than large enterprises in terms of knowledge management. Quite often, knowl...

The principles of efficiency evaluation of executive bodiesВ’ activity in economic development of a subject in the RF (Russian Federation) are based on integration and synergy of the adopted in the RF principles of strategic planning in the state industrial policy as well as on the principles of efficiency evaluation in specific components of public administration. The paper explores the limitations in employing state regulation tools to solve economic development problems; substantiates the need to create the reg...

The theme of the paper is the topic of strategic management and the strategic managerial tools used by the managers of the small and medium-sized enterprises of the construction sector. The approach to the topic is conducted through the own international questionnaire survey of managers from Czech Republic and Austria. Thus, we were able to collect the data about the managerial evaluation of several indicators of strategic management in abovementioned enterprises. While the survey was conducted in the time of ongo...

The Russian-language weekly "British Ally", published in the USSR since August 1942, informed Soviet citizens about the course of the Allied military operations. Covering the events of the week and giving an overview of the British press, the newspaper also reported on Nazi crimes in the occupied territories. The change that occurred in World War II in 1943 enabled correspondents to get more comprehensive and reliable information about camps for prisoners of war and concentration camps and publish reports on the h...

The main purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the needs and consumer demand of citizens of the Republic of Kosovo in relation to the factors affecting it. Parts of the study were 500 citizens of the Republic of Kosovo, of which 64% (n = 320) were females and 36% (n = 180) were males. The analysis of empirical data is done through the SPSS program, where the measurement of the results is done with the techniques like correlation and Anova. From the findings of this study it has resulted that the income ...

Public housing system in Poland is based on a local government-dominated social rented sector in which the social landlords' functions are mainly filled by municipalities and their organizational units. One of the most important fields of municipal housing management is financial management which includes the whole issues and financial problems occurring in all life cycle phases of these stocks, including construction and acquisition of housing estates, maintenance and renovation of existing stock as well as their...