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Investment to technologies is an advanced concept in today's economy, which defines not only the importance of investment to technical equipment and technological processes but also the role of knowledge and investment to R&D. Due to this, it is not sufficient to evaluate one or another individual indicator in order to assess country's investment to technologies: a complex view is needed. The main purpose of the research was to define the indicators for measuring countries investment to technologies. Research was ...

Job satisfaction plays an important role in the development and position of each company in the market. To ensure employees' satisfaction, companies offer them a variety of benefits. A satisfied employee is then more loyal, committed, motivated and shows higher performance levels. Home office in the Czech Republic represents quite a rarely used benefit but it would be welcomed by almost three-quarters of employees. The aim of the survey was to determine employees' satisfaction with their benefits and to map the de...

Research purpose is to highlight institutional collaboration importance in two Europeean Union countries military structures, meaning France and Germany. Organization performance depends in many ways. One of them is human resource. In military organization there are some particularities, there are many challenges and we want to underline the importance of taking the right decision regarding human resouce development. In our days there are a lot of important factors who must be account of. Are here strengths or wea...

The article considers the problem of touristic branding of Moscow region on the basis of historical information, analyses principles which allow strengthening the process and increasing the tourist attractiveness of Moscow region. The author believes that Moscow region has a fairly powerful historical and cultural potential, largely not yet fully disclosed, which is the basis for the development of tourism. The author introduces the concept of "historical foundations of touristic branding" into scientific circulat...

The main focus of the article is research and comparison of theoretical findings in the field of knowledge management in general. I also want to pay more attention to and deal with the applicability of knowledge management in everyday practice, therefore, the public. I believe that it is necessary to discuss the main reasons for the need of knowledge management in contemporary society. My own contribution would be then a case study of the basic steps in the implementation of knowledge management – contributory, ...

Purpose. To attract investments in the economy of the country is very important. Rise in the standard of living of the population, the increase in the scale of the real sector and other effects of investments in the region result in improving regional infrastructure, which, in turn, improves the investment attractiveness of the region. The paper will present the results of empirical research of described regularities. So purpose of this article is research of correlation between the investment attractiveness of Ru...

Management of the export potential of the machine building enterprise development is the system integrating instrument aimed at uniting all tools of creating the export potential into one unity and providing the achievement of the set goals of the enterprise. The authors argue that the value of the export potential of the company characterizes the competitive opportunities of enterprise in the international market. Moreover, the level of export potential of the machine-building enterprises is to be high enough to ...

Demand segmentation is an important tool for enterprises to improve planning and apply various marketing policies. The purpose of this study is to present a new approach to determining the optimal number of market segments taking into consideration the measure of homogeneity of certain segments, their size, and economic attractiveness. In this study the mathematical background is described based on a Fuzzy C-Means clustering algorithm. The method is then demonstrated using concrete data with the age and the averag...

One of the most recurring mistakes companies worldwide make, is that they place leadership too far away from the place where value-added work is done. In terms of lean manufacturing, this refers to the shop floor: Gemba, the place not only real value-added activities take place but also real solutions are developed for tangible problems. Currently in most organizations, top management often bases its decisions on data which is not anchored in production reality. By placing leadership in Gemba and replacing confere...

This paper concerns to the human resource management in small and medium business, the scheme of management of personnel' resistance during the organizational changes are considered. In the conditions of a long economic crisis many organizations are compelled to undergo serious organizational changes to adapt for new conditions of the environment. Change of organizational structure, optimization of the staff list, introduction of new systems of compensation and awarding - one of the first steps of heads of the org...

The purpose of this paper is to highlight the relevance of building smart cities in the context of regional development and to analyze the important factors that make a city to be smart. These cities could be analyzed through the perspective of environment quality, the socio-cultural condition, technological applications and innovations, the vitality of the economic environment and public policies. Starting with these five sustainability domains, we will demonstrate the hypothesis that smart cities are the engine ...

The aim of this paper is to present views of experts on work motivation and motivating factors, characterizes the level of work motivation in Network hotels in Slovakia and point out the tools by which can be manage work motivation in hotel chains. The basic method is sociological interview of employees using questionnaires and structured interviews with managers of the network hotels. From the statistical methods we use cluster analysis to determine the motivation of employees by groups of kinship motivating fact...

Reindeer herding is not only the sector of agriculture, but a life style of reindeer herders. With reindeer husbandry related a cultural traditions and ancestral activities of indigenous minorities of the North – the Evenks, Evens, Yukaghirs, Dolgan and the Chukchi people living on the territory of Yakutia. According to the Government Decree 2009 – the 21 districts in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) relates to the areas of traditional residence and traditional activities, including reindeer herding. As a resul...

The article is devoted to motivation of young generation with apprentice, secondary school or university education which would lead to self-employment in the means of setting up a new business – start-up. Today in the European Union there is more than five milion uneployed young people younger than 25 years regardless of education, i.e. every fifth young man or woman is not able to find a job. In the Czech Republic the unemployment rate fluctuates around 7\%, but the unemployment rate of people younger that 25 y...

The main objective of this paper is to addresses the problem of effectivity and increase of economic efficiency at the sample of selected companies in the Slovak Republic, by making the comparison between traditional methods of measuring economic efficiency and application of modern managerial methods, which are becoming necessary need for success in business in international markets surroundings. As main method for researching the development of companies' situation we used the financial-economic indicators analy...

The recent economic financial crisis has raised questions regarding the predictive capacity of economic theory, of macroeconomic models and the methodology of Economics, respectively. The present paper explores the objective/subjective, explanation/understanding or quantitative/qualitative dichotomy within the methodological dispute between mainstream and more recent trends in Economics. The methodological differentiation towards mainstream economics and Austrians, Institutionalists and others, consists in the awa...

In this paper we introduce an authentic treatment of information resources term based on the producer theory. Following this framework, we suggest a list of qualitative measures for demand for informational resources in economic activities. To provide sources for management and forecasting of demand for information resources, we suggest a list of socio-economic determinants for every listed measure of demand for informational resources. The determinants cover development and state indicators of economic activities...

Modern global cities are not just general actors of world politics and international centers of power, but also are the major tourist destinations. Moscow is the only urban agglomeration in the Russian Federation, which is included in all major global city rankings and in special tourism rankings as well. The article focuses on the comparative analysis of tourism development in Moscow and other global cities. The trends common to most global urban tourist destinations along with Moscow specific trends are describe...

This article deals with applying cognitive analysis methods to manage education of high quality. Structured modeling offers an opportunity to build indicative management and create an expert system to support managerial decisions making that enables any time to identify the most effective strategic management and develop specific tactic recommendations for education's managers. Currently, much attention is paid to the effective organization of the educational process and improve the development of the younger gene...

This paper presents a variety of methods for estimating investment multipliers, including traditional approaches, regression model, distributed lag model, input-output model, Perotti-Corsetti two-step procedure, and large-scale econometric models. It provides investment multiplier estimations for Russia and its regions.

Analysis of the results and identification of prospects for Russia's WTO accession is necessary on the regional level, as the territorial development of Russia is very heterogeneous. Due to the high heterogeneity of the territorial development of the Russian Federation subjects accession to the WTO will have multidirectional action on regional economies.

Knowledge management has been from its inception integrally connected with information technology. Information technology utilized knowledge management changed as well as the development of information technologies themselves. Use the appropriate organizational structure and modern information technology knowledge can be used to solve problems regardless of time and place. The basic prerequisite for meaningful use of knowledge management in the way of success of the organization is the possibility of exchanging kn...

In the current climate of decreasing reserves of mineral resources, reducing the effectiveness of the fuel and energy complex and a number of other industries there is an urgent need for a clear definition of the priorities of regional development, to search and find the peculiar "growth points", the optimal organizational and economic solutions, who would play the role of locomotive in the output of the regional economy on the path of stability and sustainable development. Acting on these "poles of growth", you c...

The flexicurity concept is developed to find possible solutions for dilemma how to simultaneously increase both the labour market elasticity and the social security. In order to increase the flexicurity level in a particular country, the flexible working arrangements must be supported. One of them is the part-time employment, which is in nowadays especially appreciated solution for work-life balancing. The part-time employment increased in the Europe, especially during the economic crisis in 2008 – 2010. However...

The key to any organization's success lies in the establishment of a proper objective set by the leadership in order to find the best and the cheapest solution to achieve success. This work aims the presentation of the role that various management models of a corporation have within the world economic assembly, in general and within the national economies, in particular. The debate of this subject, in this work, is mainly due to the timeliness of the concept of "corporate governance" and also due to the importance...

Patient satisfaction is a widely used term in measuring the quality of the health care system. Despite the numerous studies conducted in the literature, little is known about the impact of satisfaction in retention of family physicians` patients. Based on a survey conducted within family doctors' patients this study aims to provide the development of the valuable relationship between an amount of factors that affect retention in health area: trust, satisfaction, expenditure, services` quality and availability. Imp...

The costs are a fundamental part of every organization especially in highly competitive environments, since on these depends largely the competitiveness of the company because they are the fundamental parameter of strategic decisions that define the continuity of a company. The implementation of any cost system in practice poses unique problems that are related and are the result of the organization to which they refer. Thus, any attempt of objectivation of the difficulties involved in the design and implementatio...

Under the conditions in which the market is currently flooded with unhealthy products, when effects of economic crisis in the past few years cause purchasers to acquire cheap products which contain chemical substances and E's, the solution for a healthy feeding is bringing to the foreground of the bio products. This paper proposes an analysis of market for these products, the analysis which is based on research into measure in which consumers know and acquires bio products, the factors affecting market, of the str...

The paper deals with a problem of creation and existence of start-ups in Slovak republic and measurement of their success. Generally, the success of firm can be measured through various performance indicators. The paper on theoretical level presents two basic approaches to performance evaluation - the traditional financial ratio analysis approach and approach considered as a broader stakeholder perspective. The paper also presents the results of studies which show different predictors of performance or factors of ...

More and more tourism studies, reports and policies in Europe regard sustainability as a strategic input for gaining competitive advantage. In this context, we consider that in order to be competitive, tourist destinations need to formulate and implement sustainable development strategies. The present article supports the idea that the competitiveness action framework of European tourist destinations has to respect the principles and implement the instruments for sustainable development of tourism which exist at t...

The article deals with purchasing habits of specific target group “Czech Singles” in the Czech Republic. The aim of the article is to assess the significance and market potential of this segment, as well as create a complete description of this segment by proposing adequate marketing approaches with emphasis on distribution channels. Typology of “Singles” has not been yet well defined and foreign research outputs differ in certain aspects. Paper determinates the theoretical concept of consumer buying behav...

Large shopping centres already provide not only the purchase function in the traditional sense, but the philosophy of their existence is based on the multi-functionality, which creates possibility for maximizing the length of customers stay in shopping centres associated with the increase in the average expenditure on purchase of goods and services. In addition to their regular shopping function, visiting the shopping centre has become an opportunity for various social occasions and a place of leisure time activit...

The article is devoted to integrated assessment of state and tendencies of Russian meat market. As demand-supply situation at Russian meat market is closely related to the external environment factors and to the world market of meat, in our paper, the results of generalization of the world market tendencies were presented taking into consideration both segments of the developed and developing countries. For integrated assessment of Russian position at the world market of meat and for inter-country comparisons, we ...

One of the main problem regarding the economic development potential is represented by the opportunities of investments in economy, which are missed due to a lack of correlation in information. In this area we will customize our research on the capacity of increasing the economic growth in Romania throughout facilitating the absorption from the Regional Operational Program by using a tool, created to enhance the know-how of the applicants and beneficiary of the projects, financed by structural funds. For a thoroug...

In this study, we proposed to present the macroeconomic context in which the structural funds are absorbed and used efficient from the perspective of monetary policy transmission channels and the influences generated by the way they reacted at the main monetary and economic variables to different shocks in Romania's economy, between 2002 and 2013. The analysis is based on the impacts of using technological systems and data generalization in the macroeconomic and monetary framework. Thus, we included variables that...

Transport company as a socio-economic system responds to changes in its surroundings and adapts its economic activities to these changes in. Therefore, there is interaction taking place between the enterprise and its surroundings. The article focuses on the analysis of factors that influence the success of business in the field of transport in the Czech Republic, namely in terms of influence around these businesses. As part of the analysis, not only legislation and strategic documents are evaluated that are essent...

Sustainable economy is gradually changing the values of customers thus conditioning the new tendencies in the development of marketing and sales. Marketing and sales are becoming factors of the change in relation to the existing challenges of sustainable economy. The aim of this article is to inform about the tendencies of marketing and sales from the point of view of purchasing behaviour of consumers in the selling place in the context of sustainable economy, which create preconditions for marketing to become an ...

This article deals with applying cognitive analysis methods to manage online store operations. Structured modeling offers an opportunity to build indicative management and create an expert system to support managerial decisions making that enables any time to identify the most effective strategic management and develop specific tactic recommendations for store's managers. Currently, much attention is paid to the process of effective management and profitability of the online store. It is very important to start an...

The paper presents actual situation in cluster initiatives in the Slovak Republic with emphasis on technological clusters. The aim of the paper is to analyse experience with an operation of technological clusters in the Slovak Republic and to present best practises on selected clusters. The paper brings selected findings from the research in Slovak technological clusters realized during the year 2014 and 2015. A qualitative research was conducted by interviewing all existing technological clusters in Slovakia. The...

An innovative type of economic development in Russia suggests expansion of the competitive potential of the country and increasing its comparative advantages in the social sphere, including education and tourism. National tax policy is a key factor in improving competitiveness. National tax policy not only increases the efficiency of the fiscal, but also the regulatory function of taxation in respect of social organizations. The government affects the economy through the mechanism of tax administration. Accelerati...

The Romanian seaside represents a tourist destination that has a complex tourist potential which unfortunately is not capitalized at its best. Currently, the prices of tourism services sold in the resorts within this area are high and do not reflect their quality. In the period 2011-2014, the tourist flow displayed on the Romanian seaside has recorded slight fluctuations year after year. The highest level of tourist arrivals was recorded in 2012 (805.000 tourists). At the level of this year, foreigners have owned ...

Recession is one of the periodic economic cycle phases which requires adequate and dynamic actions. The aim of the study is to identify the best strategies for hotels to overcome the recession and position themselves for recovery. This study reviews available literature on strategies taken by businesses to overcome the recession, compares it with the reaction of hotels in Slovakia in times of the global economic crisis and suggests the most appropriate strategy to reduce the impacts of recession on hotels. A struc...

Automobile tourism is one of the traditional types of tourism. Quality of service in the automobile tourism is formed by the level of supply, which in turn is dependent on their compliance with requirements of the modern society. The present level of development of information and methodological support of automobile tourism requires its improvement, based on a humanistic approach and principles of sustainable development. To conduct the study used a situational, systemic and institutional approaches, scientific m...

The purpose of the report was to examine contemporary conditions for developing and promoting sustainability initiatives for companies in Russia. Namely, the working paper focused on international companies operating in Russia and transformational process of international sustainability initiatives being introduced for the emerging market. The methodology of the research included: analysis of work practices in terms of descriptive research, analysis of statistical and historical data, and comparative analysis of e...

During the last decade the EU economy was hit by two economic crises. The first was the deep global financial and economic crisis in 2008. After a brief economic recovery occurred in 2012 in the European Union another, more moderate economic recession. Reason for its existence was excessive indebtedness of some euro area countries, mainly Greece, Portugal, Ireland and Spain. The debt crisis and uncertainty about the future of the European economic and monetary union was the cause of creation of the second, though ...

Entrepreneurship is considered as one of the fundament of the each economy, especially economies of the western type based on democratic principles and freedom accompanied by economical competition. Thus it is very important to take a closer look at the entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurship environment from the entrepreneur point of view from chosen European countries. Entrepreneurs as the driver of the economy progress and the development of the entrepreneurship environment has their own intentions for starti...

The classic idea of „family vacation” regards travelling in different places accompanied by family members, on various distances, using different forms of organization and usually planned in advance. Collaborative consumption as a phenomenon is a class of economic arrangements in which participants share access to products or services, rather than having individual ownership (“what's mine is yours”). Applied in tourism this new concept tries to give a new dimension of the touristic phenomenon, bypassing tr...

Starting from its expected contribution to national and regional development – as a result its major natural and cultural heritage potential, this paper proposes an inquiry into Romanian tourism's competitiveness using the data provided by the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Report 2013 issued by the World Economic Forum. It aims to highlight the position of Romania in Central and Eastern Europe and to reveal its competitive advantages for the pillars envisaged in the mentioned report. A special emphasis is p...

Cities of all sizes often labour over the decision to develop a brand strategy. For small cities it is increasingly becoming a matter of whether they can afford not to embrace the concept if they want to be better organized and be more distinctive and competitive. If the city is allocating funds to marketing programs without consistently clarifying what the city stands for, what it does best, and why it matters to customers, then it is risking (and possibly wasting) public funds. The article offers analysis of cit...

The work analyses statistic indicators which quantify the supply side for agritourism in Romania compared with the tourism supply in general. In Romania, agritourism appeared after the fall of communism, has adapted to the economic reality and is limited to the rural households converted in agritourist guesthouses. The data was obtained using the TEMPO-Online platform of the National Institute of Statistics (NIS). The results attest a significant growth of arrivals and overnight stays in agritourist guesthouses, h...