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The complexity of modern economic conditions in which service companies operate is determined by increasing uncertainty, rapidly changing market conditions and the external environment. In this connection, the need to ensure and develop the adaptive abilities of the company for a long period is more acutely recognized, which, in turn, determines the importance of implementing strategic changes. Service companies can implement a variety of strategic changes, develop them, and implement several strategic changes at ...

The rapidly changing economic situation in the European Union (EU), including Latvia, is reflected in the labour market. The acute problem of the Latvian labour market is an imbalance between its supply and demand: on one hand, relatively high unemployment rates, and on the other hand, job vacancies. One of the largest inactive social groups is people with disabilities. This real situation does not correlate with the tactics of promoting employment and social inclusion strategies in the EU and Latvia. The aims of ...

The global need for specific actions intended at reducing the climatic changes, the regional disparities and increasing the quality of life have led to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, a set of 17 main focal points acknowledged by all the United Nations Organization (UN) members as totally necessary for contributing to ensuring a global sustainable development. Even so, not all the countries have developed their own National Sustainable Development Strategy, due to different factors such as a very...

Freelancing is not a new concept at the labor market, however, as our business environment changes, it requires a quick adaptation to new conditions. A large study was conducted with the aim to find out about the status of freelancing in Croatia. This paper presents the employers’ standpoint. Although keeping employees satisfied is often in focus as one of the primary managerial tasks, the starting question of this paper is, what kind of a freelancers keep employers happy? The research method was a questionnaire w...

Diasporas nowadays consists of economic migrants who are belive to have the potential for chanelling financial and social transfers as well as technology and qualifications. Remittances sent by migrants make the main source of external income, not only often bigger than the foreign help but also direct foreign investment. Money transfers make the stable source of funds reaching directly families and make the poverty smaller. Dominican Republic is constantly percieived as a country of a mass emigration to United St...