This study intends to contribute to the discourse on social protection and crime. The study assessed social protection as a tool for crime prevention, with bias to Owerri municipal local government area of Imo state, Nigeria as a case study. The study employed a qualitative approach which...

Risk is inevitable in business. For large companies, risk management is formalised and structured through compliance with industry standards. However, small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) rarely have adequate resources to develop their own standards or conform to pre-established criteria....

Risk is inevitable in business. For large companies, risk management is formalised and structured through compliance with industry standards. However, small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) rarely have adequate resources to develop their own standards or conform to pre-established criteria....

Purpose: This study aims to provide empirical evidence of how supervisors' positive feedback plays a crucial role in newcomers' task performance in the first 90 days of their employment. Design/methodology/approach: Data for this study were collected from newcomers and their immediate...

Tout artiste qui se respecte connaît les pinceaux Raphaël ! Fabriqués à la main, avec un savoir-faire inchangé depuis leur création en 1793, ils sont adaptés à chaque type de peinture et possèdent une durée de vie extraordinaire. Sans le savoir, les femmes se maquillent, mais aussi les...

This study intends to contribute to the discourse on social protection and crime. The study assessed social protection as a tool for crime prevention, with bias to Owerri municipal local government area of Imo state, Nigeria as a case study. The study employed a qualitative approach which...

This article contains a model of a practical conduction of empirical research with the use of the Delphi method deriving from the group of inventive methods. Research material includes tools which directly determine management and operation of contemporary economic organisations. Identification...

В научной литературе, посвященной региональной экономической политике и региональному развитию, нерешенными остаются аспекты сопоставимости научно...

Целью статьи является исследование реинжиниринга как универсального инструмента инновационного развития экономики для формирования...

Sleep disorders are a significant and growing problem, both for the economy of the nation and for the physical and psychological well-being of individual sufferers. The purpose of this research was to investigate the operational, administrative and medical environment within which sleep...

Определена роль налоговых льгот как инструментов регулирования и стимулирования экономики, их виды, характерные признаки, построена классификация налоговых...

The article identifies the role of tax advantages as tools of regulation and stimulation of economy, their types, and characteristic features and develops a classification of tax advantages. It formalises processes of accounting and reporting about tax advantages of tax payers, mechanisms of...

The aim of this study was to examine occupational group-related differences in well-being at work (WBW) indicators ranging from real accidents, absences and retirement to experienced pleasure at work. Occupational group included two categories: blue- and white-collar employees. The study is...

"Expands the understanding of large-scale hunting methods beyond the customary role of subsistence and survival to include the social and political realms where large-scale hunting adaptations evolved, primarily from the Americas and spanning from the Folsom Period on the Great Plains to the...

Purpose This paper aims to present a method for interpreting and reinterpreting business models as analogies to support the creation of new business model ideas. Design/methodology/approach The authors use the literature on cognitive frames and attention to demonstrate the often-overlooked...

В статье исследуется проблема обеспечения ресурсами производственной программы промышленного предприятия. Автором выявлены основные причины отклонений в...

The following article presents the application of the mechanism games,"gamification" as a tool to support risk management in the enterprise. After presenting therisk characterization, risk management and the concept of gamification, we present practicalsteps to be taken in accordance with the...

Recent times have seen the supply side of management knowledge be it consultants, management gurus, business schools and popular press invent and diffuse countless managerial tools at a rapid-fire rate. One such tool is the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) that has been glorified and hyped as a great...

In tough economic times and under global competition, management by projects isnow regarded as a competitive way for managing organizations. This paper wants to outline theimportance of cultural differences aspects in project management. The main objectives followed bythe paper are to see the...

Modellgetriebene Softwareentwicklung MDSD mit Open Source Werkzeugen ist eine neue Ent-wicklung im Softwareengineering. Erfahrene IT Spezialisten erinnern sich an die CASE Euphorieder 90er Jahre. Die Argumentation der Verfechter beider Techniken ist ähnlich.[...]

When making marketing mix decisions, marketing managers of companies that offer a broad range of product categories, such as traditional offline and online retailers, mail-order companies, or financial service providers, often need to select one or a few focal categories out of all the possible...

В работах о течественных ученых-экономистов, посвященных определению видов, форм и механизмов валютной политики, изложены различные мнения. Для систематизации...

Given that the process of adapting to the European Higher Education Area affects both the teaching-learning methodology as well as its assessment, this could be the perfect opportunity for teachers and students to take full advantage of ICT. This article presents a tool based on the Google Docs...

Bei der Konzeption neuer Services (z.B. dynamische Navigationssysteme) in Fahrzeugen stehen die Entwickler meist vor ähnlichen Problemstellungen, wie z.B. der komplexen Infrastruktur im Fahrzeug oder der nötigen Reduktion der Fahrerablenkung bei der Nutzung während der Fahrt. Für die...

Participatory Impact Pathways Analysis (PIPA) is a practical planning, and monitoring and evaluation approach developed for use with complex projects in the water and food sectors . PIPA begins with a participatory workshop where stakeholders make explicit their assumptions about how their...

From the comparison of the various aspects of advertising and personal selling, it can be seen that personal selling is a more effective and powerful communication tool than advertising, but advertising is more time and cost efficient than personal selling. Thus advertising and personal selling...

The doctoral thesis is concerned with the issues that are faced when selecting strategic analysis tools to be used in small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the process of strategic management. The paper comprises three parts. The first part presents a discussion on the methodology of...

Anaerobic digester (AD) technology is a form of renewable energy with significant upside potential and little public resistance. However, previous studies have generally found ADs to be a poor investment for private firms without public assistance. The mixed results on the financial feasibility...