Our purpose is to reveal the transaction cost character of the different forms of market failure where transaction costs are defined as the costs of using the market mechanism, what it costs to organize market exchange or overcome the obstacles to an efficient market process. The paper thus...

Generalized increase of competition and, consequently, of competitiveness and globalization forces companies to find more efficient ways to develop and use information technology, to implement modern management and marketing methods, to reduce costs in order to achieve competitive advantage and...

Global warming and climate change are among the major global concerns. Demands for green management have risen from societal mandates (Marcus, 1980) and fear of shunning, loss of sales, and decline in reputation if management does not have a tangible commitment to green management (Sexton,...

The case of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has become one of the most widespread business topics among the academic community. Various issues like environmental pollution, economic crisis, corruption, poverty are of major importance these days and besides governments and politicians'...

The present contribution deals with the quantification of capital costs. The contribution is written on a theoretical basis. The costs will be particularly quantified in financing only by equity and only by debt capital and particularly in the so-called mixed financing in which weighted average...

Human resources management has been more and more outlined as a field of theoretical concerns and pragmatic undertakings, with an ever-expanding book of concepts, principles, methods and specific techniques, of apparent sophistication and scientific interest. The premise that human resources'...

The timely and continuing adaptation of companies to the rapid changes in the market is a prerequisite to survival and growth. Simultaneously, the smooth adaptation of employees to changes contributes not only to the improved running of organizations but also to their personal improvement and...

This paper is based on Osterwalder?s work for business model ontology. Business model canvas is used as a start-up attempt to improve and apply to a dynamic market, such as tech based market. Two improvements are proposed for the initial model - a new data for building blocks and new data for...

This article reveals the results of a research on the methods of control in the network of outsourcing and the associated contingencies factors. Four control configurations are presented in a matrix according to the risk level of the customer orders and closeness operated with the subcontractor....

This empirical study focuses on how professional men and women perceive and respond to investment risk. The results concluded that female advisors are more conservative than their male counterparts. Female practitioners? outweighed the loss of downside risk than the upside potential return....