The aim of the contribution is to focus on the innovation of Italian medium and medium -large multinationals who represent the "fourth capitalism" and also to evaluate their performance. The enterprises of "fourth capitalism" are the set of medium and medium-large enterprises who seem to be...

Organizations are facing more frequent and larger changes in our current economic climate. A changing marketplace, empowered workforce and technological advancements have all created an environment where change is becoming the only constant or 'business as usual'. In this environment, all the...

This article asks about the factors of success and the implications of the quality management according to the ISO 9000 standard on the organisational performance. It comes out from our econometric study based on the data gathered from a sample of Tunisian firms certified or in the course of...

The evaluation of the performances in a higher education institution is found to have an important impact on teaching, on the social activity and on the organizational climate within the institution with direct repercussions on growth of the efficiency on the overall and of the quality of the...

Economic theory provides various explanations for vertical integration but transaction costs seem to be a major determinant of backward, forward and lateral integration. The paper studies integration trends in the newly emerging Bulgarian pharmaceutical sector, seeking transaction cost...

Indian economy is on a growth trajectory and one after another study is projecting India among leading economies of future. The role and significance of India in the global economy is continuously increasing. Mergers and acquisitions are on rise in India. This paper studies the Mergers and...

Current global economic crisis has had sweeping effect on industries, societies and nations. It is evident that economic downturn will mostly affect more socially vulnerable subjects and inequality in society will probably increase. Sustainable development deals with the issues of inequality: it...

Recently there has been an increase on interest in the analysis of job satisfaction variables. The job satisfaction is correlated with certain types of employee behaviour such as: productivity, quits and absenteeism. In this paper four different measures of job satisfaction are related to two...

The present paper studies and compares different vertical integration structures on consumers and total surplus with licensing by mean of a fixed fee in two successive homogeneous-good Cournot duopolies where one of the firms in each market has a different cost-reducing innovation. The key...

The objective of this paper is twofold. First, we conceptualize the perceived value of intellectual capital disclosure into four components: human capital, relational capital, organizational capital and competitive capital. Second, we develop a scale to measure the value of the intellectual...