This contribution examines the major features of UAE's economy, its factors of strengths, underlying also its critical aspects. Furthermore, the work focuses on the crucial factors that characterize a diversified knowledge economy and indicates the policies that the economy of the United Arab...

For large firms, SMEs are the world from which they have come and where their future competition will arise. For individuals, SMEs are often a first job, the first step in their careers. They are also a first step towards the world of entrepreneurs. For the whole economy, SMEs are launchers of...

Insolvency belongs to the basic indicators representing financial situation of practically all enterprises. In spite of the fact that promising development of several macroeconomic indicators suggests that economy as a whole have overcome the economic crisis and since 2010 its recovery clearly...

The aim of the paper is to draw up a model of consensus formation on problem solving in a group in relation to the decision-making process. The model will help to enhance our understanding of group behaviour. First, the main elements and relations of the system are identified and described and a...

The paper focuses on analysis of monetary policy transmission mechanism in V4 countries and EMU12. The aim of analysis is to verify the reaction of endogenous variables in case of monetary policy shocks with an emphasis on transmission through interest rate channel and its impact on inflation,...

As a genuine social phenomenon sport draws benefits from the system of contests and events that entails important economic sectors in the development of its material basis as well as in the increase of its scientific basis by the involvement of the research institutions in the sports issues. The...

This study focuses on examining the level of technical efficiency and the efficiency changes in SMEs in Thailand from 2008 to 2010 using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. The sample consists of 1,411 SMEs with completed data are obtained from the Ministry of Commerce's database. The...

Leading an organization in a crisis time is a risky and extremely requiring action, not only for the leaders, but also for the employees. The leader needs an independent clarity and self-confidence that can be insured only by the risk management. This work has as object the creation of a risk...

As a controversial topic in developed and developing countries, migration has been a dynamic field explained on the basis of cause and effect by economists. Migration is the movement of people from one settlement to another. In all countries, migration occurs as the result of economic, social,...

Econometric models are used to analyze the development for the period for which the data are available (ex post analysis), and also for predicting the future values of endogenous variables (ex ante analysis). Econometric modeling is one of the most common ways of macroeconomic forecasting. This...