A problem of today organizations is to adapt to rapid changes taking place in society, and this can not be done without giving special attention to human capital and intangible goods (knowledge, information, creativity). As the human factor plays an essential role in the economic growth...

This paper belongs to the category of quantitative marketing researches, because its objective is the systematic description and analysis of multiple features and relationships specific to marketing in tourism. I relied on quantitative descriptive research to find out the characteristics of the...

This paper examines food insecurity and consequent vulnerability, in terms of basic four-fold FAO concepts - availability, access, utilization of food and stability of these three dimensions over time - within the framework of poverty eradication, is the ex-ante (forward-looking) risk or...

We use firm-level data to study the adoption of Environmental Management Practices (EMPs) in the most polluting industrial sectors in Bulgaria, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia during the 1990 – 1998 period when these countries were in a transition away from a centrally...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the response of labor productivity to the arrival of new inventions. The benchmark measure of technological progress is given by data on patent applications in the U.S. over the period 1889-2002. The analysis shows that labor productivity may temporarily...