Productivity has survived for more than one century due to the recognition of its impacts on long-term business competitiveness. From a simple definition of output divided by input established in the late 1800s, productivity has continuously gathered a lot of interests from researchers and...

The demand of energy in Thailand has significantly increased for the past 10 years. Volunteer company as one of the subsidiary company of Thailand National Oil and Gas Company, has responsible to respond to serve country’s energy demand in order to minimize import expense. Upstream Business...

The importance of project management has been increasing in the face of the changing environment, new challenges, globalization and specialization in global economy. This means that the achievement of the final objective of a project on schedule and on budget becomes a key challenge for many...

The paper is based on the study sponsored by the Office of the Public Sector Development Commission (OPDC). The study aims to describe how to bring about public participation within the context of a networked government- working together with individuals, local communities, civic groups and...

This study examines the mediating role of multidimensional organizational commitment concept in determining the relationship between Big Five personality traits and job performance. A conceptual framework has been developed with multidimensional organizational commitment as a mediating variable...

In no other country does the intermediary play such an important role as in Germany. The main factors of the intermediary distribution are the bound agents, agents with permission and brokers. For a long time ago the intermediary distribution was the only distribution channel for insurance...

The article presents in a case study ideas and methodology of the preparation of knowledge engineers at the university that reflects years of experience in knowledge-based systems development. The mission of the knowledge engineers and the need of their preparation in the information and...

Changing institutional regulations and increased competitiveness in academia impose strong pressure on scholars specialized in business to improve research productivity by publishing in international impact factor journals. Our knowledge about factors that leverage success of business scholars...

Cost of equity calculation is a complex problem in corporate finance management. In practice such calculation is most often based on CAPM (Capital Asset Pricing Model), however, world literature and experience of developed countries indicate a possibility to use many derivatives of this method...

The Internet is a marvellous tool for mediated relationships an intense instrument for developing and maintaining contacts. The power of Internet in social relation evolution is studied as a phenomenon for social change, social participation accreditation and multiple identity. Using this new...