Polish Abstract: Celem pracy jest przedstawienie ogólnych kierunków zmian kultury konsumenckiej z uwzględnieniem jej wybranych związków z kapitałem ludzkim. W pracy przybliżono istotę kapitału ludzkiego w powiązaniu z kulturą konsumencką i konsumpcją, wybrane tendencje zmian kultury...

In the first part of article the theory of product lifecycle were presented. Then the main features of e-commerce which have the influence on lengthening the product lifecycle were analysed. In the next part of article the results of undertaken research about relationship between the age of...

The newest findings in analysis of bilateral monopoly (BM) of lignite opencast mine & power plant have been discussed. The determinism of optimal solution not only in quantity of lignite (the size and shape of the ultimate pit) but also in its price has been depicted. It has been proposed to...

The application of Nash bargaining solution to profit division in negotiation between opencast lignite mine and power plant has been discussed. Different proposals of status quo point usage and ways of its determination for profit sharing both in strategic and tactical/operational negotiation...

Lignite price negotiation between opencast mine and power plant as a two-stage, two-person, cooperative, non-zero sum game. Based on the simple model of the lignite deposit the methodology of finding the optimal solution for bilateral monopoly (BM) of lignite mine and power plant is shown taking...

So far, the existing literature on the hold-up problem with renegotiation has imposed assumptions such that the post-renegotiation payoffs are absolutely continuous functions. Since payoffs may fail to be differentiable at the investment profile to be sustained, first order conditions for...

This paper further develops the standard modelling of information exchange between firms in the presence of demand uncertainty which applies to firms in new industries and insecure regions or markets. We replace the normal distribution of the random variables, commonly used because of its...

Polish Abstract: Celem artykułu jest weryfikacja możliwości redukcji negatywnego wpływu asymetrii informacji na rynek ubezpieczeń komunikacyjnych przez wdrożenie produktów typu Usage‑Based Insurance. Autor dokonuje analizy ekonomicznej, uzyskując przewidywania modeli rynku przy...

The paper presents empirical results on the discounting of delayed payoffs which show that: (1) the best approximation of the discounting process is a hyperbolic function, (2) (both animals and humans) can reverse their preferences in time. The article presents theoretical conditions on the...

The paper presents circumstances of applying more and more often different forms of flexible employment. One of such forms is a staff self-employment. The essence and aims of the staff selfemployment have been defined, pointing out its advantages and disadvantages. Nowadays a reduction of the...