This paper aims to highlight the link between competitive business higher education and action learning as an appropriate method for improving the educational process. A really competitive university should focus on both information and capabilities and should permanently adapt to its students...

Negotiation is one of the most valuable processes in nowadays life, when there is a high diversity of human and business relationships.

The aim of this article is to enrich the vision regarding the connection between entrepreneurship and economic growth, focusing upon an economy in transition to a market economy. The authors of the present paper have developed an empirical model – based on a constant preoccupation to observe...

The world nowadays is different, through a series of essential steps, from the one we had been familiar with for a long time. The crisis has revealed not only the flaws within the dominant economic model, but also the flaws in our society. The workforce needs a change in the leaders’...

A scientific approach to management was initiated for the first time in America in the late 19th century. Scientific management arose mainly from the need to increase efficiency in America, but other key factors were the spread of big businesses and the expanding application of science in...

Paradoxically, in this era of microprocessors, of top technologies, of equipments “independent” of man’s skills and attention, the human resource regains the hegemony among the economic variables of the organization. Human resources traditionally added value to organizations because of...

The “overview” culture of the nation we live in has an overwhelming influence. A strong entrepreneurial culture is the foundation of a dynamic economy. It reflects the measure in which a certain country’s society supports the entrepreneurs’ ideas and initiatives and the way in which it...

The article analyses the role knowledge plays in the internationalization process of small and medium enterprises. Small and medium enterprises are considered from a knowledge-based view, an extension of the resource-based view of the firm, with knowledge as the most strategically significant...

The transition to lean production is difficult. Creating and sustaining an organizational culture where learning and continuous improvement are a priority is a challenge. Assa Abloy is a multinational organization that focuses on quality and employee empowerment. In the last few years Assa Abloy...