Our paper emphasizes the opportunities provided both for the academic research and companies by using a proposed model of analyzing the operational risks within business in general and shipbuilding industry in particular. The model aims to display the loss distribution from the operational risk...

The aim of the present work is to investigate innovative processes within a geographical cluster, and thus contribute to the debate on the effects of industrial clusters on innovation capacity. In particular, we would like to ascertain whether the advantages of industrial districts in promoting...

This document presents the results of the analysis of environmental conditions and how they might influence the performance of the shipbuilding industry in Colombia, Specifically, one that serves the needs river development in the context of recovery of the navigability of Magdalena River.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the long-term effects of policy measures for displaced workers. The focus is on the individuals affected by the closure of the Uddevalla Shipyard in western Sweden in 1985 and the cutbacks at the LKAB mines in northern Sweden in 1983....

The purpose of this article is to analyze the reasons for going global from the company perspective and to show how a good logistics management can help to obtain efficiency of operations by the integration of all material acquisition, movement, and storage activities. When transportation and...

Поступательное продвижение экономики в Астраханской области на пути к экономическому росту приводит к необходимости быстрого освоения методов хозяйствования,...

"Obwohl die Zahl der Betriebsstillegungen in der Bundesrepublik in den letzten Jahren erheblich zugenommen hat, sind ihre Auswirkungen auf lokale Arbeitsmärkte bislang kaum untersucht worden. Am Beispiel der Großwerft AG Weser in Bremen, durch deren Schließung Ende 1983 ca. 2.000 Arbeiter und...

"The prospects for economic development in 1999 are not bad. There is, however, an unusually large degree of uncertainty concerning the future development of the economy and the labour market. In view of this we are basing our alternative projection on a broad range of variation in the...