Distinguimos entre educación para la calidad y entrenamiento para la calidad. A través de la educación, aprendemos la ‘filosofía’ de la calidad; a través del entrenamiento, aprendemos sus herramientas. Así, el aprendizaje es un concepto central de este artículo. Pero no es el único....

Currently we have to realize a major change in the technological basis of manufacturing or even all production processes: The diffusion of new information and communication technologies, especially Internet Technologies, on the shop floor. Applications of Internet Technologies may be directly...

The study proves the direct connection between the processes of internationalization of R&D activity and the organizational conceptions for their carrying out. Revealed are the scales and outlined are the main tendencies of the processes of internationalization of this specific firm activity....

As it is commonly known, a great amount of the capital is concentrated into the banks and the bank system at a whole. That supposes a demand on both an adequate bank activities risk management on one hand and complete bank regulations estimating and controlling the risk in case of ensuring...

The tendencies to internationalization and globalization of the business are based on the growing interrelation of the business units. These multidimensional processes have many faces. One of them is establishing of the new forms of corporate cooperation, based on the modern communication...

Knowledge management represents one of the greatest challenges in the functioning of an organization. The approach implementation for information and knowledge management is particularly important for organizations where a high quantity of information is necessary for activities progress, also...

L’objet de cette communication est de montrer en quoi le regard croisé d’une analyse quantitative et qualitative a un intérêt profond pour analyser et comprendre les effets sur la santé et la satisfaction au travail des pratiques de travail caractéristiques du lean production. Nous...

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The investigation of drivers of team performance has become the main issue of numerous publications in the last decades. Researchers of different disciplines in business administration (especially organization theory, marketing research, and human resources management) and psychology have been...

This paper presents an explicit model of the entrepreneur’s role in organizing the work undertaken by employees. The model assumes that agents vary in their ability to carry out this task, and so in one sense the model is a special case of Lucas’ [Bell Journal of Economics, 9, pp. 508-523,...