Innovation has long been considered an important factor for creating and maintaining the competitiveness of nations and firms. In this paper we examine whether innovation performed by small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) from Lublin Voivodeship enhances their exporting potential. This study...

The aim of this paper is to describe and to reflect on the experience of the authors in setting up a new model of learning environment in management education in a University in Brazil, which was initially called Management Practice Laboratory (MPL). The MPL environment was conceived as a...

The challenge for companies is to create a useful employee performance appraisal regarding the successful management of employees. Motivated and engaged employees are after all a company’s most valuable asset. In recognition of this, the paper deals with the employee appraisal method based on...

This presentation discusses the pros and cons of international collaboration between the higher education institutions in Serbia and in the United States. A factual case will be presented where collaboration is underway between the two higher education institutions. Conclusions and...

High Road to Innovation approaches in general and High Performance Work Systems (HPWSs) in particular are considered to have great potential to generate competitive advantage in terms of productivity and innovativeness. High Performance Work Practices (HPWPs) entail a transformation to a...

Earnings management can be seen as a potential agency cost since managers manipulate earning to mislead shareholders and fulfill their own interests. This paper shows how the relationship between corporate governance and earnings management. A case study was undertaken 296 companies listed on...

Job satisfaction is an attitude toward the job and the work context that has been in the centre of attention of theoreticians, researchers and practitioners for many decades. Past researches confirm that job satisfaction is related to employee’s job performance, organisational commitment,...

The article presents exogenous and endogenous instances of CSR in the mining industry in the Polish mines on the basis of results of 1170 surveys (Research sponsored by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Project: 4659/B/T02/2010/3, The role of managers in the process of...

The image of a woman in the present Slovene society is still linked to prejudice to set limits and makes her feel bad. Especially, because the environment's opinion contains some certain activities how a woman is incapable of doing or is not able to do them good enough. One of the areas with...

We propose a new tool for strategic planning and management, which significantly extends clarity and expressiveness of traditionally used analytic and visualization techniques. Innovativeness of our solution insists in the projection of dynamic responses of a particular enterprise management...