The current global financial and economic crisis has brought into prominence the patterns of economic modernisation of post-socialist countries in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. One of the key factors of successful modernisation and sustainability of competitiveness in these...

A new empirical model is presented that considers the productivity spillover effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) by focusing on the multi-layered structure of industrial classifications. In this model, the market presence of horizontal FDI in a host country is expressed using multiple...

In the last decade, non-technological and particularly organisational innovations have gained more and more importance and research focus. However, there is no consensus among the academic community either about the definition or about the broader theoretical and methodological foundations of...

The core aim of this paper is to evaluate to what extent were companies able to join to the global value chains (GVCs) through some selected company case studies.

Az EU 2005-ben elfogadott Lisszaboni Stratégiájának foglalkoztatási és munkaerő-piaci céljai közé tartozik a munka minőségének és a termelékenységének fejlesztése a munkahelyeken, továbbá a szociális kohézió erősítése és a munkaerőpiac bővítése. Az ilyen jellegű...

Az EU 2005-ben elfogadott Lisszaboni Stratégiájának foglalkoztatási és munkaerő-piaci céljai közé tartozik a munka minőségének és termelékenységének fejlesztése a munkahelyeken, továbbá a szociális kohézió erősítése és a munkaerőpiac bővítése. Az ilyen jellegű...

This study examines the effects of ownership transformation from the state to the private sector on firm performance in the post-privatization period using annual census-type data of Hungarian enterprises for the early 2000s. The empirical methodology designed to overcome the data limitations...

The current global financial and economic crisis has brought into prominence the patterns of economic modernisation of post-socialist countries in the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region. One of the key factors of successful modernisation and sustainability of competitiveness in these...

The evolution of the view and practice of social partnership is one basic element in the construction of the European Union. The paper gives an overview on the key actors and institutions of Labour Relations System (LRS) with special focus on the micro- small and medium sized enteprises (SME)....