This study focused on the impact of crude oil, crude palm oil spot and futures of prices on African equity markets. It draws on daily data from January 2000 till July 2013, obtained from Bloomberg. The study employed Vector Error Correction (VEC). Findings from the econometric analysis show that...

The paper analyses the phenomenon of coopetition in the conditions of a large cluster of companies from the furniture industry in the vicinity of Kñepno. It covers a two-stage analysis. The first stage defines the general characteristics of the coopetition potential for the cluster on the basis...

Franchising is a commercial form which enables firms to successfully penetrate the market and expand in an environment of growing global competitiveness. This form of business is present in many different activities and sectors, having its own characteristics and structures and significant...

The study presents literature survey on enterprise logistic system adaptive management place and structure in the general enterprise management system. The theoretical basics of logistic system functioning, levels of its management and its effectiveness had been investigated. The role of...

Motivated by the growing discussion on the resemblance of multilevel marketing schemes to pyramid scams, we compare the two phenomena based on their underlying compensation structures. We show that a company can design a pyramid scam to exploit a network of agents with coarse beliefs and that...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has radically changed companies' vision of business development, based on its widespread assimilation in key organisational processes. However, in organisational practice, the implementation of AI has generated major challenges, such as those related to the high need...

The current article explores interesting, significant and recently identified nuances in disclosing the professed firm culture in the virtual realm. Its emphasis is set on two exotic instruments – organizational mantra and memorandum that senior managers in business organizations may use to...

Aim: Over the last twenty years there have been numerous studies showing significant relationships between personality dimensions and predisposition to doing a job of a specific character. The aim of this research is to examine the relationships between personality, job characteristics and...

Unternehmen können ihren Erfolg steigern, wenn sie ihre eigenen Daten bewirtschaften. Sie können dadurch unter anderem ihre Unternehmensprozesse datenbasiert analysieren und verbessern. Auch kann es für Unternehmen vorteilhaft sein, wenn sie mit anderen Unternehmen gemeinsam Daten...