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The topic of inbound logistics costs has recently become very actual. Inbound logistics involves a relationship with suppliers and also includes all the activities required for income, physical control and warehouse of inputs. Inbound logistics has become an interdisciplinary science that deals with optimal coordination, alignment, interconnection and optimization of the flow of raw materials, materials, semi-finished products, products and services, but it must not forget the flow of information and finance. The ...

The article is focused on the issue of evolution of I. Capodistria`s role in Russian Office. The author uses a wide list of published and archival documents and analyzes the reasons Capodistria was invited to the Russian Office, the factors affecting his career growth and his role in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The author applies the method of analogy based on comparing Capodistria`s career and his russian contemporaries. The results of the study revealed that Capodistria was invited to the Russian Diplomatic...

Integration interaction, various forms of integration and its participants are of great interest to Russian and foreign economists, researchers of the sectoral, regional, national and world economy. Integration of industrial enterprises is largely determined by economic and social institutions, adaptation to changes is a key condition for the viability, stability and efficiency of the functioning and development of integration structures in industry. The development of mechanisms for the functioning of industrial ...

The subject of the paper is the training of sales managers. Sales managers represent an important category of employees in terms of meeting company’s goals and achieving the required performance. The paper presents the results of the research carried out on a sample of Slovak companies. The aim of the research was to find out the current situation in the use of the selected methods of sales managers training in Slovak companies and to test statistically significant differences in the use of these methods in terms ...

The article considers the issues of import substitution in the agricultural sector of the Russian economy. The import substitution has a positive effect on the economy of the state, promotes the economic independence from other countries in the world arena and is profitable for the state. To prevent a shortage of certain products on Russian market it is necessary to develop and implement a proper import substitution policy. The import substitution in agricultural sector of Russia will also contribute to the constr...

This study aims to reveal the findings about the validity and reliability of the psychological empowerment scale (PES) developed by [1]. Research data has been collected by applying survey to the health institution professionals. Of the total 12 items in the scale, 3 were excluded from the analysis due to their low factor loadings. Factor analysis results of the remaining 9 items were collected under 2 dimensions. In the confirmatory factor analysis, model test values (p <.05); x2 (88.117), x2 / df (3.421), confir...

The article proposes a methodological approach to forecasting the staffing needs of the innovative economy which makes a provision for creating strategic long-term and mid-term forecasts and their annual adjustment at the operating level. The decomposition by the types of forecasts for such characteristics as level of regulation, purpose, key definitions, methods and approaches, factors, types of information, tools for providing staffing needs at each level has been carried out; the main results are presented. Mod...

In economy based on knowledge, a combination of employees’ skills and experience as well as their engagement in the process of acquiring competences, is not only a factor that shapes the organizational culture but the one which allows for confirming the effectiveness of entrusted tasks’ completion and group work management. Human resources management is an activity which increases both the quality and efficiency of work. It enables increasing the effectiveness of an enterprise and, in consequence, gaining competit...

This paper focuses on answering question: What are the ideal and most important skills and personality traits that project managers need to have. The aim of the paper is to describe the significance of project manager competencies needed in current changing environment. Project manager is key to the success of each project. For this reason, staffing projects with managers who have the right competences is crucial to achieve project goal. The success of project managers is mainly related to abilities and skills tha...

The aim of the paper is to study the impact of e-commerce on the economic growth measured by GDP growth in Bulgaria. A brief summary of the importance of electronic commerce for the development of the economy is prepared. The research is based on the idea that e-commerce stimulates consumption and therefore economic growth. With the help of the statistical analysis of time-series, the change and the relationship between the indicators: capacity of the telecommunication network on the Internet retail sales, as well...

The process of formation of the “shared values” concept as a result of the evolution of the corporate social responsibility concept has been considered in the article. A number of factors underlying the concept of creating shared values are specified. The method of correlation analysis allows us to put forward and prove the hypothesis on the important role of “trust” factor. The procedure and the results of studies of shared values based on trust relationship in one of the companies that is situated in Tomsk city ...

Motivation has been the subject of numerous books on human resources management. However, it is not frequently discussed in the energy sector, and particularly not in the mining industry. The ongoing restructuring processes in the Polish mining industry make it impossible to identify a consistent motivational scheme. The existing programmes, due to the ever-changing operational conditions of mining companies, are maladjusted to employees’ expectations. This article attempts to evaluate the expectations of miners t...

The merger processes in relation to universities have different objectives than processes characteristic of business sectors. One of the key objectives of the university is usually to increase the scientific or didactic effectiveness as a result of the merger. This is connected with the mechanism of "critical mass" and the progressive globalization of the science and higher education sectors. The larger scale of research and didactics resulting from the potential combination should provide better scientific result...

The paper discusses with the issue of the growth of construction activities in the housing construction market and the growth of property prices on the example of the City of Brno following the abolition of regulated rent for rental housing in the Czech Republic. In the Czech Republic, real estate prices have increased several time over the past 25 years, and due to the abolition of state rent regulation, this has led to a decrease in market rents, yet hundreds of thousands of households that have regulated rent p...

The purpose of this article is to outline a generic framework for dealing with acts and facts of corruption within the structures with control responsibilities. We propose, integrating past findings and combining existing approaches, to present a two-way analytical view of the phenomenon of corruption manifested in such structures. Thus, our research has led us to a conceptual model that also aims to integrate empirical knowledge on the vulnerability to corruption of investigating agents and which is able to outli...

In the modern economy, competitiveness is put forward as one of the conditions of economic recovery. In order a sector to be competitive and viable in the long term, and to be successful in its activity, the sector has to ensure competitive production. Production competitiveness is a significant factor determining the sector's development potential. The goal of the research is to evaluate the production competitiveness of Latvian fisheries sector. On the grounds of the author's offered evaluation methodology and g...

The management of commercial companies pays attention to the financial side of the company, but an increase can be observed in the number of organisations which highlight the key values of the organisation, employee satisfaction, values, as there is a link between the organisational culture and the competitiveness of the company. One of the phenomena of the culture of an organisation is that such culture cannot be directly borrowed from other organisations or replicated because it is built up by certain groups of ...

The theme of the paper is the topic of strategic management and the strategic managerial tools used by the managers of the small and medium-sized enterprises of the construction sector. The approach to the topic is conducted through the own international questionnaire survey of managers from Czech Republic and Austria. Thus, we were able to collect the data about the managerial evaluation of several indicators of strategic management in abovementioned enterprises. While the survey was conducted in the time of ongo...

In an entrepreneurial university, not only the system, structure and strategy are of paramount importance, but also the entrepreneurial culture, which is a serious change in the culture that has existed so far at the university [1], [8]. In the non-economic fields of social activity, the expansion of economics and management takes place - not only in the area of higher education. Universities make use of economic logic, solutions developed in the field of management and translate the concepts of education drawn fr...

Currently, information about the safety and quality of consumer goods attracts a lot of attention, but there is a question about consumer confidence in the sources of information, their independence, competence and objectivity. Comparative testing of goods and services is one of the most effective mechanisms for informing consumers about the quality of goods developed in the international and European community. Comparative testing is an independent evaluation of similar goods, but different brands and manufacture...

The article dwells upon the peculiarities of economic cooperation of the USSR and the allies during the World War II. After the war had begun, the main task of the Soviet diplomacy was the fastest consolidation of all countries fighting against fascism. One of the priority directions of cooperation was the fastest receiving from the allies of military and economic aid that was supposed to be a significant contribution to the future Victory. The basis of the cooperation between the USSR, Great Britain and the Unite...

The article is devoted to the analysis of methods of innovative development evaluation in social and economic systems. The comparative analysis of methods of innovative development evaluation is carried out. The study identified a number of problems in the metrology of innovative development ratings. The analysis revealed a set of identical indicators characterizing this process at the macro, meso and micro levels. Most of these indicators are aimed at the innovative component evaluation in developed countries. Bu...

Paper's aim is to shed a light on theoretical and practical aspects of taken measures by the Russian government on agriculture business optimization in Southern Russia. Moreover, the paper develops methodology as recommendation for the small agriculture business in Russia based on economy theories, previous studies in the area of agriculture business development. This study analyses federal and regional governmental initiatives and programs addressing optimization of small agriculture business in the period of eco...

The purpose of this paper is to study the change in the competitive structure of electronic retailing (e-retailing) compared to traditional trade and to reveal the processes of their mutual influence. The development of two main indicators for assessing the intensity of competition - market growth and concentration is investigated, based on which is compared the dynamics of the competitive structure of e-commerce retail with that of traditional trade. For the purpose of the analysis data from the National Statisti...

The aim of the paper is to study the role of the transport communications of the Southern Russia, especially the railroads, in the initial period of the Great Patriotic war (1941-1942). For Russia, throughout its history, transport and related logistical problems were of significant and sometimes paramount importance. This postulate is characteristic of the period of the Great Patriotic War. The Nazis, who decided in June 1941 to attack the Soviet Union, soon began to face the challenge of supplying their army. Th...

The planners of coastal defenses, starting from the first years of the Unification of Italy, began to concentrate their interest in organizing a major fortification system in some of the main coastal cities characterized by the presence of ports. When around 1910 it was felt that a breaking of relations with Austria would inevitably lead to conflict, the attention was moved to the north eastern border, resulting in an increased activity in assuring the fortification of this border area. The technological innovatio...

An important aspect of the company's operation is its focus on continuous improvement. Importantly, it is not enough to just be aware of the importance of this fact. It is first of all necessary to know what areas of the company's operations should be improved, to what extent changes should be made, which of the available improvement methods will be appropriate and what are the expected benefits from introducing improvement measures. Enterprises implementing improvement actions in various areas of their activity a...

ERP is the acronym of Enterprise Resource Planning, essentially an integrated management of the fundamental processes of a company, and comprises a multitude of factors, such as: hardware, software, personnel, functions, processes, etc. In the last decades, the term ERP has been identified with ERP integrated software systems that enable the integration of all processes and information from a company into a one software platform. The ERP software represents the pillar of any modern company, because its own set of ...

Museums are essential memorial institutions that keep information about the lives of our At the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, human resources are already a very important part of the factors of production. Apart from land, labor and financial capital, human resources are sum of the unique capabilities of individuals, which can be both inherited and acquired, can be expanded by appropriate investment and lead to the production of goods, both public and private. In today's modern theory, people are less seen ...

The modern world has been a witness of the surge in migration processes leading to the various problems. Therefore "migration tension" and its causes became the key issue in the contemporary Russian and European historiography. The article deals with stereotypes of mutual perception that existed between native inhabitants and evacuated people during the Soviet-German conflict of 1941-1945. Stereotypes in this sense are fixed images of local people used as clichés and complicating people's adaptation in the regions...

The principles of efficiency evaluation of executive bodies’ activity in economic development of a subject in the RF (Russian Federation) are based on integration and synergy of the adopted in the RF principles of strategic planning in the state industrial policy as well as on the principles of efficiency evaluation in specific components of public administration. The paper explores the limitations in employing state regulation tools to solve economic development problems; substantiates the need to create the regi...

In times of tough competition, companies spend more and more time on the positioning of their image in the labour market. One needs to be unique and innovative. A company needs to be able to stand out in the competitive labour market. The situation is, of course, easier if the company is a leader in its sector, but employees are also needed in other companies who have not yet become leaders. The web-based personnel recruitment company is an international company which offers a wide range of opportunities in web-ba...

The article presents the results of the study of prospects and problems of introducing new information and communication technologies into the practice of assessing the quality of medical services in Russia under conditions of the digital economy development. The strategic goals of ensuring the quality of life, set the task for medical organizations to improve the quality of medical services on the basis of objective and reliable data. The current methods of assessment, even with the use of the Internet, cannot en...

The relevance of the study is confirmed by the fact that the development of the domestic metallurgical industry depends on the development trends of the world metallurgy. Iron ore is the main raw material for the production of ferrous metals. Geopolitical processespropose new demands to forms and methods of strategic management in metallurgical industry. The aim of this study is analysis and dynamic development assessment of ferrous metals in different countries of over the world. To achieve this goal the followin...

One of the key factors of innovative development is the availability of a favorable innovation environment that ensures the transformation of ideas and developments into market products, the introduction of these products into the most important branches of the economy and the social sphere, and also allows preserving a unique set of scientific and engineering schools. However, the key challenge for effective innovation is the lack of an enabling environment and an innovative climate that stimulates the creation o...

Due to their increasing incidence and intensity, weather anomalies are fast becoming one of the main challenges currently faced by organisations worldwide. Their negative consequences can be reduced, however, by developing organisational resilience that provides the capacity to survive the period of disruption and quickly restore organisational structures. The article discusses the mechanisms of organisational resilience triggered by extreme weather phenomena. Said mechanisms constitute a particular form of organi...

In works on the project management theory and project activity standards, questions of project cost efficiency diagnostics are not included in project works contents and regulations, standing down to providing specific project characteristics. Meanwhile project success and deviations emerging thereat will directly impact on its efficiency level. We propose to carry out assessment of project cost efficiency (for example, their net present value, NPV) in interrelation with the basic project characteristics – the cos...

The aim of this article is to discuss the findings of the research carried out in the years 2012 – 2014 identifying models and conditions of succession processes in Polish family enterprises. The research consisted of quantitative and qualitative part. The studies show that in the majority of firms, although the generational change has not yet taken place (the percentage of firms in the second and next generations is exceptionally low), there is no striving for actions that would solve the problem of maintaining b...

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs) wanting to meet the demand of extremely competitive environment, more and more often appreciate the importance of knowledge management (KM), which fosters their innovation and development. Yet, due to their character (resulting, among others, from limited human, financial and material resources and a lack of time for creativity development) they require different tools and practical recommendations than large enterprises in terms of knowledge management. Quite often, knowl...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an insight into and give an overview of the concept of ‘freelancer’ and other closely related concepts; they sometimes appear interchangeably with it (e.g. independent professional) but might have a different meaning for an organization or can be different in legal terms. The concept has been studied from both the linguistic and organizational point of view, with the focus placed on its comparable usage in the Croatian and English. By analyzing available scientific literatur...

The pharmaceutical sector is one of the most regulated sectors in the world. In spite of various legislative constraints, companies are spending millions for drug promotions in the market in the fight for consumers, their attention and loyalty. Nowadays the competition between companies is very high especially when several analogous pharmaceutical products with the same effect on human health can exist simultaneously in the market. Therefore, it becomes important for companies to understand consumer behavior in th...

Employee loyalty is one of the most important factors in the organization. The management of many organizations develops their training programs, benefit packages, performance appraisal and work system based on their company policies. The study included 169 customer service consultants with seniority from 3 months to 10 years and over who are working in one of the bank branch in Latvia. Respondents filled questionnaire: J. Meyer, N. Allen and A. Smith's "Survey of loyalty to the profession". The aim of research is...

The article’s objective is to present the results of empirical research conducted with the aim to study a chosen industry through the lens of its business models. The research approach is based on the theoretical construct of sustainable value creation, business models, and multiple customer value. These theoretical concepts were combined with various approaches to business model research by other authors to answer the stated research questions. In connection to the theoretical construct of sustainable customer va...

Technologies are changing rapidly. Dynamics of transformations of world economy obliges companies to react to such changes. In our opinion, new innovative economy is an embodiment of J. Schumpeter's ideas about creative destruction. Besides, it is obvious that opportunities of information technologies are not limited yet: forming new potentials for more effective functioning of the markets will continue. But there are many problems in innovations development in well-established companies. In our opinion, in Russia...

The author considers the theme of enterprises’ mergers in high-tech industries and studies the trends at the M&A market in Russia and in the world. The strengths and drawbacks of integration strategy compared with organization growth strategy have been analyzed in the article. One of the ways for rapid growth enterprises is mergers and acquisitions. This strategy allows enterprises to collect and development the portfolio of “economic-geographical assets” which is a key origin of competitive strength in a global e...

The current European and international concerns on economic growth are embracing the stimulation of innovation and research, by generating new knowledge to ensure the competitiveness of organizations regardless of type, size, and operating industry. The paper addressed the issue of innovation for sustainable economic growth and investigated main factors responsible for innovation potential within Romanian business sector. The research methodology envisaged statically analysis of data by highlighting the results of...

The knowledge economy requires that the process of building of competitive economy involves scientific achievements as a source of new knowledge. At the same time effective management of the innovation processes taking place within European regions is fundamental for European economy to establish its good position in the world. Regional innovation strategies are actually responsible for directing innovation processes. As some time has gone by and first experiences with regard to the functioning of those tools beco...

This research aims at exploring the perceptions of the social media users about health services offered by university hospitals (foundation university) in Istanbul. The research survey has been constructed by using scales (internet, social media, servqual, employer brand) in the literature. A questionnaire was applied to 276 outpatients at this hospital. The survey responses collected in the study were analyzed and interpreted using SPSS for Windows 22.00 and AMOS 22.0 program. Confirmatory factor analyzes of the ...

Business operations in today's highly dynamic and changing environment require quick response and adaptation to new business conditions. In this context, the terms "outsourcing" and "freelancing" are emerging; due to their characteristics and new approach in the business environment, they enable different concepts of organizing and creating new business models. This paper puts in focus the problem of freelance status in the labor market competition for a business engagement. It has the task of providing a scientif...

The aim of the article is to present the methods supporting the internationalization of the small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in the Czech Republic. The SME sector in this country is identified, and the methods used in this country to support internationalization are presented. The article assumes that supporting small and medium-sized enterprises is crucial for the success of the internationalization process. Currently, the foundations of the modern economy are companies from the sector of small and medium...