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Sciences characterise some special quality. Each science saves expensed action, that is to say time and energy. Moreover, professionals are responsible for their action and they can be suing if their work fails. Bridge or plain constructors are responsible for their work, as well medical doctors, and other similar professions. It is also met among some economic disciplines. Who is able to measure...
The paper discusses the following: the preliminary notes, the analysis of preferences as a universal concept of aggregate assessment, the ranking method, the score method, the quotient standardisation method. The preliminary notes give an interpretation of aggregate assessment. It consists in general assessment of the value of an object by combining individual assessment criteria into one entirety...
The key issue which decides about survival and success in the global market, under the conditions of the economy based on knowledge, is the capacity of the company to system-based creating and implementing innovation. In the business practice, innovations are a significant factor to support execution of the development strategy of companies, but also of the whole economy, by enabling renewal of industrial...
This work presents an original and previously unpublished analysis of database use in the process of sustainable development planning. Planning of sustainable development is conditioned by external and internal factors. The basis for such planning is the spatial research, which can distinguish groups of similar units and valuate their stage of development. This work shows several suggestions for database...
Abundant and extensive literature on training and employee development contains, apart from description of training methods, more and more information about evaluation of effectiveness of this process. Cooperative learning involves deepened reflection of a learner and discussion with other participants of the course. Knowledge is created during the learning process and its aim is to comprehensively...
This paper presents the role of territorial marketing in development of rural communes in the context of competitiveness of the region. Under the present conditions, increasing significance is gained by the conditionings of the development of particular regions, which should constitute the basis of the directions of development of given provinces. For this reason, this study presents the idea of factors...
The paper presents the activities undertaken by the Małopolska School of Economics in Tarnów (MSET) in order to develop distance learning in students’ education. Diversity of distance teaching forms has been outlined. The author has analysed advantages and shortcomings of distance teaching which may have major bearing on the future of e-learning in higher-level teaching. The possibility of adjusting...
Social statistics has been interested for many years in such categories as: standard of living and quality of life. These two categories should be regarded separately, even though in common language they are often synonymous. For this reason, the initial part of this paper provides clarification for these terms along with comments related to terminology and methods used in the research. The paper...
The paper presents the essence, structure and significance of management contracts in the process of company supervision and management. The basic premises for introducing management contracts and supervisor contracts resulting mostly from the growth of the company have also been characterised. In particular, the first part of the paper provides the definitions of corporate governance and ownership...
Along with development of the information society and spreading of computer technology, more and more areas of life of individuals are related to the access to IT services. Execution of daily needs of a modern citizen requires ever increasing use of advanced technical means, such as rich web applications, mobile devices, multimedia services, etc. Many of these activities go along with the need of...
The author defines the terms of innovation, innovativeness and innovative attitudes in the paper. The text is based on three basic theses. First, due to the fact that the capacity to create innovation is an issue gaining more and more importance and it is becoming a function in the process of company management. Innovative attitude is a source of innovation, however, knowledge subjected to the proper...
The consumer is in the centre of interest in the market economy. Success of the company producing and selling products depends on his/ her market decisions. Knowledge of consumer's behaviour patterns and factors which shape him/ her constitutes the basis for formulating the company's marketing strategy. The paper addresses significance of having information about consumer's behaviour patterns for...
The paper presents selected aspects of efficiency of the owner’s supervision institution and its specific nature in public sector enterprises against the background of the new institutional economy. In-depth presentation includes the meaning of the "institution" term, its structure and types, with a special attention paid to supervision institutions. The problem has also been discussed of...
Building image of a company accepted by the environment is a long and expensive process which requires time and consistence as well as work of many persons, but comparison of expenditures and benefits justifies undertaking such actions. The actual image of the corporation produced in the consciousness of the recipients highly deviates from the desired, perfect characteristics of corporate identity...
One of the key factors of agricultural production is the more efficient use of biomass, which significantly contributes to improving the economic and social situation in economically disadvantaged regions including Eastern Slovakia. The potential of biomass, which in Slovakia is unused, represents more than 163 PJ of energy. In addition to the power potential that the biomass hides in itself, there...
The paper discusses problems of organisation and regulation of auditing in the world, and solutions to the questions of organisation and regulation of audit activities in Ukraine. In addition, it deals with current problems in functioning of external audit.
The origin of the studies on human capital as one of the most important economic resources is presented in the first part of the paper. Then, the concept of human capital is discussed which explores the general model of capital by Mieczysław Dobija. In the light of this concept, human capital is the capital embodied in human resources. The rules for measuring have been also given which allow isolation...
The region with resources located in it and production factors may stimulate innovativeness and competitiveness in companies and at the same time may enhance competitiveness of local economy by creating surroundings which is more attractive for investors. Each region features different material and financial resources, labour resources, etc., which create conditions that affect development processes...
One of the common problems encountered frequently in logistic issues is PDPTW (pickup and delivery problem with time windows) where a limited transport base is to be used to expedite goods in an efficient way from point A to point B. Every organisation, both business and non-profit is, for obvious reasons, unable to grasp the whole logistic process without the aid of automation, so it has to be equipped...
Physical activity of women is an important element of a healthy lifestyle, therefore it was decided to diagnose this problem in the group of women living in Tarnów, which is an average size city in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship (Małopolska Province). The study was aimed at determining motivation and the social and demographic profile of women participating in one of more interesting forms of physical...
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