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The purpose of the paper is to present ways of applying Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) as an effective tool for evaluating the efficiency of information activities and processes. Measuring the costs of information and of information activities is difficult for a number of reasons. Therefore, information economics does not offer a separate concept or methodology for this type of costing...
The paper addresses an issue of differences between Polish and international results of the research on the perception of work flexibility among women. The causes of the identified problem have been found in both terminology inconsistencies as well as the specificity of the Polish labour market including the existing legal system. Drawing conclusions has been based on findings of the international...
The paper includes four case studies on brewing companies operating in the Polish market. The businesses were selected on the basis of non-typical values of various economic efficiency measures (ROS, inventory turnover, total debt ratio) revealed in their ratio analyses. Usually, non-typical ratio values are indicative of turbulent changes taking place in a business. Stabilisation of the above measures...
Among the foundations of the currently prevailing economic model is the assumption of rationality of decisions taken by a far-sighted and calculating human being - homo oeconomicus. However, the theory built on the basis of this assumption cannot embrace such phenomena as the economic crisis after 2007. Thus, new concepts are emerging such as behavioural macroeconomics that extend the current paradigm...
The paper describes the results of the experiments concerning sequential choices of economic agents, contributing to the creation of the public good. As based on the collected data, a model which explains the agents’ decisions as a function of publicly revealed average social contribution was constructed. Previous experiments and practice have shown that the average contribution of agents falls in...
Cambodia suffered dramatically from the Khmer Rouge regime in 1975 to 1979 as well as from Vietnam’s invasion and the following civil war till 1989. Both caused enormous destruction, not only of infrastructure, educational institutions, the financial and health system, but – even more importantly – to its human capital. After 1989 Cambodia’s economic transformation started but is insufficient until...
Integrated Management Systems (IMS) are supposed to contribute to sustainable development. However, the moment a company only uses short term win-win situation to comply, the real contribution to sustainable development may be questionable. As trade-offs between sustainability aims and the company’s goals appear, companies may behave opportunistically, and externalize the elements which are difficult...
In view of the increasing relevance of renewable energy, Danish and German university partners of the European Future Renewable Energy (FURGY) project developed and conducted a qualitative and a quantitative regional foresight (“Delphi”) study which primarily provided the data for this article. Based on the main findings of this regional foresight study and additional data, we present and discuss...
This article has a theoretical character. It provides an overview of the most important publications and research outcomes regarding the relation between regional economic (in)stability and the dynamics of economic growth. As this field of research is relatively new, no systemized research methodology has been established yet. Hypotheses are tested with help of different tools. Often, the accessibility...
Issues related to labor migration are the subject of interest to both scientists and the general public. Despite many researches focused on the problem, many important questions still remain unanswered. One of them is the scale of international migration from the cities of a region with unprecedented scale and significance of economic migration – Opole Voivodeship. Taking this into consideration it...
The concept of economic effectiveness has often been interpreted in an ambiguous manner. There is no clear definition of it in the literature. Individual authors place stress on different elements of this concept. There are also different measures of effectiveness. This article aims to make the concept of economic effectiveness more precise
Most approaches towards management seem to aim at the most economical use of resources during the accomplishment of a pre-determined goal. Different types of capital (physical, intellectual, social) are elementary in achieving the goal. The role of the different types of capital has changed through time, with increasing emphasis on intellectual and social capital. In this context, this paper presents...
The aim of this paper is to discuss the principles of the social teaching of the Church and the role of culture in the efficiency of economic systems. The authors made an attempt to identify the impact of culture on the operation of an economic system and on its efficiency (or inefficiency) in the light of the social teaching of the Church.
With the growing economic integration, globalization, international openness and regionalization, more and more significance is given to competitiveness improvements not only of individual countries but also of groups of countries as a unit. Ability to identify issues of competitiveness improvement in a country or group of countries, approaches of solving such issues and a level of settlement of these...
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