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In recent years the sizes of the premium has been the premier question for theorists and practitioners
alike. The equity risk premium is the difference between the rate of return on the stock
market and the risk-free rate. This paper provides returns data on equity, government bonds and
treasury bills for 1996–2010. The mean historic nominal premium against bonds during 1996–
2010 was 5,7 per...
This article aims to present life-cycle curves of selected types (class type) of bank products
on the Polish market and their comparative analysis to determine similarities and differences in the
course of these curves. The paper presents the main conclusions and identifies implications for the
bank product policy. This article is a part of the research project conducted over the bank products...
International literature on management in metropolitan areas emphasises that large systems
of urbanised space, which are currently managed by a number of scattered decision centres, have
lost their ability to overcome existing barriers for further development. This entails that management
systems have become inadequate for handling increasingly complex functional urban areas
which are more and...
The main aim of the article is to present the overview of the research papers concerning the
strategic groups idea. The very first concepts of strategic groups were discovered by Hunt, and
then developed separately by Newman, Porter and Hatten. They together questioned the basic
assumptions of Structure-Conduct-Perfomance paradigm. The concept of strategic groups within
industries was accepted...
Building partner relationships is largely the result of some kind of evolution from the repetitive
transactions based on loyalty to the source of purchase and trust between partners. Recurring
transactions are often transformed into long-term relationship in which mutual relations are
governed by contract. If the parties are satisfied with the implementation of the provisions
contained in them...
This paper aims to explore, in the form of case study, factors which influence activity-based
costing implementation process, as well as to analyse and explain changes in the area of methodology
and organization of a company, after ABC implementation. The research shows that
companies considering implementation of ABC should be aware of the positive and negative
factors conditioning the process...
The capital consolidation taking place for many decades also concerns the banking sector.
All the expectations about possible profits from mergers and acquisitions among banks didn't
appear. Such situation challenged the sense of consolidation despite of its offensive nature. There
is an attempt of the arguing with actual ideas about the mergers and acquisitions profitability
criteria, focused...
An article presents measurement principles that can applied for property investments by
listed companies using IFRS. Apart from analysis of measurement models and discussion of
possible use of fair value the paper presents results of research relating to level of usage of this
measure by companies listed on Warsaw Stock Exchange.
Entrepreneurs, that want to offer a product that meets the highest quality, social and environmental
standards should pay attention to what is happening throughout the whole supply chain,
from which the materials needed in the production process come. This is particularly important
that manufacturers are responsible for the final product. It seems that the concept of social
responsibility facilitates...
Planning and development of logistic centers in Poland is dependent on a number of conditions.
They have an influence on making investment decisions. The most essential of them are the
ones that concern localization, which are made on the regional level.
The article makes a synthetic analysis of these conditions, taking particular note of the aspect
of spatial politics as well as the role of a...
The article is aimed at presenting the principles of Business Process Maturity Models
(BPMM). They can be identified as a set of recommendations and good practices in achieving
operational efficiency of performed processes. When process approach is a paradigm and
according to available research organizations are becoming process-centric, the BPMM's are
beginning to be seen as the sources of sustainable...
The disturbances that we observe on the global market in recent years demonstrate the need
of implementing the tools that increase the level of supply chain security. The article presents the
problem of assuring the safety of the flow of goods and information in supply chain. It also points
the best practices and international secure initiatives in this area starting with explaining the risk
assessment...
Intellectual capital shows a significant growing acceptance as a worth topic of academic investigation
and practical implication because the performance of IC investments influence on
a company's long term competitive advantage. This study examines the relationship between
ownership structure of Polish listed companies and intellectual capital efficiency measured by
VAIC™. We employed data consist...
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