This study aims at identifying the factors affecting the customers demand for ATM services, by analyzing sample of 450 consumers' responses who have been interviewed personally through structured survey in 3 districts of Uttar Pradesh India. The results indicate that graduated and employed male...

Insufficient competitiveness of small and medium enterprises in Serbia can be significantly improved by a system of business associations through clusters, business incubators and technology parks. This connection contributes to the growth and development of not only the cluster members, but has...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in all national economies are generators of growth and development. This statement is confirmed by the fact that SMEs in the European Union (EU) account for 90% of the total number of companies, and that more than 23 million of these companies employ over 67%...

From the early 2000s, with the rapid expansion and increasing complexity of supply chains, the logistics literature has frequently referred to "the seven rights of logistics (7Rs)" that linked business logistics to the key strategic objectives of cost competitiveness, quality, flexibility, and...

Dualities in an economy may emerge for various reasons, but the general stereotype of high-tech foreign firms at odds with underdeveloped local ones seems to be an oversimplification of the problem. Building on a sample of more than 4,600 Hungarian firms, this paper investigates the parallel...

Purpose - The aim of this paper is to verify whether the "family entrepreneurship" model is an important development opportunity for Croatian tourism and whether family businesses, with their innovative approach to designing a tourist product, change the trends in the tourist market and whether...

There is need to advance cross-cultural educations to better prepare tourism students for the nuances of a modern, multicultural century. This article makes a contribution by proposing an approach to developing students' cultural intelligence that is based on the cultural intelligence (CQ) model...

Because of the large share of travel and tourism revenues in total Croatian GDP, it is worth noting the importance of the hotel industry for the Croatian economy. Therefore, the problem that arises from such an obvious and increasing dependence of our economy on the hotel industry is primarily...

Franchising as a business model is present in the global economy in the current form from the 1950-ties and from the moment Ray Kroc started with McDonald's franchising system. Worldwide, this business model has proven itself an excellent way to grow and geographic expansion of the business....

Franchising is one of the most used strategies and/or modes for growing and expanding business as franchisors and starting new ventures as franchisees from the other side. Franchising is used for growing and expanding business not only in domestic but also in the international market. It can be...