We analyze the effects of digitalization and the knowledge acquired through vertical and institutional cooperation across the value chain on the introduction of patents and technological, namely, product and process, innovations in large, and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). We study...

This scientific paper explores operational management strategies aimed at achieving sustainable productivity growth in manufacturing organizations. Productivity, a key driver of competitiveness and success, is intricately linked to the concept of sustainability in today's dynamic business world....

In modern conditions, quality management is already becoming a managerial function like any other function in the organization, as employees from all sectors and all departments should participate in it.The involvement of all employees in the organization contributes to total quality management....

Complete quality management as a modern concept is starting to be implemented in organizations in the Republic of North Macedonia. Its implementation is based on the perceptions of the positive effects it offers. This concept enables visible changes in organizations, while offering several...

The implementation of total quality management as a contemporary concept has already begun in the organizations in the Republic of Macedonia. This implementation is based on the conclusion of the positive effects that total quality management offers. Its concept provides visible changes in the...

Increased global competitions have urged small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to develop new products faster. Virtual research and development (R&D) teams in SMEs can offer a solution to speed up time-to-market of new product development (NPD). However, factors that affect the effectiveness of...

A conceptual model is proposed which facilitate the process of technology transfer by applying a virtual R&D team. The underlying hypothesis is responded to competitive challenges, the complex customer requirements and the high instability on the market. The context of the knowledge-based...

Global Recession to Global Recovery: It is well known fact that all good things, as also bad things, come to an end and business cycles pass through good and bad economic times. Economically 2010 was a year of transition from economic recession to recovery. Economies were improving in some...

Industry has a particular responsibility to shape the transformation from our current economy into an ecologically and socially sustainable one. The ongoing digitalization and networking of industrial value chains as the core of Industry 4.0 offer new opportunities and capabilities for...

The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging politics, society and the economy to an unprecedented extent. Its effects are so drastic that it requires companies and industries not only to manage the crisis in the short term, but also to develop strategic options for the future. Although we have not...