In today’s dynamic marketplace, manufacturing companies are under strong pressure to introduce new products for long-term survival with their competitors. Nevertheless, every company cannot cope up progressively or immediately with the market requirements due to knowledge dynamics being...

In public services, the political component of the marketing environment has a major importance, as all decisions adopted within central administration influence both the objectives and measures implemented by units of local government and other public service providers. Any discontinuity in the...

The aim of this study is to show that multidimensional modelling of existing data in organizations, depending on the topics of interest of managers and multidimensional view of data. It may also provide an effective informational support of managers in decision making, regardless of field of...

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The paper highlights the main categories of risks that transnational companies can face when implementing foreign investment. These risks affect the company’s performance and therefore they must be properly managed. Risk factors, risk categories and risk control measures are analyzed here. We...

The article considers aspects of managing cash flows of an industrial enterprise on the basis of building imitation flow models of movement of money funds in the context of three main types of activity: operational, investment and financial, introduction of which would increase justification of...

Criminal elements in today's technology-driven society are using every means available at their disposal to launder the proceeds from their illegal activities. While many-anti-money laundering solutions have been in place for some time within the financial community, they cannot adapt to the...

Discovering a set of domain classes during object-oriented analysis isintellectually challenging and time-consuming for novice analyzers. This chapterpresents a taxonomic class modeling (TCM) methodology that can be used forobject-oriented analysis in business applications. Our methodology helps...

There have been few studies that investigate the reasons that dissatisfied customers stay with service organisations. Further, there have been no studies that have investigated a range of factors simultaneously in a single model in the business services sector. This paper attempts to address...

IT security outsourcing is the establishment of a contractual relationship between an organization with an outside vendor which assumes responsibility for the organisation’s security functions. Outsourcing in IS has had a variable history of success and the complexity of the decision making...