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This paper discusses the existing approaches of competitiveness' management of small and medium enterprises. Porter's diamond approach is analyzed. The way of building competitive advantages is discussed and case study about Indian companies is provided.
In this article as an object of study is considered the transport system and mechanism of self-organization. The subject of research is social and economic power in the mechanism of self-organization of the transport system. The essence of our suggested scientific hypothesis is that transport system of a different level has to be regarded as a whole system. So it needs complex measurement instrument...
This article suggests the hypothesis that a higher competency in program and portfolio management is required for Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) within Special Economic Zones (SEZ), which is the special preferential economic and regulatory conditions for local and foreign companies to develop a programs and projects related to the growth of the social, trade, technological, scientific and innovative...
In the framework of the federal and regional socioeconomic development strategies, as well as the interstate regional initiatives, a pilot project for creating an ecological and safe environment for living is implemented in Saint-Petersburg; the project embraces the introduction of energy saving and energy efficient technologies in all economic sectors. In the light of the foregoing, in 2014, an international...
The Panama Papers is a collection of 11.5 million leaked records that contain information for more than 214,488 offshore entities. This collection is growing rapidly as more leaked records become available online. In this paper, we present a work in progress on a web browser plugin that detects company names from the Panama Papers and alerts the user by means of unobtrusive visual cues. We matched...
At present, all developed countries employing public eProcurement systems create a corpus of generic public procurement fraud schemes. A selection of attributes with fraud suspicion signs is performed. It is necessary to accomplish, first of all, because fraud in the public procurement sphere is one of the most common kinds of frauds. With a view to improve the existing anti-corruption enforcement...
In Indonesia, AK/I card was a mandatory requirement to be owned by job seekers as a proof of identity, but the card functionality ends when the job searching process is completed and returned by the employing company to local Department of Labor. To the date this study being conducted, there was no continuity of AK/I card function relating to track record management of labor such as curriculum vitae,...
FONCODES is the public body in charge of financing and managing the execution of social-productive projects throughout the Peruvian territory. The objective of social-productive projects within the framework of the National Strategy of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion is to generate economic opportunities for rural households living in poverty and extreme poverty. The key processes...
This paper intends to find the critical success factors for smart green city logistics business in Fuzhou. We first investigate and collect the factors that impact the operations of smart green city logistics business. In order to acquire the experts’ assessments on the influence between each two factors, we invite the managers who serve in the top five logistics companies in Fujian and conduct expect...
Beijing Metro Line 4 was the first metro line in China's orbit traffic industry to be built under the PPP project financing model. Hangzhou Metro Line 1 copied and borrowed the former's model. But Hangzhou Metro Line 1 has been in the red for a long time, and even became the only defective metro line in the four affiliated orbit traffic companies to MTR Corporation Limited in 2014. Given the situation,...
Catering industry as a basic service industry have been playing an indispensable role in national economy development. With Chinese economy has entered “the new normal”, comprehensive Revenue Management becoming more and more important. “Internet +” platform business model provides a precious opportunity for traditional catering enterprises restructuring and upgrading. The third-party internet platform...
This study modifies Fukuda Nakamura Caballero Hoshi Kashyap (FN-CHK) method to identify zombie firms by incorporating non-recurring gains and losses. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated by existing unqualified companies and specially-treated companies in Chinese stock market. Based on the proposed method, this study analyzes the development trend, the proportion of zombie firms in...
The aim of the study is to examine the causal relationship between gaming industry and economic growth in Macau over period from 1984 to 2015. The study finds the existence of long-run cointegration relationship. But, this study does not find the one- and two-directional causal relationship between GDP and gaming tax revenues. Furthermore, gaming tax revenues have short-run effect on GDP and slightly...
This paper provides an overview of the policy design of the current development of Green Energy in Taiwan and an analysis regarding the driving factors. After introducing the institutional process, with focuses on policy evolution and key projects, the paper conducts a driving force analysis from the elements of the actors, both public and private, and boundaries, which covers the natural, political,...
The software development industry has a vital role in the economic development of Africa. However, there are limited studies investigating the software industry in Africa. In this work, we attempt to close this gap through the study of the software industry in Sudan (East Africa). This paper presents a questionnaire based survey exploring the demographics, software development practices and risks...
In the past twenty years the energy consumption of the world has grown significantly. There are many countries for which it is a huge challenge to ensure energy reliability and security. This situation is even getting more intense with the upcoming spread of renewable energy sources and the continuous need of lowering CO2 emission. Nuclear energy which is a possible solution for both difficulties...
This paper empirically estimates the impact of sustainability development on the market value of the firm. We use a firm's receipt of a sustainability award as a proxy for its sustainability development effectiveness. Based on data from 398 announcements of sustainability awards given to the firms during the period 2010–2015, the evidence suggests that, on average, the stock market reaction to sustainability...
Using the panel data of thirteen provincial cities in China's Jiangsu Province, this paper analyzes the interactive relationship between industrial agglomeration and talent agglomeration in Jiangsu Province on the basis of elaborating the interaction mechanism between them, and draws lessons from European Union's “smart specialization” policy to make targeted recommendations. Our results show that:...
This paper uses computable functions and pairwise inner-product comparisons for determining the optimal contract award in engineering management. This paper uses probability distributions for determining the optimal bidding strategies in engineering management.
Increasing research has revealed that organizational members possessing feelings of psychological ownership over their organizations experience more positive work related attitudes and contribute more to their organizations. The aim of the present study is to investigate and compare psychological ownership between the employees of public and private service organizations. Specifically, we examined...
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