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... mere possibility of offshoring and benchmarking has given employers an upper hand in collective ba... before the fall of communism, the same companies usually owned the distribution networks, which gua...
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The article is devoted to the analysis of efficiency of sugar companies of Ukraine and the ways of its improving. The decreasing return to scale and scale inefficiency for the majority of sugar companies are determined. The main factors of sugar plants inefficiency are defined. Developed benchmarking has revealed significant reserves of reduction of the basic inputs and potential growth of efficiency. In comparison with foreign companies the Ukrainian sugar plants have smaller material capacity of production and stuff cost, considerably lower labour and capital productivities. The recommendations for proprietors and managers of sugar companies for making of decisions on improving of efficiency are made.
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...Especially in large companies, including multinational companies (MNCs), attenti... direct evaluations and carry out benchmarking against competitors on whether such behaviour actu...
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.... Benchmarking based on databases is accepted under restrictive c...Companies with significant amounts of foreign dividend incom...
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The basic purpose of this research is to examine if influence factors in change methods choice are linked to an inappropriate approach (i.e. deficiencies) towards change. A combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches to research work was applied. The data were obtained by a semi-structured interview together a questionnaire, and then processed using the method of factor analysis and multiple regression. Based on research findings we can conclude that between the factors of choice of change methods and deficiencies in the implementation of change taken as a whole, there is no direct link. However, two dimensions of the factors in the choice of method of change have a positive influence on deficiencies arising during the implementation of change.
... of market competition, require companies to adopt new ways of responding to challenges from... among comparable companies or by benchmarking the top companies within the industry. Together wi...
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... not only puts pressure on local companies to innovate to meet sophisticated consumer demands... of technology: Results of a global benchmarking study. R&D Management, 32(2), 149-164. . Fagerberg...
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The paper provides an overview of the state of corporate environmental management in Hungary compared to older EU and OECD states. It also explores the complex relationship between the implementation of environmental management practices and corporate environmental and business performance. Empirical evidence is taken from a comprehensive piece of research, carried out in OECD member countries, which explored motivation, decision-making procedures, and organisational structure of companies in relation to the design and implementation of environmental management tools and systems.
... performance), using indicators and benchmarking, while supply chain-related issues seem to be less...
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This paper develops a comprehensive explanatory approach to the outsourcing of Human Resource (HR) functions and the resulting demand or non-demand for personnel services by companies (e.g., interim management, outplacement services, consulting in the field of HR management). Starting from the deficits of approaches that currently dominate the outsourcing debate (cost accounting approach, transaction cost approach, resource-based view of the firm), a modified and expanded framework to explain outsourcing HR management/functions is presented which includes other theoretical approaches as well. On the one hand, potential costs and benefits of outsourcing HR functions are systematically analysed, incorporating so far neglected aspects. On the other hand, triggers as well as situational and...
... assignments in various companies as benchmarking knowledge, thus contributing to the enforcement of...
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... institutional learning processes by benchmarking rules. Based on an economic-evolutionary, thus pro... flexibility and, in this way, of giving companies more scope for action. All European countries are ...
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This article explores regulatory developments with regard to employee representation in post-socialist corporate governance systems of Central Europe. It sets out to weigh the applicability of different theories on postsocialist industrial relations that focus on domestic, European and international forces. It pays special attention to the Hungarian case and studies regulatory developments in the early 2000s, with a focus on the third postsocialist Company Law of 2006. The article argues that the law reform undermines effective employee representation in postsocialist corporate governance systems. It concludes that these developments can only be adequately understood as the result of the interplay between various social forces at the national, European and international level.
... shift from formal prescriptions of how companies should be organised to more flexible arrangements in which benchmarking, codes of conduct and soft regulation will play an...