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Cooperation and Its Role in Facilitation of Foreign Expansion: Example of Slovak Enterprises

Cooperation and Its Role in Facilitation of Foreign Expansion: Example of Slovak Enterprises

Author(s): Mária Šášiková,Tatiana Hlušková / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2013

Keywords: co-operation; Central Europe; internationalization; joint venture

The objective of the paper is to point out the importance of cooperation between companies in order to facilitate their internationalization, based on the example of Slovak-foreign joint ventures and to present institutions supporting these partnerships. According to the survey, the majority of companies are satisfied with joint venture performance and plan to continue their cooperation. Motives linked to the foreign expansion are among the most important for the joint venture establishment.

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LOGISTIC STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IN BRAZILIAN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES (SMEs)

LOGISTIC STRATEGY AND ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE IN BRAZILIAN SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED ENTERPRISES (SMEs)

Author(s): Ricardo S. Martins,Wescley Silva Xavier / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/2011

Keywords: logistic strategies1; small and medium-sized enterprises2; furniture industry3; Brazil4;

This study evaluates the logistic strategies developed in Small and Medium-sized Enterpri¬ses (SMEs) as a response to their organizational structures and planning processes. A multiple case study was carried out in the second largest furniture cluster in Brazil. Based on theoretical models, it was found that the characteristics of a company’s organizational structure had an impact on planning. In the case of companies with a low level of family participation, this impact was intentional, whereas in the case of companies with strongly centralized owner control over decision-making, the impact was unplanned. However, the formal nature of planning does not guarantee that logistics will have strategic aims and, in all cases, it has a strictly reactive nature.

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SUSTAINABLE TRENDS IN PRODUCER PRICE INDICES

SUSTAINABLE TRENDS IN PRODUCER PRICE INDICES

Author(s): Ivan O. Kitov,Oleg I Kitov / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/2009

Keywords: PPI; CPI; US; prediction

Previously, linear trends were revealed in the differences between the headline CPI and the price indices for various subcategories of the CPI in the United States. These trends can be continuous, as observed with the price index for medical care, or piecewise with turning points between trends with opposite signs. Similar features are found for the PPI and its components. The presence of sustainable trends in the differences allows prediction of prices for various commodities at time horizons of several years. In addition, it is possible to time the start of transition to the next trend. Accordingly, the trends reduce the uncertainty in forecasting prices for major commodities and also for their small components. The usage of trends in the PPI could bring substantial benefits to producers (planning) and stock market participants (timely investment).

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Young Entrepreneurs In The New Market Economies

Young Entrepreneurs In The New Market Economies

Author(s): Ken Roberts,Jochen Tholen / Language(s): English / Issue: 01/1999

Keywords: entrepreneurship in Eastern European economies; young entrepreneurs;

Self-employment is a new career that has been created in the course of the reforms in all the former communist countries. It is, indeed, the new way of working that is most symptomatic of the direction in which the countries are changing. This article aims to demonstrate that much can be learnt from the experiences of the self-employed, not just about the current characteristics of the new market economies, but also about their most likely future trajectories.

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Migrant’s houses as places and objects of cultural consumption and status display

Migrant’s houses as places and objects of cultural consumption and status display

Author(s): Andra Jacob / Language(s): / Issue: 01/2015

Keywords: cultural consumption; international migration; house; domestic environment; social status

The paper explores the interplay between migration and cultural consumption with regard to the rural dwelling. The study is based on data collected in a fieldwork carried out in the village of Marginea, Romania, a rural community characterized by strong international migration. The research used direct observation method and informal and semi-structured (qualitative) interviews. The penetration of the consumer culture in rural Romania is particularly evident in the case of migrants’ houses built in the village of origin. Indeed, the furnishing and decoration of migrants’ new homes is more symbolic than functional, the home becoming an important site of cultural consumption, expressing the ascension, through migration, to a certain social status – that of a respectable person and a good householder.

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Corporeality and Otherness in the Cinematic Heterotopias of Szabolcs Hajdu’s Bibliothèque Pascal (2010)

Corporeality and Otherness in the Cinematic Heterotopias of Szabolcs Hajdu’s Bibliothèque Pascal (2010)

Author(s): Katalin Sándor / Language(s): / Issue: 2/2014

Keywords: Corporeality; heterotopia; cinematic tableau vivant; Szabolcs Hajdu; Bibliothèque Pascal

The paper deals with the representation of bodies and corporeality in Hajdu Szabolcs’s film, Bibliothèque Pascal (2010). The film foregrounds the female body as a discursive, ideologically inscribed site of power relations, as a (biological) entity defined by social practices and by the ongoing negotiation of gendered, ethnic and cultural identities. In Hajdu’s film the female body is trapped within heterotopic spaces (Foucault)—the in-between zones, the “other spaces” (i. e. train, brothel, fair) of cultural and also medial differences. The brothel and the library are folded into an unsettling heterotopia in which the bodies—often imported from Eastern Europe—re-enact the canonical texts of European literature as living books and tableau vivants. In the hierarchical space of the brothel both corporeality and textuality are instrumentalized in the interest of sexual gratification and fantasies of dominance. Besides questioning the mechanisms of objectifying the body and subjectivity, and bringing up the problem of corporeality, gendered and ethnic otherness, or trafficking in human beings within a woman’s story, the film can also be addressed as the narrativization and the rethinking of the ideologically embedded relations between the East and the West. The paper examines the representation of the female body at the intersection of complex gendered, cultural and (inter)medial relations and the way this representation shapes the “body” of the film.

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RESEARCH RESULTS BASED ON NON-TEXTUAL SOURCES AND THEIR INTERPRETATION FOR THE HISTORY OF MENDICANT ECONOMY

RESEARCH RESULTS BASED ON NON-TEXTUAL SOURCES AND THEIR INTERPRETATION FOR THE HISTORY OF MENDICANT ECONOMY

Author(s): Marie-Madeleine de Cevins / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Keywords: Central Europe; Mendicant friaries; economy; poverty; archaeology; non-textual sources

This introductory paper does not summarize the existing literature about the subject. It only aims to sketch some milestones on the basis of examples coming mostly from “Western” researches as comparison tools, but also from remarks concerning “Central-Eastern” Europe. It tries to show which non-textual sources have been explored at present in order to study the economic management of the Mendicant friaries, with which approaches and which results. Few of them have been exploited by now from this point of view. Consequently, numerous issues of key importance still need to be properly addressed, such as: 1) could the Friars in Central Europe be considered by the faithful of the time as (voluntary) “poor”? 2) Did the Friars have a more important role in production and exchanges? 3) Do the non-textual sources give a different image of the social strata that materially supported the friaries than the one provided by texts?

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Economic Policies for Female Labour and Food Nutrition Security: The Al-Ghab Region Case

Economic Policies for Female Labour and Food Nutrition Security: The Al-Ghab Region Case

Author(s): M. Ciaschini,V. Cistulli,S. Marta,R. Pretaroli ,F. Severini ,C. Socci / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: Food and Agriculture; fiscal policy; Multisectoral extended model; SAM

The Al-Ghab region in Syria is considered the typical resource rich poor area in a developing country. The possibility of activating economic growth goes through diversification in output, in order to stimulate the value added generation, and reduction of social and economic disparities between female and male labour employment. In this way also the problem of food insecurity is effectively addressed given its strong connection with the poverty level of households. The most suitable tool of analysis for addressing this complex target is provided by an extended multi-sector model developed on the basis of the SAM for the area of interest. In this paper, we develop a SAM for the Al-Ghab region and quantify the effects of selected policy scenarios in terms of economic diversification, female labour efficiency and food nutrition security for the Al-Ghab region. This is done in order to identify the pillars of economic growth of the area.

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An alternative approach to identify key industries: issues to selection criteria

An alternative approach to identify key industries: issues to selection criteria

Author(s): Abul Quasem Al-Amin,Abdul Hamid Jaafar / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2014

Keywords: key sector identification; selection criteria; investment; policy challenge; forward and backward linkages; input-output analysis; O14; C67; F21; R11;

Within a process of modeling exercise, this study aimed to understand appropriate selection criteria to identify key industries. There are many key sector identification linkage measures in the subject matter and sensitivity issue among them can be tricky because many of these measures differ only slightly but can result in outcomes that are quite dissimilar. With this background, we proposed an alternate approach that helps to resolve this issue. The proposed approach utilizes in this study by five sub-methods and high degree of the frequency of their occurrences in sub-methods to determine the key sectors. The study approach is applied to Malaysia as the public sector investment remains a large share in the national economy, like other developing countries, and the correct identification is still a challenge for sectoral planning. The experiences from this study can be used to guide appropriate public investment in Malaysia and elsewhere with similar economic forms.

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Mobile Technology Solutions in Business Communications – New Tools in Practical Implementation

Mobile Technology Solutions in Business Communications – New Tools in Practical Implementation

Author(s): Ewa Badzińska / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2017

Keywords: business communications; interactivity; media convergence; mobile applications; mobile technology

The scientific purpose of the paper is a discussion of the theoretical framework concerning new channels of business communications as well as the logic of mobile communications and its characteristic devices. Attention was paid to the multidimensionality of media convergence and to the mobile technology development. The cognitive purpose of the study is to characterise the selected tools and multimedia applications, to co-create content and conduct an interactive dialogue with customers using mobile technology. Then the study provides practical examples of how to use the potential of mobile technologies in business communication processes. The application of the empirical method of case studies has made it possible to characterise the essence of mobile technologies and to illustrate the studied phenomenon in business practice. The research findings confirm the significant impact of mobile technologies on social networks, communication strategies, and customer’s behaviour. The paper concludes with the practical recommendations and directions for a further research of future communication technologies. This is a research article.

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Poland’s Impact on the Development of Ukraine’s Western Region under the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement

Poland’s Impact on the Development of Ukraine’s Western Region under the Ukraine-EU Association Agreement

Author(s): Romana Mikhel / Language(s): English / Issue: 4/2016

Keywords: Poland; Western Ukraine; free trade area; association agreement; investments; cross-border cooperation;

Poland as the direct neighbour of Ukraine has a great impact on the development of its Western regions especially when it concerns the Volyn and Lviv regions. These regions are closely linked with Poland not only culturally, but also by trade and economic ties. The purpose of the article is to analyse the impact of Poland on economic potential development of Ukraine’s Western regions before and after the signing of the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in terms of trade relations, investment, and participation in joint cross-border projects. The results of the research show that Poland’s share in exports of Lviv, Volyn and Ternopil regions as well as the share of Polish investments in their economy increases yearly. As the major partner in the cross-border cooperation Poland transmits its experience to Ukraine that in turn strengthens the competitiveness of small and medium enterprises and stimulates the development of trade relations between Ukraine and Poland. This article is of the research nature.

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The ambos of the Christian basilicas within the province of Scythia

The ambos of the Christian basilicas within the province of Scythia

Author(s): Ioan Iațcu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2013

Keywords: ambo;Scythia;Christian basilicas;Justinian;marble;Constantinople;

Considered an element of Oriental tradition, the ambo is a rare presence within the liturgical furniture in the Christian basilicas of this province situated between the Danube and the Black Sea. The archaeological discoveries have underlined the presence of this essential element within the Christian service, mostly in the centres situated along the western Black Sea coast, both Romanian and Bulgarian (Histria, Tomis, Bizone, Topola). Hence, traces of certain ambos in the paving of some Christian basilicas (Histria, Zaldapa) have been discovered, as well as a series of elements from balustrades, made of Proconnesus marble and decorated with Christian symbols (Tomis). This study underlines the presence of the axial, Constantinopolitan ambo, diffused mainly in the 6th century AD.

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Re-Thinking Architectural Modernism in Contemporary Art: Jasmina Cibic, Dušica Dražić and Katarina Burin

Re-Thinking Architectural Modernism in Contemporary Art: Jasmina Cibic, Dušica Dražić and Katarina Burin

Author(s): Sonja Jankov / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2018

Keywords: architecture; Modernism; contemporary art; female artists

This paper analyses how three contemporary female artists approach Modernist architecture and its ideological context. Jasmina Cibic in her contemporary interdisciplinary installations addresses politization of architecture – both at the time it was conceptualised and now, when it is related to past political regimes. For Cibic, architectural objects are signifiers of larger narratives. This is how she approaches Slovenian trade fair that was supposed to be realised in 1941, but has never been, numerous renovations of the former summer residency of Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito, lack of documentation on the Pavilion of Kingdom of Yugoslavia at the 1929 World Expo and the Palace of Yugoslav Federal Executive Council. In the case of Dušica Dražić, the paper focuses on her work New City, a large maquette of a non-existing city that contains buildings chosen from projects that were actually built but eventually destroyed. Katarina Burin fabricates sketches, documentary materials, architectural scale models, technical drawings and furnishings which are aesthetically, technically and theoretically bounded to the architectural design of the 1950s, in order to create Gesamtkunstwerk which criticizes the absence of women from architectural history of the time.

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STEPS IN UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF INSTABILITY UPON URBAN TERITORRIAL SYSTEMS

STEPS IN UNDERSTANDING THE ROLE OF INSTABILITY UPON URBAN TERITORRIAL SYSTEMS

Author(s): Andrei Schvab,Igor Sîrodoev,Mirela Paraschiv,Natașa Văidianu / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

Keywords: systemic instability; self-organisation; urban territorial system; non-linearity; Baia Mare;

Instability is an omnipresent process that creates the conditions for adaptation and change. A territorial system cannot develop without instability. A high degree of system instability points out an acute structural and functional disorder. The present study proposes a method to measure system instability through economic structural and functional changes inside urban territorial systems. The analysis is done by quantifying the changes and transfers in internal economic hierarchies. System instability shows the role that the system plays in its environment and consequently the measures that can be taken to amplify or hinder (depending on the desired outcome) that role. The conceptual framework captures the adaptive processes associated with system instability and both structural and functional changes are evidenced. The non-linear processes were analysed for the urban territorial system of Baia Mare (Romania) underlining their role in the city’s adaptation to the changing of its environment. The proposed method starts from the assumption that internal systemic hierarchy is a very stable parameter of state. If the system is unstable, significant changes of the internal hierarchy will happen, and this will be reflected in a strong structural and functional shift. Measuring system instability helps better understanding the impact that change and adaptation have over the territorial system and its environment. Understanding these processes may offer policy makers the evidence they need to take actions in a conscious manner.

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Cozy Homes? Rooms and apartments of the intelligentsia in Polish drama films, 1956–1970

Cozy Homes? Rooms and apartments of the intelligentsia in Polish drama films, 1956–1970

Author(s): Barbara Lena Gierszewska / Language(s): English / Issue: 31/2017

Keywords: Polish film 1945–1970; architecture in communist Poland; Polish design of the 1950s and 1960s;

The article presents the problems of private life of intellectuals in Poland “after Yalta” through the prism of the cinema. The biggest problem of people in the 1950s and 1960s was the lack of a satisfying home. The homes of young intellectuals shown in Polish films are the spectrum of dreams, most often impossible to achieve in real life. Apartments located in multi-family housing estates that immortalized in the Polish feature films between the years 1956–1970 are confirmation of the highest quality of Polish industrial design. Real people’s apartments were cramped, ugly, and primitive.

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NOMINATIVE CHAINS IN THE NOVEL THE TERRACOTTA OLD WOMAN BY E. S. CHIZHOVA

NOMINATIVE CHAINS IN THE NOVEL THE TERRACOTTA OLD WOMAN BY E. S. CHIZHOVA

Author(s): Vladimir Pavlovich Kazakov / Language(s): English / Issue: 13/2019

Keywords: nominative chain; estimated values; connotation; context; author’s position;

The article deals with nominative chains in the novel «The Terracotta old woman» by E. S. Chizhova in order to identify thematic groups of chains and their connection to problems of the work and the position of the author. The relevance of the study is conditioned by expansion of functions of nominative chains in the literary text. Using the method of continuous sampling, 240 chains were extracted from the text of the novel. The chains belonging to following thematic groups were analyzed: clothing, food, premises, the appearance of a person, historical events, literature. These thematic groups characterize a person and main spheres of his/her life: physical sphere (where he/she lives and works, how he/she dresses, what he/she eats) and intellectual sphere (his/her attitude to the recent past of the country and the current state of society, the range of his/her reading as an indicator of cultural level), as well as his/her appearance. Nominatives that form chains are analyzed taking into account their stylistic coloring and evaluative connotations manifested in the context. Particular attention is paid to functioning of nominatives in contexts with stylistically marked vocabulary and in contexts where nominatives acquire estimative connotations. It is concluded that nominative chains in the novel by E. S. Chizhova help to convey an author’s view of the position of an intellectual in the post-Soviet society. Obtained results broaden the notion of expressive possibilities of nominative chains in contemporary literary text.Keywords: nominative chain, estimated values, connotation, context

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THE EQUATION OF THE HOUSE

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Author(s): Andrés ROS CAMPOS / Language(s): English,Romanian / Issue: 11/2019

Keywords: architecture; home; house; domestic; abstraction;

In the twenties of the 20th century, architects experimented with the dilemma of what housing should be for modern life. The issue was discussed in The Modern Architecture Congresses and especially in 1929 in the second edition of CIAM held in Frankfurt, with the title existenzminimum that explored the possibilities of minimal housing, proposing new models of living. Later, after the destruction of the Second World War, the problem was located in the optimization of the domesticspace and the standardised construction that would solve the lack of housing.The Modern Movement defined the foundations of this domestic restlessness by transgressing ancient habits, exploring abstraction, and eliminating the superfluous, which contrasts with the habit of the users of adding alien elements to the architectural space. We could explain the design of the home as an equation formed by the addition of parameters such as; the house, the furniture, the users and their belongings. The architect has mastery over the design of the house and as much about the furniture. The defence of Adolf Loos of the "complete design" that prevented the inhabitant from introducing anything without the supervision of the architect seems utopian and excessive. The resistance and the obstruction of the user is an interference impossible to eliminate.Some architects have developed archetypes of new ways of life in their design of houses. This text raises a thought about this equation where the architect tries to minimize the elements that distort the perception of the domestic space exploring a particular experimental concept.

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UNENFORCEABLE TARGET MOVABLE PROPERTY UNDER ENFORCEMENT

UNENFORCEABLE TARGET MOVABLE PROPERTY UNDER ENFORCEMENT

Author(s): David Elisabedashvili / Language(s): English / Issue: 42/2021

Keywords: Debtor; Seizure; Property; Justice; Creditor;

Nowadays, enforcement is one of the crucial elements of justice. Right to the property is guaranteed by the constitution and therefore exercising property rights is one of the key goals of justice, the latter is implemented through effective and efficient enforcement. The present study is mainly dedicated to the specifics of enforcing property rights. Methods used in the research involve qualitative study, the latter encompasses observation of rules and regulations in national and international practices based on primary and secondary legal and historical sources, including official legal documents, court decisions as first-hand material, as well as derived sources such as various articles, monographs, comments on laws and regulations, etc. The comparative method used in the study is aimed at demonstrating differences and similarities of enforcement rules and procedures in different legal systems, revealing their advantages and disadvantages, while practical examples focus on the identification of gaps to lay the path for better legal solutions. The complex scrutiny of the subject to the present research allows to review it from different angles and suggest legal recommendations to raise the efficiency of the enforcement system and subsequently provide a firm basis for justice.

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Dwelling Means Cultivating Atmospheres

Dwelling Means Cultivating Atmospheres

Author(s): Griffero Tonino / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2022

Keywords: Dwelling; Atmospheres; Felt body; Inclusiveness; Intimacy

The paper addresses the issue of dwelling as a powerful way of cultivating atmospheric feelings without the risk of suffering their disturbing aggressiveness, and deals with inclusiveness or__immersivity that true dwelling arouses. To avoid the widespread trend to consider every space a_dwelling place, it proposes that only a really “lived” place, in so far it radiates a specific and particularly intense-authoritative atmosphere (in kinetic, synesthetic, felt-bodily sense) affecting the perceivers and finding in their body its precise sounding board, makes dwelling in the proper sense possible. Just as there are different types of atmosphere (prototypical, derivative, spurious), there are therefore different types of dwelling and inclusiveness. However, contrary to the today’s projectivist-constructionist explanation and globalized orientation, for a “pathic aesthetics” only a lifewordly qualitative-emotional experience based on an atmosphere of intimacy-familiarity really turns a house into a home.

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Which Sectors Drive Egypt’s Growth and Employment?

Which Sectors Drive Egypt’s Growth and Employment?

Author(s): Azza Mohamed Kamal / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

Keywords: employment; growth; employment multiplier; aggregate sector; manufacturing;

According to the International Monetary Fund, Egypt’s employment elasticity of growth in the last two decades was relatively low, as previous policies focused on capital deepening rather than improving labor utilization growth rate. This paper uses input-output analysis to identify the economic activities that have high output and employment multipliers at the subsector level of manufacturing and services in Egypt, while previous multiplier research for Egypt analyzed manufacturing as an aggregate sector. The top 20 ranking subsectors in terms Fof employment multipliers include 13 services and 7 manufacturing subsectors. Except for food and accommodation services, most of the services subsectors gain their high rank from direct and induced employment, with little contribution of backward interlinkages. The picture is mixed for manufacturing. For example, most of the employment effect of food products and beverages is attributed to the interlinkage with the agriculture sector, but the direct and induced employment effects are small. The paper presents an illustrative exercise which excludes imported intermediate inputs in order to account for the possible overestimation of the multiplier effect due to imports. The employment multiplier is reduced by more than 30% in the sectors which use intermediate inputs from high import upstream sectors.

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