E-kormányzatunk a nemzetközi megítélés tükrében. Egy OECD-országjelentés tanulságai

Author(s): Rozália Bagóné Jehoda / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2007

At the request of the Hungarian government, the OECD conducted a peer review of e-government policies and programmes in Hungary. The report completed in October 2006 was managed and written by an expert group comprising the author of the article. In the first part of the article the term “e-government”, as interpreted by the OECD, is clarified and a short summary is given on the reasons why e-government is considered as a useful tool for better government. After the presentation of the analytical framework for the review the main findings and recommendations of the OECD team are evaluated.

Konferencia az európai információés kommunikációmenedzsmentrõl

Author(s): László Kun / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 1/2007

Social and Ecological Responsibility of Business

Author(s): Antanas Bosas / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

The paper analyses actual problems of business social and ecological responsibility. There are reviewed different ways in the solving of these problems. The author presents the changes in comprehension of these problems, their meaning, estimation and correspondingly, the possible solutions over the last decades. The paper discusses different attitudes of the two alternative trends (techno-optimists and eco-pessimists) and the goals of eco-skeptics. The principle of the Rome’s Club known by the name of “Factor 4” is analysed. This article reveals the main principles, which the Rome’s Club tried to use as the base for their activity (global perspective, holistic thinking and concentration on long-term and inter-subject plans). These principles grant responsibility to everyone, whose business activity has influence on recourses, ecological stability, etc. The author analyses the fact, that there appears the necessity for business to perceive and be able to coordinate maximally complicated and very often controversial interests of influence groups. It is shown that social-ecological responsibility of business mainly depends on macro environment. The paper presents a new and much deeper outlook of a future society and the goals of its evolution as well as emphasizes the importance of a systematic approach and synthesis in the analysis of the effective resources usage.

Changing Roles in the Organization of Companies Demographics and Project Management Demand Hybrid Skills

Author(s): Oded Löwenbein ,Harald Meier / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

The paper deals with the changing demographic situation and its impact on the professionals‘ roles in the organization. It points out the fact that demographic changes are the reason of decreasing managerial and technical potential in the labor market. At the same time the importance of highly qualified functions in firm is increasing. The authors summarize that flat and dynamic organizations lead to constantly changing and parallel management roles in business, which, in turn, require constant changes in expert and soft skills.

European Economic Integration Benefits and Challenges for Lithuania

Author(s): Petras Auštrevičius / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

The report delivered at the international scientific conference “Innovation Changes in Economics and Management under the Process of European Globalization” that took place at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, September 25-27, 2003.

Study on the Dimensions of Fuel Customer Loyalty Multidimensional Concept

Author(s): Laura Šalčiuvienė,Viltė Auruškevičienė / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

The paper indicates, that a traditional bi-dimensional definition may be far from a complete picture of loyalty while the multidimensional concept of loyalty is more extended. Following the multidimensional attitude towards loyalty, the measurement of loyalty becomes problematic from the methodological point of view: application of different loyalty measurement dimensions produces different levels of loyalty. The aim of this paper is to provide statistical evidence and to prove interrelation of separate mentioned dimensions.

Development of Network Structures under Globalization Conditions

Author(s): Sonata Staniulienė / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

The paper discusses a network structure, presenting the generalized ideas on the network definition, its structure, development, process, characteristics, types and links with the other coherent concepts under the context of economic globalization.

Setting the Price of an Employee in the Organization Different Approaches

Author(s): Arvydas Bakanauskas,Vytautas Liesionis,Irena Bakanauskienė / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

The paper analyses the approaches in setting the price of an employee from the point of view of an employer and an employee, discussing and evaluating the main human resource management and pricing theory questions. The price of an employee is understood as a result of the exchange process between an employer and an employee. The authors demonstrate that the main reward management approaches in human resource management are mostly generated in favour of the organization (employer) whereas the price of an employee is not related to his labour results. Referring to the main pricing theory approaches there are proposed the following patterns in setting the price of an employee: 1) supporting the organization’s (employer’s) attitude towards the employee pricing within the final consumer wants satisfaction; 2) supporting the employee’s position towards his pricing, accounting all expenses made on his qualification formation and maintenance and accounting future payments that makes the investment to pay back.

Peculiarities of Financial Management in Latvia

Author(s): Elvīra Zegalve / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

The paper outlines the concepts of managing finances of economic agents. It discusses in detail financial aspects of making decisions in companies, depending on the models of corporate management. Special attention is paid to the specifics of taking financial management decisions in Latvia.

The Importance of Cross-cultural Differences in the Context of Globalization

Author(s): Ligita Šimanskienė / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

The paper reviews the influence of cross-cultural features in management in the context of globalization. It analyses the particular characteristics of the national stereotype of a Lithuanian based on the survey of other authors. Several hypotheses have been suggested based on SPSS programmer during the survey. The research has corroborated that the correct reasoning of typical characteristic features of a Lithuanian depends on age, position, sex, while the hypothesis 4, asserting that the correct reasoning of typical characteristic features of a Lithuanian depends on education, hasn’t been corroborated according to statistics and the variety of answers was due to different personal characteristics of respondents.

Transition Processes, Integration into EU, Economic Development Strategies Possibilities in Lithuania

Author(s): Edmundas Smilga,Borisas Melnikas / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

The paper analyses political, economic and social transformation processes in Central and Eastern European countries. It discusses the problems of economic liberalization. The authors present the possibilities of the creation and realization of economic development strategies using strategic management principles in Lithuania.

Informational Maintenance of Quality Seeking Management in Organization Using Marketing Controlling

Author(s): Gelminė Sližienė,Rimgailė Vaitkienė / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

Quality seeking in the organization involves various processes that require certain correlated management ways and methods. Modern marketing is based on the organisation activity’s integration and coordination. It becomes an active way for quality seeking in the organization while implementing the dynamic quality improvement requirements and evaluating tightened consumer requirements and competition standards. It helps the organisation to seek for a long-term success in the market. The paper analyses total quality marketing, i.e. management philosophy, the main idea of which is that organisation should continually seek not only for production quality but also for the quality of organization activities itself. The continuous improvement of three components – product, organization, and employees – at one time helps to develop business faster and more effectively. The authors emphasize that the deviations management system based on control principles is formed in order the quality management systems could function in the organisation. The paper highlights marketing controlling as the mechanism that supplies the management of the organization quality system with the information necessary for the decision making in the multistage activity planning and controlling system.

The Evolution and Peculiarities of Relationship Marketing Concept in the Changing Marketing Philosophy and Management Practice

Author(s): Rigita Tijūnaitienė,Milda Vekterytė,Jurga Staponkienė / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

Relationship marketing has emerged as a big new idea for many marketing researchers and practitioners. Relational management models, as opposed to transactional exchange became the norm in many countries. Some authors see relationship marketing as a narrow (more functional) perspective; others associate this term with strategic perspectives, a wide paradigm view, or even with the beginning of a new marketing oriented management theory. The paper reviews the alternative perspectives of relationship marketing (RM), compares the traditional marketing concept with the concept of RM, provides the review on the concept of relationship marketing, presents the perspectives of the relationship marketing thought and practice evolution.

Study on the Dimensions of Fuel Customer Loyalty Multidimensional Concept

Author(s): Rima Žitkienė,Jurgita Sekliuckienė / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

The paper indicates, that a traditional bi-dimensional definition may be far from a complete picture of loyalty while the multidimensional concept of loyalty is more extended. Following the multidimensional attitude towards loyalty, the measurement of loyalty becomes problematic from the methodological point of view: application of different loyalty measurement dimensions produces different levels of loyalty. The aim of this paper is to provide statistical evidence and to prove interrelation of separate mentioned dimensions.

Human Capital Measurement Theory and Methods

Author(s): Renata Viržintaite,Irena Mačerinskienė / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

The paper deals with widely used theoretical methods of human capital measurement by dividing them into the three main approaches of human capital measurement: cost-based, output-based and income-based. The inter-relationship of these methods is described. There are distinguished advantages and disadvantages of every method.

Modern Challenges for Enterprises and Ethical Consumerism

Author(s): Nijolė Vasiljevienė / Language(s): English Issue: 28/2003

The paper dwells upon the emerging problems of economics humanisation and new ways of their solution in the context of globalisation and EU integration. In respect of Lithuania this problem especially arises in the realm of the employment relations and here the focus is given on the textile industry. In Lithuania still prevails the inadequate understanding of an individual as a value and an employee as a paramount resource of a company. The problems of the employment relations may be successfully solved through the implementation of ethical standards - the ethics infrastructure in organizations - which, in turn, is prompted by the consumers’ initiatives. Nowadays the assessment of the company’s activity includes not only economic indexes but also social-ethical (humanistic) ones that are standardized, objectively assessed and unambiguously identified irrespectively of subjective opinions, interpretations and interests. The main precondition for converting ethical standards into an economic component has become the activity of various consumers’ organizations, which embody the initiatives of the ethically progressive society. The paper highlights the initiatives of ethical consumerism that offers a powerful additional tool in forming the mechanism and the environment of socially responsible production that is both practical and eligible for a society. The paper analyses the activity of consumer organisations and its application possibilities in Lithuania that is a necessity to get to know as one of the enterprise risk management factors.

Slavonic Ideas and Political Variations in the Relationship of the Slovaks to Moscow (1934 – 1949)

Author(s): Dagmar Čierna-Lantayová / Language(s): English Issue: Supplement/2009

In the period 1934 – 1949, not only the real international situation, but to a large extent also political illusions were reflected in the relationship of the Slovaks to Russia. The alliance between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union in 1935 also had the support of Slovak members of the ruling circles in Prague. The orientation to Nazi Germany determined the foreign policy of the Slovak state from March 1939. The pact between Berlin and Moscow briefly opened the possibility of diplomatic relations between Slovakia and Russia. The entry of Slovakia to the anti-Soviet war on the side of Nazi Germany changed the political priorities. The anti-fascist elements in the illegal resistance took over the initiative in relations with Moscow. From the anti-fascist uprising in Slovakia, through the political developments in the first post-war years, the Slovak communists replaced spontaneous sympathy for Slavonic Russia with organized “love for the Soviet Union”.

Rázus’ Odkaz mŕtvych and the Perception of Violence in Inter- Confessional Relations

Author(s): Peter Macho / Language(s): English Issue: Supplement/2009

The article analyses the literary image of forcible re-Catholicization and maps its perception against the background of the confessionally determined reception of the historical novel Odkaz mŕtvych (Message from the Dead). The reception of Rázus’ novel was influenced by Protestant and Catholic historical memory, which included the images of the bad Jesuits or the good Jesuits. The stereotype of the bad Jesuits was updated and politically exploited in the conditions of the totalitarian Ľudák regime. Thus the novel contributed to strengthening anti-regime views in some segments of the reading public.

Европейският съюз и Европейската комисия могат да дадат насоки, но страните-членки провеждат конкретните политики – разговор с евродепутатката...

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 47-48/2008

European Union and European Commission could give the directions, but the countries make the concret politic – dialogue with Mrs Mariela Baeva, Deputy in European Parliament

Страници за Индия: "Лукът е най-политическият зеленчук в Индия", "Милиони индийци вземат участие в религиозен празник", "26 януари...

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 47-48/2008