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Sports activities, running in particular, are becoming increasingly popular in Poland. Amateur runners are more and more often taking part in organized sports races, especially in half marathons (21.1 km). The great interest of amateur runners is reflected by many half marathons organized in Poland.…

In this context of uncertainties and the unknown based on economic and health crises, one of the ways to save companies is the operation of merger or acquisition of companies. But not all mergers bring the expected results. The economic, political and social context can…

Employee is adapting with their working environment. As part of work arrangement, working time is an important factor that determines how employees perceive their working life. This research composes working time perception as a complex variable that is measured in four dimensions, including discipline, incentive,…

Financial protection is a core dimension of health system evaluation; therefore, several works on catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) have been developed. There are, however, some gaps in the literature; hence, this work aims to look at CHE from a different angle, analysing the money spent…

The main scientific purpose of the article is to present a pattern for creating mechanisms that allow members of virtual structures to adjust to the organizational-culture-conditioned ways other partners operate. Conceptual development and positioning of the research aim at providing a generalizable contribution to management…

Since the beginning of business management, optimization of enterprise’s performance has been recognized as its main objective. However, a suitable motivation model had to be implemented to achieve that goal. This paper aims to present discussion on Object Management Group (OMG) Business Motivation Model (BMM)…

The purpose of this paper is to assess the main drivers of the Romanian transportation services export flows. The methodology included 12 years and 137 countries, it was based on the gravity model and the panel approach was considered. For the panel regression, EViews 10…

Shopping activities in the 21st century are taking a social dimension rather than mere commercial activities. This is evident in the importance of consumer attachment to shopping and choice of shopping place, which necessitated the increase in the number of megamalls in many cities globally,…

The implementation of programs with the virtual methodology requires a definition of evaluation and quality criteria that guarantee its development. In this sense, the present article evidences the implementation of a maturity model that allows the establishment of quality criteria and improvement plans for the…

The article summarizes the last 30 years of the M&A market in the software industry.  The authors verify a hypothesis if the takeover strategy is still effective and promising. A dataset of over 18,000 transactions was analyzed.  It has been noticed that while company valuations…