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An alternative simple method is proposed for the assessment of the ability of liquid materials to transport thermal energy, driven by a temperature gradient. The quantity J = kN × ρ × Cp for different liquids correlates with the corresponding values of thermal conductivity (l)…

The current market environment requires businesses to pay continuous attention, mainly because of competitiveness. It is very important to continuously develop and adapt management system as external conditions and strategy, which they decided to apply. Business process management is the indisputable successor of the classic…

Small Business Act for Europe pinpoints that small and medium size businesses have the key role in the EU economy. Small and medium size enterprise (SME) policy framework developed in 2008 for EU member states puts special emphasis on the development of ICT. Therefore, the…

This paper deals with the analysis of employment data of the 2008 economic crises. The analyses are done by using entropy measures that can help with predicting regional employment dynamics. Our finding suggests that the Shannon entropy and Tsallis entropy are significant predictors for the…

This study intends to analyse the effects of leadership and organizational culture in innovation in small, medium and large Portuguese enterprises. The sample is composed of 102 organizations (68.6% small, 24.5% medium-sized and 5.9% large companies), from which a total of 854 workers answered to…

The paper aims to identify and systematise meso environmental regional factors stimulating innovativeness of enterprises. Based on analyses of subject literature and own experience, the author distinguishes five main groups of regional conditions of innovativeness: financial (1) and advisory (2) support from local authorities, stimulation…

This paper has the objective to analyze the obstacles and opportunities of Universities knowledge construction throughout partaking process. In schools, teachers are the main knowledge trigger, not only producing and transmitting new knowledge, but also integrating new technologies in classrooms. Teachers´ participatory model to construct…

When looking at the duration of unemployment, we observe that women are more unemployed than men in all durations of the unemployment, but we don’t see how gender inequality changed with time. To describe the unemployment gender inequality, we need to extract it from the…

One of the main key factors for conducting reliable impact assessments of macroeconomic policies represents the accessibility to accurate and consistent databases. This requirement becomes a must for the government institutions in order to take informed decisions and perform impact assessments of past macro-economic initiatives.…

The global economy has become more and more integrated, and the multinational corporations are increasing their share on the global trade. The global multinationals can benefit the most from the way how the tax systems are set up and thereby, they can minimalize the tax…