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In this article, there are global value chain (GVC) analysis applied to recent trends in domestic employment connected with participation in GVC. Traditional statistics do not reveal the full nature of how consumption in one country may drive production and therefore, sustain employment in economies…

The aim of the paper is a thesis that cooperation, trust and relationships are critical to make the economic system based on the market paradigm, more humane; a system which is not to be driven by the overriding rule of maximization of profit. With reference…

The aim of the article was to present the results of research on the effectiveness of work-life balance (WLB) of employees in selected companies in Poland. The research group consisted of 1097 women and men working in Polish enterprises. The authors proposed a method for…

Agriculture, the agri-food system and all the processes that contribute to the generation of different forms of value along the agri-food chains have become increasingly globalized and digitized. The global agri-food value chain does not provide only farmers with the opportunity for generating added-value along…

An approach, referring to the use of tools developed in the field of the management sciences (HRM), may introduce a new quality and perspective for designing tools and setting up effective sports teams, by building on the current knowledge of establishing employee teams. The effects…

In this paper Runge-Kutta implicit methods for solving stiff nonlinear problems were compared. For the study purposes three different approximations were tested: Gauss-Legendre, Radau and Lobatto. In order to compare the methods, the inrush current under no-load state of a 1-phase transformer was calculated. The…

Integrating logistics function is well known and appreciated. The importance of logistics is also growing with the development of integrative tendencies when individual regional markets acquire the character of global markets. The possibility of using logistics as an effective tool of a competitive fight by…

Enterprises wishing to succeed must predict the ways for their conduct in the future. This takes into account the conditions created by the environment, in which the opportunities to exploit and threats to avoid are searched for. For this purpose, the appropriate tools are used. …

Globalisation and a global scale of economic activity of an ever growing number of enterprises are inevitably linked with expanding mobility of both managers and employees. This mobility involves work in multinational companies and multicultural teams, whose members come from different countries and different cultures.…

The field of strategic management has become increasingly concerned with leaders and their effects on strategy formulation, firm performance, and Child’s (1972) notion that leader’s decisions and choices impact firm performance. The idea has been further developed in the work of Hambrick and Mason (1984),…