Polish Journal of Management Studies

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Authors: Karas Lubomir, Ferencova Martina

When choosing travel tours several factors play an important role such as a destination, purpose of travel tour, the agency's reputation, mode of transportation, accommodation, food, but price and any discounts. This article discusses the survey of attitudes of students of Faculty of Management University of Presov in Presov toward travel tour prices. Prispevok vznikol ako sucast riesenia grantoveho projektu VEGA c. 1/0876/10.

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Authors: Scortar Lucia-Monica, Mortan Maria, Vincentiu Veres, Anamaria Marin

In many technological societies, after the Industrial Revolution the problem of solid waste was appeared because of changing the consumption pattern of society. The part of solid waste which is related to the municipality is called municipal solid waste.

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Authors: Grabara Janusz, Bajdor Paula, Okwiet Bartlomiej

Costs are in all aspects of each company. Some of the most noticeable costs of business are the costs associated with storage, transportation and distribution the products of the company. In this case a significant impact on reducing these costs is to use the services of logistics centers, specializing in trading all kinds of goods. The purpose of this article is to show how the transfer of logistical supplies from the distribution center logistics contributes to a significant reduction in costs incurred by the company and streamline its operation.

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Authors: Mihalache Silvia-Stefania

In this paper we have tried to present the most important characteristics of unemployment, its forms of manifestation and involvement, its analysis based on its specific marks, as well as the means of fighting it. We related these findings to the level of unemployment in Alba County for a better exemplification and understanding. The data provided by Employment Agency of Alba Iulia (U.A. of Alba Iulia) reflects the economic reality.

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Authors: Benmoussa Rachid

In this paper, we draw the thinking context for production process piloting according to flexibility approach. We apply a transversal process that defines the strategic purposes and deploys them on business processes and activities to define at the end action levers that permit reaching the fixed strategic targets. Flexibility concept is deployed through this process. We propose in this way concepts as volume, delay and variety flexibility at strategic level and concepts as unavailability, effectiveness, flow, product, process flexibility at business level. The definition of action plan leads us to introduce the concept of flexibility-type and determine correspondent performance indicators. Our work focuses mainly on delay flexibility.

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Authors: Farkasne Fekete Maria, Gonda Gyorgy

This paper describes and analyses the importance and usefulness of different controlling tools, which are used by two companies of the case studies. The organizational structure of the companies and their main key parameters are shown and analised. The paper focuses only on the sales activities and sales structures of these companies and brings up working solutions for some commonly occurring problems in business operations. The two companies of the case studies strongly differ from each other in many aspects and we can notice that they use different controlling tools for the same problems and challenges they have to face.

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Authors: Benaissa Mounir, Benabdelhafid Abdellatif, Akkouri Zina

The importance of quality management practices in the achievement of operational results and customer satisfaction in logistics has been asserted in many studies. Satisfy the customer through the control of the triptych "Quality, Cost, Time." Therefore, the survival of enterprises must include control of all processes. Or, find the links existing between the logistics chain parts and requirements of the quality process is not easy, for this reason it is better to make mapping process to award the possible links so that we can adapt these two concepts together. This paper presents the results of an exploratory survey investigating the status of quality management practices in the logistics function in the logistics chain of shipping maritime transportation.

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Authors: Hoeck Michael, Ringle Christian

This paper explores the long-term partnership benefits of local strategic alliances in the software industry. A structural model of the value continuum is formulated and tested on data from small and midsize enterprises in Germany. Partial Least Squares Analysis is used to investigate the effect-casual-relations between foundation values, i.e. efficiency and effectiveness, and the innovation value. The results of our empirical study show that the innovation value of localized inter-firm networks originates from costs savings and quality improvements. On the contrary, alliance-induced ´speed´, measured by an acceleration of the R&D process, improved flexibility and/or shortened delivery time, has no significant impact on the market-based performance. Time-related benefits of alliances stated in literature may be important to maintain competitive parity, but they do support competitive advantage, market development and market penetration. Instead, value is created, among others, via exchange of tacit knowledge and reduction of transaction costs, particularly by a reduction of customer service costs.