"Push" and "Pull" Systems in Supply Chain Management. Correlative Approaches in the Military Field

Author(s): Gheorghe Minculete,Polixenia Olar / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

The increase in economic, social and security risks is currently determined by the resource crisis on the one hand, as well as by the economic competition and global military challenges on the other hand, which amplifies instability and jeopardizes the viability of inter-state relations at global level. In these circumstances, the complexity of the economic and military environments determines company managers and military leaders to act by way of “push” and “pull” systems in order to make their own logistic activities more effective, in view of attaining their projected strategic objectives. In the current article we try to briefly address the “push” and “pull”systems within the Supply Chain Management, setting off from the concrete demands of consumers/users in the economic and military fields.

(Dys)functionality of accounting cost systems in manufacturing companies of Tuzla canton

Author(s): Sado Puškarevic,Amra Gadžo / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

This paper shows the results of the conducted primary survey on functionality of cost systems in manufacturing companies of Tuzla Canton (hereinafter “TC”). This paper assesses their adequacy to the needs of these companies: the present needs, and the ones that will be brought by the changes in the environment. These systems have to be up-to-date, as they influence the process of cost management, which is the key factor of companies’ adaptation to the conditions of a modern market. Cost management, which is based on the information of a cost system, enables the company to take the adequate stand towards customers on markets and toward their competition. Also, the quality cost informations a precondition for effective and efficient allocation of limited resources in a transitional period of society development. Therefore, only quality designed cost system in transitional economy will enable recovery, and then, growth and development of a company. This emphasizes the importance of research of the stated issues for transitional countries. The research results should also help to persuade the management about the need to modernize the operation organization, primarily the accounting function, mainly in the part of cost system organization. The determined defects, as well as deviances in relation to current needs for information about costs, are guidelines for an adequate process of redesigning cost systems in companies of transitional economy. This paper shows the results of the conducted primary survey on functionality of cost systems in manufacturing companies of Tuzla Canton (hereinafter “TC”). This paper assesses their adequacy to the needs of these companies: the present needs, and the ones that will be brought by the changes in the environment. These systems have to be up-to-date, as they influence the process of cost management, which is the key factor of companies’ adaptation to the conditions of a modern market. Cost management, which is based on the information of a cost system, enables the company to take the adequate stand towards customers on markets and toward their competition. Also, the quality cost information is a precondition for effective and efficient allocation of limited resources in a transitional period of society development. Therefore, only quality designed cost system in transitional economy will enable recovery, and then, growth and development of a company. This emphasizes the importance of research of the stated issues for transitional countries. The research results should also help to persuade the management about the need to modernize the operation organization, primarily the accounting function, mainly in the part of cost system organization. The determined defects, as well as deviances in relation to current needs for information about costs, are guidelines for an adequate process of redesigning cost systems in companies of transitional economy.

,,Narażenie na znaczne niedogodności” jako przesłanka odstąpienia od konsumenckiej umowy sprzedaży

Author(s): Tadeusz Kierzyk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 6/2013

The article is a concise work which contains the most significant issues from the field of withdrawing form the consumer’s sales agreement. The author of the article conducts a detailed analysis of a very crucial prerequisite related to withdrawing from such an agreement, i.e. “exposure to a considerable inconvenience”. The author is of the opinion that the period itself, when the consumer does not have the product he has bought, due to e.g. complaint, is a great inconvenience however it is not yet a considerable one. Following the analysis, the author conducted, he draws de lege ferenda conclusion, for the legislator to ease the conditions when the withdrawal is possible, without a considerable inconvenience aspect as well as for the legislator to specify the maximum time to settle the complaint issue, leaving at the same time the appropriate time to deal with it.

14th International Scientific Conference Business Logistics in Modern Management

Author(s): Jelena Franjkovic / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2014

15th International Scientific Conference “Business Logistics in Modern Management”

Author(s): Jelena Franjkovic / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

16 Years of the Euro Area – Increase of GDP and Payment Balance

Author(s): Jan Ostoj / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2016

The paper makes an attempt at description of the impact of monetary integration on the most important macroeconomic indicators of the Euro area against the background of those countries which retained their national currency. As the main indicator describing changeability of economic growth in the EU countries the author assumed the average annual real GDP growth calculated in relation to the base value of GDP in 2003. The profile of payment balance (BPM5) of selected countries focuses on relations resulting from financing of trade turnover account balance by balance of the financial account and, particularly on direct and portfolio investments. The analysis was conducted in the context of basic relationships from the theory of the optimum payment area.

16. MEĐUNARODNA KONFERENCIJA IZ OPERACIJSKIH ISTRAŽIVANJA KOI 2016

Author(s): Marijana Zekic-Sušac,Rudolf Scitovski / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 2/2016

25 lat wolnego rynku nieruchomości. Analiza SWOT

Author(s): Leszek Kalkowski,Maciej W. Wierzchowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 95/2016

The aim of this article is a synthetic presentation of the results of the assessment of the current state of the Polish real estate market, achieved after twenty-five years of its functioning in the conditions of market economy. The assessment was based on the SWOT analysis method in which supplementally, for the quantification of individual factors characterising the market, the method of Geneva (indicator method) was used. It was estimated that in 2014 the sum of: • positive characteristics reached a total of 175 points compared to 200 possible (the Polish real estate market does not use approximately 12.5% of the value associated mainly with stimulating demand and the activation of our market for foreign investors); • negative characteristics reached a total of 105 points out of 200 possible (the Polish real estate market is facing the neutralisation of a half of imperfections, resulting mainly from the poor economic condition of households, poor land management in urban areas).

36th Osijek - Pforzheim Symposium Review

Author(s): Ana Pap / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

3D LEADERSHIP – STRATEGY-LINKED LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK FOR MANAGING TEAMS

Author(s): James Thomas Kunnanatt / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2016

Classic leadership theories – the traditional, behavioral, situational, transactional, transformational and visionary models – have all been successful in the past in guiding managers on how to develop, motivate and inspire fellow associates for excelling performance. But modern organizations have become increasingly complex, nonlinear and strategically-responsive entities structured with advanced networks of highly empowered teams of knowledge workers, making it difficult for any one of these theories to singularly address the challenge of providing strategic guidance to team managers particularly in today’s dynamic global business environment. 3D Leadership, the framework presented here, is a multi-theory integrated approach that combines the visionary, transformational and transactional dimensions of leadership into a single practicable leadership framework that draws upon findings from both past and recent leadership research. STL incorporates a three-stage bi-dimensional behavioral intervention model for team management practice and provides step-by-step guidance to modern team managers on how to integrate work deliveries and competencies of teammates with the vision, mission, goals and chosen strategies of their firm.

5. MEĐUNARODNI ZNANSTVENI SIMPOZIJ GOSPODARSTVO ISTOČNE HRVATSKE – VIZIJA I RAZVOJ

Author(s): Katica Križanovic / Language(s): Croatian / Issue: 2/2016

6335 Sayılı Kanun Değişikliği Sonrası Yeni Türk Ticaret Kanunu’nda Ticari Defterlerin Yeni Düzeni Ve Finansal Raporlama

Author(s): Koray Tuan / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 6/2013

Turkish Commercial Code No. 6762, which remained in force for over 55 years, has provided for the development of commercial activity in a specific order. However, Turkish Commercial Code was insufficient to cover the current needs in the face of major changes occurring in the economic and trade life of Turkey and the rest of the world. This situation certainly gave rise to the need for preparation and implementation of an update commercial code. For this purpose, the New Turkish Commercial Code No. 6102 (New TCC) entered into force on July 1, 2012. Code No. 6335, as a 50 articles revision package, entered into force in conjunction with the New TCC published in Official Gazette No. 28339, dated June 30, 2012 in order to prevent problems that might arise in practice and to facilitate adaptation of legislation before effective date of the New TCC. In this study, the radical innovations and regulations on the order of entry of commercial books and financial reporting issues under the Code No. 6102, which also includes the changes of Code No. 6335, were examined and evaluated.

A 3-FACTOR MODEL RELATING COMMUNICATION TO RISK MITIGATION OF EXTENDED INFORMATION SYSTEM FAILOVER

Author(s): Athanasios Podaras / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2015

This paper aims to analyse the relation between timely and effective communication and risk mitigation of late recovery after an unexpected information system outage in enterprises. An unforeseen information system failure in modern enterprise units, may result to significant operational and financial damage. In such a critical incident, effective communication between the team leaders and the recovery team involved, can minimize or even eliminate this negative impact. An extended information system outage can be perceived as a time deviation from the Maximum Accepted Outage (ΜΑΟ) timeframe, proposed by the business continuity management, according to the value of which dependent business functions may be interrupted without any serious effects to the company. The paper examines the relation between 3 basic factors and the efficient communication between team members. The factors are: timely information distribution, staff availability and network availability. Through the current paper, the author proposes a risk analysis model, based on the Composite Risk Index theory of Risk Management, which can significantly diminish the possibility of an extended information system outage, as well as calculate the extended time required to recover a system when the aforementioned factors emerge in their worst form. The precise calculation of recovery time can be achieved via the execution of business continuity tests which include scenarios, according to which an unexpected system outage coexists with delayed information distribution as well as low staff and network availability.

A Bibliometric Study of Supply Chain Management

Author(s): Anil Kumar / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

Supply chain management (SCM) has developed more than three decades. However, very fewer studies explore knowledge dimension of SCM. The purpose of this study is to examine the knowledge dimension of SCM through Bibliometric method. Data was collected from J-Gate online database. In this context, this article aims to review scientific literature related to the supply chain management, published in the J-gate database. Using the term supply chain management and organisational performance, 69 articles were found since 2010-2014, but only 59 articles fulfil the selection criteria, being included in the analysis. The items investigated, by year of publication, were: study type, methodology, type of supply chain investigated, authorship pattern, country-wise distribution of articles. As the survey results, the year 2013 had the highest number of publications, 42% in total; the research method most often used was others while literature review was consider as the second most preferred method for the study. The contribution of this study is to provide core knowledge for both researchers and practitioners to understand the aspects of SCM.

A CASE STUDY ON THE POTENTIAL BENEFITS OF CONSOLIDATION WITHIN TRANSPORT, LOGISTICS, AND FREIGHT FORWARDING CLUSTERS IN THE POMERANIAN REGION

Author(s): Jagienka Rzesny-Cieplinska / Language(s): English / Issue: 8/2016

This paper focuses on the advantages of the companies that act in cooperation/clusters, as an approach to prevent the possible gain of interest for competitive products. Companies operating in the forwarding, transportation, and logistics sector are seeking original methods to become competitive. Price has lost its importance when selecting transportation and logistics services providers. Nowadays, it is the quality of service rates that is considered most important, followed by reliability, flexibility, and the product range. We will examine the rest of the factors influencing customers’ choice of freight forwarding, transportation, or logistics operators, in this paper.

A Comprehensive performance evaluation and ranking methodology under a sustainable development perspective

Author(s): Li-Chang Hsu,Shang-Ling Ou,Yih-Chang Ou / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2015

Under industry globalization and the intensely competitive environment, a company's competitiveness must constantly be upgraded in order to achieve the goal of sustainability. Therefore, the correct and valid evaluation of companies’ sustainable performance has become an important issue. The main purpose of this study is to discuss and establish a sustainable performance evaluation criteria and model for companies. First, the measurements of companies’ financial, credit risk, environmental and social responsibility are integrated to create sustainable business performance evaluation criteria. Then, we integrate grey relational analysis and an improved TOPSIS method to construct a sustainable performance evaluation model for companies. In order to verify the findings of this study, we adopt Taiwan's high-tech listed companies as the research object to explore sustainable operating performance and ranking in 2011. The empirical results will help companies to build future business strategies and can also be used as an important reference for investor and bank credit auditing.

A Concept of Team Control in Organizations

Author(s): Maya Lambovska / Language(s): English / Issue: 1 Eng/2014

This study aims to develop the conceptual and methodological foundations forteam control in organizations. It presents a concept of team control, which combinesclassical and modern achievements of a number of management and mathematicaltheories. The concept is based on a comprehensive toolkit which includes managementand advanced mathematical tools from the theory of fuzzy logic and the theory of fuzzysubsets. The study consists of four parts. Part one clarifies the author’s conceptregarding the nature and characteristics of a team. Part two elaborates on theconceptual foundations of the team control process. Part three contains the author’smodel of team control in an organization. Part four presents the results of testing themodel of team control at Todor Kableshkov University of Transport – Sofia.

A Consumer and Investment Model of Housing Demand of Iran: Estimation and Policy Implications

Author(s): Mohsen Amini Khouzani,Davoud Behboudi,Parviz Mohammadzadeh,Mahmoud Shirkosh,Ehsan Rajabi / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

This paper presents a study of the housing demand in Iran according to the consumer and investment approach during the period of 1995-2011. The first approach is based on a statistical evaluation of the consumer function, based on system equations, which describes the consumer housing demand as five groups of consumer goods and services. The second approach evaluates the consumer housing demand as a separate investment good, which depends on several factors. Based on the achieved results, the paper makes an analysis of the influence of the different factors on the consumer housing demand.In consumer approach behavior of the consumers of deciles urban households in all over the country has been assessed, through the panel data by using the Linear Expenditure System (LES) with using Seemingly Unrelated Regression Estimation (SURE) housing consumption demand of households are estimated. Result shows that housing market has been support law of demand with negative income elasticity of 0.81. Also the cross-elasticity of all groups are negative which is indicating that these commodities are supplement for the housing good in the consumption household budget. The second approach, capital characteristic of the commodity, investigates the impact of price house, and household income, local gold price, consumer goods price index and housing credits on effective housing demand of Iran in same period. The main result of this approach is that price elasticity of housing is positive.

A COOPERATIVE RISK MANAGEMENT APPROACH FOR LARGE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

Author(s): Konrad Spang / Language(s): English / Issue: VIII/2014

Large Infrastructure projects face many risks due to their complex technical and social conditions. But who is handling a risk is often not the result of an adequate risk distribution, it is more a function of power. And even though systematic risk management should be a basic element of a professional project management, it is not normative in the execution phase and it is unusual in the design phase of these projects. Contractors often take only risks into account, which are obvious or described by the client. They often disregard risks, because it seems to be no “space” in the bid because of the market situation. Clients rarely have a systematic risk management in their projects and are not focused on a fair risk allocation, they try to allocate as much risks as possible at the contractors side. This paper presents an approach for a cooperative and integral risk management for infrastructure projects, the design and the execution phase included. Recent literature and field study results are considered. This holistic approach includes elements as the clients process responsibility, life cycle orientation, a minimizing concept, risk transparency, a risk list, cooperative risk management, risk controlling and risk reviews.

A Critical Review of Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

Author(s): Ali Çaglar Güllüce / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2010

The role of emotional intelligence and leadership is becoming increasingly important. Effectiveness relies on the ability of leaders to respond to ongoing pressures and to manage others efficiently. One goal of the emotional intelligence is to improve the effectiveness of today’s and future leaders by implementing rigorous standards for selecting, developing, and assessing leaders. This focus on leader selection and development has prompted an interest in examining the qualities of successful leaders. Recently, interest in the new concept of emotional intelligence has flourished as a result of the claims suggesting that emotional intelligence can be used to select and develop successful leaders. Leaders who exhibit heightened levels of emotional intelligence may be more likely to engage in transformational leadership behaviours than those individuals who possess lower levels of emotional. However, only a few studies have examined the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership. The purpose of this paper is to present a review of emotional intelligence models and measures, and to make a conceptual link between components that fall under the concept of emotional intelligence and effective leadership behaviours.