Most lately, the attention of technical trading analysis has shifted to emerging stock markets which collectively bring a signifi cant alternative source of opportunities to international investors. Accordingly, the aim of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness of four technic...

The article is aimed to draw the attention to the essential features of the business processes and business systems in the context of their modeling. We follow the root ideas of cybernetics in order to explain the concept of intentionality and its consequences in b...

In the service industry, the importance of achieving the satisfaction of all involved agents is widely recognized. It is important to note that within the service sector, the hospitality sector involves a high degree of personal contact between hotel staff and customers, dur...

The paper offers a methodological solution to measuring infl ation forecast targeting (IFT). IFT is a central bank’s procedure which consists in: producing its own infl ation forecast, revealing its results and making interest rates decisions on the basis of the forecast. In...

The growing fi nancial problems of healthcare institutions contribute to the search of methods in properly distributing and clearly justifying resources. One of these is detecting outliers accounting for an important share of hospital costs. The aim of the study is to identi...

The Balanced Scorecard method (BSC) has emerged since the late 1990s (as proposed by Kaplan and Norton) as one of the most successful concepts in the fi eld of strategic performance management. It has evolved from its early use as a simple performance measurement f...

Dynamical development of information and communication technologies has been one of the major factors of economic growth in recent decades. Electronic commerce allowed selling and buying of products or services to many times larger number of customers than ever before. Electronic ...

The article introduces a new methodology of digital shadow economy estimation, which is based on the principles of the MIMIC method. This new methodology complements traditional methodologies of shadow economy estimation with such a component as digital shadow economy. Our analy...

Fiscal decentralization in the context of the reallocation of public resources is a complex and multifaceted process, which fosters social priorities and strategies. The main objective is to increase the self-reliance and self-suffi ciency of municipalities related to allocation effi ...

This article aims to evaluate the impact of the development of different types of loans in the banking sector on economic development. We will begin with the hypothesis that economic performance increases with the growth of the rate of various types of loans. We wi...

Electronic commerce in the business-to-consumer sphere (B2C e-commerce) represents a signifi cant factor in the competitiveness of companies and entire economies. The purpose of this paper is to propose a tool to evaluate and compare B2C e-commerce intensity in economies. The&#x...

The current paper delineates a modern algorithmic procedure for estimating the risk and calculating a realistic duration of interrupted critical computerized business activities, in order to mitigate or prevent their corresponding negative consequences. The contribution is formulated via mergin...

Tourism is a sector of remarkable economic importance. Nowadays, new ways to develop tourism are being discovered. One of them is accessibility and social policy aspects. The aim of the paper is to map the possibilities for people with physical disabilities to participate in t...

The subject of the paper is to carry out evaluation of the current information openness of municipalities through the structured observation method, via their web pages. The aim of the paper is to assess the transparency level of municipalities in the Czech Republic. It...

Much of the earlier literature was focused on the link between corporate social responsibility and corporate fi nancial performance, with contradictory conclusions regarding the impact of corporate social responsibility upon corporate fi nancial performance in the literature. Departing from�...

Insurance is a fi nancial service in which consumption is highly affected by the characteristics of the potential buyer and his perceptions about the offered product. Motor insurance with its two components – the Motor Third Party Liability Insurance (MTPL) and the Motor...

The current research investigates the moderating infl uence of consumer demographics on the relationship between customers’ perceptions of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and their corporate brand loyalty towards retail banks in Romania, a typical developing country and one of ...