Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic professional organizations individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings a variety of other publications.

Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic professional organizations individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings a variety of other publications.

Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic professional organizations individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings a variety of other publications.

This paper presents an empirical criterion for establishing privatization priorities for state-owned enterprises. The approach uses firm performance, defined as productive efficiency, as the basis for deciding the sequence in which firms are privatized. Sequencing is relevant because the order in which state enterprises are taken up for privatization has efficiency implications, and an appropri...

Purpose – Firms operating in the service sector must have a dynamic structure to be competitive in a volatile business environment. The dynamic structure brings skilled employees and talented managers together to create effective strategies for global competition. In traditional retail service companies, the majority of the staff interacts intensively with the clients and engaged in advanced fa...

This article provides an economic explanation regarding why the share of U.S. pork raised on company-owned farms with hired management (integration) is increasing relative to production through independently owned-and-operated contract growers (contracting). The article develops a property rights model that shows how in certain circumstances production contracts do not transfer sufficient contr...