Currently, the Bulgarian market is rather limited for the Bulgarian industry. Therefore, most of the middle range industrial enterprises in Bulgaria are export orientated. These enterprises are units in various international supply chains and they implement different forms of mass customization. The supply chain flexibility is main instrument to cope with the increasing uncertainty and competit...

Decreasing innovation cycles, changing market situations as well as growing spe-cialisation in individual market segments demand new ways of economic thinking, increasingly forcing enterprises into cooperations, sometimes even with direct competitors. Presently discussed and designated as the corporate and cooperation model of the future is the so-called virtual enterprise. In this paper, we ad...

Innovation is the engine of development for enterprises, and there is an increasing trend to adopt an open innovation strategy. However, how to manage external resources in an open, collaborative and complementary manner, and in a shared environment that will yield the greatest networking effects, it is a challenging task. Because there is no such a satisfactory model for an open innovation str...

This study uses longitudinal study to compare the difference of the customer relationship management systems among the Taiwan’s enterprises. The basis of the comparison of the longitudinal study depends on the 75 enterprises investigated in Lin’s research. In regard to the analysis of present condition and the development situation for the customer relationship management (CRM) system among the...

Reforms and Productivity Dynamics in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises Institutional change has taken place gradually since 1978 for State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in the Industrial Sector of China. In this paper we estimate the effect of deep reform (the right to hire and fire labour, buy and sell capital and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a ...

In recent years, China's developed regions have transferred industries to undeveloped regions. Large numbers of unlicensed or unregistered enterprises are widespread in these undeveloped regions and they are subject to minimal regulation. Current methods for tracing industrial transfers in these areas, based on enterprise registration information or economic surveys, do not work. We have develo...

The installation and administration of large heterogeneous IT infrastructures, for enterprises as well industrial automation systems, are becoming more and more complex and time consuming. Industrial automation systems present an additional challenge, in that these control and supervise mission critical production sites. Nevertheless, it is common practice to manually install and maintain indus...

An ever-increasing number of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are gaining interest in environmental management systems (EMS). Today, eco-management standards are beginning to spread through the unbounded universe of medium, small and very small enterprises, which represent more than 80% of the total number of enterprises operating in Europe and are the true backbone of its industrial system....

This article focuses on the electricity industry and electricity consumption of population and industrial enterprises in Russia is analyzed. Economic factors that affect energy consumption are studied by the Vector Autoregression Analysis (VAR). The relationship between variables is defined by Granger test, and it also considers scenarios of reactions of electricity consumption on exogenous sho...