as one way to approach industrial symbiosis, environmental infrastructure sharing is principally concerned with providing an integrated environmental utility system for clustered firms. it is based on the assumption that environmental infrastructure sharing can improve the regional competitive advantage by reducing overall cost and improving environmental performance. in order to verify the ass...

J. Machnik-Słomka, P. Kordel, The Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Organization and Management, Poland Tis article presents the categories of technological entrepreneurship and creativity that constitute a new perspective on developmental mechanisms of contemporary enterprises. These mechanisms are of particular significance in relation to industrial enterprises, including metallur...

Location is an important factor in the activity of economic enterprises. Owing to the importance, location-based sciencesought/seeks to provide the methods in order to determine and select the optimal location in the activities of enterprises. Enterprises seek to use scientific methods to maximize the services and efficiency and minimize the costs. Suitable location plays an important role in m...

China’s industrial state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are commonly perceived as performing poorly. This leads authors to conclude that SOE reform so far has been a failure, and to recommend all-out privatization. Industrial SOE profitability indeed declined drastically in the course of the reform period, and industrial SOEs are always less profitable than industrial non-SOEs. However, the gap betwe...

Virtual manufacturing enterprises (VMEs) are a current, viable, and strategic form of organization for business and other organizations. The perspectives described in this literature review are based upon a basic cluster analysis that identified and classified papers into homogenous subgroups with meaningful themes, or categories. These general themes are related to strategies for business orga...