Ellenőrzési aspektusok a vállalatok versenyképességének szemszögéből = Control aspects and competitiveness in business companies

Ez a műhelytanulmány a 2009-es versenyképesség kutatás során 317 vállalatra kiterjedő kérdőíves felmérés konkrét adataiból emeli ki az ellenőrzéssel, kontrollal összefüggő tényezőket és ezek eredményeit hasonlítja össze a hazai és nemzetközi szakirodalom ide vonatkozó elméleteivel. A kutatási kérdések arra irányulnak, hogy milyen részekből, feladatokból, tevékenységekből tevődnek össze a vezetők ellenőrzési feladatai, azok mikre terjednek ki, és mennyiben tekinthetők fejlettnek a versenyképes vállalatoknál. A műhelytanulmányban konkrétan a kontrolling eszköztár, a belső ill. pénzügyi ellenőrzés és kockázatkezelés, valamint a minőségirányítási sztenderdek, szabványok által megkövetelt ellenőrzési mechanizmusok vizsgálata történik a hazai, 50 főt meghaladó vállalkozások esetében. A műhelytanulmány a klasszikus kutatási jelentések sémájában készült, elméleti felvezetéssel és szakirodalmi áttekintéssel indít, majd második részében a konkrét versenyképesség adatbázis adatainak bemutatása történik a témában, végül összegzés, segítő szószedet és irodalomjegyzék zárja azt. _______ This workpaper is a report of controlmechanisms used by Hungarian companies. The latest stage of the Competitivness Research project started in 2009 during which data were collected from 317 Hungarian companies. Themes of this workpaper are controlmechanism, or controll-framework of the companies and connection between controlmechanism and competitiveness. Main elements of the research are: controlling aspects, internal and financial audits completed by managment including critical risks, audits according to ISO 9001:2008 standards or other standards, and the way these elements support or influence the competitiveness of the companies. The structure of this workpaper follows the common parts of other research reports. It begins with details of the theoretical background and presents main publications of the topic, than goes through several direct analisys and tests regarding the Hungarian competitiveness database of 2009. At the end the of the workpapaper a basic summary can be found with a glossary of explanations, and a bibliography of cited papers and publications.

International cooperation against climate change: institutions, policies and their efficiency

In the 20th century nature of the world economy has started to change significantly, and the former state-centric constellation disappeared. Several development factors that induced the change are still active and nowadays we live in a much different world. The world economy consists of transnational networks; these complicated systems have a great impact on the world of states. The transnational actors’ (multinational corporations, non-governmental organizations etc) influence became very essential as they are able to mobilize the society, have high expertise (think tanks), but it is also important to note their financial strength and moral effects (norm entrepreneurs).

Transition and Foreign Aid Policies in the Visegrád Countries: A Path Dependant Approach

The paper argues that the current emerging international development policies of the Visegrád (V4) countries are heavily influenced by the certain aspects of the communist past and the transition process. Due to these influences, the V4 countries have difficulties in adapting the foreign aid practices of Western donors and this leads to the emergence of a unique Central and Eastern European development cooperation model. As an analytical background, the paper builds on the path dependency theory of transition. A certain degree of path dependence is clearly visible in V4 foreign aid policies, and the paper analyzes some aspects of this phenomenon: how these new emerging foreign aid donors select their partner countries, how much they spend on aid, how they formulate their aid delivery policies and institutions and what role the non state actors play. The main conclusions of the paper are that the legacies of the communist past have a clear influence and the V4 countries still have a long way to go in adapting their aid policies to international requirements.