Form Of Business Activity Research Articles

Business, risk and organized crime

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to consider organized crime as various forms of business activity which may or may not have attracted the label of criminality. In particular, how perceptions of legitimacy and the effects of other normative factors will influence strongly whether activities, individuals and groupings may be viewed as constituent parts of organized crime.Design/methodology/approachThis paper first discusses some of the ambiguities surrounding the definition and practice of organized crime. It then emphasizes the inherent business focus of much organized crime activity and the crucial importance of legitimacy contexts in decision making seeking to counter organized crime.FindingsThe overall effects of organized crime are generally negative for society and organized crime activity can be brutal and harmful. The paper closes by acknowledging the rationality of at least some organized crime activity.Originality/valueThe paper considers the law enforcement potential in developing counter‐strategies that consider organized crime as part of the continuum of business.

The role of employment in the development of Czech rural areas

The rural area is a very important multifunctional space, with landscape enhancement value and function. These factors are then necessary for the directions of development process in rural communities. The countryside creates an important part of economic and social state system. The area of work and the employment of population into the productive age present ones of significant macro-economic indicators of the capacity of national economy. Changes of economy in the market space, transformation of companies of agricultural primary production to new legal form, restructuring of production and manpower in agriculture  caused leaving of part skilled of the workers, as well as other workers to another branches of national economy. In 1990’s, especially in the beginning during the transformation of Czech economy, there was a big boom of private business and new forms of business activities and subjects emerged. Traditional lifestyle, which continues in the Czech countryside, determined that small enterprise prevails here. Current economics clearly shows that small and medium enterprises have an unsubstitutable role in our economic development and greatly contribute to creating new jobs in individual regions.

Counteracting Industrial Espionage through Counterintelligence: The Case for a Corporate Intelligence Unit and Collaboration with Government Agencies

Industrial espionage is carried out by various companies and some government agencies. Some consider industrial espionage to be a legitimate form of business activity, as it is aimed at obtaining information that is of direct benefit to domestic companies. Industrial espionage is perceived by some governments as a means of acquiring a specific type of technology. In order to safeguard the company against the acts of industrial spies, fraudsters and disillusioned staff, senior management can adopt a pro-active approach to counterintelligence. A corporate intelligence unit can be created which also has a security dimension. The corporate intelligence unit can act as liaison between the company and its constituent parts, and various government agencies. This should ensure that the various strategic management models and tools used by the company's strategists and planners vis-a-vis strategy formulation and implementation are used appropriately.

ONLINE AUCTIONS — GERMANY: ONLINE AUCTIONS UNDER GERMAN CONTRACT LAW

As an open interactive and boundless medium the Internet represents the ideal platform for commercial transactions. It inspires young start-up entrepreneurs as well as established enterprises and is constantly giving rise to new forms of business activity. Apart from group buying or community shopping schemes it is online auctions which are becoming increasingly popular these days. At first sight Internet auctions might seem as nothing else but the transfer of a traditional form of business to the new medium. Yet a closer look will reveal that there exist considerable differences that may well cause legal controversy.

“Normal” Business Behavior and the Justice Department

Antitrust indictments against business firms often appear to businessmen and the community to represent an unfair attack on normal business behavior by an “anti-business” arm of the government. The author examines the rationale for the enforcement of proscriptions against one form of business activity—price fixing—and concludes that where such behavior is concerned, considerations of “fairness” or “normality” can have no bearing.