Za razliku od antičke Grčke, u antičkom Rimu nije bila razvijena ekonomska misao. Većina ekonomskih pitanja kojim su se bavili pisci i mislioci bila su iz područja poljoprivrede. U antičkom Rimu velika su dostignuća ostvarena na području prava koje je dalo početnu osnovu za dalji razvoj ekonomske misli i analize. U radu se analiziraju neki izravni utjecaji Zakonika XII ploča (Leges duodecim tabularum) na gospodarstvo, te se analiziraju doprinosi osam pisaca i mislioca u razmatranju ekonomskih pitanja: Marka Porcija Katona Starijeg, Tiberija i Gaja Grakho, Marka Terencija Varona, Lucije Junija Moderata Kolumele, Tita Lukrecija Kara, Marka Tulija Cicerona i Lucije Aneja Seneke.

Strategic alliances in the retail sector are based on cooperation in a variety of activities, ranging from supply and marketing to knowledge sharing and branding. For their members, they are a source of sustainable competitive advantage. Ever since the 1990s, a growing number of firms from the retail sector have attempted to improve their performance through participation in strategic alliances. The objective of this paper is to explore how participation in strategic alliances influences profitability of firms in the retail sector. A dynamic panel analysis is applied to the data on nearly 3,700 firms obtained from Amadeus, a large firm-level database, for eight countries (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary and Estonia) for the 2007-2012 period. The results of the investigation suggest that participation in strategic alliances positively influences a firm's performance.

Survival of firms requires continuous search for new and a restructuring of the existing competitive advantages. These can come either from firms' internal factors or from cooperation with the environment. Cooperation among firms commonly takes place through the formation of strategic alliances. However, such form of cooperation presents only one stage in the integration of business entities. In the long run, strategic alliances can cease to exist or transform into a higher form of association based on capital integration. The objective of this paper is to explore the determinants of capital integration among strategic alliance member firms in retail sectors of several Central and Southeast European countries. Overall, the obtained findings suggest that business entities engage in integration with the aim of reaching hidden knowledge and skills, accessing distribution and supply channels, and developing new products and services. Integration is also driven with the aim of risk diversification and possible better market positioning, achieving the economies of scale, and improving organization and marketing.The opportunistic behavior of partners and limited managerial control represent its strongest barriers.

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U radu se razmatra nastanak i razvoj islamske civilizacije. U zlatnome dobu (750. -1258.) islamska je civilizacija na više područja zadužila kulturnu povijest, i to kao čuvar, prenositelj i stvaratelj mnogih civilizacijskih tekovina. Kako je važan element islama bila obveza stjecanja znanja, islamski su znanstvenici dali velike doprinose znanosti, između ostaloga u području astronomije, matematike i medicine. U djelima islamskih mislilaca, od Abu Jusufa u 8. stoljeću do Ibn Halduna u 14. stoljeću, vrijedni su doprinosi povijesti ekonomske misli. Time je pobijena teza J. A. Schumpetera o petstogodišnjem jazu u povijesti ekonomskoga rezoniranja i analize, od pada Zapadnoga Carstva do epohe sv. Tome Akvinskoga.Ključne riječi: islamska civilizacija; srednji vijek; znanost; ekonomska misao Uvod U ranome srednjem vijeku, u 7. stoljeću, nastala je nova vjera islam. Islam se u 7. i 8. stoljeću iz svoga izvorišta, Arapskoga poluotoka, proširio na zapadu po sjevernoj Africi do Španjolske, a na istoku do Afganistana i Indije stvarajući novu civilizaciju. U sljedećih nekoliko stoljeća