Professional Service Organizations Meeting the Challenges of a Changing Business Environment

Knowledge management in human resource management: Foreign-owned subsidiaries’ practices in four CEE countries

“…(Karoliny, Farkas & Poór, 2009;Karoliny-Poór, 2010).  The results of our collected and published theoretical and empirical examinations in the field of knowledge management (e.g., Dobrai 2008, Dobrai-Farkas 2007.  Also the research experience we gained over recent years during our analyses in the field of change management (Farkas, 2013), management consulting and organizational and national culture (Jarjabka, 2009).…”

Both Sides of CSR Practice: A Case from Oil and Gas Industry in Kazakhstan

“…These two views are grounded historically contradictory, but the short history of Kazakh oil and gas industry was not able to offer effective mechanisms to cope with this paradox, yet. The time has arrived for working out a system of knowledge intensive professional business service model which is able to meet the needs of international CSR concepts argues for this concept the professors of University of Pécs Faculty of Economics and Business Katalin Dobrai and Ferenc Farkas who are privileged researchers of KIBS topic [12].…”

Knowledge-intensive business services: A brief overview

“…To the hard factors belong factors which build the framework for the operation of organizations, such as legal regulations (Lowendahl, 2001). Service quality depends on meeting both national and international standards, fulfilling professional norms (Dobrai and Farkas, 2007). Market situation, the trends both on the supply and the demand side can influence how KIBS deliver services to their clients (regionally or internationally operating KIBS vs. local providers).…”