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Proposal for Effective Planning of Cooperation Activities in a Company

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Aim of this article is to offer a proposal for effective planning of cooperation activities in a company, based on a comprehensive analysis of scientific literature and performed empirical research. This work enabled authors to describe the planning process of cooperation activities. The article thus offers a tool that can be used by company managers in their efforts to manage cooperation projects and activities. The article also deals with the specifics of planning in cooperation management as well as of planning a cooperation project in a company. Use of effective planning is meant to help minimize occurrence of conflicts and to support problem-free course of the cooperation activities, particularly from the project perspective.

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This paper was partially supported by the Slovak scientific grant VEGA 1/0621/14 Marketing management in cooperative environment – Proposal of strategic cooperation management implementation model.

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    Viliam Lendel, Josef Vodák & Jakub Soviar

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Lendel, V., Vodák, J., Soviar, J. (2015). Proposal for Effective Planning of Cooperation Activities in a Company. In: Kő, A., Francesconi, E. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 9265. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22389-6_25

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