The study focuses on the understanding of the impact of Total Quality Management (TQM) in firms in South-East Europe (SEE). One hundred structured in-depth interviews were conducted with a mixture of firms in SEE, mainly with middle and top level managers. The main fact of the study is that...

Many reforms are based on the recasting of health and social sector in France and Romania. The two countries do not have the same needs but what they have in common is the need to transform the role of the state. The economic analyse of law allows us to offer an interpretation of these...

The paper refers to a distinction between limitative and generative ethics. The main idea is that, if ethics is to be of any help for managers, it has to provide applicable principles that can morally orient managerial decisions, and avoid abstract principles that are usually used not to help...

More and more organizations are now concerned with the implementation of risk management processes as a proactive function in maintaining economic and financial balance. Losses registred by both companies and employees or managers may become pressure pillars of fraud triangle, increasing the...

The fast development of the information and communication technology in the last few years and its impact on the society and the economy are reasons for investigating the issues regarding this sensitive field of activity. Starting with a short history of telecommunications around the world, the...

The transition to lean production is difficult. Creating and sustaining an organizational culture where learning and continuous improvement are a priority is a challenge. Assa Abloy is a multinational organization that focuses on quality and employee empowerment. In the last few years Assa Abloy...

This study provides a short literature review in information systems security (ISS) approaches either technical or non-technical in nature. Although, the benefits and uses of the technical information systems security approaches are valuable, there is still a need to investigate the alternative...

This article discusses the effect of the entrepreneur’s profile on financing his creative project. It analyzes the impact of overconfidence on improving perceptions financing capacity of the project. To analyze this relationship we used networks as Bayesian data analysis method. Our sample is...

Lifelong learning has grabbed the attention of both scholars and practitioners in the last decade and has developed into an orientation embraced by universities from all over the world as creators of knowledge and providers of learning for the knowledge economy. This article proposes a...

The paper analyses the present market that is a continual evolution and underlines the main objectives a company has to concentrate in order to obtain increasingly results. Clients become more and more interested by customized products rather than one standard product. As a result companies face...