Competitive intelligence as part of knowledge management is still in its infancy. This paper aims to identify the critical success factors and best practices of competitive intelligence through analyzing the experiences of several organizations. The paper starts by defining what is knowledge can...

Given its function of adjustment the economic processes, state made expenditures for activities and important economic goals financing commercial companies with state capital, private or mixed, the small farmers and other entrepreneurs. The operation of public economic sector is considered by...

This paper envisages looking at the theories related to the study of the Country of Origin Effect (COE), specifically in relationship with two types of products: goods with physical appearance and services. It starts from the growing international character of different types of products and...

Davenport and Prusak in their book, Working Knowledge , have formulated a very clear and bright definition of knowledge. They state that, "Knowledge is neither data nor information, though it is related to both and the differences are often a matter of degree. Unlike data, information has a...

After 1990 with the emergence of major crises in Latin America and Russia, Country risk has gained a broad economic and political spectrum. There for implications of country risk have been combining quantitative analysis tools with the qualitative ones. Paper addresses the following topics...

The financial problems that the entire world has had to face in recent years have made economists question the practices that they support and companies implement. This is not the first large scale economic crisis and chances are it won’t be the last. Only in the last century the world has had...

In Romania, after joining the European Union all organizations have to be approved to be aligned with standards and legislation. Large corporations have fewer difficulties in this regard, because the technology came to Romania and conditions of planning and organization at European level.To see...

This communication attempts to bring up the unacceptable situation the Romanian society is in relative to the possibilities offered by the current science and technique. Although most major issues of the social and economic life are solved in elevated manners at the society level, Romanian...

In a world dominated by "change and innovation", manifested always and everywhere, which has profound implications for contemporary society as a whole, the speed with which information flows, globalization of higher education, learning and research achievements, universities provide rapid...

The uncertainty related to the usage of computer networks and of the IC&T, forces the companies to adopt a global approach of information, technological and cyber risk management. This approach has to take into account both the accelerated evolution of the Information and Communication...