The industrial cluster concept has become a subject of intense research studies and economic analysis starting with the study conducted by Michael E. Porter regarding the competitive advantage of nations. This concept is an economic phenomenon that is placed in a competitive context in which...

This paper work deals with skilled migration and its repercussions on tourism sector, from a developing country perspective. The authors sustain the idea that Brain Drain phenomenon represents a threat to Romania’s economic development, mainly regarding tourism sector. This topic was chosen...

The agri-food industry is a significant resource for the European economy. However, the competitiveness of this industry seems to be at risk due to its many structural problems (i.e. extreme fragmentation, energy-related and service issues, low R&D investment levels). In order to boost the...

Technological and informational progress is among the leading factors that allow the increasing degree of economical liberalization and the shaping of a society that is based, first of all, an knowledge. From the first industrial revolution, the progress has manifested increasingly strong, it...

The main purpose of this paper is to promote the work of a great team and to offer to the academic society and not only, the results of this achievement. All the theoretical and practical views focus on making a rigurous inventory of all that means rural tourism, a field that grows each second...

In trying to understand the history of spa activities in Italy from an economic perspective, one could but acknowledge the importance of the efforts spa resorts are making today to differentiate their activities with the purpose of tackling the crisis of the sector that started in the 90’s and...

The negative social effects caused by consumerism and especially hiperconsumerism leaded, in the recent years, to the emergence and rapid growth of economic importance of new types of consumer - the new consumer - whose attitudes, aspirations and purchasing patterns are different from those...

At the beginning of strategic planning, the system used by most companies was rudimentary and limited to setting annual budgets and extending the current sales of the company and marketing environment trends to a period of several years. Further, based on these forecasts, managers took a series...

In the paper we analyze a contractual relationship between two economic agents using a standard Principal-Agent approach from the theory of incentives. The Principal wants to delegate a production activity to an Agent privately informed about his marginal cost of production. This problem...

The present paper work deals with theoretical concepts regarding the reasons that may lead to a project’s failure or success. The primary aim of the work paper is to help readers to get a view of conceptualizations of project management and its phases, while providing an opportunity to see the...