European business market as we know it in the XXI century has a history of about 1200 years. This market driven by sea trade, by the spirit of competition that developed required technological development and by the industrial revolution, has issued a culture of its own, embodied in our today...

The difference between the economic agents that offer similar products or services is made based on quality. Consumers are too poor to accept poor quality goods. Ant the other external pressures accentuate the importance of quality as competitive advantage, in relation with increasing...

The core of our paperwork consists in determining a classification of qualitative and quantitative causes that are influencing service companies’ performance and financial health based on grey systems theory and fuzzy sub-sets. The quantitative causes of firms’ performance are mainly...

Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) are new, innovative ways in which the public and the private sector can cooperate to efficiently build infrastructure assets by sharing risks and rewards and focusing on elements that each of them excel in. Over the course of the last half of century, several...

The present article intends to evaluate the importance of implementing CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) as one of the top strategic priorities of a company, with specific examples from the food industry, within a European context. Starting with the Lisbon summit in 2000, CSR in Europe has...

Fisher’s F-test, a common statistical choice for testing differences between groups, has been found to return unusually small, significant values. This paper presents a follow-up of two examples from medical surveys which registered significantly low F-values when testing for differences...

The start point of contrasting advantages and disadvantages of the international migration of Romanian workers is an inventory of the multiple effects of this phenomenon on the national economy as a whole, on households and on individuals. Labour force migration is mainly motivated by economic...

The modern higher education has been associated to the concept of nation state ever since its birth in the late 18th century and early 19th century. The university's public function to create and develop the nation's elite was thought to be ultimate. Nevertheless, modern universities have been...

The European Social Model became a controversial subject during the past years, with many ‘pros’ and ‘cons’ regarding its adequacy to the new economic and social reality. The central point in discussion is whether or not this model is suitable for all the country members of the European...

Economic decline in recent years has been strongly felt by European countries. Once with currency devaluation, the recession has caused rapid deterioration of incomes, and marked the collapse of financial markets. Furthermore, the difficulties encountered in industry and services have led to a...