What is the meaning of the sustainable development concept? “Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs”.Why is it necessary that a nation to create a strategy based on sustainable...

Research entities can achieve sustainable competitive advantages, exercised by strategic operational management of their human resources. But conditions are still unclear: how employees of an eligible research entity can benefit from a strategic human resource management (SHRM) so that they make...

In knowledge-based economy, intangible assets such as knowledge and intellectual capital are becoming the new core competencies. Intellectual capital is an asset that increases its value as it is used; therefore investments in intellectual capital and knowledge represent power and profitability....

In this paper I review the literature in search of the factors that influence financing decisions in SMEs. Financial theories suggest that the only goal of a company is value maximization, but empirical studies have shown that small companies’ owners can have other goals than profit...

The subject relates to the Internet behavior of individuals, communities, corporations, government agencies and governments. The Internet brings a fundamental reshaping of the elements by which people comprehend the world about them. While ethics is concerned with proper codes of behavior, the...

The paper treats the foundations of IT risks, in the framework delimited and expressed by some specific business characteristics, as availability, access, accuracy and agility. This elements have different representations, depending of various levels of analyze; for example - business executives...

It’s proposed to create a macroeconomic model in order to determine the relationship between these variables. This model is based on a structural autoregressive vector. The reaction form of studied variables to shocks of other variables included in the model represents the mechanism of...

Nowadays, an important aspect for the global economic development with implications also in the economy of Romania is represented by the providing of balance between the economical growth and the natural environment in sense of its protection and who are the main players to assume this...

The information can have strong consequences for any decision-maker. When there is a lack of information, the interested users attach, inevitably, additional risks, and, in the case of the investors, in order to cover these risks, they will ask for the increase of remuneration of their invested...

The results of globalization, new forms of collaboration as well as challenges and opportunities call for more effective and efficient organizations. Additionally, organizations must be more proactive, implementing more the ‘leading to the future’ rather than maintaining the paradigm of...