Do you still remember the time when in Ceausescu era we used to produce and circulate a lot of political joke? One of those referred to a dialogue between a Romanian and a Westerner. The first asked if in west one can buy foodstuffs if only queues in a row for hours like in Romania. The answer...

The paper presents an approach for the evolution consequences, in complex and knowledge based systems, as the main human activity fields and Earth ecosystem. The progress, apogee and decline stages of evolutions and circumstances are analyzed and compared, aiming to show the importance of...

Retail merchandising is the process used in order to conduct retail sales. As part of the process, the merchandiser pays close attention to the types of products offered for sale, how to best present those products to consumers, and determining what is a reasonable retail price for each unit...

As with WEB 2.0 everything seems to be moving and changing with a fast pace and companies have to keep up by bringing new technology within their departments in order create a strong competitive advantage. That is why cloud computing is at the moment all the rage, its become the phrase du jour...

This research paper investigates how different types of corporate culture have an influence upon the successful implementation of quality improvement methods, in particular Total Quality Management and Six Sigma practices. Starting from the definitions comprised by the specialized literature and...

Organizational performance is those step and state of the whole organization in which, as a result of congruent decisions and actions, are reached those targets and elements of strategic vision which satisfy all interested parts. To consumer good manufactures, satisfying the needs of new world...

E-commerce and e-business are considered by some as a whole new dimension in terms of economics, while at the same time many professionals see it as a natural evolution of the same raw, basic, traditional economic principles. Although this was the main concept, together with its applicability...

Since Romania abolished communism in 1989, there have been several migration waves towards the western countries. With the accession of Romania to the European Community in 2007, labour migration became a spotlight problem due to the free movement principle. Fear of a flood of immigrants has...

Nowadays, in the global business environment, telecommunications play a very important role and therefore a spectacular growth of mobile telephony and mobile internet took place in the last two decades worldwide. In this paper we are pointing out the major events that happened in the Romanian...

Successful and mature corporations can alter their financial structure and optimize their debt asset ratio according to their needs. This is not, however, so easy for companies in the start-up phase, when entrepreneurs have to rely almost ultimately on equity funding. This paper concentrates on...