The word corruption became a hyper used one in the last few years into the public discourse – related with politics, business or public administration. In Romania’s case it was (and still is) especially related with the requirements of the adhesion to the European Union. All the...

In the perspective of adhesion to the European Union, Romania has to make huge efforts, to produce, to innovate, to study, to develop the higher educational system, to find those niches where it can become competitive at the international level. To be competitive at the beginning at the XXI-st...

A competitive advantage exists when the company is able to deliver the same benefits as competitors but at a lower cost (cost advantage), or deliver benefits that exceed those of competing products (differentiation advantage). Thus, a competitive advantage enables the firm to create superior...

This paper is a survey of economic literature related to competitiveness and its definition. The conceptual framework introduced by Michael Porter in 1990 remains exceptionally influential, but there are economists, like Krugman which consider the concept of national competitiveness as...

The must uncorrupted nations are the mast competitive nations. The corruption – a very important phenomenon – is the one who make a nation to try to be competitive. In the last years the Nordic Country’s leading the top of competitiveness and the top of the uncorrupted nation. This article...

Competitiveness represents the long term objective of any particular entity – country or firm; that’s why all the strategies – no mater the level – aim to obtain and maintain competitiveness. But, if we look closer to the world competitiveness ranking, we can see an important impediment...

In the content of the indicators of competitiveness (of the business environment, of the resources, of the innovation process) we are identificate that the nation's financial and budgetary policy has a very important role in achieving company competitiveness. In this case, we present the main...

At the core of all our activities is the continuous striving to fulfill ourselves, to build and maintain a deeper satisfaction, consistent with our often unsaid wishes and hopes; there will always be a goal and this must represent an appropriate challenge. In everything we do as we are all...

Continuous improvement implies a focus on solving a series of quality problems, reducing inventories, eliminating waste and increasing productivity. However, it is clear that being lean, cost-effective and of high quality is not enough and it does not guarantee the growth of any business. This...