Official corruption remain one of the major challenges of Nigeria and has become deep-rooted in her public sector administration leading to severe consequences to the country’s economic and socio-political development. Public financial probity and accountability are promoted partly through the...

The widespread environmental change has forced many organizations to change and re-think their business and competitive strategies, particularly cost management system, in order to achieve the competitive edge in the marketplace. Successful organizations are those that are able to improve...

'Talent' are categorized as valuable, rare, hard to imitate and difficult to find. Any organization that wants to defeat others in business should emphasize on talent management. Traditionally, human resource departments are dealing the organization’s manpower. However, they were found unable...

European consumer policy is central to one of the Commission's strategic objectives, that of contributing to a better quality of life for all. The Member States adopted policies aimed to protect specific interests of consumers, which play a key-role – economically and politically – within...

In this paper I investigate the new role of marketing specialists as customers supporters by understanding their real needs and concerns, ensuring that promises are, effectively and convince, a reality. In the past years there have been considerable changes in the arena battle to win customers...

The article identifies the doctrinaire controversies existing in defining the public service. The main idea in defining the public service, as a an activity conducted or authorized by an administrative authority, is inextricably linked with the idea of general interest. In this context the...

In this paper I built forecasts intervals for the inflation rate in Romania, using the quarterly predicted values provided by the National Bank of Romania for 2007-2010. First, I used the historical errors method, which is the most used method, especially by the central banks. Forecast intervals...

The aim of the paper is to assess how the health financing system influences the access to health services in Romania. Although the funds allocated to the health system have increased in the last years, the access to health services remains a serious issue for many persons. We found that there...

Considering the fact that the airlines’ market is very sensitive to the economic fluctuation, in this paper, we will analyze the impact of the 2001 and 2007 crises on the evolution of the European low-cost carriers, in terms of annual revenues and profits, number of routes, of transported...

The forecasts and the forecast calculations are used within the output or the profitability methods, for the completion of the shortcomings of the asset-based approaches, in order to establish the value of an enterprise or of a business. The core of the forecasts consists of the expected growth...