The food quality depends not only on raw materials, production process, personnel qualification etc. but also on preservation methods used to maintain initial level of physicochemical and sensory characteristics after the product is obtained. In order to emphasize the correlation between food...

This paper aims to create a methodology to measure responsible corporate governance with the help of an index composed of five sub-indexes, each corresponding to a certain dimension of responsible corporate governance. The research is based on a review of scholarly literature on responsible...

This paper presents the use of ARIMA models in making prognosis for the tourism industry. Within this analysis were taken variables that capture both the supply and the demand for tourist services. These variable data are related to the tourism sector from the County of Suceava – Romania and...

In an organization, the communication problems may occur even if the employees come from the same nation. The individual is influenced by multiple levels of culture, each of them contributing in some way to shaping his cultural identity. National culture, which exerts the greatest influence, may...

This paper’s purpose is to analyse the financial situation of the local authorities in the EU countries and to consider alternative funding through public-private partnership. Both because of the economic and financial crises that has affected the earned income but also because of the...

Merger reviews is a core business for competition authorities (CA). In this paper I employ linear programming methods to evaluate potential efficiency gains following a merger, against the background of market-side effects (e.g. price increases), which are usually relevant in a CA’s merger...

The article deals with the problem of reforming the public water and sewerage service, in the context of applying the decentralization and deconcentration, as principles of organization and functioning of the public administration. A priority of public administration is the reform of public...

Under current conditions when the economic world pass through a period of profound transformation, development and growth issues in close connection with the natural environment, requires a new vision concerning economic equilibrium and a new coordinated: the ecological balance. Ecomarketingul...

Breaking the intellectual property rights (IPR) has huge effects on the free movement of merchandise and of the occupying degree of work places, affecting both economic development and consumers’ health, and the rightful trademark owners and the companies which legally exploit them are the...

Despite of the fact that word-of-mouth phenomenon gained unseen dimensions, only few studies have focused on its measurement and only three of them developed a word-of-mouth construct. Our study develops a bi-dimensional scale which assigns usual word-of-mouth mechanisms available in online...