Within the performed survey, the authors analyze the benchmarking definitive elements, identify the main categories of the approach referring to benchmarking, and underline the positive aspects and the critics in connection with it. All the said aspects are analyzed in order to set forth a basis...

The authors of the research analyze the impact and the effects of the financial crisis upon the emerging and developing countries. Moreover, the impact of the international economic crisis upon the new member states of the European Union has proved to be more severe than it had been anticipated...