"This book addresses the issues that industrial companies face in the current era of globalization and how the application of systems theory has affected their performance by highlighting issues such as theoretical approaches of systems theory, production strategies, and organizational structure"--

National economy as a stand-alone entity, is a set of resources (natural, material, human, etc.), production activities, trade, service etc. that have established branches, sectors, etc. at a country’s level, between which are established reciprocal links which is based on the material and...

The national system of higher education shall solve one of the most difficult and most important social and human issues – the education and training of the young generation, of the labour hand. The system of higher education appears as a subsystem of the national educational system and of the...

The expert system aiming the moulded pieces production management improving is designed to assist maintenance and operation personal in the process of diagnosis of complex defects which may appear during the technological process, but the system must also contribute to technical measurements...

H. Schollhammer classified the compared management studies for the first time in 1969 when he identified the following types of directions: social-economic direction, ecological direction, behavioural direction, empirical direction

The stakeholders is a person or a group which has an interest, or a personal implication into a firm and his performances. The studies made in developed countries show that the satisfaction of clients desires is more important that the satisfaction of stockholders desiresIncreasing the...

The success of such a setting forth should be based on optimizing the global cost of the product life cycle. Such an optimization consists in choosing between the decrease of development costs in case subsequently it will be necessary to operate several changes of the product due to...

The comparative management represents the science that studies managerial processes and relations within those organizations which function in different cultural and national contexts, being centered on determining and analyzing managerial similarities and differences.

Management control makes up the interface between the superior managing board and the operating staff and it refers to long term and short-term activities. Strategic planning is a long-term operation

The function of an interface dispatcher system is an interface between the driving and the driven systems, subsequently is a sender for one and a receiver for the other