The institutional and organizational change was the subject of a rich literature for a long time. There are several specialized fields ( e.g. institutional economics, organizations theory etc.) and interdisciplinary approaches focused on the understanding and predicting changes of institutions...

Long time ago, an Austrian economist, Friedrich von Hayek, thought that the fundamental problem of economics is not to study the optimum use of scare resources for limitless and competing needs, but to analyze efficient use of information and knowledge which are largely spread in society....

Corporate governance is a relatively recent field of economic research. Interest in this field has been spurred by the high number of corporate scandals at the turn of the 21st century (Enron, Tyco, Adelphia, WorldCom, etc.). They opened the eyes of the public all over the world to the abuses...

A long time ago, at one of the opening ceremonies of the academic year, the Rector of the Iasi University said that the main characteristic of this institution is that it had been a European academic institution. His concern was not so much about the geographic location, although it is a feature...

To increase competitiveness, a country has to outperform its competitors in terms of research and innovation, entrepreneurship, competition, and education. In this paper, we aim to test the relationship between the quality of entrepreneurial activity and the economic competitiveness for the...

The aim of this study is to analyse the fiscal-budgetary measures, which have been taken by almost all governments around the world, including EU countries, in an attempt to limit the negative impact of the pandemic blockade. In most cases, these measures concerned the granting of technical...