The performances of the companies involved in the globalization process are conditioned by their managers’ abilities to understand the cultural differences of their stakeholders, to assess the cultural profiles of their business partners and to promote the cultural synergy. Our paper...

In this paper, we emphasize the benefits of e-books for the customers who are looking for international availability, acquisitions in real time, competitive prices and social responsibility from the part of the publishers; our most important contribution characterized by originality is the...

Today’s business, being affected by the continuous changes in economic environment, must reinvent the “prudent risk taking” concept to strike an appropriate balance between risk, return and growth, in order to create lasting value. This paper is focused on describing the nature of risk and...

Our paper emphasizes the way in which the information and communication technologies offer a real support to the managers which have a global vision on the key factors that assure business performances. The simulation of a Total Performance Scorecard reveals the advantages and opportunities of...

This paper tries to present an existing relation between knowledge economy and knowledge management. We started by emphasizing the main principles of knowledge society and the consequences that determine the movement to a new economical paradigm. Further, we discussed organization...

In this paper, we emphasize the opportunities concerning the implementation of an intelligence receptive organizational culture, that allows the fast and flexible response of companies’ strategies in the competitive e-business. Due to the promotion of an an intelligence receptive culture,...

The purpose of this paper is to present the way some widely used knowledge management models are structured. We will describe the most important characteristics of each model, with our comments about its usefulness in the economical environment. The models we chose to analyze are as follow: von...

The paper explores the tool of Competitive Intelligence (CI) as an effective method of building one’s capability and focus and illustrates the benefits of gathering competitive intelligence by applying it on the top technology services firms in India. These results are then analysed in the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to compare perceptions of retail logistics service quality among Romanian and Tunisian customers, and determine which dimensions of logistics service quality have the greatest influence on customer satisfaction and loyalty. Design/methodology/approach –...