During the past decade, most corporations have made considerable efforts to become more efficient, or “better.” Frenzied global competition and the recent economic downturn have revealed that efficiency efforts have limitations, and corporations must also become “different.” That...

The economic science, that proved its viability, and the practice of economic evolution of different countries strongly argue the major decisive role held by the SMEs in the economic activity within whichever country. SMEs’s special importance results from the fact that they are the principal...

This article analyses the main factors that determine the organisational structure of a sample of firms located in Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain. The variables studied were identified from among the factors considered in contingency theory and by incorporating...

This paper approaches the issue of sustainability in business in a less traditional manner by considering more than just the competitive advantage a company has to build in the rivalry with its competitors. Building enterprise sustainability requires a broader understanding of the...

Today, in a highly competitive and ultra-dynamic environment, it is necessary for all organizations to be able to adapt to the new, because there exists the risk that what was yesterday a basis for effective management, in present can be a strong barrier to achieving performance. In this...

This is the second article on the empirical study of Drucker’s knowledge-worker productivity. The first article examined productivity in the context of the 21st century, focusing on Drucker’s six major factors determining knowledge-worker productivity. From these six factors, a...

This paper investigates the impact of corporate board diversity on the financial performance of Nigerian quoted firms using a panel data of 122 quoted Nigerian firms. Aspects of board diversity studied comprise board nationality, board gender and board ethnicity. The Fixed Effect Generalised...

The interest for strategy expressed within Romanian companies was caused by the fact that the external context has become more and more dynamic and unpredictable, allowing to different factors to exert a more powerful influence over the enterprise than previously expected. Consequently, by...

As in the whole world, in our country, the number of "dream" to create and to run their own business continues to grow. Maybe new growth for potential entrepreneurs to be even higher, given the national economic structure, making it more important to know the fundamentals of entrepreneurship....

Crisis is a normal status in every field, at a certain moment. It’s a natural status that follows a period of growth, of expansion one. It is even “announced” by certain signs that good leaders could “hear” or “feel”. Core purpose orientation is something that should not miss to...