The Intermediate Consumption of Services : An Exploratory Survey Among Romanian Enterprises

This communication presents the results of an exploratory survey carried on in the first half of year 2009 among 180 executives representing a large diversity of Romanian enterprises, with regard to the importance of services as intermediate inputs, the perspectives regarding the demand for services, the characteristics which significantly influence the differences be-tween enterprises with regard to their purchases of services. The main difficulties affecting the transactions with services, reported by the respondents are analysed and discussed in chapter 5