Business excellence strikes as state-of-the-art topics within quality management literature. In the past the focus was on total quality management as the main driver in this field. Nowadays the number of scholars who show an enlarged interest for the implementation of business excellence models...

For developing economies the development of enterprises should be a strategic goal, this way of thinking may become viable only as a result of a combination of judicious analysis based on specific local economic aspects and a set of actions to correct any slippage or amplify existing development...

Boards’ involvement in the decision process has been reported in different ways in accordance with corporate governance theories. Several scholars postulates that both resource dependence and stakeholder theory emphasize board involvement in decision management through boards’ service roles;...

The paper shows that a successful sale of a product is determined not only by the quality but also by the country-specific differences in the field of quality management. Although these criteria are world-wide similar, the priorities are national defined differently. Being an essential component...

Romania, along with other members of the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), has adopted a so-called ‘hybrid corporate governance model', which draws inspiration from both the insider-oriented system as exemplified in Germany, and the outsider oriented system as...

In the dedicated literature about entrepreneurial activity and innovation SMEs play an important role, being responsible for the creation of an important number of new products, new processes or methods. We tried to establish the role of the state through shoving the evolution of the share of...