We show why a shopping mall prefers to provide parking for free and embed the parking costs in the prices of the goods. This holds if the mall has monopoly power or prices competitively; if there is parking validation or a trade-off between shopping and parking spaces. It is also the second-best...

Background: Logistics cost is an important factor affecting the competitiveness on both macro (national) and micro level (firms). Logistics cost indicates the performance of logistics industry, efficiency level and its competitiveness. Research Problem: Despite of its significance, current state...

The paper focuses on enterprise business value chain modeling as an alternative to business process modeling. Well known REA methodology proposed by McCarthy and Geerts is used as the basic modeling framework. The research presented in the paper results in a generic semantic enterprise model...

This paper study quality management like advantage source and the cooperation relationships like strategic variant, it exposes the particularities that shows insertion of human resource as base for quality management under management contract conditions

The universities have to assure the highest level of quality management, to help teachers and students to acquire the European knowledge. The universities must be encouraged to develop better for the promotion of academic and civic values. However, the reality is often quite different: we find...

The current world affairs, competitive strength of the firm result from creation or identification of a management system suitable for carrying out raised performance. By design, formation and manifestation, performance management is constitute like an essential set and completely theoretic, put...

Research Project Management Process, implies the allocation of important human and financial resources to guarantee fulfilling of the goal by respecting the pre-defined schedule, under the conditions of expected quality. Considering that, informatics is looking for solutions to support the teams...

Il tema della qualità ha riscosso negli ultimi anni un'attenzione sempre crescente da parte delle aziende, ponendosi come fronte di intervento delle politiche aziendali necessario per sostenere gli attuali livelli della competizione. In realtà, l'interesse verso la qualità è sempre stato...

This paper aims to provide an assessment of the introduction of quality management tools (Common Assessment Framework-CAF, Multi Annual Modernization Program-PMM, Balanced Scorecard and Benchlearning) in the Romanian public administration, after the fall of communism in 1989 until 2012,...

Nel caso del turismo la qualità non rappresenta solamente un elemento costituente dell’offerta di prodotto o del sistema di produzione ma assume una forte valenza commerciale, permettendo di completare e rafforzare la strategia di marketing dell’impresa In the case of tourism, quality is...