This paper presents an analysis of two American and Japanese management strategies, the reengineering and Kaizen strategies, which can be used successfully by the Romanian companies, too. Reengineering is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic...

The paper is about the model of the five competitive forces of Michael Porter. In the first part, I have presented the theoretical aspects of the model and after that, I tried to apply the model on the retail market in Romania. I used data gathered from national and international institutes of...

The problem of the quality works of building has a different importance because, as opposed to another activities of material productions here are not admitted bear of the quality in respect resistances, stability, durability, safeties in exploitation. The responsibility concerning assurance...

Construction, one of the major economic sector of activity in Europe, was severely affected by the actual global recession, although the impact of the crisis and the moment when it occurred varied widely between the EU Member States. In Romania, the first effects of the economic crisis in the...

This paper presents the main types of contractual arrangements used worldwide in construction: traditional contracts, cost reimbursable type contracts, management contracts and other contractual arrangements such as partnership, offering two-phase, contracts in series and turnkey contracts....

The quality and the efficiency of all the activities developed in the field of the social dialog management are dependent, in great measure by the quality of the communications relations between the involved actors. The increase of the importance of the social dialog is reflected at the level of...

The goal of this paper is at the very instant to highlight the role and the importance of mathematical multi-attribute methods, implemented in expert systems, in the preparing of international negotiation processes. We used Exsys Corvid as an expert system generator to implement a prototype of...

The need for money is one of the main financial goals of any company. Such needs have led to specific segments of demand and supply that demand for money and the money supply, in particular capital. Were created following specific markets: financial markets, with specialized division of labour...

Life insurance is an insurance concluded for a long period of time and reinsurance shall have to be a long-term reinsurance, otherwise the direct insurer may lose its hedge through reinsurance before the insurance agreement expires or pay an inadequate sum for the reinsurance with the insurance...