The purpose of this paper is to introduce a modification of a standard four input production process where energy is used in an inefficient way due to partly unnecessary waste of energy. The changes in production efficiency investigated using stochastic frontier methods, show declining technical...

This paper intends to formulate the hypotheses for the factors that influence individuals to adopt Information Technology as a mean to conduct the traditional services. The hypotheses are developed based on previous works utilizing the theories on technology acceptance and on related findings...

The electronic revolution in commerce is strongly affecting the performance of the economies. Banking over the internet has attracted increasing attention over the past several years from bankers and other financial services industry participants and this is due to the rapid and significant...

Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) provide a broad range of facilities to manage operational business processes. These systems should provide support for the complete Business Process Management (BPM) life-cycle (16): (re)design, configuration, execution, control, and diagnosis of...

Computational Intelligence (CI) is a new development paradigm of intelligent systems which has resulted from a synergy between fuzzy sets, artificial neural networks, evolutionary computation, machine learning, etc., broadening computer science, physics, economics, engineering, mathematics,...

The authors of the paper try to identify the main approaches in the field of the Quality Integrated Management on the Romanian companies’ level, starting with the discussion about the theoretical frame of the topic. The paper speaks about the taylorist and Japanese systems as the most...

The paper presents the macroeconomic effects of the oil trade on the world economy, taking into account a number of factors that characterise it: evolution of oil price, as well as dynamics of oil exports, economic increase based on oil of the producing and consuming countries, attempts to...

The research idea of this paper is the diagnosis of the disparity among Romania’s developing regions and the issuing of economic policy measures for the polycentric development. The product of the research, thought as a diagnosis model, will be able to support the decision process, on the...

The paper is based on the research results of an European project which is aimed to describe the conditions of self-employment system in four European countries: Finland, Austria, Poland and Romania. The authors opinion consider that the transfer of the entrepreneurship experience from the more...

The world economic crisis is a system crisis that has deep implications on country groups. For the developed countries the crisis means the diminishing of the economic increase rhythm, reduction of new work places creation, unemployment increase, deepening of social tensions and a diminishing of...