Company competitiveness and financial performance are two terms often used in literature but they usually appear distinctly and the relationship between them is not examined. This article provides a reasonable clarification regarding the concept of company competitiveness and theoretically...

The Balanced Scorecard is a management system that enables organizations both to clarify their vision and strategy and translate them into action. It is not only a measurement system, it is a complex instrument which provides feedback around both the internal business processes and external...

Resource concept seems relatively banal, the economy using the general meaning: support element to meet the needs. Resources represent the inputs to the activity of any company and refer to: properties, employees, streams of information, knowledge, cultural values, organizational capabilities,...

This paper presents several issues of the management of IT services and their evolution, with focus on ITSM methodology. It includes a short description of the methodology, together with the costs and benefits it brings, as well as several strategies aimed to increase IT organization performance

The effects of the economic crisis appeared in the services sector registering a wide spread. The services sector has been entirely affected by the crisis, but especially the field of tourism had a significant decline in 2008 and 2009. The following period offered a surprise regarding the return...

Entry of commercial enterprises play an important role by maintaining active competition for existing businesses and development of innovation and long-term growth. Rules and regulations often restrict the entry have only a negative effect on competition. Moreover there are numerous papers...

Strategy implementation is a continuous process – national or international. A chosen strategy must be revised continuously in order to identify and deal with strategic issues as they arise (internal and external contexts). This process has to consider the interrelationships between...

The distributed databases are fundamental elements of the informatics systems contained in the infrastructure of an economic organization with offices distributed in various locations around the world. This paper presents the techniques by which a distributed database management system provides...