In corporate governance, through its specific mechanisms, some measures can be taken to strengthen institutional development (against corruption, administrative shortcomings, favouritism) and to promote market values. These values include accountability, transparency, primacy of law, equity,...

The economic crisis is a subject long debated at the national and international level, and it is analyzed by economists in all aspects. Extensive analysis of the causes and behavior indicators is motivated by the desire to anticipate the crisis behavior. An important component of economic life,...

The aim of the present paper is to highlight the characteristics of corporate governance structures in three main areas: Europe, USA and Latin America. This paper offers an overview of the common elements and divergent points of the corporate governance models following the particularities of...

This study aims at comparing the efficiency of the main corporate governance practices utilized presently for stimulating the financial performance of listed companies. After analyzing the literature, including theoretical arguments and empirical research results, the study concludes that the...

Through this paper the authors are trying to highlight the strategic role that internal audit function holds in increasing the efficiency of corporate governance. The research starts with a comprehensive approach to internal audit and internal control, our intention being to identify synergies...

The purpose of this research paper aims the study of actual corporate governance of the listed entities on the capital market. For the empirical study, we chose a segment of top banks in Romania, some of them being listed. On the research demarche we have proceeded to an analysis on the manner...

A world dominated by a long difficult economic period is likely to have deeper negative effects on all business aspects. Mergers and acquisitions sector is one of the sectors affected by crisis and the problems that will occur during 2013 are expected to be bigger and to represent a great...

The new economy based on globalization is increasingly important, which shows the decisive role played by intangible capital in achieving the competitive advantage of companies. However, this intangible capital is the hidden side of a company's value, as it represents the company's intangible...

Enterprise evaluation has an economic and financial character. The evaluator’s investigations regarding the enterprise financial situations as well as the numerous economic, technical and strategic analyses are finally meant to establish the real enterprise values reflected in the market...

Why Infrastructure as a Service? Because by finding an answer to this question, we will find solutions relevant both to the reduction as much as possible of initial costs incurred with the IT&C infrastructure and to a better control of the operational costs such as services delivered very fast...