This article analyses the main factors that determine the organisational structure of a sample of firms located in Catalonia, an autonomous region in the northeast of Spain. The variables studied were identified from among the factors considered in contingency theory and by incorporating...

SMEs present many particularities which influence to a large extend their functionality and performance. A very deep investigation of more than 60 SMEs has revealed what are the major variables having influence on SMEs organisation and the main features of organisation system. In the first part...

The operational capacity represents one of the most important characteristics of the logistic system, from the perspective of its reliability. The present paper describes, concisely, in its first part, the theoretic foundations of the analysis and of the evaluation of a logistic system from the...

Traditional literature regarding “corporate governance” finds the “tension between ownership and management” (as it was shaped by the agency theory) to be a node in the logic of what should be the answer to the question “how the structure of the corporation property can be designated...

All aspects of Lean Management presented in this paper have attempted to show the size of an approach of the industrial performance in European companies. The myth created by the results in Japanese car companies Toyota has attracted the interest of many authors to this management system. In...

In real economy any activity is growing up under uncertain and unsafe circumstances, providing a serious reason for the managers to develop the necessary means, in order to find the adequate solutions for each case and to diminish the negative impact upon the organisation. The risk and...

In today’s globalizing world it is of importance for managers to manage the constantly growing workforce diversity. Besides the generally promoted idea of diversity management, often limited to fair employment, less attention has been paid to the advantages and hidden potentials of diversity....

More pressures are placed on leaders’ decisions in terms of assuring the survival and development of their organization. As the knowledge based economy and society proves to be more than fashionable terms, the leaders have to develop new approaches able to face the challenges of a dynamic...

Within the organizations the managerial culture has a powerful impact over the development of human resources potential and directing it to the achievement of the organizational objectives. This paper deals with the identification of the main functions that the managerial culture has within...

The interest for strategy expressed within Romanian companies was caused by the fact that the external context has become more and more dynamic and unpredictable, allowing to different factors to exert a more powerful influence over the enterprise than previously expected. Consequently, by...