Today, in a highly competitive and ultra-dynamic environment, it is necessary for all organizations to be able to adapt to the new, because there exists the risk that what was yesterday a basis for effective management, in present can be a strong barrier to achieving performance. In this...

This is the second article on the empirical study of Drucker’s knowledge-worker productivity. The first article examined productivity in the context of the 21st century, focusing on Drucker’s six major factors determining knowledge-worker productivity. From these six factors, a...

This paper investigates the impact of corporate board diversity on the financial performance of Nigerian quoted firms using a panel data of 122 quoted Nigerian firms. Aspects of board diversity studied comprise board nationality, board gender and board ethnicity. The Fixed Effect Generalised...

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...

As in the whole world, in our country, the number of "dream" to create and to run their own business continues to grow. Maybe new growth for potential entrepreneurs to be even higher, given the national economic structure, making it more important to know the fundamentals of entrepreneurship....

Crisis is a normal status in every field, at a certain moment. It’s a natural status that follows a period of growth, of expansion one. It is even “announced” by certain signs that good leaders could “hear” or “feel”. Core purpose orientation is something that should not miss to...

Project management has evolved over time, becoming the principal mean of dealing with change in modern organizations. Best practices have occurred as a result of business evolution and of practicing project management at a global level. Best practices in project management, if followed, increase...

The member states which accessed the European Union in 2004 and 2007 progressed through similar financing cycles during the pre-accession period by applying the EU specific principles of positive conditionality. The beneficial effects of the pre-accession financing relied on specific instruments...

The organization’s culture-strategy binomial requires a consistent approach of the external and internal factors that can impact on the company, influence its performance and existence and, consequently, the implementation of sound and explicit strategies that would allow the company to...

Female leadership is not simply the subject of a management consulting report supporting the worthwhile notion that women have a right to be located in leadership positions. This research develops a conceptual model linking the conditions and factors associated with female leadership in...