The authors offer a broad view of the National Statistical System, emphasizing the desired improvement in capacities and performance, and outlining the major provocations the system is subjected to. Topics as priorities, legal framework adaptation, international cooperation, internal...

The main purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the corporate governance mechanism on firm performance. Previous research, largely conducted using international data, has suggested that better governed firms outperform poorer governed firms in a number of key areas. In this paper the...

In order to adapt industrial statistics to the conditions of market economy and international standards, especially within the EU, a series of notable improvements were realized, for the system of indicators, their calculation methodology and for the system of statistical researches. This paper...

The emergence of new patterns of conflict with globalization has led to the re-configuration of the security agreement and the emergence of a "new security paradigm" in recent years. Securing could still lead to neglect issues of governance and the creation (or re-creating) the state monopoly of...

The notion of corporate social responsibility is established on the reciprocal dependence between a company and society, as well as the indicators that influence this relationship. This paper explores whether profitability and company size have a potential influence on levels of corporate social...

The official statistics faces multiple challenges in the current economic and social context, influenced by significant factors such as globalization, knowledge, climatic changes, data-related considerations, information needs of various user groups.

The liberties won by Romanians in 1989 had a first materialization through the exodus of Romanian population towards external destination. Emigration knew the widest phenomenon in 1990 within Europe, in Romania. Together with this phenomenon, the aging of the population triggered also. The...

The present study examines the relationship between return on equity (ROE), leverage and size of firms. A sample companies registered under Bucharest Stock Exchange were examined. The study employed regression method to estimate the impact of debt level on profitability (measured by Return on...

The increasing demand of relevant, viable, coherent data users, in useful time, to early detec economic vulnerabilities and turnpoints in business cycles, especially during the economical and financial crisis, demands a prompt, coordinated response by statistical institutions. High quality short...

The systemic development of statistics, of a coherent framework of conceptal instruments, harmonized definitions and standards, having as object the international comparability, has determined the statiscical collaboration and cooperation, at an international level and the creation of the Global...