During 2009-2011 the tourism industry at the Black Sea shore experienced a significant downturn as a direct result of the global economic crisis and a shy growth in 2012-2013 period. In this context of difficult macroeconomic conditions and a hardly predictable number of tourists, the suppliers...

Previous studies (McKnight, Lankton and Tripp, 2011; Liao, Lui and Chen, 2011) have shown the crucial role of trust when choosing to disclose sensitive information online. This is the case of online social networks users, who must disclose a certain amount of personal data in order to gain access to...

The following paper reveals the content of a new form of comunication used as vehicle for information between consumers on the Internet. Consumer-Generated Media (CGM) describes a variety of new sources of online information that are created, initiated, circulated and used by consumers intent on...

In the past, they were called chiefs, rulers. Now they are known as leaders. In the past there were habits, commercial customs. Today these are called business ethics. Leadership and business ethics have existed in their present, modern sense, for only four decades, period during which they...

Quality remains a key issue in today’s businesses. Quality is in a close relationship with the corporate social responsibility. Changes to society and the business environment at the beginning of the 21st century require new responsibilities to the enterprise. The aim of corporate social...

The business, as a profitable organization must become ethical in order to survive in a globalized world. It is true that in the last decades businesses have changed dramatically because of the remarkable changes from all fields of activity. However, the most important factors were some subtle...

Reality has proved that the market economy is based on business ethics, on the high productivity of the labor, on the rigorous organization of the business activity, on the responsibility of the partners for the commitments made on paper or verbally, on the capacity of the business people to...

In context of increasing competition on markets and succession of some bankruptcies of big firms it appears more and more underlined the idea of corporate social responsibility. A component of this idea has in attention the transparency of information that the enterprise decides o communicate....

In our age, Internet is the biggest information network in the world; it consists of a set of heterogeneous networks from over 100 countries displaying huge amounts of virtual resources; it provides facilities such as email, file transmission protocol (ftp), workgroups discussion or chat,...

In today`s business environment, characterized by instability and unpredictability, organizations` success depends on their ability to adapt and manage the changes required. Therefore, in order to achieve long-term corporate success, companies need to have a culture that encourages creativity...