The Bureau of Social Research, within a strategic EU project– Rural Entrepreneur (2011) – coordinated by the National Foundation of Young Managers, analyzed in 2001 the needs of developing management and consultancy programs in order to improve the knowledge, skills, and managerial behaviour...

The capability of organizations to accumulate and apply new knowledge is a key factor in order to achieve the new competitive standards. A continuous changing diversity, to which the need of adaptation to the changes of external environment is added, speeds up the rate of development and...

This study investigates board characteristics best practices in the particular context of European listed companies. The theoretical grounding of the paper is done by discussing board composition and board compensation related studies, mainly belonging to the corporate governance literature. The...

In the work here presented there are revealed principles and specific rules of academic activity regarding the connection of these activities with the faculty management. The observations are structured by the nature of these activities and relationships (internal activity, relationships within...

The quality assurance issue represents at this moment a constantly concerning in order to make more efficient the educational services at all training levels (Universities from Romania). The Romanian universities develop now a large reforming program where the quality issues have a central...

This article is the result of the experience acquired by the Academy of Economic Studies from Bucharest (ASE) during the academic year 2005/2006, in managing the quality of the training programs dedicated to students, based on collaboration protocols concluded with the business environment. The...

Based on a very rich literature regarding the requirements for successfully selling in nowadays conditions, the present paper brings into discussion what might become a new concept, relevant for better understanding the role that salespeople are expected to play: the concept of...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the link between perceived levels of organizational process changes, vis-à-vis selected organization-to-employee relationship dimensions based on the Hackman and Oldham (1975) Job diagnostic survey and marketing performance measures. We follow Pettigrew,...

Application software is one of the most important elements of any information system. The most recent trend in the field of the software is, undoubtedly, migration of classic applications from centralized computer architectures to network or distributed architectures. This migration as well as...