The paper underlines part of the value of the research based on survey results conducted on SMEs in Romania, in 2007-2008, within the national research project IDEAS 856 "Increasing the competitiveness of SMEs in Romania by implementing a model evaluation and improvement of their performance in...

The paper highlights some of the results obtained within a questionnaire-based survey conducted in the SMEs from Romania, the objectives being measurement of the degree to which these enterprises fulfil the EFQM (European Foundation for Quality Management) requirements regarding the social...

The paper highlights a part of the results of the research carried out at the level of Romanian Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the period 2007-2010. One of the objectives of the research was to determine the way the Romanian SMEs use the results of evaluation and monitoring of customer...

A strategic goal of the Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest is represented by the continuous improving of the quality for the didactic and scientific research activities. To this purpose a special importance should be given to the process approach of the activities by integrating the...

This paper provides results obtained within a questionnaire-based survey conducted in small to medium public administrations in Germany. The survey was carried out on the occasion of working out indicators of risks and application of risk management for public sector. The results of the...

This paper presents the results obtained from a survey among public and private venture capitalists from countries which attract a large amount of venture capital investment: Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Israel. The objective is to investigate venture capitalists’ investment criteria for...

The paper presents the results of a questionnaire based survey, conducted at the level of training service providers in Romania, which are more and more interested to implement internationally recognized management system models. The objective of the research was to assess the degree of...

The process of the European integration and the developing of the internal market have led to the necessity of introducing a common policy for the consumers’ protection. As the policy for the consumers’ protection has been established as a well-structured policy at the levelof the European...

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...