This paper examines the evolution of the EU's trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU's services trade flows under the impact of increasing globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement....

This paper examines the evolution of the EU’s trade in services over the 2004-2008 period in comparison with its trade in goods. It aims to disentangle the main trends shaping the EU’s services trade flows under the impact of increasing globalisation and the last two waves of EU enlargement....

<span lang=\"\\"\\\\"\\\\\\\\"EN-GB\\\\\\\\"\\\\"\\"\" style=\"\"\"\"font-family: \">Drawing on recent literature on the issue of services offshoring, this essay aims to give an overall picture on the dynamics, scale and effects of this phenomenon in Romania.</span>

Consumption economy that characterizes the developed countries, but also the ones in course of development suppose available abundance of products for clients. To achieve this availability the firms make use of logistics activities. These have known continuous developments alongside economic,...

Romanian Abstract: Cea de a patra revoluție industrială, caracterizată prin proliferareaenergiilor verzi, prin impactul deosebit al Internetului, extinderea robotizării,biotehnologiilor, nanotehnologiei, microeletronicii, materialelor avansate, prin apariția șiextinderea rapidă a...

Irrespective of their size, companies seem to be more efficient when they compete with one another, and more creative when they co-operate. 

The problem of the industrial objectives security imposes as a fundamental condition of economic efficiency. This is why is necessary the elaboration of a new concept regarding industrial security. This concept must integrate quality problems, with technological and ecological characteristics of...

To obtain the established objectives from the general strategy, the enterprises have to adapt theirs policies and decisions to the real conditions in which they function. The adoption of such a set of tools is not always an easy action, because one always has to take into account the reciprocal...

If so far, the production of scale had its established methods, we now are present to diversification of the production and to the decreasing of the series of the manufacturing. It implies the using of such methods which allow to get a high efficiency. In this case, we consider that the Lean...