Since the end of the 1980s, much academic works has been devoted to the study of the relations between companies, especially to the improvement of these relations, starting with the implementation of co-operative strategies within inter-organisational networks. Lasting commitment in a relation...

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 paper aims to contribute to existing knowledge related to the worker cooperative (CTA) creation process by studying the factors that influence the process using an inductive-deductive method: the Grounded Theory. For this reason, a total of 37 in-depth interviews have been carried out with...

Las pequeñas y medianas empresas –en adelante las pyme– son actores fundamentales de la economía colombiana, tal como ocurre en otros países. El acelerado ritmo de la globalización impone retos para estas compañías a partir de las nuevas oportunidades y amenazas que se gestan en el...

This document, intended to be discuss and criticized, aims for the implementation on the city of Barreiro, Portugal, of a Local Investment Agency. The final objective of such project is to allow entrepreneurs and investors to build in the city new ventures that can create employment, build an...

Entrepreneurship has started to receive attention together with the problems brought by the global financial and economic crisis and tends to be associated with economic development and well-being of society. The objective of this paper is to conduct an analysis of the Romanian entrepreneuria...

The business incubators are entities that provide support to start-up companies, managing the obstacles faced by entrepreneurs and facilitating the hazardous process of business creation. This article aims to identify the existing views on best practices that can contribute to the achieving of...

Recently, innovation and internationalization strategies have explained firm success. Some authors argue that innovation settles internationalization while some others point that internationalization settles the firm’s innovation level. This work unifies these theories, arguing that both...