The present paper develops a basic framework for evaluating and optimizing profits in a business operation. In developing a business we are often faced with an infinity of choices ranging from what products or services to sell and what customers to target to how to structure and manage the...

Prior literature noted the potential that advanced environmental management might have in the generation of valuable organizational capabilities regarding costs minimization. More-over, during last years, one of the most important objectives in the development of transport public policies has...

[ES] La literatura existente señala el potencial de una gestión medioambiental proactiva en la generación de capacidades organizativas relativas a la minimización de costes. Además, durante los últimos años, la internalización de los costes medioambientales de la industria transportista...

This paper aims to underline the role and importance of a quite recent issue for managers and marketing responsibles,in fact,the strategic quality,analysed at both objective and the client level.The study propose the identification of the main possible vectors of the strategic quality and to...

Dans cet article, nous appliquons la théorie de l'architecture organisationnelle à la gestion de la qualité totale (GQT) pour comprendre la complexité des mécanismes de son fonctionnement et de son efficacité. Nous montrons que le rôle joué par la GQT dans la création de valeur passe...

Although it is true that the issues of quality and innovation have been dealt with extensively from different perspectives, studies on the relationship between the two concepts are few. This study tackles this relationship by analyzing the links between the broader concepts of total quality...

During the last decades companies compete in a highly volatile globalized environment due to international competition and the development of new business approaches. Globalization has transformed the historic patterns of investment, production and distribution of firms and organizations....

Tourism is considered to be an important branch of the Romanian economy. However, its contribution to the GDP is extremely low. Inbound tourism is reduced, the sole indicator which is constanly increasing being the number of Romanian tourists who travel abroad. We assume that a good way of...

The study outlines the evolutionary character of the process of emerging and confirming the logistic approach in the firm management of the countries with developed market economies. It states the contiguous stages of its application in the context of the evolution of the logistic in the second...

This paper explores how different models of sociality can contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of knowledge sharing within different organizational settings. It is asserted that the dynamics of knowledge sharing is organized according to a mix of four relational models...