The notion of public administration bears several acceptations, an activity one, of functional meaning and an organisational one. In both ways, public administration is indissolubly connected to the state. In default of the state, there is no public administration, as this is a state activity,...

This book is a comprehensive introduction of the reader into the simulation and modelling techniques and their application in the management of organisations. The book is rooted in the thorough understanding of systems theory applied to organisations and focuses on how this theory can apply to...

This article presents issues concerning life cycle of products. Taking into account the limitation of the life cycle of products and strategic investments that require the use of certain technologies, the decision of setting forth a new product on the market should rely upon the costs of its...

Management control makes up the interface between the superior managing board and the operating staff and it refers to long term and short-term activities. Strategic planning is a long-term operation

Companies’ activity should permanently be carried on according to the balance relation between incomes and expenditures. Nowadays, when dealing the worldwide economic crisis, companies do not manage to maintain such a balance; the expenditures determined by manufactured production overpass the...

Behind a consumer’s decision to purchase a product/service there is always a reason or a complex of reasons, and behind rejecting a product/service there is always the consumer’s conclusion that, by its competences, that respective product/service will not fulfil that respective need at the...

In the conditions of computing the human society, the operational management activities can be improved by using artificial intelligence. Therefore, an expert system is proposed, for the metallurgical industry, for the casting activity for parts necessary in mining industry.