The present paper reflects a first step in exploring in a systematic way the manner in which services are embedded in the economic life in Romania. The authors believe that service industries, in particular knowledge intensive services, are at the core of this transformational process and...

Counterfeiting and piracy have emerged as a not inconsiderable phenomenon on the world market because it presents a major peril to the national security, the legal businesses, and even to the economic development and the advancement of society. The scourge of counterfeiting represents today an...

In modern economies services are dominant. As the role of services is increasing, the difference between goods and services is vanishing, but most of our economics and business knowledge is developed from a manufacturing perspective which is no more satisfactory in the new service economy...

The conceptual analysis of the meaning, quality and productivity of services in the Romanian economy, the structural insight into the highly varied universe of these activities, identifying the distinctive level and structure dynamics of the tertiary sector, defining and delineating Juglar...

This communication presents the results of an exploratory survey carried on in the first half of year 2009 among 180 executives representing a large diversity of Romanian enterprises, with regard to the importance of services as intermediate inputs, the perspectives regarding the demand for...

The objectives of this article are marking the conceptual antinomies of signification in the field of services, and identifying a specific cycle of service activities, with examples illustrative of Romania, and the main work hypothesis concerns the confrontation of different sets of behaviours...

Standardization, quality assurance and conformity assessment, accreditation and metrology are narrowly related activities which have a decisive role in a functional and secure market. Thus, they are frequently considered together, usually referred as SQAM services. They are also activities which...

In this article the authors propose an extended method for assessing foreign trade, which is capitalized on in the analysis of foreign trade/external marketing, under the influence of two of the most difficult recession of the Romanian economy, placed in the last interwar decade and in the first...

This paper highlights some of the results of the study carried out by the authors within the research project "Integrated system for innovation management in SMEs", code PN-II-PT-PCCA-2013-4-1319, under way at the Business Administration Research Centre of the Bucharest University of Economic...