This paper presents an analysis of two American and Japanese management strategies, the reengineering and Kaizen strategies, which can be used successfully by the Romanian companies, too. Reengineering is the fundamental rethinking and radical redesign of business processes to achieve dramatic...

This paper analyses the integration process that firms follow to implement Supply Chain Management (SCM). This study has been inspired in the integration model proposed by Stevens (1989). He suggests that companies internally integrate first and then extend integration to other supply chain...

Bullying and harassment are the dark side of sport, not open to spectators and often ignored by coaches and leaders. Therefore, the research aim is to identify prevalence of bullying and harassment in Lithuanian organized sport with regard to individual, combat and team sports, highlighting...

A good manager presupposes a practical spirit, having well-defined purposes, a good coordinator, with a good orientation towards novelty and the knowledge of company’s objectives. A good manager must prove competences related to: communication, team work, to carry on strategic and...

This paper considers issues of governance in democratic member-based organisations (DMOs), such as co-operatives and mutual societies. It examines the processes whereby members’ interests are mediated through the democratic process, and the board; and it explores some of the factors influencing...

The difficulty in running a self-managed firm has been one of the arguments used in economics literature to prove the non-viability of the model. People who are sufficiently talented and willing both to manage worker-owners and to assume processes of collective decision-making are a scant...

As volatility has become the dominant environment in which banks operate, they were put in a position to meet new challenges and to face greater risks, reason for the Supervisory Institutions to develop complex models for credit risk management. On the other hand the financial crisis has shown...

The activity in public or private sector has the aim to obtain certain results that is why an accent is put on the performance. Managing public and business organizations means to lead them to the best results that could be obtained. To achieve the objectives the management must be a good one,...

In the increasingly turbulent and competitive environment business, the dilemmas experienced by managers in cultural industries are characteristic to this type of industries where knowledge and creativity are key to sustaining competitive advantage. Firms that compete in cultural industries must...

The paper intends to present more reasons in the favour of promoting the business intelligence (BI) in the managerial practice. Business intelligence is an umbrella term that encompasses the processes, tools, and technologies required to turn data into information, and information into knowledge...