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...

As part of a strategic approach to answer the raising concern about environment degradation and waste of resources, a number of initiatives were deployed, aiming to provide more effective incentives required to improve the ecological performance of production and consumption, including ISO 14000...

Highly performing innovative business services became important factors of competitiveness in modern economies, but their potential contribution is severely restricted by market dysfunctions, as companies reported during previous studies. There is also a lack of adequate policies partly...

Highly performing innovative business services became important factors of competitiveness in modern economies, but their potential contribution is severely restricted by market dysfunctions, as companies reported during previous studies. There is also a lack of adequate policies partly...

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 paper identifies several econometric models of Foreign Direct Investment focused on the country risk, which can also signal other macroeconomic indicators in Romania after 1996, according to World Bank and major rating agencies. The introduction presents the oscillation between micro- and...

Innovation in services has traditionally been neglected in the literature, perhaps because of the assumption that services do not innovate or are primarily users of innovation in manufacturing. In reality, services do innovate in both processes and products, but much of this innovation does not...

By establishing a research center, a team of scientist related to the Commerce Department of the Academy of Economic Studies, consisting mainly of university teachers, shows commitment to adhere at worldclass standards of university activity. In response to the demands and opportunities of a...