The present paper discusses the results of an experiment I conducted during my PhD studies. The experiment had as main goal the study of Critical Chain planning impact on the results of a project, mainly those regarding resulted product quality and overall project duration. The statistical...

The conclusion of the internal strategic diagnostic should not be "we know how to do this" but "how we do it in relation to main competitors, based on the requirements imposed by the environment “, the objective of this diagnosis being determination of the strengths, weaknesses of the company...

After 1990 with the emergence of major crises in Latin America and Russia, Country risk has gained a broad economic and political spectrum. There for implications of country risk have been combining quantitative analysis tools with the qualitative ones. Paper addresses the following topics...

All aspects of Lean Management presented in this paper have attempted to show the size of an approach of the industrial performance in European companies. The myth created by the results in Japanese car companies Toyota has attracted the interest of many authors to this management system. In...

When defining a maintenance policy, it must be held in mind the fact that there isn’t such a thing like “good maintenance policy” in itself; instead, for each industrial equipment should be adapted a particular maintenance method, coming to a technical-economic compromise through its...

When defining a maintenance policy, it must be held in mind the fact that there isn’t such a thing like “good maintenance policy” in itself; instead, for each industrial equipment should be adapted a particular maintenance method, coming to a technical-economic compromise through its...

The maintenance activity isn’t a purpose in itself, it’s a necessity of which "the production suffers" and the financial agent “considers too expensiveâ€. It often exists a conflict between the production units and the maintenance department, not only for a short term,...

In the increasingly dynamic and competitive business environment of today, incumbent firms are facing rapid and profound changes in macro social, economic, political and technological conditions. Such a turbulent setting may disrupt the inertia of the incumbent firms, from a wide range of...

After we woke from the “exhilaration” of December ’89, glad that we “got rid” of socialism, in the following years we have been looking around us, and we saw everywhere all kinds of problems: financial blockages, the lack of markets both for the “inputs” and for the “outputs”,...

The current crisis has revealed that in the “war” between suppliers and customers the power balance has finally swung towards the latter, and since companies act as both suppliers and customers to other entities apparently complicates their situation. A high performance implies minimizing...