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...

The main instruments that ensure the free movement of goods on the big European market are: the European directives, harmonized standards, accreditation, conformity certification by a third part (of the management system, of products and services), testing and metrology. The rendition or setting...

Using adequate composite indicators, indeed together with other specific models, to analyse high frequency time series and to obtain sort-term forecasts can improve information for business environment, in modern era characterised by an accelerate process of changing. In our study we tried to...

This study highlights the importance of partially or integrally compensated fluxes, which are interrelated and complementary from the perspective of economics, not only for reasons of theory, but also through their statistical measurements. The first section presents the major statistical...

The consumers play an important role in the protection of environment by their choices when they purchase products. Consequently, with a view to manufacture products with minimum impact on environment as well as to influence the conduct of consumers and improve the ecological performance of...

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 article valorises the statistical theory of concentration-diversification in the field of the Romanian taxation, especially post-accession. Section 1 presents the main tax concepts and other general theoretical aspects from the theory of taxation, section 2 basically represents a brief...

Over the years, the demand for services of general interest and the manner they are provided have evolved significantly. Services that the state would traditionally provide in a direct form have been increasingly outsourced by national, regional and local authorities, and are now often provided...