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 principle of the free movement of goods, practised in the European Union, imposes a common set of laws to assure the free movement of goods on the internal market, in the same way as it is practised within the borders of a country.One of the most important instruments that ensures the free...

In the case of services there is no consensus about the way in which quality should be evaluated. The problem appears to be complex, especially for services the market of which is prejudiced by high information asymmetry. This is why business services – especially the knowledge intensive ones...

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...

While business services, and especially knowledge intensive ones, are key inputs, having a decisive contribution to the competitiveness of their client industries, the determinants of the market for such services are not entirely clarified. We found that quality uncertainty and information...

The main instruments that ensure the free movement of goods on the big European market are the European directives, harmonized standards, accreditation, conformity assessment, testing and metrology. The rendition or setting up of these instruments do not signify that the economic agents are...

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...

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...