The present paper reflects a first step in exploring in a systematic way the manner in which services are embedded in the economic life in Romania. The authors believe that service industries, in particular knowledge intensive services, are at the core of this transformational process and...

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...

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...

The structure of the paper brings together three major sections, following the general approach to the impact of paradoxes in economic theory. The first section describes a necessary investigation in the synthesized universe of paradoxes, to capitalize on Quine's paradox taxonomy, and to reveal...

The article uses the angle, and it is placed under the influence of the contributions of the representatives of German classical financial economic school, from Carl Dietzel and Lorenz von Stein to Adolph Wagner, whose works, reassessed by Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich in 2013, are comparable, through...

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...

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...

Counterfeiting and piracy have emerged as a not inconsiderable phenomenon on the world market because it presents a major peril to the national security, the legal businesses, and even to the economic development and the advancement of society. The scourge of counterfeiting represents today an...

The diversity with respect to national regulations, standardization and conformity certification procedures has a barrier-to-trade effect. Sometimes it discourages trade but it always means an increase of costs. Exporting enterprises are obliged to adapt their products to different requirements...