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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The conceptual analysis of the meaning, quality and productivity of services in the Romanian economy, the structural insight into the highly varied universe of these activities, identifying the distinctive level and structure dynamics of the tertiary sector, defining and delineating Juglar...