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USING MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING TO REDUCE THE INTERRUPTIONS IN THE TECHNOLOGICAL PROCESS TO THE PRODUCTION LINES IN INTERMITTENTLY FLOW

Author(s): Doruleţ Grădinaru,Puiu Grădinaru / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: flow production lines; balancing flow production lines; heuristic method

In the production function, companies that produce large quantities of a single product are using a site-oriented product (production lines or flow assembly). Understanding the method of location and organization of these lines is essential to achieve a desired output with maximum efficiency

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ANALYSIS OF THE EXTERNAL COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT OF PITESTI UNIVERSITY

Author(s): Mădălina Brutu / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: external competitive environment; Pitesti University; strategic objectives; competitive factors

The strategic objectives of the university are in harmony with those of the Romanian higher education. In the analysis of the competitive external environment we used the Porter Structure, and after the evaluation of the five competitive forces we reached the conclusion that some of these are quite strong, representing dangers for Pitesi University (The risk represented by the entrance into the market of some new competitors; the rivalry degree; the “buyers’” power of negotiation), and the other ones are weak (the power of negotiation of the companies providing the materials and services inputs (suppliers); the threat generated by the substitution products), fact that represents great opportunities for Pitesti University

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VAT FOR THE PURCHASES OF EXTRA-COMMUNITY GOODS

Author(s): Roxana Ispas,Dalia Mirela Simion / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: VAT; basis of assessment; taxable activities; import; Community Customs Code

This study emphasizes the manner of calculating the VAT tax for the purchases of extra-community goods, as being the action of purchasing goods whose suppliers are located in different states, other than the member states of the EU. The notion of extra-community purchase is not regulated through the Fiscal Code, but it can be used for delimiting the origin of a good, from a community state or from an extra-community state, within an action whose purpose is the same: the purchase/ the acquisition/ the supply of a good

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THE CONSUMERS AND THE CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Author(s): Marinela Tanascovici,Olimpia Oancea,Victoria Mihaela Brînzea / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: corporate citizenship; corporate ethics; corporate social responsibility,socially responsible consumer behavior

Consumers are becoming more interested in corporate social responsibility, a concept that has also attracted growing attention from companies around the world. CSR has been described as the business role in sustainable development, and an approach to doing business which aims to integrate and balance economic, environmental and social performance, with the goal of continuously improving all three. Consumers have an important role in encouraging businesses to adopt and advance CSR. Many businesses make a sizeable effort to learn about their customers’ preferences and opinions, so they can create products and services that people will want to buy. When consumers care about issues like the environmental performance of a company or labor conditions in foreign factories, corporations take notice

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MODELS OF PUBLIC DEBT SUSTAINABILITY ASSESSMENT AND THEIR UTILITY

Author(s): Irina Bilan / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: public debt; sustainability; government borrowing constraint; intertemporal budget constraint; IMF model

Ensuring public debt sustainability is one of the main challenges that public indebtedness policy has to face on the long run, susciting both practicioners and theoreticians. In this paper we aim to present an overview of the main models for assessing public debt and, more generally, budgetary policy sustainability, briefly presenting their contents and the main disadvantages and problems arising from their practical application

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EFFECTIVE INTEGRATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

Author(s): Maria Văduva / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: Integration; economic development; competition; domestic market; structural reforms

Economic Union is a state of integration in which interdependencies are emphasized that almost all economic policies out of the strictly national development. Member States remain free in monetary policy. Integration of politically is considered a means of reducing political tensions, to foster political cooperation to increase their participation in international political life

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HUMAN RESOURCES MOTIVATION AND MANAGERIAL PERFORMANCES INSIDE ALCATEL-LUCENT LTD

Author(s): Ramona Răducan,Radu Răducan / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: human resource; management; performance

In an organization, managers must know what determines human behavior, goal and personality. It is important for a manager to consider how people in the organization actually behave and not how he would like them to behave. Motivation plays an important role in achieving performance. Successful employee motivation is based more on a managerial philosophy than a technical application data. A successful manager creates a climate in which employee can apply themselves the wish to increase productivity and performance

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EUROPEAN MARKETING LEGISLATION ON AGRO-FOOD PRODUCTS

Author(s): Mircea Bota / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: regulation of genetically modified products; agro-business marketing

The EU marketing food products has a special meaning, the rules of the Community agro-food market is a priority for the European Commission aimed at aspects like increasing the quality of agricultural product and ensure their competitiveness in the domestic and foreign market, protecting consumer interests, sustainable agricultural development, protecting the environment. In this article we make an overview of the main European regulations on agricultural and food marketing

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STUDY ON MARKETING CONTRIBUTION TO EU INTEGRATION OF AGRO-FOOD ROMANIAN BUSINESSES

Author(s): Mircea Bota / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: marketing; integration; agricultural products; and market orientation

In the European market, competition has an advantageous role for traders, consumers, and society in general. However, there were few who claimed that hardness developed within the European competition is so strong that it determines you to use a whole arsenal of tactics aimed at achieving competitive advantage, marketing having an important role. In this article we intend to present the contribution of Romanian food companies marketing in the process of European integration

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APPROACHES OF PLUSVALUE GENERATED BY INTERNAL AUDIT INTO THE PUBLIC SECTOR ENTITIES FROM ROMANIA

Author(s): Mihai Păunică,Aurelia Ştefanescu,Eugeniu Ţurlea / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: public sector entity; internal audit; plus value; public services

The process of collecting the public resources is a major concern both for the public sector entities and their addressees. In this respect, this research has as objective to explain and quantify the concept of plus value generated by internal audit into the public sector entities. By fundamental research method we explain the concept of plus value and assess the plus value generated by internal audit in terms of public resources collecting.

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NEW ENTERPRISE CONCEPTS. EMPLOYING THE SEMANTIC WEB

Author(s): Dragoş Marian Mangiuc / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: organizational memory; organizational knowledge; semantic web; knowledge management

The present paper is a component of an exploratory research project focused on discovering new ways to build, organize and consolidate organizational memory for an economic entity by means of the new “Semantic Web” technologies and also encloses some of the results of a previous doctoral research in the field of information technology assistance for the financial audit. The paper is an attempt to synthesize the ways organizational memory and organizational knowledge management may be optimized by means of the new “Semantic Web” philosophy. This paper offers a picture of where the typical organization is, and where it needs to be, in order to become a knowledge-aware organization and leverage the technologies of the “Semantic Web”. As a consequence, a knowledge-centric process was defined, along with a “how-to” roadmap for crafting a company’s way to the Semantic Web

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COMPANY PERFORMANCE EVALUATION– GENERAL INFORMATION

Author(s): Mihaela Gâdoiu,Emilia Clipici / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: financial analysis; interim balances of administration; company performance; aggregation of the rate of returns

The evaluation of the company performance represents an approach that requires careful analysis at the dual profitability – risk level, because, although the shareholders and managers of the company are certainly interested in the profitability of the company, more attention must be paid to the risks to which the company is exposed

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THE ROLE OF ENTREPRENEUR IN THE SUCCESS OF A BUSINESS

Author(s): Carmen Gabriela Secară / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: entrepreneur; expertise; skills; entrepreneurial spirit; business

To start a business involves the application of the rule AIDA: A-attraction, I - interest, D - Desire, A - Action. However, by this present article, I proposed an approach of the qualities and skills of a successful entrepreneur, showing that it is not enough to desire a thing, because one must possess many other qualities. I also pointed out the errors that can destroy a business at a certain time and how they can be avoided

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ASPECTS OF SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTIN THE EU

Author(s): Andra Miculescu,Lucia Negruţ / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: sustainable development; economic development; environmental degradation; natural resources

Increasingly concerns on sustainable economic development for every country and worldwide, are related to complex problems facing humanity today, namely: poverty, environmental degradation, uncontrolled expansion of urbanization, employment uncertainty of job, alienation of youth, removing traditional values, inflation, unemployment, monetary crises, economic and geographical ones. Sustainable development is not an end itself, but a mean to foster technical and economic progress through more equitable distribution of its effects on present and future generations. The objective of the sustainable development strategy is the same for all countries in the world, practical problems to be solved are very different from one country to another

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ASPECTS OF THE LEASES AT BRD SOGELEASE

Author(s): Camelia-Daniela Hategan,Codruţa Pavel,Maria Moraru / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: leasing; bank; financier

The new statutory provisions and recent developments in banking financial services market in Romania gives an increased interest as alternative financing leasing of property and equipment. The objectives of the Bank in connection with the launch of leasing are: Imposing leasing operations in the face of investment financing alternatives, medium and long term, in terms of consolidating security funding. Thus, leasing, offering better protection and higher efficiency compared to traditional lending operations. Customer loyalty by providing rapid and flexible financing solutions

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ISSUES ON USING THE DISCOUNTED CASH FLOWS METHODS FOR ASSET VALUATION

Author(s): Mihaela Cosmina Petre,Cristina Aurora Bunea-Bontaş / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: cash flow; discounted cash flow; discount rate; present value; valuation

Valuation of an asset, a project or an entire company may be done following different approaches, one of them being the “Discounted Cash Flows”, based on financial mathematics. This method use various expected cash flows and, therefore, different discount rates are considered appropriate regarding the different related risks. This paper emphasizes the differences between calculations of the most used cash flow streams, i.e. Free Cash Flow, Capital Cash Flow and Equity Cash Flow. Regarding the companies' valuation using the discounting-based methods, many authors argue that no matter which expected cash flows is used, they provide the same results for the present value of the company. In this paper, we present the Discounted Capital Cash Flow valuation method, arguing that choice through a greater simplicity of calculations

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PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS IN COST RISK ANALYSIS

Author(s): Dragoş STUPARU,Vasile Constantin Tomiţă,Cora-Ionela Dăniasă / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: cost; risk; risk analysis; probability distribution

A risk analysis involves identifying the most probable threats to an organization (or a project) and analyzing the related vulnerabilities of the organization (project) to these threats. The risk analysis process provides the foundation for the entire recovery planning effort. The probability distributions and correlation are often used in Quantitative Cost Risk Analysis

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INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATION AND ITS ROLE IN INCREASING THE EFFICIENCY OF THE APPROACHES IN COMMUNICATION

Author(s): Olimpia Oancea,Amalia Pandelică / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: Integrated marketing communication; communication plan; sources of contact; synergy; target audience

For the organization at the beginning of the millennium, communication is an essential part of business marketing. In a relatively short - just a few decades - the specific marketing communication has seen a dramatic evolution. Against the backdrop of social and economic changes in circumstances that were significant changes in the way of thinking, feeling and acting of individuals, organizations intensify their efforts in marketing communication plan, also contributed with other specialists, to improve methods and specific techniques. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the role of integrated marketing communication in terms of communication efficiency approaches taken by the company

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AN ANALYSIS OF THE GENERAL ECONOMIC STATE OF TECHNICAL-MATERIAL RESOURCES IN AGRICULTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

Author(s): Simona Cristina Costea / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: economic efficiency; technical-material basis

The development and modernization of agricultural exploitations is closely related to the expansion, improvement and rational use of the technical-material resources operating within the complex process of obtaining and supplying agricultural products. Within the competitive market economy, achieving high productivity per hectare and per animal, increasing labor productivity and profitability largely depends on the size, structure, quality and efficient management of the technical-material basis. Agricultural practice in our country and other countries has shown the close connection between technical equipment and labor productivity in agriculture

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WHERE DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS AND MACHINE LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES MEET

Author(s): Adrian Cojocariu,Cristina Ofelia Stanciu / Language(s): English / Issue: 16/2010

Keywords: decision support systems; Machine Learning; artificial intelligence

The use of computers in any domain is a widely recognized fact and it has been impossible not to ask whether the computers’ capacity to learn wouldn’t increase their utility. The answer would be that as the learning capacity increases, the impact it determines is spectacular. The aim of the intelligent technologies approach in developing decision support systems has been the use of human reasoning to find solutions for complex decision problems, but also to gain extra knowledge within the organization, in order to increase the quality of the management process. The idea that intelligent systems could solve tasks that were until recently considered to be exclusively human has drawn the researchers attention, and the number of applications in the artificial intelligence field has increased and being materialized in new technologies. One of these technologies, determined by the interest in systems that are capable to learn similarly to the human beings is the Machine Learning technology. Machine Learning technologies based systems do not eliminate human intuition, but a collaborative approach between the human being and the machine is preferred, and this would be an important reason to use these technologies for the development of modern decision support systems

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