ABSTRACT: The paper was presented on the occasion of conferring the title of doctor honoris causa to Mr. Jaime Gil Aluja at the University of Petrosani on 23 may 2005.

ABSTRACT: The public management issues are approached through three points of view: political, legally, managerial.

ABSTRACT: The author proposes a succinct presentation of the relation between the State, the Romanian National Bank respectively, and the producers of precious metals, that evolves within the framework of an essential economic component, namely the selling/purchase price of precious metals over an important period, 1920 – 1948.

ABSTRACT: This paper presents expert systems and the options of applying expert systems to the financial-accounting field.

ABSTRACT: The accuracy of the work-in-process cost influences the end products’ cost and the profit. Between the work-in-process dimension and the finished goods and profit’s dimensions there is a reversed report. The over evaluation, of the work-in-process, leads to an unjustified diminishing of the finished goods’ cost, and increases also, in an artificial way, the profit. The under evaluation of the work-in-process has an opposite effect, determining the increasing of the finished goods and the decreasing of the profit. Both situations are unfavorable for the enterprise. For reflecting the existing correlations we are presenting below a hypothetical example.

ABSTRACT: The quality of diagnosis depends on the one hand on the transcription of human reasoning and on the other hand on information used to evaluate references. In this paper I will discuss about use and limitations of expert system in agriculture.
This paper describes the relevance and benefits of an expert system in management diagnosis of farm.

ABSTRACT: Investing in people and skills is a main objective of the “eEurope Initiative”. The European Union set as a priority objective for Europe to become “…a competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy”. A special attention is given to the development of pro-active strategies and policies for the Central European EU accession candidate countries including Romania. The paper focuses on investments in education. It reveals the implications of the global revolution in knowledge for the development of knowledge & information based society. Globalization on Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) are creating new opportunities for growth and development in the new economy. A well-educated and skilled population contributes to create, share, use and manage knowledge as a critical requisite for a country to participate in the global knowledge economy. A network of universities, research centres, private enterprises and community groups can facilitate the effective communication, dissemination and processing of knowledge and information.

ABSTRACT: Traditionally businesses have measured their performance solely in financial terms. this limited approach has been challenged, with the introduction of the concept of key performance indicators (KPIs) for non-financial results. however, their effective use has been limited. this paper reviews these and other construction KPIs and concludes that most of the kpis used are post event, lagging measures that do not provide the opportunity to change. this paper distinguishes between the types of measure and suggests a framework for their effective use within an overall performance measurement system based on change action driven by results.

ABSTRACT: There are specific methods for assessing and improving the effectiveness of a marketing strategy. A marketer should state in the marketing plan what a marketing strategy is supposed to accomplish. These statements should set forth performance standards, which usually are stated in terms of profits, sales, or costs. Actual performance must be measured in similar terms so that comparisons are possible. This paper describes sales analysis and cost analysis, two general ways of evaluating the actual performance of marketing strategies.

ABSTRACT: The comparative management represents the science that studies managerial processes and relations within those organizations which function in different cultural and national contexts, being centered on determining and analyzing managerial similarities and differences.

ABSTRACT: Solidarity among the citizens of the European Union, economic and social development as well as cohesion are declared objectives stated in Amsterdam Treaty; their accomplishment should be assured by the states – members owing to implementing European regional policy financed by the Structural Funds and the Cohesion Fund. The European Union does not simply play the part of a financer – it has its own vision regarding regional policy, and acts directly at a local and regional level, complementary to the national policies of the states – members in this field.

ABSTRACT: The impact of bank regulation on risk-taking behavior has been a major focus during periods of severe financial crises. While there is still an ongoing debate whether regulation is beneficial at all, regulation is an evolving process and a number of regulatory guidelines have been issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and by national regulators over time.

ABSTRACT: The paper is an attempt to point out the cosmopolitan orientation of Constantin Stere’s work, which offers an exquisite sample of modern thought, anticipating as early as the end of the nineteenth century such actual problems as nationalism, anti - Semitism culturalization and globalization. By using examples from two of his major works, this study focuses on the central doctrine of his writings, which are centered on the idea that the national feeling should not exclude the opening towards universal values as a background for the self – awareness and self – assertion of any nation.

ABSTRACT: According to the Japanese specialist Taguchi, in order to obtain quality, even the conceptual phase imposes efforts in designing production process parameters, efforts which consist of finding the best parameters so that the product should be hyposensitized against disturbances. In other words, the originality of the Taguchi strategy is that it does not aim to eliminate these parasites but to minimize their impact upon quality, eliminating the combination of parameters, which reduces unexpected effects.

ABSTRACT: This is a companion paper to Ferragina, Giovannetti and Pastore (2005) and focuses on Romania-EU actual and potential trade. The Romanian trade potential with five EU members (France, Germany, Italy, Spain and UK) is computed using an “out-of-sample” methodology for the period 1995-‘01. The coefficients are taken from panel estimators of the gravity equation relative to intra-EU15 trade. The analysis suggests the existence of an important unexploited trade potential with Romania, which, nonetheless, is not different in size from that of other CEECs. The potential to actual trade ratio ranges from 2.2 to 2.7 and is sharply declining, suggesting that further dramatic economic integration is to be expected in the near future.#

ABSTRACT: The most important impact determined by the applying re-organizing directions is that upon the human entities, due to the fact that one of the conditions imposed in order to turn N.P.C. to profit is to reconsider the number of the company’s employees.
According to some studies of the region we can draw the conclusion that the impact of re-organizing the mining industry upon the human element has been mostly negative. In this case the paper proposed to identify a few economic and social consequences of the mining industry re-organization.

ABSTRACT: This paper tries to reveal the effects of the actual information society on services marketing in general, to clarify the cybermarketing concept (that interferes marketing and information technology), its premises and its possible advantages for the services organizations.

ABSTRACT: In this paper present new and principal elements of the managerial control system in power energy system. Exchanges on managerial control system was causes of the principal actions: Introduction of the competition; Liberalisation and privatisation of the electricity and heat sector; Private investments; Prices substantiated based on costs; Creation of the internal electricity and heat market Consolidation of the related sectors and regulations (technical, trade, economics, etc.)

ABSTRACT: In this paper present new structure of the National Power System and principal institutions in order hierarchy levels. Present general information of the main services and public utilities on inside National Power System, respectively: TERMOELECTRICA, HIDROELECTRICA, NUCLEARELECRTICA and INDEPENDENT POWER PRODUCERS (IPP) AND SELF PRODUCERS (SP)- generation power; ELECTRICA - distribution and supply electricity power; TRANSELECTRICA - Transmission and system operator; OPCOM- Commercial operator.

ABSTRACT: The present paper discusses self-financing capacity seen as a particular indicator that reflects the financial potential determined by the profitable activity of a company. We present the ways in which it can be calculated as well as a case study.

ABSTRACT: General communication processes rely on messages implying contents, communication channels, a receiver and clear objectives. Once accepting the importance of defining objectives, three strategies, narrative, implicative, and decisional, seem to be specific for most business communications. While narrative business communications convey information with a view of simply transmitting information and depend on accuracy, complexity, and clarity, implicative business communications convey information in order to determine a certain behavior of the receiver and rely on credibility, logic, and motivation; decisional business communications transmit information having a negative or positive connotation and depend on message, tone, and language.

ABSTRACT: Time adjusted measures of risk is useful for management in order to estimate how much risk is allowable with a given project while still meeting the desired return standard. In this paper I have presented two such measures: present value payback and annualized net present value and I‘ve also presented the ranges of estimates and their application in probabilistic simulation.

ABSTRACT: Risk exists whenever the future is unknown. This paper deals with the concepts of risk and uncertainty, risk attitudes and reaction to risk. It is explained the distinction between objective risk and subjective risk. Also, it presents risk attitudes and factors affecting them and the economic costs of risk: costs of unexpected losses and costs of uncertainty.

ABSTRACT: This paper intends to underline the aspects which connect the Project Management (PM) to the Quality Management (QM). The innovative perspective lies in the emphasis on those aspects of Quality Management, which have not yet been underlined in connection with Project Management (PM). These aspects are present in the series of quality standards ISO 10006 and ISO 10007, which led to some interpretations which ink Project Management (PM) with Quality Management (QM).

ABSTRACT: In order to achieve a high quality in management, we need to ensure a high quality of the human resource. Thus, the evaluation of the employees becomes very important since it offers an image of the human quality as a part of the total quality in a company or institution.

ABSTRACT: Specialists consider a financial diagnosis necessary for measuring the profitableness of invested capital and for estimating the economic and financial equilibrium, which has a certain influence on the economic, financial, and bankruptcy risk rate. Thus, the main purpose of any financial diagnosis is to point out the financial state of the company in order to identify possible causes and effects. A financial diagnosis starts with determining and interpreting a set of economic- financial indicators, which are calculated based on the financial balance sheet.

ABSTRACT: Energetical strategies drawn up by the international research institutes reflect the premises and the effects of the main production factor substitution, the energetic resource, with the unconventional resources. Their use, on a large scale, in the close future will determine a flatter iso-quantum curve as a consequence of the raw materials cost reduction or annulation and also of the amount of labour decrease, taking into account the fact that obtaining power energy from unconventional resources is an automatic process.

ABSTRACT: Analyzing the evolution trend on the Romanian capital market in the last three-four years we can observe that, as the years go by, financing thru the specific mechanisms turns into a real alternative to financing by loans or profit reinvestment.

ABSTRACT: The option for the quarry or underground mining is determined by the concern for environment protection in the first case, whereas in the second case the determining elements are complex mechanization, production concentration and productivity increase in order to ensure the coal quantity demanded on the market, economic efficiency focusing on cost reduction.
The technical – economic performance results from the analysis of all the performance indices, both technical and economic, expressing the capacity of a complex technical system to turn to account all the technical, technological, constructive, functional and managerial resources with a view to ensuring maximal results with minimal resources in given conditions.

ABSTRACT: The paper suggests the presentation of aspects concerning the informatization strategy for the control activity at the Romanian Court of Counts. The introduction of the audit assisted by computer through the accomplishment of an IT system and the required training of the personnel represents a priority in the short time and CCR medium strategy.

ABSTRACT: The new economic environment based on efficiency, competition and competitive experiments has deeply changed all levels of the national economy; thus, it has affected the evolution and the present and future development of the industrial branches in different ways.
As it has been avoided for quite a while because of its “strategic” character, the Romanian mining industry has entered the “chain” of reorganization processes and it has experienced a harsh period of changes, which prove to be long, complex, numerous, with social and economic regional influences.

ABSTRACT: Generally, the stocks originating in the production process of the company are meant for sale. For this category of stocks the accounting circuit is strongly influenced by the moment or the moments chosen by each national accounting system in order to identify the incomes.

ABSTRACT: The late privatization of Dacia Company delayed the investments in the horizontal industry. Unlike the rest of the countries from Central and Eastern Europe, where car industry developed rapidly because of the investments made by big world producers, in our country this process is only at the beginning. A really new model of Dacia was produced in series only at the middle of this year.

ABSTRACT: Since the creation of the European Union its purpose has been to unite the European continent into one cohesive organization. In order for this goal to be fully realized all European nations must be included under this conglomeration of states. Unfortunately the process is not quite so simple. It takes years of careful evaluation of numerous factors most importantly including economic status, respect for international law and basic human rights, and military status amongst other numerous yet equally important facts. Before a state can be admitted it must first be determined that by admitting the state that it will have a generally good affect on the community as a whole and not simply benefit any single nation.

ABSTRACT: The management activity does not only include the techniques and methods of programming, organizing and allocation of resources, starting and control of operations, interventions but it also implies a great number of decisions regarding the launching, carrying on, modifying and carrying out of activities or choosing one of the possible variants so as to ensure that the goals should be reached.
The activity of choosing one variant from several possible ones is often met with in maintenance management, such as: the selection of an optimum equipment, the choice of a firm for after/sale service, for supplying materials or spare parts which implies taking into account a large number of factors.
The choice based on fundamental mathematic methods becomes feasible by using the current automatic data processing devices and this paper presents the “Xomc” application of establishing the multicriterial optimum.

ABSTRACT: European Union countries has performing economies, however this countries have relative disparities, to the viability of the economic structure and labour utilization, between these countries but even inside.

ABSTRACT: Together with the development of the society and its needs, the competition on the service market continues to grow. The companies that offer this kind of services need the best card in order to impose themselves on the market.
As the first two elements can also be used by the competitors, the attention must be straightened towards the third which is the quality of the persons engaged in the activity. The ability of learning quicker and faster than the competitors can be the only advantage worth to be followed.

ABSTRACT: Unemployment is a negative phenomenon present in all states of the world. In economical and social activity of Jiu Valley, National Company of Pit coal from Petrosani has over 90% of weight so almost entire population depend directly or indirectly of this company.
The most powerful impact of implement the restructuration measures included in the program which was elaborate, is the one that affect the population of Jiu Valley because the most important measure for making the National Company of Pit coal from Petrosani efficient refers to the necessity of reducing the number of employers in mining coals.

ABSTRACT: The concept of crisis is very hard to define. It has its origin in the Greek word “krisis” which means the evolution stage of a situation in which a decision should be taken. This concept describes a break in the evolution of a phenomenon in which decisions are hard to take.

ABSTRACT: Utilization of mining methods with undermined coal bank in the case of thick coal seams in Jiu Valley coal basin has lead to the increase of efficiency obtained and to significant decrease of production costs, but the establishment of coal fields has been made without performing an accurate analysis regarding the influence of main technological parameters’ variation of this method (length of face line ,,lab”, length of face field ,,lp”, and the thickness of undermined coal bank ,,hb”) onto the achieved technical and economical indexes.

ABSTRACT: The professor Dan Drosu Şaguna considers that the definitions given to tax-evasion phenomenon in legislation and in doctrine are incomplete and believes that tax-evasion phenomenon could be defined as representing the logical resultant of defects and inadvertences of an imperfect legislation, of bad methods of application and of legislator’s inability, too; any state’s excessive fiscality makes the legislator as guilty as those who commit it.
We made a brief presentation of the tax-evasion’s principal effects, because we wanted to underline the negative effect of this phenomenon on national economy. We, also, wanted to show how important is that the fiscal phenomenon to be stopped, or at least decreased substantially, to remove this chain of negative effects.

ABSTRACT: The impact of global information flows, and of the knowledge economy, on governmental and societal institutions is no less profound or important. In information-rich environments where knowledge flows freely and communications are abundant and multi-directional, pressures increase on governments to be more transparent, accountable and participatory. At the same time, the ability of governments to access and control information, and the uneven access to information and knowledge among sectors of society can, in certain circumstances, increase inequality and further entrench existing political and social elites. Unequal access to education and training can perpetuate and deepen inequality.

ABSTRACT: The Object-Oriented Technology (OOT) is expected to faster the software development process industrialization. In fact, it can increase the process productivity and flexibility, requiring a change of the firm management practices. In particular, cost management has to be re-defined according to the OOT peculiar characteristics, introducing changes consistent with the actual OOT spread in software firms. In the paper, the object-oriented software development process is discussed. Then, after the analysis of the results of a survey of Italian software producers aimed to investigate the actual spread and the characteristics of the OOT practices adopted, a model for the cost estimation of the object oriented software development is proposed.