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    • Using Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Development 

      Simionescu, Aurel Gabriel; Dragomir, Mariana Carmelia (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Regarding energy, the greatest global challenges is ensuring growing demand to provide access to energy and to substantially reduce the sector's contribution to climate change. The aim of this article is to analyze the ...
    • Financial Risk Study of the Construction Sector Smes 

      Bărbuţă-Mişu, Nicoleta (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      The importance given to the problem of capital structure comes from the influence of debts on return on equity and the financial risk induced by debts. This paper is actually an analysis of the evolution of financial ...
    • Analysis of Transport Processes Management for a Romanian Food Market 

      Neagu, Maria; Duda, George (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      This paper presents the study of optimization process for the products transportation for a Romanian food-market. The vehicle routing problem was solves using Lingo 13.0 software and an analysis was conducted in order ...
    • Small Business Responsiveness and Organizational Culture in the Context of a Developing Economy 

      Stoica, Michael; Florea, Liviu; Lukacs, Edit (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      The organization’s responsiveness represents an important concept related to both performance and market environment. This empirical study analyzes the relationship between responsiveness and organizational culture in ...
    • A Conceptual Framework for Team Social Capital as Basis for Organizational Team Synergy 

      Zoltan, Raluca (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      The purpose of this paper is to outline a conceptual framework of team social capital as a basis for reaching organizational team synergy. The dimensions of team social capital and the basic conditions required for ...
    • Romania's Competitiveness and Competitive Position in Global Context 

      Neculiţă, Mihaela; Neculiţă, Valentin (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Competitiveness increase has become a primordial framework of the social and economic development strategies of most world countries (mainly the most developed ones) over the last decades. The vigorous boost of the ...
    • Different Categories of Business Risk 

      Toma, Simona-Valeria; Alexa, Ioana-Veronica (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Every business organisation involves some elements of risk. Unmitigated risks can result in lost opportunity, financial losses, loss of reputation, or loss of the right to operate in a jurisdiction. Like any other risk ...
    • Consideration Regarding Community Services of the Romanian Public Utilities 

      Cocoş, Alina Florentina; Trif, Nicolae Viorel (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      The community service of public utilities has known all through time various regulations and revisions that have been done according to the political, economic and administrative views of that period. In the 1866 ...
    • EU Regional Policy. Realities and Perspectives on the Absorption of European Funds 

      Neculiţă, Valentin; Neculiţă, Mihaela (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      EU expansion to 27 Member States has generate challenges in terms of its competitiveness and internal cohesion. The already existing disparities between the Member States and among their regions have deepened. These ...
    • Identification, Analysis, Modeling and Prediction of Time Series Characterizing the Indicators of Asset Structure in the Credit Institutions Operating in Romania 

      Călinică, Ramona Daniela; Călinică, Daniel (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      This paper aims to accurately characterize the dynamics of the structural indicators of the assets in the credit institutions operating in Romania through an empirical mathematical model of dual function: regulation and ...
    • Market Opportunity of Some Aluminium Silicon Alloys Materials through Changing the Casting Process 

      Chiriţă, George; Chiriţă, Mioara; Soares, Delfim; Silva, Filipe Samuel (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Fatigue is considered to be the most common mechanism by which engineering components fail, and it accounts for at least 90% of all service failures attributed to mechanical causes. Mechanical properties (tensile strength, ...
    • Ultimate Owner and Firm Performance - Evidence from Romanian Mining and Quarrying Listed Firms 

      Mihai, Iuliana Oana; Mihai, Cosmin (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      The main objectives of this paper are to describe the necessary steps to identify the ultimate owner and to investigate the relation between the ultimate ownership and the financial performance of Romanian mining and ...
    • The Correlation between Game Theory and International Trade 

      Alexa, Ioana-Veronica; Toma, Simona-Valeria (2012)
      Game theory, in its most basic form, considers two or more players and analyses the different strategies that they can use and the effect that these strategies will have on each player. International trade allows countries ...
    • Usefulness of Artificial Neural Networks for Predicting Financial and Economic Crisis 

      Chiriţă, Mioara (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      The objective of the present study is to explore the issue of the forecasting of economic crisis using the neural network. The subject is of great importance in the economy, more so as that most countries affected by ...
    • Mutations at the Level of the Measures Adopted by Monetary Authorities 

      Apostoaie, Marius Constantin; Matei, Ştefan (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Following the intensification of the international financial crisis in autumn 2008, the functioning of the financial system was seriously hindered. Central banks around the world responded firmly by lowering their key ...
    • Business Process Reengineering, a Crises Solution or a Necessity 

      Gheorghe, Gabriela (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      This case study shows that the company decided to implement Business Process Reengineering (BPR) not only because external environment had changed, but also due to its obsolete business processes and organizational ...
    • The Comparison of GDP Strategies Forecasting in Romania 

      Bratu Simionescu, Mihaela (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      The aggregates, like GDP, can be forecasted using two different strategies, the criterion of predictions’ accuracy being used to select the best strategy. The aim of this paper is to find out what is the best strategy ...
    • Measurement and Evaluation of Efficiency. Criteria for Police Units 

      Dimofte, George; Dimofte, Gabriela; Bolea, Ionica (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Police organization It is widely recognized that the exercise of the activity of management, as of all human activities, is not a purpose in itself, but rather a means to increase economic and social efficiency. To ...
    • The Financial Safety Net – a necessity in a turbulent financial world 

      Balogh, Peter; Tocu, Nicu (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Over the last years we observed that whenever crisis hits, interest in guarantee arrangements rises. The current financial crisis is no exception in this respect. It turns the spotlight on the operation of the financial ...
    • Risk Management in the Age of Turbulence - Failures and Challenges 

      Matei, Daniela; Cristea, Dragos; Căpătînă, Alexandru (“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, 2012)
      Today’s business, being affected by the continuous changes in economic environment, must reinvent the “prudent risk taking” concept to strike an appropriate balance between risk, return and growth, in order to create ...