How do Market Concentration and Mimetic Behavior Influence Strategic Renewal?

In the increasingly dynamic and competitive business environment of today, incumbent firms are facing rapid and profound changes in macro social, economic, political and technological conditions. Such a turbulent setting may disrupt the inertia of the incumbent firms, from a wide range of industries, and urge them to make drastic and often irreversible strategic decisions. Such vital strategic decisions include strategic renewal which, as the literature sustains, is a necessary requirement to remain competitive, but difficult to achieve. This paper aims to develop understanding on major areas of strategic renewal from the point of view of some aspects of the institutional environment. Its goal is to establish the relationship between different market conditions and the way companies react in terms of strategic renewal and change. Moreover it statistically investigates the degree to which companies decide to “run” in their own rhythm or just imitate other incumbent companies in the industry.strategic renewal, mimetic behavior, market concentration, exploitation, exploration.

European Approaches on the Concept of Lean Management

All aspects of Lean Management presented in this paper have attempted to show the size of an approach of the industrial performance in European companies. The myth created by the results in Japanese car companies Toyota has attracted the interest of many authors to this management system. In this paper, we propose to make a presentation of the contributions in the field, some of them, but also why the system was met with reluctance in this part of the world.lean management; car companies; European approach; production method.

Redefining Industrial Maintenance Activity in the Modern Organization of Industrial Companies

The maintenance activity isn’t a purpose in itself, it’s a necessity of which “the production suffers” and the financial agent “considers too expensive”. It often exists a conflict between the production units and the maintenance department, not only for a short term, but, sometimes, for a long term, imposing a rigorous definition of each person’s responsibilities. Considering the mutations in the industrial equipments’ technical complexity and the accidental failures’ catastrophic consequences from the economic and/or social point of view, it should be assigned a new dimension to the maintenance activity. One of the imperatives imposed to this action is represented by modern means of informing through the maintenance’s operational computerization.maintenance’s progress; total productive maintenance; cooperation in maintenance; the maintenance’s costs minimization; maintenance’s operational computerization.

The Modern Approach to Industrial Maintenance Management

The maintenance activity isn’t a purpose in itself, it’s a necessity of which "the production suffers" and the financial agent “considers too expensiveâ€. It often exists a conflict between the production units and the maintenance department, not only for a short term, but, sometimes, for a long term, imposing a rigorous definition of each person’s responsibilities. Considering the mutations in the industrial equipments’ technical complexity and the accidental failures’ catastrophic consequences from the economic and/or social point of view, it should be assigned a new dimension to the maintenance activity. One of the imperatives imposed to this action is represented by modern means of informing through the maintenance’s operational computerization.Maintenance’s Progress, Total Productive Maintenance, Cooperation In Maintenance, The Maintenance’s Costs Minimization, Maintenance’s Operational Computerization

THE SUBSTANTIATION OF THE PRICE STRATEGIES ACCORDING TO THE CONSUMERS’ BUYING BEHAVIOUR

The firm’s position on the market is determined by the value offered by selling its products or offering its services, the public relations depending on the customers’ perception of the value of the product or service offered to them, and the position occupied in relation to the competitors is determined by the level of the product’s prices and advantages offered by the competition. The price and the value-price ratio are two fundamental variables of which the firm’s survival depends in the competitive environment. To ensure the fact that the pricing strategy be a long-term success we must define in the early stage of development-research the value-price ratio, having in view that it’s possible for a product with an increased perceived value not to be introduced on the market with a competitive price, an aspect that can be approached using the target costs and target value method, a method that allows to define the production costs limits and fixing the target price to avoid the launching errors.price strategies, perceived value, strategic competitive advantage, target value, value/price ration, optimal level of performance.

The Management of the Industrial Maintenance at an International Level (II)

When defining a maintenance policy, it must be held in mind the fact that there isn’t such a thing like “good maintenance policy” in itself; instead, for each industrial equipment should be adapted a particular maintenance method, coming to a technical-economic compromise through its products, through its market, its equipments, its people, the managers’ psychology, the organizational culture and, as a consequence, the industrial maintenance will be different. The present article will pursue to highlight the position of the maintenance activity having in mind the imperatives imposed to this activity, the maintenance methods applied at the international level and the methods that can be applied in our country.maintenance mission; corrective maintenance; systematic preventive maintenance; conditional preventive maintenance; palliative maintenance.

Magnesia Research on Treatments for the De-Acidification of Info-Documentary Collections from Libraries, Archives and Museums: Case Studies

The scientific concern of the authors is part of the project entitled: “The research, testing and using in the laboratory of natural products presenting significant impacts for de-acidification of paper collections“, an ambitious, original scientific project with perspective steps in ecological development and application of technological, clean lines, about the info- documents de-acidification for paper from libraries, museums and archives. Testing the natural products in pure chemical structures or composite structure (structure-blending) and obtaining of the stable chemical formula of the product is the first phase of the project which will check several products with destabilizing effects of hydrogen ions in the structure of the paper

The Management of the Industrial Maintenance at the International Level (I)

When defining a maintenance policy, it must be held in mind the fact that there isn’t such a thing like “good maintenance policy” in itself; instead, for each industrial equipment should be adapted a particular maintenance method, coming to a technical-economic compromise through its products, through its market, its equipments, its people, the managers’ psychology, the organizational culture and, as a consequence, the industrial maintenance will be different. The present article will pursue to highlight the position of the maintenance activity having in mind the imperatives imposed to this activity, the maintenance methods applied at the international level and the methods that can be applied in our country.maintenance mission; Total Productive Maintenance (TMP); corrective maintenance; systematic preventive maintenance; conditional preventive maintenance.