THE ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY OF FIELD CROPS CULTIVATION IN SOUTH ROMANIA: TRENDS AND ACTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT

The South of Romania experiences important climate changes, with importanteffects over the traditional crops, as wheat, sunflower, and especially maize, affected verynegative by the summers’ draught. These evolutions leaded to a diminution of the agriculturalfarms economic efficiency in this area. Given this situation, the farmers had to introduce newfield crops in order to improve the agricultural exploitations profitability. This paper presentsan analysis of the evolution in the area cultivated with traditional crops vs. industrial cropsand their comparative economic efficiency. Also, the unequal competition with the Americangenetically modified imports and the commodities’ market underdevelopment are pointed out,as the necessary actions to improve the situation of the farmers engaged in traditional cropscultivation.Efficiency analysis, traditional crops, industrial crops

Quality Assurance - a Chance for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises

In this mateial some of the most important aspects related to the quality assurance for their bussiness plan, sma;; and medium sized enterprises are pointed out the functional processual approach, the modely of the implementation of the quality management system for the small and medium sized enterprises.small and medium sized enterprises, quality management system

Engineering and Re-engineering Model of the Proceses for Implementing Quality Management System in Small and Medium Enterprises

A succinct analysis of the world economics, generally, and European, especially permits to observe some undoubted definitive features, as the continuous supply diversification and instauration under the impact of knowledge society, markets globalization, and, most of all, the continuous growth in customer’s and society’s exigencies. Despite of this situation, there are still many Romanian enterprises with an uppermost stereotyped activity, without having an aggressive strategy, which would permit attaining important profit, in order to ensure the necessary resources for investments, growth, and a better place on the market. Nowadays, the quality became the tip of the balance in efficiency and competitive capacity growth, and also, a condition for the entrerprises on European market; the quality requirements on this market are at a very high level. It is considered that attaining customer’s satisfaction is not enough, and, according with the concept Beyond Customer Satisfaction, the product should exceed customer’s needs and expectations

The impact and determinants of the energy paradigm on economic growth in European Union.

Contemporary economies are strongly reliant on energy and analyzing the determining factors that trigger the changes in energy paradigm and their impact upon economic growth is a topical research subject. Our contention is that energy paradigm plays a major role in achieving the sustainable development of contemporary economies. In order to prove this the panel data methodology of research was employed, namely four panel unit root tests (LLC, IPS, F-ADF and F-PP) aiming to reveal the connections and relevance among 17 variables denoting energy influence on economic development. Moreover, it was introduced a specific indicator to express energy consumption per capita. Our findings extend the classical approach of the changes in energy paradigm and their impact upon economic growth and offer a comprehensive analysis which surpasses the practices and policy decisions in the field

THE INFLUENCES OF THE CULTURAL MODELS ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION STRUCTURES IN ROMANIA AND SOME EU-28 COUNTRIES - A PERSPECTIVE

The evolution of the Common Agricultural Policy and the changing of its paradigm was a subject of extensive consideration in the literature, but never the implications of specific cultural aspects on agricultural performance and production structures were ever taken into consideration. The main aim of the paper is the analysis of the some aspects regarding the influences of the cultural models on agricultural production structures in Romania and some EU- 28 countries, form a larger perspective, starting with the CAP transformations over the time and the European agricultural model, analysing the role of the multifunctional agriculture in shaping the holding’s structure and performances, and in the last it is considered the role of agriculture and rural communities in promoting renewable including bio-fuels

Measuring the economic performance in decision making process in the contemporary economies

Analysing and measuring the economic performance of a company represents a complex process, taking into account that it is the result of a sum of factors by means of which the company is related to the environment, observing the way to obtain capital gain. The present paper presents an analysis of involving the information in setting a system of evaluating the performances and corporate decision making within the companies, for a sample of 168 companies in Prahova County

The descriptive statistics of the employed variables.

<p>The descriptive statistics of the employed variables.</p

The significant results of the pairwise Granger causality tests.

<p>The significant results of the pairwise Granger causality tests.</p

Results of Pedroni and Kao panel cointegration tests.

<p>Results of Pedroni and Kao panel cointegration tests.</p

Average energy intensity and energy consumption per inhabitant.

<p>Average energy intensity and energy consumption per inhabitant.</p