How to Measure Intellectual Capital?

Converting knowledge or intellectual capital into long-term business value is, in practice, a far more difficult process than in theory. While developing and implementing knowledge or intellectual capital philosophy’s in management processes, companies experience difficulties in measuring the contribution of their intangibles to business results and, what is more critical, companies fail in their efforts to reproduce the conditions and the processes that have unlocked the value creation potential of their intangibles. The challenge for corporations in the coming years is to identify all the elements of their value creation cycle (their strategically important tangible and intangible resources) and how these must flow, interact and contribute to sustain the organic development of the organization and significantly enhance its value creation capabilities. Without a method and instruments to identify the inter-relationships and the conversion process between intangible assets – knowledge, competencies, partnerships – and all the situations and contexts to which they add value, performance measurement systems will not be able to reveal the true performance of a company or reveal the patterns of value creation. The concepts and methods that we will describe in this paper propose a critical and practical point in designing and implementing a performance measurement of intellectual capital.intellectual capital,intangible active,performance measurement system.

Logistics and entreprise's field

This paper presents the connection between logistics and the enterprise’s yield. Logistics is a set of activities developed before and during production process, including the physical distribution’s activities of the finished products towards the consumers. The marketing’s target is to serve the clients as well as or even better the competition does and, at the same time, get profit. The effective demand required by marketing is realized throughout logistics. The logistics system’s activities are costs generators and they are retrieved in the total cost of the finished product. Detecting the connections between the way of accomplishing a creative activity of value and the cost or the performance of another activity, logistics gives an influence to the enterprise’s yield. The work sheet analyses the factors by which logistics is acting on the enterprise’s yield: the logistics’ activities costs, the serving clients’ level, the logistics’ activities correlation inside and outside the enterprise.logistics, clients services, competitive advantage, enterprise’s yield

DETERMINING CONSUMERS’ PROPENSITY TO BUY ROMANIAN PRODUCTS

In this paper we investigated the sources of “Buy Romanian” attitude. We formulated three constructs namely Buy Romanian, nationalism and internationalism and we measured them by developing three scales. The scales were included in a questionnaire that was administered to 110 respondents. Performing statistical analysis, the results showed us that Buy Romanian is influenced by the general opinion toward the Romanian products and by nationalism orientation. There is no correlation among Buy Romanian and internationalism. These findings are useful because in order to stimulate buying behavior of Romanian products by Romanian consumers, it is necessary to spot the deepest motivations.consumer behaviour, buying motivations, nationalism, internationalism

THE CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN OLTENIA REGION

Being confronted with a series of technological, economic and social problems in the context of the market economy, the Romanian enterprises have come to be aware of the necessity of personalizing the management practices for the human resources, the social responsibility and the social audit in spite of the fact that there are some clear regulations in the Romanian legislation. The study enabled the evaluation of the impact of promoting the Social Responsibility on the competitiveness of the companies from four large activity sectors from the Oltenia Region: automobile, petroleum sector, construction materials, production and transport of electric energy.corporate social responsability, Oltenia region, social audit

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINANCIAL CRISIS, CORRUPTION, AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN ROMANIA

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the influence of the financial crisis and corruption on the corporate social behaviour of Romanian organisations. Starting from the reference literature on financial crisis, corruption and corporate social responsibility, this article is an investigation of the impact that financial crisis and corruption characteristics have on the corporate social responsibility of the organisations. Our research underpins quantitative and qualitative methodology based on the outcomes of the HeRmeS international project.corporate social responsibility; corruption; financial crisis, HeRmes international project

Impaired Integrated Stress Response and Mitochondrial Integrity Modulate Genotoxic Stress Impact and Lower the Threshold for Immune Signalling

open access articleMitochondria–nucleus communication during stress dictates cellular fate with consequences on the etiopathology of multiple age-related diseases. Impaired mitochondrial quality control through loss of function of the mitochondrial protease HtrA2 associates with accumulation of damaged mitochondria and triggers the integrated stress response, implicating the transcription factor CHOP. Here we have employed a combined model of impaired mitochondria quality control, namely HtrA2 loss of function, and/or integrated stress response, namely CHOP loss of function, and genotoxicity to address the distinctive roles of these cellular components in modulating intracellular and intercellular responses. The genotoxic agents employed were cancer therapeutic agents such as irradiation with X-ray and protons or treatment with the radiomimetic bleomycin. The irradiation had an enhanced effect in inducing DNA damage in cells with CHOP loss of function, while the bleomycin treatment induced more DNA damage in all the transgenic cells as compared to the control. The genetic modifications impaired the transmission of DNA damage signalling intercellularly. Furthermore, we have dissected the signalling pathways modulated by irradiation in selected genotypes with RNA sequencing analysis. We identified that loss of HtrA2 and CHOP function, respectively, lowers the threshold where irradiation may induce the activation of innate immune responses via cGAS-STING; this may have a significant impact on decisions for combined therapeutic approaches for various diseases

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FINANCIAL CRISIS, CORRUPTION, AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN ROMANIA

The aim of the paper is to evaluate the influence of the financial crisis and corruption on the corporate social behaviour of Romanian organisations. Starting from the reference literature on financial crisis, corruption and corporate social responsibility, this article is an investigation of the impact that financial crisis and corruption characteristics have on the corporate social responsibility of the organisations. Our research underpins quantitative and qualitative methodology based on the outcomes of the HeRmeS international project

THE CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN OLTENIA REGION

Being confronted with a series of technological, economic and socialproblems in the context of the market economy, the Romanian enterpriseshave come to be aware of the necessity of personalizing the managementpractices for the human resources, the social responsibility and the socialaudit in spite of the fact that there are some clear regulations in theRomanian legislation. The study enabled the evaluation of the impact ofpromoting the Social Responsibility on the competitiveness of the companiesfrom four large activity sectors from the Oltenia Region: automobile,petroleum sector, construction materials, production and transport of electricenerg