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The economic recession’s effects on Romanian economy, the entrepreneurship realities in the EU and Romania, and change management contributions to improve both of the above are the main coordinates of this paper. While economic environment determines entrepreneurship realities and highlights the need for a structured…

Complex decision making tasks of different natures, e.g. identifying of a profitability of a client in the insurance business, are based on vague, sparse, partially inconsistent and subjective knowledge of experts. One important problem related to realistic decision making tasks is uncertainty in input data…

Doctors’ surgeries are facing increasing demands on the time required for sending out reports, referrals and diagnoses of various kinds. This leads to a shortage of the time needed for the most important thing — patient care. The development of information technology and its increased…

Introduction: Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory disease with endometrial-like tissue outside the uterine cavity, which leads to adhesions in the surrounding tissue. In pregnancy, endometriosis-derived ectopic decidua may be induced, and at delivery, the tissues are stretched and complications may occur. We report two cases…

The core of this study evolved on perspectives of health professionals in Thailand on electronic health (e-health) and social media. Two main objectives were included as follows: (A) to provide a descriptive status of e-health and social media; and (B) to identify inhibitors and drivers…

A new and fast emerging shift in networking and communications is the Internet of Things. This new connectivity paradigm (according to industry and academic analysts) is expected to fully mature by the year 2020. A number of industry giants have already created platforms both for…

This study aims at investigating the influence that entrepreneurial orientation has on export performance of Portuguese footwear small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Therefore, a quantitative methodological approach was used, conducting a descriptive, exploratory and transversal empirical study, having applied a questionnaire to a sample of…

Burgenland is located in the eastern part of Austria. 17.000 companies of the sectors: business, industry and trade are members of the Economic Chamber. Nearly 5 % of them are engaged in exports, as compared to the Austrian average, 10 % of the entrepreneurs are…

In the context of the financial crisis from the last years, liquidity has become an issue of great interest. Recent studies have been generally focused on the relationship between market’s liquidity and the real economy, and also on the effects that the banking system could…

Group buying is a form of e-commerce, but works similar to bulk buying principle, that allows selling of products and services by third party companies through their websites. Based on a survey done by Canstarblue, out of 250 registered group buying sites, Cudo, Groupon, Ourdeal,…