Partnering both opens up and blurs the boundaries between organizations, and even expands them. Firms ought to shape their cooperation with other entities in accordance with their changing needs. A particular group of such entities is competitors. The question therefore arises whether partnering in relations with competitors (co-opetition) is suitable for all organization? This paper ...

In this paper, a Ku-band corrugated feed horn antenna for a Cassegrain reflector is designed and optimized. The horn dimension parameters are optimized so that it has a radiation pattern with a specific beamwidth which would illuminate the sub-reflector of the Cassegrain antenna with the desired taper. It is also required that the horn must ...

This paper attempts to investigate the specific requirements and success factors for a successful implementation of a supply chain logic in SMEs that experience the transition from a startup to a growth stage. The study adopts an exploratory approach, by comparing two distinct groups of French SMEs, characterized by their activity profile: manufacturing or distribution. ...

In the authors’ researches, they evaluated the influence of the application of industrial engineering methods on increasing the competitive abilities of Czech industrial manufacturing enterprises, and one of the results of the research study based on a selected sample of these Czech enterprises was the following fact: that the exploitation of re-engineering and process management ...

In many network communications it is crucial to be able to authenticate both the contents and the origin of a message. Digital signatures based on public key schemas are used for such authentication. In order to provide message authentication the signature must depend on the contents of the message being signed. Since the public key-based ...

The role of SMEs in the Romanian economy is indisputable. They are those that provide clearly continue development of the industry. The development of this sector has brought a problem regarding the internationalization of their activities. This process is very important for improving their competitiveness, export begin considered vital to increase Romanian SMEs activity. Romania’s ...

This paper is a first step for a dissertation on the methods of governing and managing projects of system integration, avoiding common pitfalls and proposing a new way of considering such projects’ lifecycle. In this paper, the authors propose an overview of common issues in complex IT projects underlining the most critical aspects and proposing ...