Performance of Small and Medium Enterprises

The 2009 economic evolutions have been strongly marked by the effects of the global crisis, and the connections generated by the economic globalization have also brought their impact on the emerging economies, such as that of Romania. The international commercial exchanges have shrunk abruptly, in the last quarter of 2008 and the in the first quarter of 2009, following the intensification of the financial crisis in September 2008, as well as the generated restriction of the economic activity at the global level. In this manuscript, the analysis of the companies business activity shall be carried out by developing the information of over 600 hundreds companies that have submitted and got the homologation for their financial standings for tax year 2009. Characterizing the latter activity may be performed: from the perspective of the density in territory, as per the latter s size subject to the number of employees, the type of activity, the legal form of property, as well as depending upon the level of the companies economical financial performances. Getting the picture of an evolution trend shall be accomplished by comparing 2009 with 2001.

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Irina Dragan holds a MSc in Economics since 1998 and a PhD diploma since 2005. Between 1999 and 2002 she developed at Göteborgs Universitet-Sweden research activity.Since 2008 is Reader within the Department of Statistics and Econometrics,Academy of Economic Studies Bucharest. She is the author of more than 10 books and over 50 articles and studies