A Proposal for a Standard With Innovation Management System

Adina Catana and Lavinia Delcea
Source: The authors according to the data available on Romania’s Finance Ministry website
Figure 8: Evolution of the number of employees of Romania’s main large stores
Source: The authors according to the data available on Romania’s Finance Ministry website
Figure 9: Romania’s main large stores’ turnover evolution (mil.lei)
A downward trend of the stores surveyed can be noticed, from the turnover point of view, but also
regarding the number of employees. This has as cause the job cuts and difficult economic situation in
2010 characterized by massive layoffs, reduced salaries and pensions and price increases.
No. Indicator 2011 2012 2013 2014
1 Real GDP 2.5% 1.7% 3.1% 3.6%
2 Real GDP N-W 1.5% 3.9% 4.5% 4.6%
3 GDP/capita N-W 6.09% 10.92% 10.71% 10.55%
4 Final
consumption
private 1.4% 1.7% 3.2% 3.6%
5 Unemployment rate N-W -1.69% -6.90% -5.56% -9.8%
6 Average number of 0.3% 0.5% 0.4% 0.8%
employees N-W
Source: The authors according to the National Commission of Prognosis’ data
Table 1: Prognosis of the evolution of Romania’s main macroeconomic indicators
According to the National Commission of Prognosis data which we presented in the table above, a
general improvement of Romania’s economic situation was estimated for the period 2011-2014.
Real GDP was forecast to grow by more than 3% in the years 2013 and 2014 over the previous
years. The same can be said about the real GDP in the NW region, for which forecasts were better,
with more than 4% increases in the years 2013 and 2014 compared to previous years. Forecasts for
GDP per capita in the NW region, show more than 10% annual growths over previous years since
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