INTREPRINDEREA CA SISTEM ŞI
         RELATIILE EI CU MEDIUL INTERN ŞI EXTERN /
 THE ENTERPRISE AS SYSTEM AND ITS RELATIONS WITH INTERNAL
               AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENT

Asist. univ. drd. Dănuleţiu Adina Elena, Universitatea „1 Decembrie 1918” Alba Iulia

Abstract:
        This paper present aspects about enterprise like a system, characteristics and objectives of
enterprises and relations between enterprise and medium.
        According to our approach, we consider the enterprise represents a system made of units,
phenomena, objects, processes, individuals or groups connected by material, informational,
decisional and psycho-social flows into an entirety meant to achieve common goals.
        In a systemic approach, the enterprise has a group of specific features fulfilling many
roles such as: an administrative and organizational system, an economic system, an autonomous
organization, a complex system, technical and productive system, a social system, a goal oriented
system, a cybernetic system.
        The enterprise activity is organized in order to fulfill the enterprise goals. A short review
of the main theories developed over the time concerning the enterprise goals shows us a
continuous debate on the subject up to our days. As a conclusion, we may say that there is no
single goal to fulfill but a variety of goals, differently pursued by the shareholders (stockholders,
managers, employees, creditors, business partners). These goals are sometimes contradictory,
that’s why prioritizing them is necessary.

Keywords: enterprise, objectives

JEL codes: D21, M21