University professors, on the one hand, and professionals, such as doctors and lawyers on the other hand share many things in common, yet they are also different in key aspects. One of the most important differences lies the nature of the incentives and motivation to which they respond. This...

In the last decades the organization and management of public sector institutions have become increasingly concerned with the issue of the efficient use of its resources. This paper explores the possibilities to use the multi-criteria analysis techniques for municipal real property management...

Research and development (R&D) is largely acknowledged as a key factor to promoting economic growth nationally, as well as regionally. The topic of regional development has been receiving special attention in Romania for almost two decades, while regional innovation and competitiveness have only...

Persistenta fenomenelor de divergenta a traiectoriilor regionale de crestere economica limiteaza impactul politicilor de dezvoltare teritoriala echilibrata, mentine sau mareste inegalitatile. Regiunile unei tari prezinta atât asemanari, cât si deosebiri, iar identificarea gruparilor tipologice...

We propose an empirical analysis of the clustering phenomenon in the Eastern part of Romania as a relevant example to support the idea that the question of clusters in lagging regions, usually with economic structures dominated by mid-tech and low-tech industries, could become an interesting...

Although migration and religion studies have traditionally developed as separate research topics, in the current context of globalization and transnationalism attention begins to focus on the way they may interconnect. Consequently, recent studies of migration raise the importance and role of...

In the past few years, there has been a renewed interest in remittances of international migrants, as their strong recent increase shed more light on the effects at both micro and macro level. The remittances not only contribute to the well-being of the receiving households, but are also a large...

R&D and innovation are broadly acknowledged as the main drivers of an economy's competitiveness and growth and the measures to encourage investment in research are a central part of economic policies. This paper addresses the question of R&D investment by the private sector and aims at...

The paper „Typology and Planning of the Tourism Regional Development in Romania” presents a succinct approach of the general conceptual background of regional science, context in which have developed also the theoretical elements on the typology and planning of the regional economic growth....

As an important emigration country, Romania benefits from significant remittanceinflows that sustained the increased domestic consumption and may have also contributed to thestrong economic growth prior to the recent economic crisis. Our empirical research aimed toinvestigate, by means of...