During the first three years since joining the European Union, Romania has absorbed only 600 million Euros of the 5.6 billion Euros available, that is approximately 10% of the available European funds. During the 2007-2013 period, Romania disposed of a total amount of 19.8 billion Euros, but by...

The role of ethical behaviour in public management is crucial for the public organizations’ results and for the citizens’ satisfaction. This idea is already demonstrated by several studies and the practitioners share it. There are limited knowledge about how the newly emerged...

Globalization and the crises context have influenced the local economic development in Romania and determined the government to adapt its policies according to them. This paper presents part of the results of a specific research on the impact of globalization and the government policies to the...

It is now widely recognized that the age of knowledge based society has come and many public organization are changing their style of work, organization and culture. Knowledge management plays a very important and complex role in this context and moreover in the public sector. A competent public...

The paper contains some of the most critical challenges for migration policy in the European Union, starting with a short overview on the literature and then with a briefly description of the asylum policy at the level of the European Union. A special analysis has been done on the following...

Based on the fact that governance is referring to the processes of governing which includes all public management organizations, the paper contains some opinions of the specialists concerning governance and integrated governance concept. In this context an integrated governance model is...

North Atlantic Treaty Organization has well trained and qualified personnel, ready at any time to work towards global peace and security. Security interests and the objectives of the Romanian military missions in the current geopolitical context and the obligations undertaken by Romania as a...

In recent years, as a result of the hastening economic crisis, the Romanian business environment has known important changes. This paper presents and analyzes the changes caused by globalization in small and medium enterprises that exports goods and services from Bucharest. The purpose of the...

This paper addresses a very important issue in the area of the social public services on the urban level. Social protection as part of the public services system is a sensitive subject in every country, but it’s becoming really challenging in the developing countries. This paper is approaching...

The paper is the result of an empirical research conducted by the authors and is based on their experience in teaching at the academic level and also on the experiences of other professors from Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies. This paper aims to develop a qualitative research on how...