Social Economy and Sustainable economics are two independent fields that sometimes refer one to another. The former is primarily concerned with “social capital” issues, while the latter deal with “natural capital” stakes. When referring to the other field, there is no systematic analysis...

We imbed a classic fishery model, where the optimal policy follows a Most Rapid Approach Path to a steady state, into an overlapping generations setting. The current generation discounts future generations’ utility flows at a rate possibly different from the pure rate of time preference used...

Sustainable development is defined as that type of development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the opportunities of future generations to meet their own needs. This article presents a multidimensional concept of sustainable development, the emergence of sustainable...

In 2009 the European Council published its Europe 2020 Strategy in which it fixed a number of social, educational and economic targets to be achieved by 2020. However, given the current economic crisis, the majority of European countries are struggling to attain these goals. In this framework,...

Widely debated concept, at least in the last three decades, sustainable development remains an important objective of mankind, even in the third millennium. Objectives of sustainable development, in our country, are contained in several categories, which are grouped into „critical...

The objective of the article is to highlight the limits of social responsibility organizations both by the specialitatae literature and in practice. Collateral opinions on the weaknesses of the CSR are reflected in a series of negative practices examples of international organizations that...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the economic cost and social benefits of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) set up some years back by the Federal Government of Nigeria. Design/methodology/approach – The paper combined qualitative and quantitative information to...

The sustainable development of organizations within knowledge-based economy, in which knowledge represents the main priority, should focus on finding solutions for the intelligent management of the limited resources, especially through organizational change and its constant assessment as a...

This paper aims to provide a conceptual clarification of the terms sustainable development and organisational change. It studies the role of relationship marketing for implementing these two concepts. The main objectives are the perception of the three concepts by Romanian business...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis on a panel of 18 French small businesses (from a specific region, the Aquitaine), the representation they have of the sustainable development, the territories and their relations with local administration. Through a textual analysis, we show...