In the mid-1990 for the first time in post-war period Greek strategies for economic development shifted markedly to reliance on market forces rather than a downward spiral in economic performance, ultimately resulting in crisis and discrediting the traditionally interventionist and regulatory...

The paper explores the preferences of subnational administrative elites with respect to crucial issues of European and subnational governance. The individual preferences of top subnational officials from five European countries are ascertained, patterns are identified and the data are...

In recent years, researchers and health care professionals have shown an increasing interest in the health gain associated with breastfeeding and in the problems arising from bottle feeding. It seems that there has been an ideological shift towards the belief that breastfeeding is beneficial and...

The goal of this paper is to contribute to understanding of relationship marketing applied in the non-profit organizations. Being crucial for the survival and development of the non-profit organizations, the relationships with donors are emphasised among numerous relations with different...

At present, the whole economy at a global and national level is facing many changes and challenges, risks and threats. The New Context for higher education institutions has "4D" dimensions: dynamic, difficult, divers and delicate. Marketing orientation is very well applied for a long time to...

Countless studies have shown that young people who begin drinking before the age of 15 are four times more likely to develop an addiction to alcohol than those who did not start drinking until they were of legal age. This paper is concerned with social marketing and its application to the...

Public finance became one of the most important areas in Turkey where structural reforms were put into implementation. Public Financial Management and Control Law No. 5018 was enacted in 2003. Radical changes were made in the public financial management system which have been in effect for long...

The education and selection of the public marketing specialists is a new challenge that has to be faced because of the new development of the area and the interest paid by the public sector to the marketing theory and practice. That is why at a first step we compare the skills requested to the...

The main objective of the present paper consists in evaluating the judicial actions of the Ombudsman and in determining its position in the framework of the legal instruments placed at his/hers disposal for carrying out the missions conferred by the legal norms and the public expectances. The...