A general trend is easily observable in the literature on public administration reforms in post-communist countries and it consists in analyses of the degree of adoption and success of the New Public Management (NPM) model. A relevant implementation gap for some areas of reform which cannot be...

Barnsley is a relatively poor area in the Northern England and has high levels of teenage pregnancy. NHS Barnsley is the main commissioner of NHS services. The Campaign Company, a social marketing and community engagement consultancy, were commissioned to utilise social marketing principles to...

We turn here to the anthropological view of consumption according to which social uses of technology ape not random, and focus on the relationship between Spanish Internet usage patterns and the socioeconomic status of individuals. We applied multiple correspondence procedures to structure the...

This work examines the question of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), and its implications for marketing research. Since a description of its social origins, we review the literature and the lines of research into CSR, especially in the marketing area. As a conclusion, we suggest diverse...

The PIFC /Public Internal Financial Control/ was developed by the European Commission. PIFC is set of principles internal financial controls system established for the purpose of controlling, auditing, supervise of the use of national budget and European Union budget and funds. Also, in order to...

With growing competition, higher education institutions have to pay more attention to efficient recruiting students and providing them a high quality service in order to prepare them for a future professional life. Universities need to see their students as customers and threat them as such....

The objective of the current work is to analyze how the characteristics of cultural activities promoted by museums (group composition, group dynamics, duration, theme, venue, new technologies) and service quality affect the emotions experienced by participants and, consequently, their...

This paper deals with the issue of the relationship between politics and public administrations adopting new public management criteria, or rather between political and managerial level , in order to identify the real capacity of public managers to carry out independent choices regarding...

Romania adopts different specific measures to help citizens in solving their social problems and range from emergency aid programs, to safety net and social protection programs, to social equity schemes, to empowerment programs. In this paper we analyze the instrumentation of social marketing in...

In the last few decades, in Croatia and other countries, corporate social responsibility has been acquiring new dimension. Companies follow the impact of their activities on customers, suppliers, employees, shareholders, and other stakeholders, as well as the environment. They have recognized...