The paper approaches the topic of competence transfer in Romanian public administration in view of enlarging the processes of decentralization and deconcentration. The relation between decentralization of administration and competence transfer is biunivoque and it is understood in broad meaning...

The public sector is an important component of life and socio-economic development. Due to the increasing complexity of processes occurring in the context of societal structural changes, the transfer phenomenon of notions and concepts from one sector to another occurs more frequently. The...

The most recent epistemological evolution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) is analyzed to extend previous state-of-the-art research by de Bakker et al. (2005 and 2006) both in management and marketing literatures. A three judges based Content Analysis of 570 papers published from 2003 to...

The transformations being experienced by Spanish universities faced with the challenge of adapting to a changing environment and increasingly discerning and segmented demand highlights the importance of knowing the needs and wishes of students as main customers. This present study attempts an...

This paper studies the demand, supply and competition on the educational market, the necessity of involvement of any university in the education market mechanisms. University's managers must find solutions to solve the problem of balancing supply-demand ratio on this market and identify the...

The perception of the corporate image may be investigated to the distinctiveness of the service given the great diversity of the service industries. The purpose of this research is to identify the factors used by public transport users in evaluating the image of their local transit providers....

Retaining public employees, especially techn ical experts, is difficult when tax revenues are down. This is particularly true for local and regional governments who lack the resources of national governments. These governments can retain employees by hiring well (getting and developing people...

This work in progress paper outlines a study currently being completed into the charity donation behaviour of a sample of financially poor people residing in three inner-London Boroughs that exhibit some of the highest levels of social deprivation in Western Europe. It examines whether several...

The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the relationship between environmental non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and private companies in Romania, in the context of the current global economic crisis. In addition to the literature review, the article explores the public...

The present analysis aims to radiograph the status of the official Web sites for all the municipalities in Romania and, together with the data collected from the educational system (I refer here especially to the education in the field of IT&C) to verify if there is a connection between these...