While moving towards a bio-psycho-social model in healthcare systems is an international tendency, our preliminary research had shown high acceptance of paternalistic communication style in a Hungarian setting. In this paper, the observations of medical students about doctor-patient...

Blood donation is dependent on the goodwill of people to voluntarily donate blood, without financial reward. Focus groups with Irish third level students, and interviews with key personnel involved in the blood donation process were conducted. Altruism is still the biggest reason why third level...

The purpose of this paper is to identify the different types of volunteers' motivations that work in hospitals. We present the literature review about different types of motivations and we collect data from hospital volunteers through a questionnaire. Four different motivations categories are...

Social networks allow users to build their own webpage and share information with other internet users. In the last years, multi-purpose social networks have appeared and been eagerly adopted by consumers and companies for multiple social, communication and marketing purposes. We focus on the...

This study examines the impact of ethical commitment generic competence in higher education and culture. We used an ad-hoc questionnaire to evaluate the responses of graduate-level business students in Romania and Spain when they are asked about their self-assessment, the importance of the...

This paper discusses the role of parents and other adults in preventing and facilitating teen binge drinking. Teens' discussions on Internet websites were accessed to examine their opinions of their alcohol-related interactions with adults. The results show that in the context of a western...

The last two decades have been fruitful in the development of research into ethical consumer behaviour. Notwithstanding this growing interest, the majority of studies focuses on measuring consumers' ethical attitudes and beliefs, neglecting the understanding of actual behaviour. This...

On the basis of six cases of social marketing that did not fully succeed in Guinea-Bissau, exhaustive dissections of the causes of malfunctioning have been brought to light. Refinements and fine-tuning of existing social marketing tools have been analysed. As a result of this analysis, some...

Over the last 20 years, non-profit organizations (NPOs) have become important providers of social services in many countries. They make up a significant proportion of organizational activities in many countries and tend to manage a sizeable proportion of human, financial, and other resource of...

The social enterprise knows a dynamic of organization and functioning, under different legal forms, starting from NGO to enterprise, covering the domain of public services, functioning independently or in public sector - private sector partnership. It plays a dominant role in the economic...