The purpose of this paper is to show the way for increasing the local capacity for public discussion in the sphere of environmental protection in the municipalities of South East part of Bulgaria. Target groups are representatives of local authorities, municipal administrations, NGO-s, business...

Tribals in India present a significant degree of cultural and ethnic diversity. They differ in their socio-economic levels and behavioural patterns. Moreover, Tribal situation in country poses particular problems of development, not encountered in other areas.In the last decade Govt. of India...

Public administration reform is a very important area of Croatian EU accession negotiations. The main criticism regarding the Croatian public administration is addressed towards its size and inefficiency. Public administration reforms run slowly. The existing legal and administrative system in...

Aiming justificative arguments to include entrepreneurship as a part of university curricula, some results show in a comparison between two representative samples of students in their first and last academic year at the university. First, we assess respondents' perceptions about treatment of...

The author analyses the legal remedies provided by the General Administrative Procedure Act of the Republic of Slovenia (GAPA, 1999), as the only legal instrument for the annulment or modification of an issued decision. Particular emphasis is given to the appeal, often used directly on a...

This document makes a critical analysis of the concept of Corporate Social Action (CSA), proposes a definition for this concept and makes a typology about different forms of CSA. It also discusses the relationship between this concept, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Corporate...

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...