The evolution from public services to networks of social enterprises, not integrated into administrative convergence, expresses the essence of a process of institutional restructuring and reconversion based on common directions above mentioned and determined by the impact of Collaborative Public...

Social innovation could be understood as “new ideas (products, service and models) that, simultaneously meet needs and create new social relationships or collaboration” (Murray et al., 2010). For the local public sector, the social innovation gains endemic characteristics, connected to...

The development of the public sector has been influenced by specific characteristics as they pertain to the sector's crucial function of achieving efficient, effective, and equitable delivery of services at all levels of government both in the continental and regional spheres. Generally, the...

The public sectors in most states are under the pressure of innovation processes and simultaneously of developing the public and nonprofit marketing. The common characteristics of those two processes include openness and focus on valorising the internal resources of national and local...

The approach of several processes specific for the public sector such as innovation, public and nonprofit marketing in view of co-creation and co-production of public services is more present in the field literature, in research projects or community development strategies. Remarkable...

The current volume represents the outcome of the International Conference “Comparative Public Administration and Management – Innovation, Change, Partnership in Social Media Era,” organised in Bucharest on 26th June 2015. The conference has been organised by the National University of...

The field literature reveals multiple approaches of local public service performance. Directly managed by public administrative institutions or by private agents through concession or public-private partnership, the public services should respond to important requirements concerning the higher...

The studies concerning the impact of corruption on the effectiveness of governance are numerous, valorising profound approaches, based on criteria and standards related to good governance, organizational behaviour. The concepts and mechanisms specific for econometrics and statistics provide the...

The global economy is facing a complex and outstanding challenge: the economic and financial crisis. The digital revolution represents the pillar for a competitive and sustainable global economy and Information and Communication Technologies can become a crucial factor for the economic recovery....

In view to improve the competitiveness and economic growth as well as to diminish the gaps between Romania and the EU developed states, the Structural and Cohesion Funds represent an outstanding source of investment. The operationalisation of the structural instruments is paramount for a...