CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN ROMANIA

The purpose of this paper is to identify the main opportunities and limitations of corporate social responsibility (CSR). The survey was defined with the aim to involve the highest possible number of relevant CSR topics and give the issue a more wholesome perspective. It provides a basis for further comprehension and deeper analyses of specific CSR areas. The conditions determining the success of CSR in Romania have been defined in the paper on the basis of the previously cumulative knowledge as well as the results of various researches. This paper provides knowledge which may be useful in the programs promoting CSR.Corporate social responsibility, Supportive policies, Romania

Factors Influencing Customer Satisfaction towards E-shopping in Malaysia

Online shopping or e-shopping has changed the world of business and quite a few people have decided to work with these features. What their primary concerns precisely and the responses from the globalisation are the competency of incorporation while doing their businesses. E-shopping has also increased substantially in Malaysia in recent years. The rapid increase in the e-commerce industry in Malaysia has created the demand to emphasize on how to increase customer satisfaction while operating in the e-retailing environment. It is very important that customers are satisfied with the website, or else, they would not return. Therefore, a crucial fact to look into is that companies must ensure that their customers are satisfied with their purchases that are really essential from the ecommerce’s point of view. With is in mind, this study aimed at investigating customer satisfaction towards e-shopping in Malaysia. A total of 400 questionnaires were distributed among students randomly selected from various public and private universities located within Klang valley area. Total 369 questionnaires were returned, out of which 341 questionnaires were found usable for further analysis. Finally, SEM was employed to test the hypotheses. This study found that customer satisfaction towards e-shopping in Malaysia is to a great extent influenced by ease of use, trust, design of the website, online security and e-service quality. Finally, recommendations and future study direction is provided. Keywords: E-shopping, Customer satisfaction, Trust, Online security, E-service quality, Malaysia

The Governance of Educational Welfare Markets: A Comparative Analysis of the European Social Fund in Five Countries

This book is a first exploratory inquiry into possible educational selectivity effects of the European Social Fund (ESF). It assesses the extent of the gap between the social policy objectives set through regulatory competences in multi-level governance and the structure of incentives it breeds in practice, with a broad range of implications for the capacity of the government to control for an equitable distribution of services at the community level. The chapters emphasize the educational selectivity involved in national policy decisions concerning ESF implementation in the five countries, the role of informal mechanisms in fine-tuning implementation, the negative effects of formalization and failures in accommodating the complexity of goals which characterizes the ESF, as well as the overall fairness of ESF implementation towards the most disadvantaged groups in society. The empirical analysis suggests that social-service delivery contracting as an instrument of governance is no longer regulating against risks for beneficiaries, but fuels increased social division in access to public services

Court Review: The Journal of the American Judges Association, Vol. 58, No. 1

Court Review, the quarterly journal of the American Judges Association, invites the submission of unsolicited, original articles, essays, and book reviews. Court Review seeks to provide practical, useful information to the working judges of the United States and Canada. In each issue, we hope to provide information that will be of use to judges in their everyday work, whether in highlighting new procedures or methods of trial, court, or case management, providing substantive information regarding an area of law likely to be encountered by many judges, or by providing background information (such as psychology or other social science research) that can be used by judges in their work. Guidelines for the submission of manuscripts for Court Review are set forth on page 6 of this issue. Court Review reserves the right to edit, condense, or reject material submitted for publication

Regional development at the borders of the European Union (proceedings of the Jean Monnet international conference, Oradea, 5th - 7th of November 2020)

The present volume of studies and analyses, the second one in a series dedicated to investigating regional development at the borders of the European Union was conceived starting from the theoretical underpinnings presented above. However, it does not claim to be exhaustive. The chief purpose of its two sections is to improve approaches to regional development through new levels of analysing contemporary realities. At the same time, its aim is to bring to the attention of the academic community, researchers and policy makers the particularities in the development of the EU's eastern border regions. The topics were discussed during the international conference Jean Monnet Regional Development at the Borders of the European Union, organized in Oradea in November 2019, within the project "Development of the border regions in Central and Eastern Europe countries", funded by the Erasmus + program of European Union, the Jean Monnet Program. Coordinators of special issue: Chirodea, Florentina; Toca, Constantin Vasile; Soproni, Luminita; Czimre, Klára

New Metropolitan Perspectives

​This open access book presents the outcomes of the symposium “NEW METROPOLITAN PERSPECTIVES,” held at Mediterranea University, Reggio Calabria, Italy on May 26–28, 2020. Addressing the challenge of Knowledge Dynamics and Innovation-driven Policies Towards Urban and Regional Transition, the book presents a multi-disciplinary debate on the new frontiers of strategic and spatial planning, economic programs and decision support tools in connection with urban–rural area networks and metropolitan centers. The respective papers focus on six major tracks: Innovation dynamics, smart cities and ICT; Urban regeneration, community-led practices and PPP; Local development, inland and urban areas in territorial cohesion strategies; Mobility, accessibility and infrastructures; Heritage, landscape and identity;and Risk management,environment and energy. The book also includes a Special Section on Rhegion United Nations 2020-2030. Given its scope, the book will benefit all researchers, practitioners and policymakers interested in issues concerning metropolitan and marginal areas

RIGHT(S) OPPORTUNITIES. THE CASE OF OVERSEAS NURSES AND RE-QUALIFIED HEALTH AUXILIARY PROFESSIONALS IN MILAN

The topic of this research, in the light of feminization and differentiation emerging as features in contemporary migrations (Castles and Miller 2009; Anthias and Lazaridis 2000), is an effort to expand the field of analysis in migration studies, by including women as \u2018skilled\u2019 workers. Drawing on the Capability Approach (CA) (Sen 1992), this thesis will investigate skilled and semi-skilled transnational waged care workers. The study focuses on female migrant workers\u2019 capabilities and the \u2018social opportunities\u2019 available to them. Social opportunities are looked into by trying to link agency-structure dynamics and comparing two different selected scenarios of \u2018recognition\u2019 in the Italian post-migratory context. Two paths are addressed: i. recognition ex ante \u2013 from abroad; and ii. recognition - ex post after a process of re-qualification in Italy, in loco. In particular, the case of overseas nurses will be investigated for the former scenario and the case of health professionals and semi-professional auxiliary health workers for the latter. The selection fell on those workers whose qualifications correspond, at least formally , to their achieved occupational condition. The object of this investigation is the \u2018available social opportunities\u2019, focusing on the factors and actors that enable and/or hinder these women\u2019s capabilities of gaining a \u2018suitable employability\u2019 status. Two pathways of recognition are considered, analysing female Peruvian and Romanian workers, currently employed in waged care work in Milan and its surroundings, with a status of potentially permanent residency. The available mobilities and related membership statuses seem to be highly interconnected with the occupational functioning achieved by these women. The findings show tendencies of polarization, segmentation and stratification. \u2018Civic stratification\u2019, as intended by Morris (2002), will provide a useful framework to critically understand how, in these processes, the freedoms of choice are structured along varying axes of differentiation and recognition