PSYCHO-SOCIAL PERCEPTIONS AND MANAGERIAL PREFERENCES OF WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS IN WESTERN ROMANIA

Our study aims at identifying correlations between preferences and psycho-social choices of women entrepreneurs, more precisely the effect of these characteristics on a given managerial strategy. Based on the data obtained through the administration of two types of questionnaires, we analyzed the relations between social and psychological set of perceptions and managerial strategy. Social success and managerial performance are related with these perceptions and thus we can identify a significant conversion of mentalities determined by the governmental changes which took place in Eastern Europe after 1990. The data presented here are driven from the research conducted within the project ”Entrepreneurship and equality of chances. A inter-regional model of entrepreneurship training for women in western Romania”.social preferences, managerial style, bussiness preformance, self-actualization

AGRICULTURAL INSURANCES - MEANS OF DEVELOPPING THE ROMANIAN AGRICULTURE AMONG THE E.U. COUNTRIES

The experience of the developed countries has shown that it is completely delusional to try and create a modern agriculture without the powerful development of agricultural insurances. Agriculture has always been one of the most important economic branches in Romania, as it has the highest value of all European countries by GDP (8-12%). This field represents an important direction in the economic development, especially due to the high potential of the agricultural development in the E.U. countries. The present paper tries to illustrate the potential of agricultural insurances, their necessity, the general presentation of the domestic agricultural insurance market and that of the European Union's as well as the search for viable solutions of development in agriculture by the aid of insurances.agricultural insurances, agriculture, the European Union

The role of corporate social responsibility in social entrepreneurship

The debates on the differences between social enterprises and commercial enterprises are related to task performance and the way that social mission is accomplished by involved parties. However, commercial entrepreneurs must pursue both economic and social issues, but primary mission will be to acquire financial independence by investing and creating value for stakeholders. Corporate Social Responsibility has an undeniable effect on both society and businesses, but this practice depends on the companies availability to get involved which is at the discretion of the managers and shareholders. This study is based on a quantitative research, aimed to evaluate specific aspects of CSR policies developed by 79 firms from N-W part of Romania. Corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship have distinct conceptual approach, but both have an indubitable effect by valorizing social opportunities.Corporate Social Responsibility, social enterprise, social value, enterprises.

Global change and biodiversity loss: Some impediments to response

Discussed here are the effects of anthropogenic global climate change on biodiversity. The focus is on human responses to the problem. Greenhouse warming-induced climate change may shift agricultural growing belts, reduce forests of the Northern Hemisphere and drive many species to extinction, among other effects. If these changes occur together with the mass extinctions already occurring, we may suffer a profound loss of biological diversity

SOME ACTUAL AND PERSPECTIVE PROBLEMS OF THE ROMANIAN SEASIDE - THE BLACK SEA SEASIDE

In the context of globalization, some countries try to apply in tourism, theinternational management standards. The aim of this paper is to realise an analysis of themode in which these desiderata are satisfied, to present the forte and the week points ofthe management policies applied in Romanian tourism and to propose a series of actionlevers to improve the quality of services. The applicative part make allowance for therealization of a study on services carried out by a series of commercial societies whichdevelops their activities in the tourism domain and which have an intermediary statusbetween the producers of values and the consumers of it. It will be followed the packagesservices offered to the consumers, comparative with the one of the economic entitieswhich action in the same sector of activity and which is placed in Romania'sneighbourhood.tourism, accommodation, littoral, hospitality, classification.

SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: COMPARATIVE STUDY

The authors are preoccupied with analyzing the process of social entrepreneurship and the implications and the influence of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) on social entrepreneurial process. We will base our researches on two perspectives of social entrepreneurs and of founds. This study was inspired from a model developed by Professor Rob John in collaboration with Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship and Oxford Said Business School. Our research has as a main purpose to identify the way that NGOs and enterprises representative see their social implication and also their relation trough partnerships and collaboration. This research is of particular relevance by providing an insight about the way that different types of collaboration between social organizations and companies increase social impact. Considering the lack of empirical studies in this field, we believe that this research has a great importance most of all because it offers the possibility to make a comparison between Romanian perceptions regarding the social entrepreneurship with Rob John research (2007) which can be considered a reference model.corporate social responsibility, enterprises, NGOs, social entrepreneurship, social impact, social problems.

The Involvement of Boards in Strategy Implementation

The classical management perspective works on the assumption that CEO can design an explicit “grand strategy” for the entire enterprise. Later strategy perspectives question these normative assumptions and depict strategy as a messy, disorderly and disjointed process. In academic corporate governance research, it is widely agreed that boards should contribute to corporate strategy. But despite reasonable consensus on the board’s responsibility for strategy, how boards should fulfill this responsibility has remained unclear. In parts this due to the fact that the role the boards in strategy formulation and implementation is still an empirically understudied phenomenon in corporate governance research. Hence, the purpose of this research is to explore the potential role of the boards of directors in strategy formulation and implementation based on case study example – two aspects that have so far been left largely unaddressed by corporate governance research and practice.strategy formulation, strategy implementation, corporate governance, board of directors.