A STUDY REGARDING THE BANKRUPTCY IN ROMANIA. REGIONAL COMPARISONS

The academic world showed a big interest for the study of the companies in financial distress in the last years, due to the implications of the bankruptcy process on the Romanian economy. In this paper, we carried out a study of the main specific features of the bankruptcy in Romania in the period 2003 – 2005. Also, we made a comparison with other countries from the Eastern and Central Europe. The results of this study emphasizes that the trading branches provide the biggest number of bankruptcies in the Romanian economy and also that Romania has a bigger bankruptcy rate than the average level in the Eastern Europe.bankruptcy, failure, financial distress, judiciary reorganization

AHP-based group decision making using keypads

In this paper, we deal with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-based group decision making using keypads. It is a way of aggregating group judgements that allows a group to enhance the validity of the outcome by including the importance of people's knowledge, expertise and experience, to accept the disparate power of its members when eliciting their judgements, and to make group decision making more efficient, by reducing the redundancy in judgements and spending less time and money on reaching an agreement. In addition, we present the case study 'Ranking the means of state support for international projects'. The purpose of this paper is to provide a thorough insight into the use of the AHP-based group decision making using keypads, i.e. a multiple criteria decision-making methodology which provides an effective framework for guiding managers in solving problems based on the group decision making.analytical hierarchy process; AHP; group decisions; multicriteria decision making; MCDM; keypads; group judgements; knowledge; expertise; experience; disparate powers; judgement redundancy; agreements; state support; international projects; rankings; managers; problem solving; economics; business research.

The Analysis of Digital Maturity of Schools in Croatia

This paper presents results of a large pilot project among Croatian primary and secondary schools focused on digital maturity of schools. It explores relationships between indicators that influence the overall digital maturity level of a school with the main aim to identify the main drivers of digital maturity. It also reveals key steps in the development of the Framework for Digitally Mature Schools in Croatia and the instrument for assessing digital maturity of schools. The instrument evaluation involved 151 primary and secondary schools in Croatia that were assessed against maturity levels. Descriptive statistics is used to identify and explain correlations between 38 indicators of digital maturity of schools. Results obtained from the instrument show that 50 percent of schools in Croatia are in the initial phase of maturity and 43 percent of them are e-enabled which in respect to 5 different maturity levels corresponds to levels 2 and 3 respectively. An on-line system developed for this purpose, besides it features the instrument itself and enables schools to benchmark between themselves, identifies critical indicators for each school that require improvement in order for school to make progress against maturity level

The Analysis of Digital Maturity of Schools in Croatia

This paper presents results of a large pilot project among Croatian primary and secondary schools focused on digital maturity of schools. It explores relationships between indicators that influence the overall digital maturity level of a school with the main aim to identify the main drivers of digital maturity. It also reveals key steps in the development of the Framework for Digitally Mature Schools in Croatia and the instrument for assessing digital maturity of schools. The instrument evaluation involved 151 primary and secondary schools in Croatia that were assessed against maturity levels. Descriptive statistics is used to identify and explain correlations between 38 indicators of digital maturity of schools. Results obtained from the instrument show that 50 percent of schools in Croatia are in the initial phase of maturity and 43 percent of them are e-enabled which in respect to 5 different maturity levels corresponds to levels 2 and 3 respectively. An on-line system developed for this purpose, besides it features the instrument itself and enables schools to benchmark between themselves, identifies critical indicators for each school that require improvement in order for school to make progress against maturity level

Prioritization of e-learning forms: a multicriteria methodology

E-learning, Mathematical modelling, Group decision making, AHP,