THE INFLUENCE OF THE KNOWLEDGE BASED SOCIETY UPON ORGANIZATIONS

The survival of any organization depends on its capacity to adjust to the social and technological environment it belongs to. All organizations exist through and for people. The logical consequence of these statements is that organizations must follow the current trends on world’s labour market and take adequate measures in order to have a proper development in this respect.organizations, knowledge based society, adjust

Omar Mateen’s participation in the LGBTQ+ community that he attacked challenges the simplistic US vs ISIL binary

In the days since Sunday’s tragic mass shooting at an LGBTQ+ nightclub in Orlando, Florida, it has come to light that the attacker who killed 49 people that night, Omar Mateen, may himself have been part of the LGBTQ+ community. Diana Popescu writes that Mateen’s participation in the LGBTQ+ community both challenges and entrenches the issue’s framing as both an attack against an oppressed minority group and one of the US vs ISIL conflict

Mrs Lucretia’s protest: a story of identity and politics on the streets of Bucharest

Protests have continued in Romania despite the government agreeing to withdraw a controversial piece of legislation that would have weakened the country’s anti-corruption laws. Diana Popescu writes that while media coverage has tended to portray the protests as a popular show of unity against the government, the situation is more complex in reality. She highlights the story of one protester, ‘Mrs Lucretia’, whose efforts to try and heal the divisions in Romanian society have resonated with many of the public

The Romanians are coming: open borders but no exit

Channel 4’s controversial documentary series The Romanians Are Coming, depicting migrant life in the UK, has prompted criticism from Bucharest, whose officials accused the show of reinforcing negative stereotypes. Diana Popescu argues that the series has an important story to tell, by exposing ‘some of Romania’s most acute structural problems, and the way they affect the lives of some of its most vulnerable citizens’

Divided we fall: musical performances show how Democrats and Republicans are talking past one another

The 2016 election has infiltrated almost all aspects of American life; popular music has been no exception. Diana Popescu recently attended the Desert Trip music festival in California, where artists like Roger Waters railed against the candidacy of Donald Trump, only to be rebuffed by many of Trump’s supporters that were present. She writes that performances – musical or otherwise – like these show how separate Democrats and Republicans have become, and that now more than ever, such forms of expression need to be capable of bridging political divides

THE MARKETING OF THE LOCAL COMMUNITIES AS A TOOL FOR SUPPORTING THEIR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

The sustainable development of the local communities represents a rathersensitive topic, that incorporates and integrates elements related to the both concepts:‘sustainable development‘, respectively ‘local communities‘. If an amount of marketing isadded, things tend to become more complex, and, definitely, more complicated. The paperintends to answer, based on the information already available in the literature, to thefollowing questions: what is a local community? What is the meaning of the sustainabledevelopment of a local community? Does marketing contribute to and support the sustainabledevelopment of the local communities? The answers to these questions are aimed to providethe appropriate background for defining the concept of marketing of the local communitiesand for the identification of the ways this concept may be employed in order to support thesustainable development of the local communities.Marketing, Local communities, Sustainable development

CLIMATE CHANGES – ESSENTIAL CHALLENGE FOR THE ECONOMY OF KNOWLEDGE Emilian M. Dobrescu, Romanian Academy Diana-Mihaela Pociovalisteanu , “Constantin Brancusi†University of Targu Jiu Gabriel Popescu , The Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies

The European Union proposed a new model of economy, at this beginningof century and millennium: the economy of knowledge, simultaneous with the emergenceof a new existential reality for us people, after Christ was born; this new, existentialreality are the climatic changes.In spite of the warning signals drawn by specialists, the more profound conquests ofscience, only a new educational model can save the humankind of a galloping fall inpromiscuity but also in eternity.economy of knowledge, educational model, cohesion policy, changes