Attitudes in Romanian Firms’ Organizational Behavior Regarding Government Environmental Programs

The huge challenges for ensuring future energy supplies needed to global development imposed the initiation of a series of drastic changes to cope with diminishing conventional energy resources, which tends to endanger the mankind socio-economic development. In this context a shift of energy policies towards the use of green renewable technologies can be noted. At a national level, Romania’s Energy Security Strategy emphasizes more than ever the importance of this type of technologies, public authorities wanting more than ever to encourage their rapid adoption both at the individuals and economic agents’ level. The present study evaluates the actual impact of one of these programs, called Casa Verde and analyzes the weaknesses of its implementation in three counties located in southern Romania: Arges, Olt and Teleroman. First, a comparative analysis between these counties is presented and then the results are examined in view of the nationwide implementation of the aforementioned program.