Comparative Public Administration and Management - Innovation, Change, Partnership in Social Media Era

The current volume represents the outcome of the International Conference “Comparative Public Administration and Management – Innovation, Change, Partnership in Social Media Era,” organised in Bucharest on 26th June 2015. The conference has been organised by the National University of Political Studies and Public Administration – Faculty of Public Administration, Bucharest, Romania and Kaunas University of Technology – Faculty of Economics and Business and Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities (Institute of Public Policy and Administration), Kaunas, Lithuania. The conference brought together practitioners, researchers and specialists involved in various fields of activity. Permanent working groups of the conference was: WG 1: Regional Policy and Cooperation WG 2: Motivation and organizational behavior WG 3: Policy networks and regulatory governance WG 4: EU studies WG 5: Public law and administration WG 6: Finance, budgeting and accounting WG 7: Social economics and budgeting WG 8: Management and leadership WG for students. The contents of the papers presented have been focused on the following topics: Managing the service quality in hospitality; Some considerations on the ‘new clothes’ of poverty in the digital age; Integrated approaches in public management; The role of European funds in achieving the Europe 2020 goals. Case study: Romania; Towards an integrated framework of the European Social Funds projects; Analysis of the electricity market in Romania after market liberalization; Innovative ways forward. Strengthening the public sector innovation in the EU28; Innovations and challenges in pre-university educational management; Best practices in implementing blended learning systems in higher education; Social media in public institutions. Comparative case study; Social change in public administration; Instruments for measuring corruption. Comparative analysis; Development trends of internal public audit systems. Comparative study Romania – Bulgaria; Diversity in the Economy and Local Integration (DELI): the Case of Bucharest; Adaptive Marketing – a turnaround of the downward sloping recession curve; Training needs analysis for civil servants from Romania; Models of decision‐making in the public sector; The size of the public sector and the implication of reform on the level of corruption