Our study aims to support a critical view on a large literature on relational fidelity. It seeks to demonstrate that, to understand the loyalty in the context of an experiential consumption, the analytical framework must be changed. It is beyond the simplistic view considering consumption as an...

According to Daniel Kahneman (2011), our thinking process is based on two systems: system 1 operates automatically and quickly, with little awareness of voluntary control, system2 operates slowly and constructs thoughts in a logic order. System 1 processes actually emotional knowledge using our...

The present paper presents the models used by the countries that joined the Euro zone after 2000, in fixing the central parity and the evolution of the local currency towards Euro, when participating in Exchange Rate Mechanism II (ERM II). It synthesizes the main theories for determining the...

The program of renewing the Romanian motor vehicle fleet is part of the environment policies. Also known as "Rabla" (Clunker) Program, it began in 2005 and has been implemented each year since in different political contexts (9 governmental formulas). Within the program, approximately 480,000...

This paper concentrates on universities strategies for admitting students and the rate at which private sector universities expand in today's higher educational setups. This paper answers the following question: to what extend are the public universities different from the private universities?...

The present study is meant to be a first step towards the investigation of two current issues: the organization's demand for highly professional services and the business consulting firms' response as a challenge for the ethic imperatives. The main question raised is whether the national...

The focus of this study is to analyze consumer's participation and communication in the online brand communities on Facebook. This type of brand community represents a subgroup of virtual communities, which is known as communities of consumption or fan clubs (Kozinets, 1999; Szmigin et al., 2005)....

The purpose of this paper is to present the inner triple helix dynamics of the organizational knowledge. This is a new perspective of the classical view of tacit knowledge – explicit knowledge dyad of the organizational knowledge promoted by Nonaka and his co-workers. The new perspective...