Holistic approach in many disciplines assumes that each component actually contains information about the whole as a unit. A holistic view of an interorganizational collaboration structure should provide a description based on simple laws of all connections between entities (nodes) and network...

Purpose - This study aims to identify characteristics and behaviours typical for male and female managers from the managers` perspective as well as from the subordinates`. Design/methodology/approach – The study involved 232 employed persons, 111 managers and 121 subordinates working in...

The paper tests and evaluates the causality between the dynamics of the Romanian mutual fund market and the economy. Using the Granger causality test, a regression analysis has been developed on quarterly data during 2004Q3 – 2012Q2 for the Romanian economy. Based on this relationship, we can...

Dialectics, multicultural matrix and exosomatism are three major ideas marginalized by the contemporary mainstream economic thinking. Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, through the concept of bioeconomics, argumentatively defended epistemic pillars of economic science and elaborated a revolutionary...

The current study sets out to analyze the cooperative sector throughout several decades, both in the European and the Romanian area. After a presentation of the definitions and characteristics specific to the cooperative societies, as well as the principles and methods of the cooperative...

In today’s competitive environment, any organisation should carefully design its commu-nication strategy as it reflects on its overall image. On one hand, this article aims to define what a good visual identity means by highlighting the elements of a good visual identity through a qualitative...

The objective of this article is to define the concept of network identity and to validate its role as a catalyst and its role to maintain in time the collaborative structure in order to achieve the goal of innovation. I have analyzed collaborative structures in various fields of activity in...

Notwithstanding that each and every company, even the sweetshop around the corner has found its way to the Internet, some customers still hesitate to shop online or to shop from one site and ignore the other. In order to build an online effective communication between the participants, one of...

This paper examines the key energy challenges that Croatia faces, how those challenges are likely to evolve in the coming years, and some possible solutions to the issues presented. While there is a wide variety of issues that Croatia will need to address, this paper will address two of the most...

How can we assess the quality of education offered by a College or University? How can we know for sure if this process is one of quality? How can a parent do trust that his son or daughter will receive a solid education, intended to develop him/her as an individual in such a complex society,...