The traditional synthetic financial indicators of the performance, as well as the return on assets, the return of equity, the traditionally non-financial indicators used, and the utilization rate of production capacity, the rate of labor productivity or scrap rate, allow the entity to ensure if...

Success stories like Silicon Valley, Hollywood film industry or the economic region of Northern Italy brought into debate the role of clusters in regional development. What is a cluster? What drives organizations to build clusters or local and regional authorities to sustain such forms of...

Public administration reform has been a top priority for every political party that has held office from 1990 since present, but after more than 20 years of “reform”, Romania still faces major administrative problems and challenges while its administrative system in some areas the system...

This study confronts two perspectives on the role of universities in regional innovation systems. The first one is the political and administrative perspective, under which „higher education institutions, like airports, have become magic bullets in many regional development strategies”...

Drawing from the academic literature, this paper discusses the concept of the ‘learning society’ and traces back its development. ICT play major roles in the learning society, from providing the technical infrastructure to creating digital skills and competences for lifelong learning and...

The study presents the key elements of the branding strategy applied by Vienna and the main target markets and the quantitative and qualitative effects, with an emphasis on the target group consisting of Romanian tourists, which is a priority market for the city. In the second part of the study,...

Culture has various dimensions, from instrument of communication and promotion of national values and expression of the national spirit to ways of spending free time. One of these dimensions has a special manifestation in the arts management performance context: culture is a vital element for...

The need to continue the reduction of the state bureaucracy and the orientation towards the managerial models from the private sector, the usage of financial incentive systems, generally in the form of merit base promotion and financial rewards, have introduced in the public system the...

The cultural heritage of a country includes the all traces of human activity discovered in the environment. These are irreplaceable sources of information on the life and occupations of people of different ages and artistic, technical skills development over time. Because monuments, sites and...

Creating a healthy Public Administration, well structured and effective, constitutes a balance and stability factor, the essential elements in strengthening the state of law, in promoting the principles and guidelines to ensure the progress and prosperity in all economic and social sectors....