Good governance and good public administration are essential aspects of democracy. The ability to distribute society’s resources, curb the abuse of power and corruption and guarantee equality of all persons before the law is fundamental to a well-functioning society. The starting point of this...

This paper provides an overall image on the degree of vulnerability to crisis of the Romanian counties using a series of statistical measures such as location quotients, Herfindhal specialization index, composite territorial development index, the regional distribution of FDI in relation to the...

This paper aims to analyze what are the prerequisites for the reform implementation and for developing a modern approach of mechanism of public administration reform process in Romania, emphasizing on some areas that could provide the platform for a dynamic, sustainable and continuous reform...

The paper aims to emphasize the role of environmental leadership as main option for combining the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policy with the business goals and targets in order to satisfy both shareholders’ interests and social interests, in terms of profit, productivity and social...

It is now widely recognized that the age of knowledge based society has come and many public organization are changing their style of work, organization and culture. Knowledge management plays a very important and complex role in this context and moreover in the public sector. A competent public...

Regionalization is a continuous need to ensure that all the cities can invest in maintaining and improving the infrastructure in order to have, to get quality services at EU standards. This aspect involves approving and implementing adequate developing strategies and policies, oriented to...

Today we are witnessing an excessive introduction of nanotechnologies in our lives which brings a number of benefits, the elimination of communication barriers between people, freedom of movement to the acquisition by them of routine activities as well as the emergence of new needs would need...

Romanian public administration and new public management are in need of a series of modernization actions resulted from theoretical progresses on European level whose application proved to have positive effects. Among these modernization actions a focus on the following aspects must be...

Despite tourism is one the activities which had a spectacular development in the last decades and although our country has a notable tourism potential, Romanian local and central public authorities` interest in this direction is very low. Apart from being a scientifically approach, the paper...

The specialty literature is more and more focused on the satisfaction on tap water. Consequently there are increased efforts to provide quality water and to gain the consumer confidence. This effort requires a multidisciplinary approach in order to combine the various technical requirements of...