This article aims to define and measure responsible corporate behaviour towards consumers in EU countries by defining an index of responsible corporate behaviour towards consumers and to establish the impact of Geert Hofstede's cultural dimensions on the responsible behaviour of organisations...

At the beginning of the millennium, Romanian trade is in an intermediate stage of a complex process of development, marked by efforts and attempts to modernize the forms of commerce. After 1995 and until now, Romanian retail market has experienced a steady increase due to the entry of...

This article aims to define and measure responsible corporate behaviour towards consumers in EU countries by defining an index of responsible corporate behaviour towards consumers and to establish the impact of Geert Hofstede`s cultural dimensions on the responsible behaviour of organisations...

Starting from the premise that there are numerous institutional and national factors influencing the performance of responsible supply chain management, the present article seeks to measure and quantify performance of the European emerging states by creating an index of performance of...

Sustainability has become a topic of great interest to the contemporary world, as sustainable business could provide the resources future generations need for survival and full development. The most important step towards sustainable development is to rethink production processes and current...

This paper aims to analyse an identity element of the city of Pitesti, based on the results of a study that helped design the town’s post-accession strategy. Local development strategies have become essential for administrative reform in Central and Eastern European countries, ensuring the...

Romanian trade is placed, at the beginning of this millennium, at an intermediate stage of a complex process of development. Since 1995, Romania has experienced a steady increase of the retail market due to the entry on the Romanian market of some modern international trade chains and to the...

Corporate social responsibility strategies are a topic of great interest for both researchers and practitioners, and require the development of interdisciplinary approaches: economic, ethical and social. The paper analyses the social responsibility strategies employed by European automotive...

The huge challenges for ensuring future energy supplies needed to global development imposed the initiation of a series of drastic changes to cope with diminishing conventional energy resources, which tends to endanger the mankind socio-economic development. In this context a shift of energy...