Trying ever so hard to achieve performance, corporations consume natural and human resources, pollute the environment, lobby the adoption of laws that favor them by giving obtaining competitive advantages, and relocate production capacities looking for lower operating costs. The negative impact...

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...

The efficiency of the rational allocation process of public resources represents a constant issue for both scholars and practitioners, under the European and global requirements set up by International Monetary Fund, European Commission and OECD agendas. In Romania, among the objectives of local...

If twenty years ago the financial activities of any Romanian enterprise were the sole responsibility of the accountant, nowadays the relationships of the economical entities within theirselves and with their environment are too complex to be handled just by accounting departments. Around...

There are two points of view on the performance of the public administration: an internal one, governed by the principle of the three “E”’s and an external one, a measure of the public accessibility to the civil service. The problem with these two points of view in that, although they show...

The emergence of the world economic crises has lead to the stop of the economic growth and, implicitly, to the stagnation of economic development in Romania, with an obvious negative impact on sustainable development. Both the public component of the economy and the private sector are affected...

Within the European Union order, the national public administrations play a very important role. They are responsible for the enforcement and the control of the execution of the policies of the European Communities, in all the states of the European Union, in the interest of the respective...

Intrinsic motivation is widely considered by public administration scholars as fundamental for the Public Service Motivation (PSM). In apparently contradiction with the theory of PSM, the extrinsic motivation techniques, such as financial incentives, function better in Romanian public...

Living in a rapidly changing society, where information travels with great speed and its upgrade is essential, we decided to approach certain aspects of e-democracy, as a dynamic way of citizen participation, using new Information and Communications Technologies.

The European Administrative Space (EAS) should be understood as the ‘environment in which the national administrations are called upon to assure homogeneous levels of service efficiency and quality'. It is important to learn from historical background in order to study the trends of the future...