In recent decades, humanity has become extremely concerned with finding plausible explanations about the post-industrial society and its sense of evolution. The literature in the field has been enriched with several terms, such as post-industrial society, information society, knowledge society,...

The question is whether Europe wants to actively shape globalisation and wants to proactively address global problems that also have repercussions on European polities. The EU is an endeavour to pool national sovereignty in order to gain political clout at the international level. Global risks...

From a cost-benefit perspective, things don’t look good for migrants all over the world, especially in Europe. EU nations are tightening border controls, raising red-tape barriers to legal migration, reducing the length of work permits, and shutting off access to the social welfare system....

Lately at world level there have been recorded transformations of society in general and of the production activity in particular, as a consequence of some qualitative changes from different fields such as the technological one (information becomes a new major source of the company), commercial,...

The distribution in a direct sales system is carried out using its specific channels, from person to person or from producer directly to the consumer, instead of being carried out classically by shops. Network marketing represents the main force of the direct sales, as it relies on the use of a...

The world economy is facing the worst crisis since the Great Depression. All the regions are addressing enormous challenges emanating from the growth slowdown in developed countries as well as the global credit crunch. Shared impacts across regions are slowdown in exports, fall in asset markets,...

When considering the overall picture of maritime business, maritime human resources are high on the list of matters that influence competitiveness. During actual crisis, though budgets for training and teamwork activities were reduced, there have been made efforts to gain an awareness of human...

During the last few decades, mutual funds have passed through a period of significant development regarding the managed assets volume and number of funds, as well as regarding the investment strategies and financial instruments used. The present paper wants to analyze the main evolutions on the...