PROFIT ORIENTATED OR CULTURAL PROTECTIVE? SC ELECTRECORD SA- CASE STUDY

The economic environment includes all factors that influence the economic capability of the company to compete and perform in its activity field. In this paper we analyzed, on a real company, the economic evolution correlated with the technical up-grade over the time and sales. A company does not function on its own, but in an environment, whether local, national or international. Competitiveness, from a profit viewpoint, is only a small part of what it really means and does not offer the certainty of a good long term evolution. There are other aspects that need to be taken into consideration. For that reason, we have taken a look over the context and the international trend in that particularly activity field. Our purpose has been to conclude whether the company has a general context approach or only a local one, baring that fact that the world trend affects local evolutions.technology, analysis, company, market, competitiveness

PROMOTING PRIVATE EQUITY FUNDS

The recently development of the capital market intensified the investors attraction toward profit opportunities. The involvement on the capital market has become a widely used activity among all investors regardless their financial power. This has led to diversifying of the capital market, and also to a specialization and hybridization of the financial instruments traded. Whereas, investment funds are considered intermediaries between investors and investees, they can be promoted in relation with their funding and investment activities involving the investors and certain target companies (also known as portfolio companies or investee companies).In addition to the traditional ways of promoting investment funds (i.e. direct selling, printed publications, advertisements and straplines, public relations actions) can be identified other particular methods in promoting their activity (fund raising, investing and financing) by using business angels and netpreneurs. Therefore, this paper presents the importance of promoting investment funds in relation to all the participants involved.private equity, investmen funds,promoting,business angels,netpreneurs

THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF PRIVATE EQUITY IN ROMANIA

In this paper, we address the attractiveness and the economic impact of the private equity industry in Romania, since this industry is considered to be an alternative source of financing for companies covered by investment funds. Using data from two sources, we have been analyzed both economic and social impact of the private equity involvement beginning with the entrance of the fund, the investment period and after the funds divestment. This analysis has shown that private equity funds involvement in the case of Sicomed – Zentiva is a particular case that combates the global consideration on the social impact in the economy. However, the findings and the results of this research cannot be generalized to the entire economy. On the other hand, this study presents the notable aspects that have to be considered when the companies are willing to be restructurated through the involvement of a private equity fund.private equity, involvement, economic and social implications, investment cycle, divestment

INCENTIVES AND CONSTRAINTS IN THE PUBLIC SECTOR: THE BEHAVIOR OF THE RENTSEEKING BUREAUCRAT

The aim of this paper is to analyze the incentives and constraints that a typical bureaucrat face in his or her daily activity and to present some conclusions related to the most likely behavior of bureaucrats. We begin by analyzing the behavior toward advantage seeking. We then apply the hypothesis of rent-seeking behavior to the activity of bureaucrats. After discussing the main differences between the incentives and constraints of the managers of privately owned enterprises and bureaucrats, we conclude that the activity of rent-seeking characterizes the activity of bureaucrats. Finally, we identify the rule of law as the best institutional arrangement for discouraging the rent-seeking activity of bureaucrats.institutional analysis, rent-seeking, bureaucracy, rule of law.

HIDDEN COSTS AND SOCIAL CONTROL MANAGEMENT

Social control management differs from classical management control, as operating in a different environment, the people activities and relationships that are established in the organization around the production. Knowledge of wage and social costs of enterprise has two features that make them an exciting scientific approach: it combines chance and necessity. From a certain point of view, there are certain technical and legal issues, arithmetic rules of behaviour developments of wages fund that show the required area. On the other hand there is the variety of players, of behaviors, the effects of training and experience, whose objective quantification is not possible. It thus falls in appreciable, where modeling is impossible. The paper lies in the foreground and shows how, through techniques of analysis of the differences of accounting, can give a sense of the salary fund by decomposing and isolating of a certain number of basic causes or explanatory factors grouped by nature.social management, fund wages, changes, shaping, scorecard

Transformation of Cagayan de Oro 1945-1980: from a traditional town to an urban centre

This study is an urban history of Cagayan de Oro (Northern Mindanao, Philippines), a city in a developing region, which faced urban transformation from the end of WWII in 1945 to 1980. It employed a multidisciplinary approach wherein the city’s demographic, economic and infrastructural changes were analyzed. The study revealed that Cagayan had grown and transformed from a traditional town into an urban centre whereby its demography had continuously expanded with high rates of natural increase and large streams of in-migrants; while its economic activities had shifted from agricultural production to commerce and industrialization. Its economic transition was due to the promotion of Cagayan as the “Gateway to the South” or “Gateway to Northern Mindanao” by the deciding elites who were part of the transnational economic system that supplied resources to the developed countries such as the United States and Japan. As a result, the growth of Cagayan was not directed towards the masses but instead to the elites and their foreign allies. Cagayan experienced inertia in terms of infrastructural development. Therefore the absorption of foreign structures resulted to an artificial form of urban transformation in Cagayan

Student Achievement in Online Distance Education Compared to Face-to-Face Education

A meta-analysis was conducted to synthesize existing research published between 1995 and 2004 comparing student achievement in online distance education (ODE) and face-to-face education (F2FE) at the post-secondary level. The purpose of this study was to investigate how the development of technology contributed to student achievement in ODE within the last ten years. The result of comparing overall weighted mean effect size of student achievement showed no significant difference between the two settings (d =.023, k = 20, N = 1617, p = 0.640). However, the student achievement comparison revealed an interesting result when the primary studies were categorized by whether the experimental study conducted a pre-test or not. In the pre-tested group of studies, student achievement in ODE was significantly higher than F2FE (d = 0.211, k = 9, N = 631, p < 0.05) even though there was no difference for prior knowledge between ODE and F2FE (d = 0.0813, k=9, N=631, p>0.05). On the other hand, student achievement from the no pre-test group of studies resulted in no significant difference between the two settings (d =-0.106, k = 11, N = 986, p> 0.05). Discussion and suggestion for further studies are provided focusing on methodological weakness of primary studies and differences of teaching and learning in ODE and F2FE

Pågående svenskt projekt: Djurhälsa i ekologiska mjölkbesättningar

I doktorandprojektet ”Djurhälsa i ekologiska mjölkbesättningar” som drivs vid Institutionen för kliniska vetenskaper, Fakulteten för veterinärmedicin och husdjursvetenskap på SLU studeras effekterna av ekologisk drift på hälsa och fruktsamhet i några olika delstudier

DEVELOPING ORGANIC FARMING IN NORWAY THROUGH SYSTEMIC ACTION RESEARCH

A systemic action research approach to gain insight into the present situation of the agroecosystem, to envision scenarios, and to accomplish workable outcomes is performed. This process is to be accomplished in a participatory way that empowers stakeholders to continue the learning process and system development in an ecologically friendly, socio-culturally feasible and economically viable way

TITLE MANAGER AND CONFLICT IN PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS

In an era of constant change, the management of conflict becomes a common practice. Managers of public organizations are often confronted with conflicts, which forces them to adapt their arsenal of tools, methods and techniques used to solve disputes. The article presents the results of the research undertaken in a public institution about the perception of employees with respect to how managers act when conflicts arise. There are also displayed some recommendations to improve the way conflicts are approached.conflict; conflict management; public sector; change