Andra Ganciov Miculescu

• West University of Timişoara

Pakistan is urbanizing at the fastest pace in South Asia, and if left unplanned, it will not only reduce adaptive capacity of its residents rather it will be a chaos for its residents. The aim of this study is to answer the question on how urbanites of Pakistan are coping with climate change and which part of the society required support to cope wi...

Despite the growing academic interest in transformational leadership and employee creativity, the banking sector has not yet received enough consideration. Mostly, the banking sector was assumed to be an inappropriate setting for employee creativity as it is a tightly supervised and controlled segment of an economy. Nevertheless, some research stud...

Establishing balanced and sustainable development is critical for improving the banks’ capability and performance. Financial development has enormous significance in an environment of increasingly contestable international markets and can be achieved by enhancing banking efficiency and performance. The bank efficiency is estimated through Data Enve...

Relying on tournament theory and environmental management research, we examine how CEO tournament incentives induce top executives to invest more in green innovation. Using a sample of Chinese listed companies from 2010 to 2016, we find evidence that CEO tournament incentives are positively associated with green innovation. In addition, we find tha...

The present paper had as starting point the idea according to which human capital, investment in human capital, and respectively in education, can be considered key determinants of economic growth and development. Our paper draws attention to the conditions necessary so that the effects of education on human capital development and economic develop...

The present paper aims at analysing the way the Romanian economy has integrated the recent approaches in economics, such as social norms, institutional economics, behavioural economics, or ecological economics, and has contributed to the development of economic behaviour, of competitiveness. The authors will take into consideration that economic de...

The issue of economic disparities within the European Union economies is not new, it is actually a topical issue. Unfortunately, the EU enlargement has determined an even stronger deepening of the regional disparities, because in the absence of adequate regional development policies, the financial instruments have proved to be ineffective. Recent s...

In the phenomenology of poverty it is the product of the existing power structure in society and how certain social processes create poverty and blocks out chances for particular social groups or certain individuals. Poverty can be seen from several viewpoints: an aggregate that can take two forms, relative poverty and absolute poverty. This paper...

Consumers act in housing in a way that disposable income is allocated to current consumption or for savings and future consumer needs. In many countries, household consumption is studied by analyzing family budgets. Household income is the main source of cover for public need of consumption. In this paper we analyzed the level, dynamics and structu...

The study of economic agents’ behaviour, whose nowadays tendency is to group themselves in space as clusters, has an important place in the field of localizing industrial activities. This is due to domestic scale economies, known as agglomerations economies. According to Edgar M. Hoover (Hoover, 1948), domestic scale economies are specific to compa...

This work develops a view over the more and more important role that knowledge and information begin to play in all the aspects of life. Also, the work analyses the concepts of economy based on knowledge and informational society, with the implications and links between them, regarded from several economic perspectives. The conclusion reached is th...

This work develops a view over the more and more important role that knowledge and information begin to play in all the aspects of life. Also, the work analyses the concepts of economy based on knowledge and informational society, with the implications and links between them, regarded from several economic perspectives. The conclusion reached is th...

Sustainable rural development must be approached on several plans: in sustainable economic development sustainable in the environmental and sustainable development in the social. One of the components of sustainable development is the spatial territorial. There are concerns in the EU and Romania to establish a framework legislation enabling the dev...