Elena Nicolae

• Lecturer at Bucharest University of Economic Studies

The paper attempts to verify the hypothesis that Romanian exports to the Russian Federation are below their potential. We first looked at statistical data regarding bilateral trade, custom duties and foreign direct investment; the resulting conclusions support our hypothesis. Further, we use a gravity equation, in order to forecast Romanian exports...

The study explores the main practical implications for decision-making and managerial action in organizations that adopted spiritual leadership or that are willing to follow such an approach. Spiritual leadership is a relatively innovative concept, defined as that type of leadership that aims to “create vision and value congruence across the indivi...

The literature and evidence of the theory and practice of quality assessment in higher education has been growing fast. Within the larger field of quality assessment, the terms good practices and communities of practice have been largely used by administrators, managers and practitioners with various intentions and conotations. The present article...

In this paper, we study several determinants of academic achievement and professional aspirations on a sample of 397 Romanian high schoolers. Our aim is to shed light on the family, individual and school related factors that contribute to the students’ academic achievement and professional aspirations. We focus on Romania, an ex-transition, Central...

In recent years, the question has been fiercely debated whether China is following the path of the Asian developmental states, such as Japan, Korea, Singapore, etc. or China's outstanding economic development is fundamentally different from the success stories of the Asian developmental states. The discussion was becoming more intensive when Chines...

Today’s world is clearly fractured whether we are looking at it through economic, political, cultural or educational lenses. This is in no way something new. The world has always been in this state, but the speed with which it reacted to real or perceived threats and tried to change accordingly was barely perceivable and, therefore, easier to adopt...

Higher education is in turmoil in the whole world. Universities as organizations are being challenged by their various stakeholders. This is true of any and most organizations. Nevertheless in some places universities continue to be looked upon as providers of the correct answers to those challenges as they have rallied within their ranks self-proc...

Understanding entrepreneurship as being spatially rooted transforms it in a regional and national competitiveness factor. Despite the increasing importance of the territorial dimension in supporting economic growth at policy and declarative levels, in practice, in Romania, the territorial structure and spatial organization of the economy contribute...

The paper attempts to verify the hypothesis that Romanian exports to the Russian Federation are below their potential. We first looked at statistical data regarding bilateral trade, custom duties and foreign direct investment; the resulting conclusions support our hypothesis. Further, we use a gravity equation, in order to forecast Romanian exports...

The process of deindustrialization expresses the general trend that most developed but also developing economies have followed in the last fifty years. In this article, we study the most recent evolution of the path toward deindustrialization at the level of the EU-27 (and in some cases. EU-15 and EU-25), for the period between 2000 and 2009, using...

The scientific approach highlights the contribution of human capital in achieving economic growth. Theoretical considerations are presented first regarding theories and neoclassical growth models, and then some contributions of human capital and education to economic growth. In the present context it was considered necessary to study the influence...