Radu Ogarca

University of Craiova · Department of Management, Marketing and Business Administration

The study aims to analyze the synergies between internal factors (i.e., emotional intelligence and resilience) and external factors (i.e., governmental support) on the performance of tourism organizations in the post-disaster recovery phase. Data collected from the sample of 390 managers and owners in the tourism industry were analyzed using struct...

The pandemic crisis has meant a challenge for SMEs and a factor that can change the way of doing business. The current paper analyses the correlations between financial resources, turnover, sustainability, and digital technologies and how these components can be adapted to changes in the economy triggered by the pandemic crisis in the structure of...

The aim of this research is to analyse the way young people perceive the food waste process, as well as the determinants and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the responsible behaviour of young people towards food waste. The research design involves a study on a sample of 375 students from Romanian universities and the development and validati...

The aim of this paper is identifying the extent of ISO 26000 implementation in Romania and the means used by Romanian companies in this process. We used a descriptive and exploratory research, analyzing the data regarding ISO 26000 standard available on the websites of the first 25 companies in Romania in terms of their turnover (at the level of 20...

Promoting the principles of circular economy and the new business models advocated by the circular economy can represent a solution for a more prosperous society, less dependent on primary and energy resources and more environmentally friendly. The sharing economy, which primarily involves the transformation of traditional market behaviors into col...

The paper proposes investigating the relationship between the organizational culture and internal control. The approach is a qualitative, constructive one. There is asserted and argued the thesis according to which between the two elements there is a one-to-one relationship, going on up to an extended overlapping between the organizational culture...

Lucrarea îşi propune să investigheze relaţia dintre cultura organizaţională şi controlul intern. Abordarea este una calitativă, constructivistă. Se susţine, argumentează şi se aprofundează teza potrivit căreia între cele două elemente există o relaţie biunivocă care poate merge până la o suprapunere covârşitoare între cultura organizaţională şi med...

The paper presents the Corporate Social Responsibility in the public sector of Romania, offering an image on the role of the public authorities, different than that of the private sector. There are a lot of differences between the two sectors and the state should focus on two aspects: the public sector as a responsible actor, involving itself in CS...

This paper sets three main research directions: synthesizing the relevant literature concerning the decision making style insisting on the specific manifestations at the level of SMEs; a research concerning the decision making style on a sample of 21 entrepreneurs from South-West Oltenia Region; reporting the own results to previous studies having...

The article presents the problems of ethics management in higher education system of Romania and tries to identify the best solutions in order to improve the ethical climate in universities, with a proper implementation of ethics management instruments and procedures. The purpose of this study is to create a background for managers in these institu...

Green marketing examines the symbiotic role played by marketing in ensuring sustainable business, exploring issues concerning the environment and the way strategic decisions can influence it. At present, the environmental issues concern more and more the competitive approach any organization can implement. Based on this approach, organizations can...

According to the Corruption Perceptions Index, computed by Transparency International for 2011, Romania is on the 75-th place from 183 analyzed countries, with a score of 3.6 from 10 (in European Union, it is on the 25-th place from 27 states, being surpassed by Bulgaria and Greece). On the same basis, Global Corruption Barometer offers other worry...

Although entrepreneurship is a highly studied subject in economic literature in recent years, there are still many aspects that hasn’t been sufficiently detailed or which have not been fully clarified. One of them is entrepreneurship among young people with higher education. In the scholarly literature (especially foreign) there are several studies...

In the field literature and the specific practice, the use of terms, such as – control,verification, evaluation, audit, on one side, and on the other side, the definitions for control functionof management, respectively, control-evaluation function – remain highly ambiguous. Consideringthese observations, the authors point out several useful as...

This paper is a literature review on the decision-making issues in a small and medium enterprise. The first part proposes an overview of the main theories and approaches regarding the managerial decision and the decision-making process, in general. In the second part, it tries to identify some specific elements of decision-making processes within S...

Cash-flows represent the advantage of commitment accounting in front of cash accounting, but this does not mean that it is preferred. Another element which shows that one can not definitively choose between the two accounting types is the performance appreciation of the enterprise. By cumulating the information according to cash accounting and comm...

In this paper we analyzed the branding in small business. Using a desk research on Internet and the press we have identified the practices small businesses use to enhance their brand and the brand dynamics in small business. Our main contribution is that we tried to figure out the strategy of branding in small business. This need further to be inve...

The economic crisis has forced theoreticians and practitioners to reflect on the ways to overcome the difficult situations faced by most organizations as well as on old problems which the crisis has revealed. One of them was the awareness, at organizational level, that neither problems nor solutions come exclusively from the outside, but, on the co...

The paper has three main objectives. The first of these aims to clarify the term and the motivations behind such actions. The second objective is to circumscribe the identification of the legislative and institutional elements regarding whistle blowing, currently existing in Romania. The third objective involves comparative analysis of three cases...

Any organization is confronted with a multitude of problems in a dynamic and complex environment. These problems can be independent, but, many times, they are interconnected. In this myriad of situations, it is difficult to identify the causality relations between problems, which, logically, should also determine the solving order. An organization...

Any organization is confronted with a multitude of problems in a dynamic and complex environment. These problems can be independent, but, many times, they are interconnected. In this myriad of situations, it is difficult to identify the causality relations between problems, which, logically, should also determine the solving order. An organization...