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SME's INTERNATIONALIZATION-DRIVERS AND BARRIERS: THE CASE OF THE ROMANIAN ECONOMY

SME's INTERNATIONALIZATION-DRIVERS AND BARRIERS: THE CASE OF THE ROMANIAN ECONOMY

Author(s): Mircea Maniu,Monica Ioana Burcă-Voicu / Language(s): English / Issue: 10/2014

Keywords: SME's; INTERNATIONALIZATION; INTERNALIZATION; GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT; INNOVATION

This paper attempts to investigate the role of the internationalization process of the SME's in shaping the domestic economic environment in this peculiar framework. It does this by contextualizing the processes of internationalization, and alos the prospects of internalization, for the case of the Romanian economy. Furthermore, we analyze the most important facts available and relevan for the topic and concentrate on the blueprints of the Romanian SME's system. All these preliminary steps converge toward our capital target, namely to identify, reveal and describe in detail the features of the main drivers and barriers that are characteristic of the present day economic life of the Romanian SME's, as observed within an accelerated internationalization process

Rhetorical Patterns on Minority Language and Education Rights in Post-Communist Romania: Finding the Middle Ground (1996 – 2004)

Rhetorical Patterns on Minority Language and Education Rights in Post-Communist Romania: Finding the Middle Ground (1996 – 2004)

Author(s): Monica Andriescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/2007

This article critically analyzes minority and majority rhetoric in postcommunist Romania with the purpose of uncovering the key factors that have shaped discourse and practice on minority language and education rights toward relatively accommodating stances. A second level of research examines the limits in the majority’s willingness to compromise on the extension the legal-institutional minority rights framework beyond the “autonomy threshold”.

Rethinking the Center-Periphery Relationship in the Post-Cold War Era

Rethinking the Center-Periphery Relationship in the Post-Cold War Era

Author(s): Marcel Cornis-Pope / Language(s): English / Issue: 12/2009

Keywords: America; Gloria Anzaldúa; Homi Bhabha; boundaries; cartography; center; Rey Chow; Livius Ciocârlie; Un Burgtheater provincial; Clopotul scufundat; Enlightenment; Susan Stanford Friedman; geographics; global; heteroglossia; hybrid; liminal; local; margi

This paper rethinks the center-periphery relationship in post-Cold War literature and culture. The author argues that the last two decades have freed our topographic imagination of traditional ideological polarizations, but have often replaced these polarized mappings with cartographies of a nationalistic or ethnocentric kind that promote resentful cultural divisions; or with “globalizing” ideologies which reinforce the “international division of labor and appropriation . . . benefiting First World countries at the expense of the Third World” (Teresa Ebert). The literary and artistic examples this paper considers, taken from both the US and East-Central Europe, transcend both leveling globalism and ethnocentric separatism, celebrating crossroads, bridges, cultural “hybridity” and “potentially limitless mappings”. The fiction of Thomas Pynchon, for example, from Gravity’s Rainbow and Vineland to the more recent Mason & Dixon, has been concerned with the search for an alternative cartographic vision that scrambles the “borderline[s . . .] between worlds,” interplaying centers and peripheries. Likewise, the literature written more recently in East-Central Europe reflects the conflicting pulls towards world integration and selfdifferentiation "on the margins". The city characteristically plays a "marginocentric role" in many of these writings, emphasizing its own eccentric position in relationship to the dominant paradigm, while at the same time restructuring that paradigm from the margin. Much recent urban literature and art behaves like a hypertext (in some cases it is a hypertext) that emphasize geocultural interfaces (crossroads, borderlands, multicultural cities and regions) and dialogic interactions among various cultural entities. As such, it demands a hypertextual reading attentive to its intercrossed discursive modes.

Managerial Communication

Managerial Communication

Author(s): Monica Condruz–Băcescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: managerial communication; companies; managers; employees; organizational culture.

The article deals with the challenges of managerial communication. The first part focuses on its characteristics. The evolution of management determined the occurrence of a specific form of managerial communication. This type of communication has become a real force, occupying a central place in the work of any manager. In the second part, I outlined the purpose and objectives of managerial communication. Also, managerial communication in any organization is subject to specific ethical rules, contained in the organizational culture, in the organizational policy and obviously in the ethics of employees from top management. Afterwards, I presented its functions and the communication inside the company between manager and employees and also inside a team. The last part focuses on strategies of communication at organisation level. The conclusion of the article is that managerial communication style is mostly influenced by the work style of the leaders with subordinates. The adoption of a particular style of communication depends on several factors such as: leadership skills and personality, competence and subordinates’ personality, leadership style practiced by top managers and organizational culture.

Who's Afraid of H. P.-B.?

Cui ii e frica de H.P.-B.?

Author(s): Gabriela Omăt / Language(s): / Issue: 03/2015

Romania, like an Open and Incurable Wound

Romania, ca o rana vie si nevindecabila

Author(s): Ion Vianu,Iulian Boldea / Language(s): / Issue: 03/2015

Homo sovieticus: the European journey of the New Man

Homo sovieticus: călătoria europeană a Omului Nou

Author(s): Rada Cristina Irimie / Language(s): / Issue: 03/2014

Keywords: Homo Sovieticus; communism; individual values; social behaviour; capitalism

The legacy of communism did not encounter only major political transformations, but also considerable individual alternations. The present article examines some of the traits of the Soviet man that we think are important. The concept of Homo Sovieticus, the 'new' human type produced by the communist system, represents a critical reference to the average citizen of the Soviet Union. The idea seems to be that years of living in a communist system has produced a personality different from that found in the capitalist countries of the West, while the lack of alternatives turned the universal practice into a mass behavioral structure. Though representing an Eastern political model that collapsed, the idea of the 'soviet man' has interestingly been found in many Central European countries that nowadays identify themselves differently and have a stronger association with the West. In the course of the article, we will revisit the Soviet man model, as well as characteristics connected to Homo Sovieticus, according to political, historical and academic literature. What is even more important is to examine Homo Sovieticus from an inter-cultural perspective. Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Poland offer examples that help us to understand this inter-cultural challenge. Many Central and European countries seem to lag behind the West because of the communist inheritance that includes features of the Soviet person we examine here. Based on the hypothesis that Homo Sovieticus has a powerful intellectual impact on formerly communist countries, there are concerns regarding their transition to successful market economies, which we will address.

Determinants of Self-Rated Health and Self-Rated Physical Fitness in Middle and Old Age

Determinants of Self-Rated Health and Self-Rated Physical Fitness in Middle and Old Age

Author(s): Kimmo Kuosmanen,Suvi Rovio,Miia Kivipelto,Jaakko Tuomilehto,Aulikki Nissinen,Jenni Kulmala / Language(s): English / Issue: 01-02/2016

Keywords: cross-sectional study;self-rated fitness (SRF);self-rated health (SRH);self-perception

Self-rated health (SRH) correlates with psychological factors, mortality and functional capacity. Self-rated physical fitness (SRF) has been examined less, and the relationship between SRH and SRF is unclear. The aim of this study was to explore the determinants, differences and similarities of these concepts in middle and old age. In total, 2,000 persons at the mean age of 50.6 years were examined at baseline, and 1,449 were re-examined when they were aged between 65–79 years. On both occasions, the participants underwent a comprehensive clinical examination and health status/habit assessment. We found a strong correlation between SRH and SRF. In midlife, low income, hopelessness, active use of healthcare services, physical inactivity, angina pectoris, arthropathy and elevated blood pressure were associated with both poor SRH and SRF. In old age, high income, alcohol abstinence, physical inactivity, hopelessness, difficulties in activities of daily living, angina pectoris, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and musculoskeletal disease of the back, and (in men) urinary tract infection were associated with poor SRH and SRF. Income, hopelessness, physical inactivity and angina pectoris correlated with both instruments in both age groups. A wider range of variables was associated with SRH than with SRF. The determinants of SRH and SRF were relatively similar in the younger and older age groups. However, SRH appeared to be a more multi-dimensional instrument than SRF. SRH and SRF are considered reliable indicators of mental and physical health status, and should be accorded more importance when evaluating health among middle-aged and older people.

THE QUOTATION IN TIBERIU OLAH’S SINFONIA GIOCOSA (!?)

THE QUOTATION IN TIBERIU OLAH’S SINFONIA GIOCOSA (!?)

Author(s): Olguța Lupu / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2016

Keywords: quotation; intertextuality; Ode to Joy; trichord; Tiberiu Olah.

The study starts with a brief debate on the nature of a text as interference space of preexisting texts or, on the contrary, as an original and autonomic reality. Different aspects of music quotation are then considered: cognoscibility, defamiliarization, incorporation of cultural associations and meanings, visibility, position and integration. The case study (analysis of Tiberiu Olah’s Symphony No.4) reveals an interesting way of incorporating the quotation. The main quotation, deriving from Ode to Joy, is clearly presented only in the end of the Symphony, although its deep structure (the trichord) constitutes the basis of the whole work. Even this late appearance is not a simple quotation; the Beethovenian fragment is transformed, the affirmation turning into a painful and uncertain interrogation. Beside the famous quotation, there are many others, more or less audible, coming from a variety of authors and music spheres (opera, religious music, chamber music, patriotic song, film music). Despite their diversity, the quotations are fastened by a common DNA (the trichord), the work acquiring thus a teleological, centripetal, ordering function.

Perceived Value among Cluj-Napoca Automobile Owners

Perceived Value among Cluj-Napoca Automobile Owners

Author(s): RUS Monica Ioana / Language(s): English / Issue: 9/2016

Keywords: perceived value; loyalty; satisfaction; conceptual model

The concept of perceived value is considered an important strategic part used by companies to attract and retain consumers. In order to achieve profitability, any company should be aware of the manner in which perceived value influences the consumers‟ behavior. The purpose of this study is to create and test a conceptual model that includes the relationships between perceived value, satisfaction and loyalty. This model will be used to measure the relationships between the constructs included. The data were collected from 182 persons that are living in Cluj-Napoca and owning at least one automobile. The findings show that functional value and emotional value have a direct a positive influence on satisfaction, and social value has a direct and positive influence on loyalty. In addition, the influence of satisfaction on loyalty is positive and direct. Finally, satisfaction partially mediates the relationships between functional value and loyalty and emotional value and loyalty. This study contributes to the value literature by providing a framework of perceived value in the automobile industry, and this is one of the first studies regarding the concept of perceived value among automobile owners from Romania.

Artificial tears

Les larmes artificielles

Author(s): Milko Valent / Language(s): French / Issue: 2-3/2016

« La Croatie souffre de spasmes paralytiques. Même si ce pays est véritablement ravissant et qu’avec raison nous glorifions « Notre belle » patrie avec notre hymne national, la Croatie se dégrade. Zagreb est le centre de cette paralysie. L’Europe se dégrade encore plus vite, elle souffre de la maladie indiscrète de la dégradation, elle se meurt dans l’esclavage pour la dette. L’Union est responsable de la mort de l’Europe telle que nous la connaissons. Bruxelles est l’oeil du cyclone. A la radio, cette métastase du cyclone capitaliste néo-libéral, nous la nommons La nécrologie. Je suis du même avis que Roland van Duijk, l’Europe tout comme EU est une off ense à l’intelligence humaine », réfl échissais-je pendant que la nuit descendait sur l’Europe. Si j’étais devenu astronome, ce que je voulais être au début, là je serais à l’observatoire en train de tranquillement boire le café près du télescope, et je ne serais pas en train de diriger le regard vers le ciel cherchant en vain, à travers les refl ets des pubs en néon, les relaxantes étoiles jaunes. La seule issue, comme toujours, est la sortie activiste massive dans la rue suivie par des textes activistes. Peut-être.

Empowering Roma women in Romania – gender or/and ethnicity

Empowering Roma women in Romania – gender or/and ethnicity

Author(s): Diana Elena Neaga / Language(s): English / Issue: 7 (21)/2016

Keywords: empowerment; Roma women; Romania; gender inequalities

The condition of Roma women in Romania can be well summarized as one that brings together, in a strengthened way, all inequalities based on gender, starting from low access to education, to labor, to social and health services, early marriages and ending with almost no access to decision making. The intersection between gender and ethnicity generated for Roma women a position of impossibility: - denying/ hiding their ethnic identity and trying to integrate in order to reduce gender inequalities by adopting “the Romanian model of emancipated women”. This way of positioning oneself is also coming together with the risk of losing the power of representation – they became “Romanian” women (“românizare”) that could not substantiality stand for “Roma women”;- denying/ neglecting gender identity and thus taking upon themselves the burden of a patriarchal ethnic construction that can deprive women of any power of effecting change from inside. “How can Roma women’s empowerment be possible in the context of intersectional representation of inequalities?”, this is the question I will try to answer in this paper. In answering my question I will underline the fine line between empowerment, essentialism and paternalism which arise in an intersectional context and which should be kept in mind in order to minimize the aforementioned risks.

THE STONE GRAVE FROM ŞINCAI (MUREŞ COUNTY)

MORMÂNTUL ÎN CISTĂ DE PIATRĂ DE LA ŞINCAI (JUD. MUREŞ)

Author(s): Zoltan Szekely / Language(s): English,Romanian / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: Coţofeni Culture; Schneckenberg Culture; funeral rite; stone grave; Roska Mârton.

In this paper the author discusses an original manuscript of the great archaeologist of the last century. Mârton Roska, in which he presents the inventory of a stone grave, discovered on "the heathen castle" („Cetatea Păgânilor”, " Pogânyvâr "), located 3 km south- west of the Şincai village (Mureş county). This manuscript, although in many respects it is already antiquated, however does in my belief provide valuable information, and in terms of chronological classification - in the Schneckenberg culture - the author's observations are still valid. Particularly important is the fact that it has enriched the repertoire of stone graves in the area of Schneckenberg culture with one more point, up to the present unknown in the archaeological literature. This information is especially interesting, because during the five systematic excavation campaigns conducted by Valeriu Lazăr in the settlement of Şincai no other grave made of stone slabs was found. Not even the presence of such building blocks is mentioned.

THE EVALUATION AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF BRONZE DEPOSITS IN BUCOVINA

THE EVALUATION AND SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF BRONZE DEPOSITS IN BUCOVINA

Author(s): Bogdan-Petru Niculică,Vasile Budui / Language(s): English,Romanian / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: Bucovina; bronze deposits; Gâva-Holihrady; spatial analysis

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate and analyze the spatial distribution of the bronze deposits in din Bucovina, dated to the Early Hallstatt, represented in the area by the Gâva-Holihrady culture. To sustain our study, we applied an original algorithm, able to identify the essential elements that can indicate certain models of behavior regarding the geographic space in which the bronze deposits were laid. The geographic analysis elements applied for Bucovina province indicate the preference of the communities of the Gâva-Holihrady culture for the deposits in the riverbeds, at confluences, on low and average terraces, as well as on very high hill, with maximal general visibility.

CONSIDERAŢII ARHEOBOTANICE PRILEJUITE DE DESCOPERIREA UNOR RESTURI DE VITIS VINIFERA ÎN INTERIORUL UNUI VAS DE ARGINT (SEC. IV B.C.)

CONSIDERAŢII ARHEOBOTANICE PRILEJUITE DE DESCOPERIREA UNOR RESTURI DE VITIS VINIFERA ÎN INTERIORUL UNUI VAS DE ARGINT (SEC. IV B.C.)

Author(s): Elena Beatrice Ciută / Language(s): English,Romanian / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: Vitis vinifera; macroremains; silver vessel; wine; ritual offering

Viţa de vie (Vitis sp.) şi produsul său derivat, vinul, pot fi consideraţi parteneri ai omului în toată existenţa sa istorică şi preistorică. De-a lungul timpului, vinul a fost utilizat în scop sacru şi profan şi a îmbrăcat atâtea forme în cadrul ofrandelor, banchetelor şi în viaţa cotidiană, încât ar fi nevoie de un volum uriaş de pagini pentru a dezbate toate aceste aspecte. Nu întâmplător o serie de autori antici au scris despre beneficiile şi importanţa acestei specii. Îi amintim doar pe cei mai cunoscuţi cum ar fi Athenaios, Plinius, Collumela, Cato, Horatius etc.

BEMERKUNGEN ZU EINEM BIMETALLENEN VOLLGRIFFSCHWERT AUS DER HALLSTATTZEITLICHEN DOLENJSKO-GRUPPE (SO SLOWENIEN)

BEMERKUNGEN ZU EINEM BIMETALLENEN VOLLGRIFFSCHWERT AUS DER HALLSTATTZEITLICHEN DOLENJSKO-GRUPPE (SO SLOWENIEN)

Author(s): Biba Teržan / Language(s): English,Romanian,German / Issue: 1/2014

Keywords: Hallstatt; Slowenien; bimetallenen Vollgriffschwert; Doljensko-Gruppe

The sword from a burial discovered in the mound-necropolis of Crnomelj, Slovenia, is discussed. The best analogy known at present is the fragmentary knife/sword from the transylvanian hoard Hida. Independently of the question whether the sword from Crnomelj is an import or an imitation, other finds (especially fibulae) demonstrate that technological-metallurgical knowledge was taken over from the East. This was due not only to sporadic contacts, as it is shown by Basarabi-like pottery too, but illustrates intense contacts, including the possible migration of people.

RECENZII ŞI NOTE DE LECTURĂ

RECENZII ŞI NOTE DE LECTURĂ

Author(s): Radu Ciobanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 1/2014

Tunisia constituie de mult timp un loc privilegiat unde arta antică, fie cea punică, fie apoi cea romană, întâmpină la tot pasul pe cei ce vor să-i cunoască vestigiile încărcate de gloria trecutului. Pentru geografia arheologică a lumii aşezările precum cele de la Cartagina, Uthica, Bulla Regia sau Hadrumetum, sunt tot atâtea puncte de reper unde s-au croit o parte din momentele importante ale istoriei imperiului roman, iar mărturie a acestui fapt stau tocmai siturile excepţionale deschise circuitului public şi care constituie în bună măsură centrele principale de atracţie turistică de astăzi.

The National Revolutionary Party and the Religious Question

The National Revolutionary Party and the Religious Question

Author(s): Roberto J. Blancarte,Monica C. Veloz Leija / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

Keywords: Anticlericalism; Catholicism; Evangelicals; Revolution; Public Sphere; Religion

The National Revolutionary Party was founded in 1929 to win elections and to resolve conflicts between different political groups after the Mexican Revolu tion. But it was also created in order to face the opposition of the Catholic hier archy to the Constitution of 1917 and the measures that the revolutionary gov ernments had established to “defanatize” the Mexican people and to limit the social influence and therefore the political power of the Catholic Church. In the past decades nevertheless, the PRI has evolved from initial anti-clerical and even anti-religious positions towards more respectful positions of religious freedom, in line with the logic of a State that considers itself to be plural and respectful of differences. On the other hand, party authorities do not always respect their liberal and revolutionary tradition, the secularism of the state and the principle of separation that guarantees the moral autonomy of individuals against corpo rations. At times, the search for legitimacy generates political dependence and eventually leads to the imposition of the creeds and dogmas of majorities with respect to minorities of all kinds consequently eliminating the free will of broad sectors of the population that do not share those principles and expect the pro tection and guarantee of their rights by the secular State.

HORIA LOVINESCU’S LUMINA DE LA ULMI- A CONVENTIONAL DEBUT

HORIA LOVINESCU’S LUMINA DE LA ULMI- A CONVENTIONAL DEBUT

Author(s): Centa-Mariana Solomon / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 16/2019

Keywords: patterns; confession; indictment; Albastros;

,,The light from Ulmi” is the confession of the artist who, like Albatros, feels crushed and humiliated in a new social order. The indictment through which it passes, helps him to understand "deep rhinocerisation", ultimately taking the decision to descend from the ivory tower. He is associated with the unbridled industrial environment in the way of thinking, with the artistic resources in full effervescence. Reconciliated, he will wait for the right moment of the resumption of the flight to the true light guide to literature. The patterns penetrate the play, establishing the relationship with other texts of the five or six decades, being as many conventional and concessive gestures.

The Archaeology of Communist Political Repression in Romania: A Critique

The Archaeology of Communist Political Repression in Romania: A Critique

Author(s): Radu-Alexandru Dragoman / Language(s): English / Issue: 14/1/2023

Keywords: Romania; forensic archaeology; communist political repression; dominant ideology; politics; epistemology; ethics

In Romania, the archaeology of communist political repression is a new field of research that was born in the early 2000s, as part of a broader process of critical assessment of the country’s recent past. Dedicated mainly to research of the places where the victims of the political repression in the 1948–1964 period were buried, the archaeological excavations have enjoyed attention and appreciation, both in academia, and in public space and the media. In contrast to this image, in this paper, based on a critical analysis of the socio-political context in which the new subdiscipline was born and of the published excavation reports, I will show that the archaeology of the victims of communist repression is deeply problematic from a political, epistemological, and ethical perspective.