Larisa Mihoreanu

Advances on how to strengthen the peace within the Black Sea Region

The reason/motivation for addressing issues related to the Black Sea region is multifaceted and requires adequate explanations which will be refereed to here from Romania’s perspective as, a Black Sea area country by geography, historical background, cultural and social characteristics, is the bridge of economic and cultural changes, peace stability and military safety. Its economy and standard of life is sensible to the various factors and trends originating in the region. This paper aims to offer new perspectives in sustaining the idea of a valuable contribution of whom/what at the regional stability.

Emerging from crisis with new approaches to science of society

The recurrence of economic crises serves to illustrate the limits of neoclassical economics and the contemporary established models. Modern-day economic developments are highly influenced by the theory of complexity. In terms of thermodynamics, the inputs of the process consists in economically valuable natural resources and the outputs are worthless wastes; the matter-energy is absorbed in the economic process in a low entropy state which in turn is eliminated in a state of high entropy. Consequently, an updated methodology is required as all activities and overall economic processes demonstrate the inevitably entropic processes. Complex systems research represents the viable alternative for sustainable growth in the following decades. The concept of emergence represents an insightful argument against the well-planned and ordered nature of the social sciences universe. The study of complex systems, evolutionary economics and interdisciplinary research offers the possibility of new developments.

Analysing wellbeing at the crossroads of socioeconomic growth and business ethics

Faced with the pressures of a modern, open society, the traditional economic approach has become a top subject of debate among economic thinkers and business planners. Nowadays, more and more authors bring collateral arguments to analyse the concept of wellbeing. We bring to attention a new way to understand and accept this concept, at the crossroads of multidimensional elements on which the macro-analysis is built. The economic development leading to a globalised market brings forward additional arguments in supporting an enhanced quality of life. The abode where the optimum allocations of resources meet the society needs requires deeper understanding. The present approach tries to enquire the characteristics of individual and national wellbeing towards both the role and effects of corruption as corrosion element, to determine the manner in which these influence each other, and how they impact decisions of business planners and policymakers.

Mind the Gap! — How Innovation Can Reduce Gender Salary Variations

The theoretical term “gendering” encapsulates a constitutive part of organizational processes, reflected in (everyday practices on an institutional and a structural level [Acker, 1999]). Gendering denotes processes of interaction between women and men, often leading to segregation in the labor market, especially discrimination in promotion that favors men in hierarchical arrangements, manifested by higher wages and faster career promotion.