Teodor Popescu

Organization's Age and Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB), Performance Criteria at SMEs Level. Case Study – Bucharest – Ilfov Development Region☆

Abstract Paper goal – This paper goal is to highlight the existing correlations between organizations age, Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) performances in Bucharest – Ilfov development region. Research Methodology – Data that we present resulted from a socio – economic survey based on a questionnaire and achieved between December 2012 and August 2013, on a representative sample of 73 small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Information that we obtained was processed through econometric methods, using Microsoft Excel software. Findings – Our study identifies and measures the links intensity between organizations age and OCB, also including OCB components and SMEs performances. Research limitations – This study, challenge us to extend the research at national level, in order to get a comparison of the results with those from Bucharest – Ilfov development region. At the same time analysis must be extend on other factors that may influence SMEs OCB level. Practical Involvement – Our studies final goal is to give to small businessman an easy and efficient method to grow SMEs performances through OCB. Originality – Our researches are the first one at national level that want to demonstrate the link between organizations age, OCB and SMEs performances.

Freight Transports in Romania, between Desires and Achievements. Past, Present and Future

Abstract Our paper goals are to highlight the main elements that marked Romanian Freight Transport development between 2000 – 2014 and to define some short term action directions. By using statistical, analytical, comparative and descriptive methods, study is an investigation of the defining elements of freight transport in Romania, on the three main modes of transport - road, rail and inland waterway. The results and the conclusions of the study highlight significant differences between what Romania aimed to achieve in the analysed period and what has succeeded. At the same time, our paper, by pointing out the weaknesses of the national strategy of development of the transport infrastructure, tries to present the main action directions that can increase the efficiency of decision – making and implicitly, the significant improvement of transport infrastructure.

Interferences between Sustainable Mobility and Economic Development in Romania

Abstract The working paper aims to analyse the development opportunities in Romania of the sustainable mobility concept and also the process influences on the national economy. Therefore, the paper presents the main characteristics of the sustainable mobility system and development conditions in Romania. From this perspective, an important part of the study will analyse the possibilities and requests of the development and modernization of multimodal transportation. Using analytical, comparative and descriptive methods, the working paper investigate the efficiency elements respecting the promotion of multimodal transportation compared to the road, rail or naval. Based on these researches, it is obvious that for supporting the sustainable mobility in Romania it is necessarily to develop the multimodal transportation. In this context, the study also presents the current situation and perspective of multimodal transportation in Romania. As a major conclusion, the Romanias economic policies, aiming to reduce the energetic consumptions, to rise the efficiency of goods and persons transportation within a better quality of transportation offer and to reduce the environmental negative effects due to transportation, will be positively and major influenced by achieving a sustainable mobility system.

Transport in Support of the Process of Socio-economic Development of Romania, After 1990

Abstract The working paper aims to highlighting the major evolutionary milestones, for each transport mode, and also the imposed obstacles and the advantages offered by the national economy, in the development transportation in Romania, starting with 1990 year until now. Each mode of transportation cyclic evolution presents expansions and recessions phases. However, each new evolution cycle, of a transport mode, does not start from “zero”, but from the accumulated information (inherited) from previous cycle that will developed, refined and diversify in the future expansion phases. Given the interdependence with the other branches of the national economy and, by its very character, in the public interest, in the last two decades, the transports supported and, also, influenced the evolutions and improvements of the Romanian economy and also, of the entire Romanian society. In addition, the development of different modes of transport has been uneven in recent decades, without taking into consideration the consequences of these evolutions on collateral fields. Some important connections between transportation and economic branches or between transport infrastructures and the regional development represent, also, important aspects presented in this working paper.

Organizational Citizenship Behavior Activity Leverage Optimization in Virtual Enterprise

Abstract Virtual enterprise, concept that knows multiple social, economic, engineer and informatics approaches, is without a doubt, the enterprise of the future. Links analysis between Organizational Citizenship Behavior and virtual enterprise may mark out new action directions in order to optimize its activity. Members of virtual teams are situated, most of the times, at big distance one from another. Working together by computer networking they must have, despite specialized competences in the field approached, a competitive Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB). The importance of Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB) at virtual enterprise level came, in our opinion, from its specific strokes – the absence of a center and of an organization chart, without hierarchy or vertical integration and based on mutual trust of its members. In this article authors try to emphasize a series of interesting aspects that appear in relationships between virtual enterprise members, during a limited period of its existence, relationships interpreted on OCB basis. At the same time, this paper aims to realize, by experiment, the optimization of partners selection that will form the virtual enterprise, by analyzing their Organizational Citizenship Behavior (OCB).