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Attending the International Conference on Administration and Business

The Faculty of Business and Administration from the University of Bucharest is organizing the International Conference on Administration and Business during June 4-5, 2010. I am attending the Education, Administration and Law Section, with the paper “Online vs. Offline vs. Mixed Participation for Better Governmental Policy-Making.” This paper is focusing on the area of participative [...]

June 4, 2010 · Radu Oprea · One Comment
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Paper presentation at the 6th CEU Conference in Social Sciences, Budapest

Seven papers were presented in the first day of the Conference, in Panel 2 called “Are They Drifting Into Adulthood? Past, Present and Future of New European Democracies” that was chaired by Daniela Sirinic (CEU). In my paper presentation, entitled “Entrepreneurship in times of economic and financial crises. Methods of adaptation and survival,” I drew [...]

April 17, 2010 · Radu Oprea · No Comments
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Attending the 6th CEU Conference in Social Sciences in Budapest, Hungary

The 6th CEU Conference in Social sciences is entitled “Social Science Perspectives on Global Transformations and Social Change”. The conference will take place at Central European University in Budapest, during April 16-18, 2010. I’ll be presenting the paper “Entrepreneurship in times of economic and financial crises. Methods of adaptation and survival” which is based on [...]

April 14, 2010 · Radu Oprea · No Comments
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Time for PhD papers

I haven’t been writing lately, but I have a pretty good excuse: I am working and developing four papers for my PhD, to be published in various conferences’ proceedings and journals in Romania and abroad. Their titles are: Online vs. Offline vs. Mixed Participation for Better Governmental Policy Making e-Democracy Platforms for Governmental Decision Making. [...]

March 29, 2010 · Radu Oprea · No Comments
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PhD research regarding entrepreneurship in the South-East region of Romania

A recent research activity conducted over 117 medium-sized enterprises from the South – East region of Romania has revealed the following: The majority of the employees of the companies that were interviewed do not participate in training courses related to project management and personal development. However, company administrators consider that such courses are useful to [...]

February 22, 2010 · Radu Oprea · No Comments
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Have started the on-the-field research for my PhD thesis

The thesis that I proposed to my instructor–and that was approved–is called “Entrepreneurship during economic and financial crises. Methods of adaptation and survival.” During this period of time, I am conducting the on-the-field research in six counties of the South-East region of Romania. Together with a good friend of mine, I am interviewing over 100 [...]

November 22, 2009 · Radu Oprea · One Comment
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