The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal 

About: The AMFITEATRU ECONOMIC journal is an academic journal. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): European union & Quality (business). Over the lifetime, 583 publications have been published receiving 3802 citations.

Electricity consumption and economic growth nexus: a multivariate analysis for turkey

Abstract: This study examines the short-run and long-run causality issues between electricity consumption and economic growth in Turkey for 1968–2006 period by using Granger causality models augmented with a lagged error-correction term. The bounds F–test for cointegration test yields evidence of a long-run relationship between employment ratio, electricity consumption per capita and real GDP per capita. The overall results from the three error-correction based Granger causality models show that there is an evidence of unidirectional short-run, long-run and strong causalities running from the electricity consumption per capita to real GDP per capita. But, there is no causal evidence from the real GDP per capita to electricity consumption per capita. In other words, “Growth hypothesis” is confirmed in Turkey. This suggests that electricity consumption plays an important role in economic growth.

Research on corporate social responsibility reporting

Abstract: The paper aims to revisit the relationship between reporting companies’ characteristics and the importance assigned to social and environmental disclosure, using statistical correlations. We conducted a content analysis on the extent of sustainability reports of the largest 50 companies classified by Global Fortune in 2009, in order to address the research hypotheses. Results show that size characteristics measured by assets and revenues cannot be correlated to the extent of Corporate Social Responsibility reports published by companies, but there is a significant negative correlation between change in revenues and return on equity and social and environmental disclosure for the sampled companies.

Entrepreneurship in SME Segment: Case Study from the Czech Republic and Slovakia

Abstract: Internal Grant Agency of FaME TBU [005/IGA/FaME/2014]; Project Current trends in the area of business risks of small and medium-sized enterprises in selected regions of the Czech Republic and Slovakia [FaME/2013/MSPRISK]

The Social Responsibility of the Top 100 Romanian Companies. An Analysis of Corporate Websites

Abstract: The article identifies the extent to which the most valuable Romanian companies practice corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its beneficiaries. It describes the main areas of action and specific instruments of intervention. The data analysed cover the top 100 Romanian companies, as ranked by Ziarul Financiar. The corporate website of each company was analysed and subsequently codified on multiple variables. The results outline the fact that firms engage in CSR activities to a relatively high extent (49% of the companies). They adopt a vision of corporate social responsibility exclusively centred on the firm and the competitive advantages that derive from CSR activity. The wider community is represented as the primary stakeholder and beneficiary, whilst those stakeholders thought to influence the profit-making goals to a lesser extent are more often than not overlooked. Finally, companies prefer inexpensive intervention instruments and prove weak coordination with others social and political actors.