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{"title":"Traffic Lights Management Using Optimization Tool","authors":"Mădălin-Dorin Pop","doi":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.008","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.008","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The increase of traffic is one of today's problems. Numerous cities are affected by traffic congestion and the increase of emissions from fuel use. They have a negative impact on economy, environment and overall on the quality of life. It is necessary to find intelligent solutions for road traffic management. The interest for intelligent traffic systems appeared at the beginning of the 20^th century. There are various methods available for traffic management such as inductive loop detection, infrared sensors, video data analysis etc. The purpose of this paper is to present an approach of optimization tool using in order to decrease the traffic congestion and the crossing time of a road network.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89222,"journal":{"name":"Procedia, social and behavioral sciences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Pages 323-330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55109710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Effects of an Ambidextrous Leadership on the Relationship between Governance Mechanism and Social Sustainability","authors":"Usama Awan,&nbsp;Andrzej Kraslawski,&nbsp;Janne Huiskonen","doi":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of transactional and relational governance on firm social sustainability when transactional and transformational leaders exhibit a strong influence on governance mechanism. This study offers insight on how ambidextrous leaders alternate between a relational contract and a relational governance mechanism and tune their approach to meeting the demands of social sustainability. Data was collected using structured survey questionnaires from manufacturing industries in Pakistan. A structural equation model was used for data analysis. The research findings indicate that ambidextrous leadership and contractual governance mechanism at time servers the needs of manufacturing firms and also serve as a tool to enhance the social sustainability. The results reveal that it is important for the manufacturing firms to take the transactional leadership into account during the design and implement of contract governance mechanism for the improvement of the social sustainability. The research into ambidextrous leadership is, although limited, a promising field of interest. The study also discusses limitation and managerial implications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89222,"journal":{"name":"Procedia, social and behavioral sciences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Pages 398-407"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55109810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Eco-innovation, a Business Approach towards Sustainable Processes, Products and Services","authors":"Aida Szilagyi,&nbsp;Marian Mocan,&nbsp;Anne Verniquet,&nbsp;Andrei Churican,&nbsp;David Rochat","doi":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Eco-innovation has been wildly accepted as a method for improving the environmental performance of enterprises and for supporting them to improve their products; as well as to advance to more sustainable business models, and as a driver of business success and competitive advantage at the firm level. Implementing eco-innovation is a challenging process and will not be suitable for all organizations. Therefore understating barriers and drivers at the national and business level, as well as the main gaps in policy and education, could build a better picture of the necessary framework conditions for eco-innovation to be created in Romania. The paper reflects on existing opportunities in the country and demonstrates that eco-innovation potential needs to be addressed. Our research identified existing premises and drivers for eco-innovation that could boost the application of eco-innovation in companies, entail policy changes, and boost cooperation between stakeholders from R&amp;D, academia, businesses, clusters and policy makers. The success of eco-innovation depends on the awareness that will be created among businesses through dissemination of strong business cases, the adjustment of the policy framework that should stimulate and reward the market for eco-innovative solutions and the capacity of experts to convince the companies’ management of the financial and environmental benefits of eco-innovation, to explain the need for continuous application of eco-innovative strategies and how they can be mainstreamed in the overall enterprise strategy and overall management. Through its objectives, the ECO Partner project contributes to install a model of cooperation between main actors interested din eco-innovation and build cooperation between the main stakeholders by initiating the Romanian Eco-Innovation Network (RE-IN). The role of the RE-IN is to develop and strength the partnership and to become the main partner in Romania for policy makers, businesses, academia and experts with common interests in eco-innovation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89222,"journal":{"name":"Procedia, social and behavioral sciences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Pages 475-484"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55109932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sustainable Development of Marginalized Urban Areas by Applying Knowledge-based Public Policies","authors":"Mihai-Ionuţ Danciu ,&nbsp;Sabina Irimie ,&nbsp;Claudia Tatiana Muntean ,&nbsp;Sabin-Ioan Irimie","doi":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.027","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.027","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper addresses the sensitive subject of residents in marginalized urban areas and proposes solutions in order to improve life quality parameters by accessing multidisciplinary networks of knowledge and information. In the context of contemporary technologies, conclusions resulting from applied practices in strictly contextualized situation become important sources for the implementation of efficient public policies. Access to knowledge proves to be a primary necessity, in conditions when efficiency is imperative and sustainable development bases on a minimum resources input in exchange for a maximum values output. In the context of a mining zone that is in full economic decline, where the local identity is not built yet and the contemporary processes offer a priority to urban centres at the expense of the marginal areas as a development and economic growth engine, the necessity for public policies concentrated on the needs of the first is essential. Studying the ways in which resilient cycles based on production and consumption can offer to communities a raised degree of independence to the external context in trying to define a unitary development pattern, the authors propose the implementation of a public policies program, through which the inhabitants of every Vicinity Unit can access the most relevant information and can participate in multidisciplinary education and formation projects.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89222,"journal":{"name":"Procedia, social and behavioral sciences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Pages 485-491"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55109945","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring the Roles of European Funds in the Life Cycle of Romanian Spin-offs","authors":"Valentin Munteanu ,&nbsp;Lavinia-Maria Cernescu ,&nbsp;Luisa Izabel Dungan","doi":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Academic spin-offs bring researchers together, foster experience, sharing a creative atmosphere with the purpose of creating new products/services in order to commercialize them. University spin-offs are an important vehicle for knowledge diffusion and economic growth. Despite their importance, little research exists in spin-off performance or impact at national level in Romania, especially from the perspective of academic entrepreneur. In order to understand the spin-off concept, the main focus of this article is to provide a better understanding of the spin-off mechanism and also how can it be facilitated in a regional context. The paper analysis the situation of spin-offs opened through the European Program “Increase of Economic Competitiveness” (2007-2013) during all the period from the start and till the last available financial dates. In order for Romania to become more competitive it has to improve the activity of the innovative firms, especially spin-offs and start-ups. During 2007-2013 there have been created 120 innovative companies out of which 19 spin-offs and 101 start-ups. But did the EU funds accessed between 2007-2013 had a real impact on the development of this companies? This article analyses and tries to answer this question<em>.</em></p></div>","PeriodicalId":89222,"journal":{"name":"Procedia, social and behavioral sciences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Pages 562-571"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.036","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55110042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Using Six Sigma DMAIC to Improve the Quality of the Production Process: A Case Study","authors":"Monika Smętkowska,&nbsp;Beata Mrugalska","doi":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.039","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.039","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over the last two decades there has been a growing awareness of the need to improve quality in the industrial sector. This paper presents how to implement the DMAIC cycle as an element of continuous improvement in practice. In order to achieve it, the problem of quality and quality improvement is widely discussed. Based on the recognized problem in the organization, an analysis with the application of DMAIC is done. The propositions of improvements, which can be implemented in the organization in order to increase the effectiveness of production process, are also presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89222,"journal":{"name":"Procedia, social and behavioral sciences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Pages 590-596"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.039","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55110091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Peculiarities of the Adherence and Identification as Components of the Organizational Culture of Modern University","authors":"D. Tsiring,&nbsp;Ya. Sizova","doi":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.048","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.048","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article is devoted to the results of the study on the adherence and identification as components of the organizational culture of the modern university. The empirical data obtained by the authors of the article on to the survey of the employees and students of the university proves that the organizational culture of the modern university has distinctive features in different groups of employees and students, and is characterized by different levels of the adherence and identification. Thus, the high level of the adherence and identification is formed in the clan and adhocratic culture, and the domination of the bureaucratic type of culture is connected with the decrease in the level of organizational adherence and identification.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89222,"journal":{"name":"Procedia, social and behavioral sciences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Pages 665-669"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55110401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Implementation of the Comfortable Investment Environment on the Basis of the Effectiveness Assessment of the Corporation","authors":"I. Kapkaev,&nbsp;D. Sorokin","doi":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.052","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.052","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The issues of formation of corporate control and management have always been at the center of studies by both theorists and representatives of the real sector of economy, which is due to the importance of the corporate sector for the national economy. But on the other hand, the constant interest in the topic is fueled by the contradictions and dualism in theoretical works. The article is proposed as a review paper devoted to the research problems of the efficiency of the corporation's capital concentration, based on the discussion of these problems, the authors plan to develop a universal system of criterion indicators for a comprehensive assessment of the corporation's development results. Since it is impossible to separate the economic and institutional aspects of concentration, the interests of owners and investors in modern conditions, the formation of a universal evaluation system will make comparable the efficiency assessment of corporations of different scales, form of ownership, ownership structure and will answer one of the most important questions about the existence of an objective limit of expediency of further capital concentration. It is new that as the main result of the criterion for managing the capital concentration, the authors suggest harmonization of relations between investors, and in this connection an attempt is made to identify and analyze the contradictions arising between the interests of minority and majority investors in connection with the use of financial resources of corporations. The authors also hope to develop recommendations for the efficiency assessment of capital concentration from the point of view of the minority investor and use the available methods, as well as suggest a number of measures to smooth out the revealed contradictions. The most significant result of the implementation of this method should be an increase in the investment attractiveness of corporations as a result of the formation of the more comfortable investment environment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89222,"journal":{"name":"Procedia, social and behavioral sciences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Pages 697-703"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55110498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cash Flow and Investment Decision: An Application on the Romanian Agriculture Sector","authors":"Matei Tămăşilă ,&nbsp;Şerban Miclea ,&nbsp;Mihaela Vartolomei ,&nbsp;Dan Pascu ,&nbsp;Claudiu Tiberiu Albulescu","doi":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.053","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.053","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper tests the relationship between cash flow and the investment decision of firms from the Romanian agriculture sector. Although the role of cash flow in influencing the investment decision is explained by the financial frictions theory, the investment – cash flow nexus is controversial in empirical investigations. However, only few studies address the bidirectional relationship between the investment decision and the cash flow level. Using a large data set of 739 firms and a panel VAR approach for the period 2006 to 2014, we report a bidirectional causality between investment and cash flow. We find that firm's cash flow positively influences the level of investment in the next period, and we show therefore that the access to liquidity is important for the investment decision. At the same time, investment in fixed assets enhances the cash flow level only for the subsequent period, but it does not generate a series of cash flows as expected. The results are less conclusive if we use investment dynamics instead of investment level in our empirical analysis.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89222,"journal":{"name":"Procedia, social and behavioral sciences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Pages 704-713"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.04.053","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55110510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Managers’ Opinion About Recognizing Neoliberalism in Education in Slovenia","authors":"Aleš Trunk ,&nbsp;Anica Novak Trunk ,&nbsp;Andreja Barle Lakota","doi":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.03.029","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.03.029","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this paper, we presented how schools perceive the introduction of the free market and market mechanisms through deregulation policies and privatisation schemes. We also discussed the consequences and traps of the free market. The research presents how education personnel see changes in education; and how managers versus other school workers understand the free market and what their attitude is towards public education. There are many different perspectives on the position and role of education in society, in particular whether education is a public good and should be protected at all costs or if education should be subject to monitoring and efficient organisation, as advocated by neoliberals. From this research, it is clear that school system employees believe that public education is a public good and should be protected as such. The results also show that school managers (comparing them with other school workers) are the most favorable to the claim that ‘public education is subject to monitoring and efficiently organized’ and to the claim that ‘public education is a public good and therefore has to be protected at all costs’. Education is a relatively large and important part of the public sector, and one of the key problems of modern society is how to find a way to reform positive common social goals which are not only limited to the optimisation of the education system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":89222,"journal":{"name":"Procedia, social and behavioral sciences","volume":"238 ","pages":"Pages 239-248"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/j.sbspro.2018.03.029","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"55109594","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}