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2011 Issue 1 UNIVERSITY OF PITE ŞTI Faculty of Economic Sciences SCIENTIFIC BULLETIN - ECONOMIC SCIENCES - (BULETIN ŞTIINłIFIC - SERIA ŞTIINłE ECONOMICE) Volume 10 / Issue 1 PITE ŞTI - 2011 ISSN: 1583 – 1809 Scientific Bulletin – Economic Sciences Volume 10 /Issue 1 CONTENTS 1. THE HOLISTIC CONCEPTS OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL COHESION - STATISTICS AND METHOD .......................................................................................................... 3 Gheorghe S ĂVOIU............................................................................................................................... 3 2. THE [GREEK] CRISIS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED.......................................... 20 Nikitas-Spiros KOUTSOUKIS, Spyros ROUKANAS....................................................................... 20 3. GREEK BANKS IN THE BALKAN COUNTRIES: CONCLUSION DERIVED FROM THE ANALYSIS OF THEIR BALANCE SHEETS ............................................................................... 28 Chouliaras VASILIOS, Bogas CHRISTOS G. ................................................................................... 28 4. TEMPORARY EMPLOYMENT IN RUSSIA: WHY MOSTLY MEN? .................................... 42 Tatiana KARABCHUK....................................................................................................................... 42 5. THE SOCIAL CAPITAL AS BASIS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF THE HUMAN CAPITAL . 61 Mladen Dimitrov TONEV, Jordanka Angelova STOJANOVA ......................................................... 61 6. OPTIMIZATION MODELS OF RAIL TRANSPORTATION UNDER THE FINANCIAL CRISIS ............................................................................................................................................... 72 Gheorghe-Stelian B ĂLAN, Mariana B ĂLAN.................................................................................... 72 7. DOMESTIC INSURERS IN POLAND AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS ....................................... 81 Marietta JANOWICZ-LOMOTT and Krzysztof ŁYSKAWA............................................................ 81 8. THE IMPACT OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY (CSR) POLICIES ON PERCEPTIONS AND BEHAVIORAL INTENSION OF GREEK CONSUMERS................... 93 Dimitrios PAPADOPOULOS, Efstathios DIMITRIADIS, Dimitrios CHATZOUDES and Olga ANDREADOU ................................................................................................................................... 93 9. MARKET ORIENTATION AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: STRATEGIC AND STRUCTURAL ISSUES FOR THE AGRIBUSINESS SECTOR IN BALKANS.................... 103 Katarachia ANDRONIKI, Konstantinidis ANASTASIOS............................................................... 103 10. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AS AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION TOOLS .................................................................................................................... 114 Anatoli MARANTIDOU, Anastasios MICHAILIDIS and Afroditi PAPADAKI-KLAVDIANOU 114 11. BROADBAND RANKING OF REGIONS AND ITS METHODOLOGICAL BASIS ............ 126 Szilvia BOTOS.................................................................................................................................. 126 12. DATA MINING IN MEDICAL RECORDS FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF STRATEGIC DECISIONS: A CASE STUDY ..................................................................................................... 136 Yilmaz GOKSEN, Mete EMINAGAOGLU and Onur DOGAN...................................................... 136 13. THE FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS USED BY INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS (IFIs) REGARDING THE SOUTHEAST EUROPEAN COUNTRIES: A CRITICAL ASSESSMENT OF THEIR UNDERLYING PHILOSOPHY AND ORIENTATION .................................................................................................................... 146 Maria-Eleni VOUTSA ...................................................................................................................... 146 14. PROPOSALS FOR ADAPTATION TO NEW ECONOMIC CHANGE THROUGH THE PROMOTION AND SELECTION OF HOLIDAY VILLAGES IN ROMANIA..................... 167 Florentina MIU.................................................................................................................................. 167 1 Scientific Bulletin – Economic Sciences Volume 10/ Issue 1 Scientific Committee Editorial Board • Professor Gheorghe BARBU - Ph.D., Professor Constantin DRĂGHICI - Ph.D., Rector of University of Pitesti Dean of Economic Science Faculty (MANAGING EDITOR) • Professor Woodrow H. Sears, Ed.D. College of Social Sciences, Vilnius, Professor Anastasios KARASAVVOGLOU Lithuania – Ph.D., Kavala Institute of Technology, School of Business and Economics, • Professor Marta Christina SUCIU - Greece (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) Ph.D., Academy of Economic Studies, Bucharest Professor Vasilica CIUCĂ - Ph.D., General Manager of INCSMPS, Bucharest • Professor Constanta IACOB - Ph.D., (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) Faculty of Economics, University of Craiova Professor Rodica Milena ZAHARIA – • Professor Stavros VALSAMIDIS - Ph.D., Ph.D., Academy of Economic Studies, Kavala Institute of Technology, Greece Bucharest (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) • Professor Pavlos DELIAS – Ph.D., Professor Ion LUNGU – Ph.D., Academy Kavala Institute of Technology, Greece of Economic Studies, Bucharest • Professor Mihaela DIACONU – Ph.D., Professor Filon TODEROIU - Ph. D., Economic Science Faculty, University Scientific Manager of IEA (ASSOCIATE of Pitesti EDITOR) • Professor Marian POPESCU - Ph.D., Assistant Professor Violeta DOMANOVIC Economic Science Faculty, University (TERZIC) - Ph.D., Faculty of Economics, of Pitesti University of Kragujevac, Serbia • Associate Professor Magda (ASSOCIATE EDITOR) RADULESCU - Ph.D., Economic Science Professor Emilia UNGUREANU - Ph.D., Faculty, University of Pitesti Economic Science Faculty, University of • Associate Professor Dorulet Pitesti (EDITOR) GRADINARU - Ph.D., Economic Science Associate Professor Claudia BURTESCU Faculty, University of Pitesti – Ph.D., Economic Science Faculty, • Associate Professor Gheorghe SĂVOIU University of Pitesti (EDITOR) • Assistant Professor Gherghina DRILA – Associate Professor Victoria FIRESCU - Ph.D., University of Pitesti (EDITOR) Ph.D., Economic Science Faculty, University of Pitesti (EDITOR) • Assistant Professor Daniela Melania MIHAI – Ph.D., Economic Science Associate Professor Emil BURTESCU – Faculty, University of Pitesti Ph.D., Economic Science Faculty, • Assistant Professor Tiberiu University of Pitesti (EDITOR) AVRAMESCU - Ph.D., Economic EDITOR-IN-CHIEF - Associate Professor Science Faculty, University of Pitesti Logica BĂNICĂ - Ph.D., Economic Science Faculty, University of Pitesti EDITORIAL SECRETARY - Assistant Professor Ramona POPESCU - Ph.D., Economic Science Faculty, University of Pitesti EDITORIAL SECRETARY - Assist. PhD Student Alina HAGIU - Economic Science Faculty, University of Pitesti 2 Scientific Bulletin – Economic Sciences, Volume 10 /Issue 1 THE HOLISTIC CONCEPTS OF DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND SOCIAL COHESION - STATISTICS AND METHOD Gheorghe S ĂVOIU 1 University of Pitesti, Faculty of Economic Sciences [email protected] Abstract : The paper uses a multidisciplinary approach to underline the importance of some holistic concepts like social cohesion and human ecology, and also to assess environmental and economic specificity of these new ecological and social terms. The structure of the paper consists of an introduction describing the transition from mythological existence to the contemporary holistic view and four sections. While, the first section details the vital elements of the ecosphere in the new holistic sense, the second describes the holistic concept of human ecology, and the third details the significance, importance and impact of the contemporary management disasters and some global statistics. The last section summarize a statistical method known as the social cohesion evaluation, applied by the author in our country, during Romania’s admission period to EU, that in conjunction with holistic concept of human ecology represent new necessary analysis in this decade. Some final remarks underline the importance of a new approach in economics based on holistic principle and reciprocity. Keywords: ecology; human ecology; disaster management; social cohesion . Jel Classification Code: I32, O15, Q54, Q56, Z13 1. INTRODUCTION Human nature and its organic thought have their economy, which cannot be ignored otherwise than at the expense of vitality and life on earth. Every civilization has its own kind of culture and its own unique conscience in human evolution. In fact, human history is nothing more than a long repertoire of significantly different combinations between culture and consciousness, redefined by today’s systemic, integrating approach, so necessary for salvaging nature, the environment, the ecosphere and, above all, our own human nature. This long journey of thinking, of searching, sometimes sprinkled with moments of real understanding of the real position of humanity within the context of the environment (the ecosphere), is also a long oscillation between surviving and disappearing. The history of humanity errors and discoveries reveals that even our great-great-forefathers, or maybe the first inhabitants of the planet, may have perfected a certain form of culture and a particular form of social order, with the periodic transitions in the relations between them, and their relations with nature of being accompanied by a corresponding change produced in
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