In higher education institutions, entrepreneurship learning based on successful entrepreneurial role models may promote education for sustainable development. Several theoretical perspectives, such as the human capital theory, the entrepreneurial self-efficacy and self-determination theory, argue that entrepreneurship education is positively correlated with entrepreneurial intentions of students, as it provides adequate know-how and skills and motivates them to develop their entrepreneurial careers. In entrepreneurship education programmes, exposure to successful entrepreneurial models could be a significant factor for stimulating students’ confidence in their ability to start a business and for improving their attitudes towards entrepreneurship. This study aims (i) to identify characteristics viewed by students as being specific to a successful entrepreneur, (ii) to establish the influence of exposure to successful entrepreneurial role models (chosen by students) during entrepreneurship education classes on student entrepreneurial intentions, and (iii) to assess how such exposure influences the attitudes of students towards entrepreneurship. For this purpose, the authors ran a pilot experiment with 30 graduate students enrolled in a Business Creation course using a research methodology that combined qualitative techniques with quantitative measures. Content and statistical analyses were utilised to examine differences in student entrepreneurial intentions and attitudes towards entrepreneurship after being exposed to successful entrepreneurial models. Our study provides evidence that entrepreneurship education based on successful entrepreneurial role models may positively influence the entrepreneurial attitudes and intentions of students and could lead to higher orientation of student perception towards social benefits of entrepreneurship (new jobs) compared to financial ones (high income). However, our findings stress that if educators want to improve the efficiency of education focused on developing entrepreneurial skills, graduate programmes should be designed differently for business and non-business students, since studying successful entrepreneurial stories impacts these two groups differently.

This article is concerned with the impact of corporate digitalization on the corporate sustainability performance and with barriers and supportive institutional frameworks for corporate digital technology adaptation. Collected from big data sets such as the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI) country reports and the Global Innovation Index (GII), our study draws on data from 29 European countries. A series of multiple linear regressions was run to select the most relevant predictors of corporate digital technology adaptation. The results suggest that Rule of Law, Government Effectiveness and Ease of Starting a Business are the institutional framework pillars that best predict corporate digital technology adaptation levels. Our findings further show that high levels of corporate digital technology adaptation occur where institutional frameworks are well-integrated across several social domains (economy, politics, legal system, etc.). We conclude by highlighting implications for the design of digital policies aiming at a strategic integration of digital technology adaptation and corporate sustainability.

The present paper describes some of the increasingly controversial and debated - at a planetary level - implications and interrelations generated by the "man-environment" binominal, in an attempt to motivate the main causes of environmental degradation. As a natural consequence of the baneful impact of modern world's development has exercise upon the future generations, ambiental ethics is a discipline considered one of the most significant contributions of the 20th century to mankind's general progress. Further on, in a logical approach, we see the modalities of influencing human behaviour towards its transformation into a "respectful" attitude versus the environment, namely by means of legal regulations - that soon became standards and norms of environmental approaching, as well as by economic stimuli specific to the market, thus going beyond the "command and control" procedure. If considering the worldwide orientation of the environmental problems, Romania has demonstrated its preoccupation for the environmental variables and for the economic and social implications they have, adapting its legislation in view of a continuous monitoring of the economy - environment relation, being now in the position of selecting its social, economic and environmental pattern in the times to come.

Organizational performance has become an important issue for public organizations as they face increasing demands to demonstrate that they generate relevant out

Professional literature deals extensively with commitment (management and personal commitment), trust between partners and transparency as critical success factors in collaboration in general and in collaboration among public entities in particular. The State of Israel and the Municipality of Tel Aviv owned seven joint subsidiaries with different holdings in each of the companies. The Israeli government made a decision to sell the State's shares in these companies to the Tel Aviv Municipality. In 2016, a long process, of over eight years of negotiations, between the parties on a commercial basis, came to an end. The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how the implementation of principles of commitment, trust and transparency in practice led to the successful conclusion of the process. The research method was qualitative research, using semi-structured interviews, in the process where involved 12 people.