Vol. 6 No. 1 (2015)

We consider that around the Consumer gravitate all the problems concerning any provider (supplyer) or distributor. The actual economic and financial world crisis shown, once more, that the firms have to conceive and develop theirs products and services according to the needs, the preferences and the budgets of the potential consumers. The domain of mobile telephony is the the specific production and service aspect addressed in this paper. Despite the crisis effects, this domain continued its expansion in Romania and not only. The communication is a necessity and the facilities, the devices and the revolutionary new IT technologies are essential in these days for many people, among them the Romanian consumers. The study case is based on the experience of a Romanian company, Vegastel (partner of the corporate entity "O", which has realised remarkable economic and financial results, just by the special attention to the requirements, preferences and financial potential of the clients (individuals or firms). The importance of the domain and its continuing improvement and reshaping entail for the firms in the field, including Vegastel, to permanent adapt the offer and take into account the consumers’ feedback, such that to gain profits and to remain sustainable on the market.

The coffee commodity is one of the highly developing world commodities. The increase in demand, production, and consumption shows that this commodity is no longer as a secondary material, but it also has become a compulsory requirement for most societies. The purpose of this study was to determine and analyze alternative marketing strategies for small-scale processed coffee enterprises in Jember regency based on the SWOT analysis. Moroever it was also to determine appropriate strategies in improving the performance of large-scale processed coffee enterprises in Jember regency based on the SWOT analysis and to design marketing strategies for group and partnership based processed coffee enterprises in Jember regency. The research type is a descriptive study. Primary data was collected by indepth interviews. The research results showed cooperation in the form of a co-branding would indirectly introduce community-based coffee from Sidomulyo village to a wider consumer range. Thus, people will recognize that there is a coffee with a distinctive flavor from the Sidomulyo village in Jember regency. The group-based model is by forming a cooperative and the partnership-based model is by forming simultaneous and integrated partnership with the Koka Research Center, PTPN XII, BI, and exporters have both proven to improve the performance of community-based coffee business in Sidomulyo village.

This study aims to understand the effects governance indicators on the agricultural efficiency using European countries as a tool. It focuses on the efficiency of EU countries together with Turkey. In the first stage Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist Index are used to derive efficiency scores and the Total Productivity Change in time for 24 countries during the study period. A panel data Tobit regression is employed in the second stage to assess the key governance indicators explaining the observed variations in the efficiency levels. Four governance indicators namely, voice and accountability control of corruption, government effectiveness and regulatory quality together with the control variables; agricultural exports, education, research and development expenditures are analyzed in this stage. Findings show that the average efficiency of EU countries was slightly increased during the study period. The impact of voice and accountability, the share of R&D in GDP and the share of food products in exports upon the agricultural efficiency are positive whereas the impacts of the share of GDP allocated to education upon agricultural efficiency is negative.

Socio-economic aspects that occur in urban communities to create activities that are formal and informal that is the dualistic nature of the urban. Formal activities often associated with activities performed by the people in the middle class and above, while the informal nature of activities carried out by community group lower middle class or the marginalized. Urban dualistic also featured in the historical evolution of the modern sector and the traditional sector is dualistic technology. The problems posed by urban dualistic phenomena are often caused by the immaturity of the planning and supervision of construction in all parts of the city where this dualistic condition often develops itself spontaneously, unplanned and illegal. One of the problems arising in connection with the dualistic model of the labor market in the urban informal sector and the use of the term formal sector, street vendors (PKL) is likely to be the type of work that is important and relatively typical in the informal sector. Indonesia experienced economic downturn or economic crisis in 1998 the economic crisis resulted in good economic burden of community, government and private sector so that the towering including private cause limiting the number of employees with layoffs (layoffs). The economic burden society spiraling out of control resulting in the community looking for their own jobs in the informal sector to select, because the government is not able to overcome it with the community to accommodate retrenched workers in the formal sector. Choices made by the society be one with the informal traders as assessed requires little capital and skills. Unwillingness of society in a state of uncertainty, political stability is shaky, the goods of daily needs such as food prices soar resulting purchasing power declined, unemployment increased while time goes on and needs to be bought, then open their own jobs by becoming a trader informal community considered as an appropriate solution, although not necessarily in sales turnover and relatively small, but it can ease the burden of life. Methods Comparative research is a descriptive study. Choices made by the society be one with the informal traders as assessed requires little capital and skills. Unwillingness of society in a state of uncertainty, political stability is shaky, the goods of daily needs such as food prices soar resulting purchasing power declined,increased unemployment while time goes on and needs to be bought, then open review their own jobs by becoming a trader considered as an informal community solution, although not necessarily in sales turnover and relatively small, but it can ease the burden of life. Methods comparative research is a descriptive study. The results showed the characteristics of informal sector traders largely based on the age-old 15-54 years. The level of education pursued most primary and secondary school graduates. Background informal traders most of Informal Traders Become reason.business activities, ranging from early-afternoon (9:00 to 16:00), afternoon-evening (16.00-00,00) and all day (24 hours). Most informal traders do not have the permission to conduct business. The amount of capital 1 - 5 million dollars. Capital sources used are mostly using their own capital.

This paper attempts to demonstrate the relationship between sustainability and vernacular architecture, being focused on a specific research carried out in the old part of Moratalla, a town in Murcia (Spain). This study has been possible thanks to the collection of 265 field records with in situ data so that quality and quantity can be measured. All these are distinctive parameters of vernacular architecture of the centre in the middle ages, what teaches us an important lesson of how traditional construction is environmentally friendly and sustainable, thus leading to more practical bioclimatic architecture. The current study relies on an agreement between the catholic university of Murcia (ucam) and the town council of the aforementioned town (moratalla), what gives an idea of its importance. Some recommendations have been included at the end of the paper to be taken into account by municipal legislation so that our building heritage can be preserved and maintained.

The paper assessed the state of tourism in the slum community of Old Fadama (Sodom and Gomorra) in Accra, Ghana. It goes without saying that Old Fadama vehemently referred to as Sodom and Gomorra is a full embodiment of the characteristics of informal settlements better known as slums. Semi structured questionnaires were administered randomly to 250 dwellers of Sodom and Gomorra. In-depth interviews were purposively held with officials of local Travel and Tour Firms and the regional Office of the National Tourism Authority. Data was analyzed descriptively and thematically. Observing residents’ life style and photograph taking were found as the main tourist activities. Tourism was promoted through security consciousness of residents. Low involvement of residents in tourism affairs/businesses were the major drawbacks to tourism development in the slum. Residents needs to be sensitized to take advantage of their living conditions to establish tourism businesses in the short-term to empower them move to more ‘formal’ settlements of Accra in the near future to decelerate the growth of the notorious slum in Ghana’s capital city.

This study aims to identify and analyze the influence of human resource management, production, marketing, working capital, organization, government policy, and competitor on the financial performance and competitiveness of Small-sized enterprise in Jayapura City. Data collection methods used were observation, interviews, and questionnaires, the number of samples is 258 Small-sized enterprises in Jayapura. Data were analyzed by applying SEM (structural equation modeling analysis method by making use of Amos Software. The results showed that the factors of production and government policy factors affect the financial performance and competitiveness of small-sized enterprise in Jayapura. While human resource management, marketing, organization and competitors factors affect the financial performance of small-sized enterprise in Jayapura, but does not affect the competitiveness of small-sized enterprise in Jayapura and working capital factor does not affect the financial performance of small-sized enterprise in Jayapura but affect the competitiveness of small-sized enterprise in Jayapura. Then the financial performance factor affects the competitiveness of small-sized enterprise in Jayapura.