Manuela Panaitescu – Danubius University of Galati, Faculty of Economic Sciences, 3 Galati Blvd., Galati, Romania
Keywords: Management;
Decision making;
Participative behavior
Abstract: The main European policy for rural areas is the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). Regarding the involvement of local communities, CAP, through the LEADER program, contributes to the promotion of a community-led local development strategy, supporting development projects initiated at the local level by Local Action Groups. For good functioning and achieving high efficiency, LAGs resort to the implementation of participative management in the organization. In the presented work, we propose to analyze the importance of participative management within an organization of this type – LAG “Eremia Grigorescu 1863” Galati and the contribution to the establishment of new businesses, the promotion of tourism, the creation of jobs, which lead to the sustainable development of rural economy in the South-East Region of Romania. The involvement of the LAG staff in the decision-making process led to the enrichment of the level of culture and professional training of the employees, facilitating the achievement of remarkable results in terms of the association. We used the Multi-criteria Analysis to check the way of making decisions within the Local Action Group.
9th International Scientific ERAZ Conference – ERAZ 2023 – Conference Proceedings: KNOWLEDGE BASED SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, hybrid – online, virtually and in person, Prague, Czech Republic, June 1, 2023
ERAZ Conference Proceedings published by: Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans – Belgrade, Serbia
ERAZ conference partners: Faculty of Logistics, University of Maribor, Maribor (Slovenia); University of National and World Economy – UNWE, Sofia (Bulgaria); Center for Political Research and Documentation (KEPET), Research Laboratory of the Department of Political Science of University of Crete (Greece); Institute of Public Finance – Zagreb (Croatia); Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality Ohrid, University of St. Kliment Ohridski from Bitola (North Macedonia)
ERAZ Conference 2023 Conference Proceedings: ISBN 978-86-80194-72-1, ISSN 2683-5568, DOI: https://doi.org/10.31410/ERAZ.2023
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Panaitescu, M. (2023). Participative Management in the Framework of a Local Action Group. In V. Bevanda (Ed.), ERAZ Conference – Knowlegde Based Sustainable Development: Vol 9. Conference Proceedings (pp. 181-188). Association of Economists and Managers of the Balkans. https://doi.org/10.31410/ERAZ.2023.181
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Additional reading
https://agriculture.ec.europa.eu/common-agricultural-policy_en
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