Ciprian

Member in international research teams (2002) at Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK (workshops, business games, case studies etc.) Studies and research projects development under the supervision of specialists from UK academic and corporate environments. Subjects: strategic costs management strategic cost analysis within the value chains competitive strategies and business performance organizational financial analysis corporate strategy processes elements of strategic marketing decision-making processes in organizations research methods for managers. Elaboration of case studies focused on various aspects of strategic management in organizational as well as business contexts at Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK Initiation of a research project regarding the economics of strategy and the business performance in the competitive business environment while studying as MBA student at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, UK. The first phase of the project was finalised with the MBA dissertation called: A New Strategic Architecture at Matalan plc at Ashcroft International Business School (MBA Program).

I consider that my experience as MBA student at Ashcroft International Business School, Cambridge, UK significantly contributed to the formation of a new mindset. I considered the new mindset as being a set of assumptions concerning those critical success factors that any discipline should carefully address in both theoretical and empirical ways. Any discipline and the science of strategic management particularly should carefully address such issues like the continuing reconsideration of its theoretical and methodological construct. I realized that the mainstream is being influenced by a new so-called "integrated approach" in the science of modern management in which the current economic thoughts are being influenced by a stream of managerial discourses of famous managers (so-called "gurus") from different parts of the world and from various international organizational environments. It is the new way of manifesting the integrated approach on economic as well as managerial thoughts. We are, actually, facing the so-called "managerialism" as one of the most influential factor in the science of management. That is the reason why I started to analyze a wide spectrum of complex and challenging issues as the problematic of structuring different business areas requires a broader perspective within which various levels of business integration along vertical chains should take centre stage on the agenda of managers. A theoretical enquiry into the nature of such complex analysis of business areas should be accompanied by empirical evidence within which such complex pivot concept like the vertical chain would provide theoretical as well as methodological directions for encompassing economic, social and cultural factors in a world confronted with increasing amp

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Experience: 10 years experience of postgraduate teaching in Higher Education in an international academic environment:  2004 – 2008: Lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest, teaching ”Finance for Non-Financial Managers” within the Sociology Master program ”Human Resources Management”  2008 – 2014: Lecturer at UNESCO –Department for Inter-cultural and Inter-religious Exchanges, University of Bucharest, teaching courses in the fields of intercultural management, strategic management and finance and accounting within 2-years English as well as French-taught master programs: Master in Intercultural Management and MBA.

I have initiated a new curriculum area focused on the problematic of vertical boundaries of the firm from a strategic perspective. Launching several websites has laid the foundation for the new research agenda at UNESCO –Department for Inter-cultural and Inter-religious Exchanges within the international master programs (Master in Intercultural Management and Master of Business Administration): 1. Finance and Accounting for Managers (www.finmba.homestead) 2. Competitive Strategies and Business Performance (www.strat.homestead) 3. Leadership and Organizational Culture (www.leadmba.homestead) 4.Theory of Multicultural Management. A Structured Approach. Strategy and Leadership (interculture.homestead)

I supervised many students in the fields of strategic management and theory of intercultural management during my lectureship at UNESCO –Department for Inter-cultural and Interreligious Exchanges

Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy: 11 years experience of research activities in social sciences with a focus on comparative analysis of social policies and welfare regimes in Romania and countries from E.U. I have initiated a research project focused on the new typology of welfare regimes. The last decade of the 20th Century has become a pivotal period in the history of welfare state. The Fall of the Berlin Wall as well as the Revolutions from Central and Eastern Europe have dramatically reconfigured the social conditions of these societies. One of my major concern within this research project is to find out whether the actual theoretical as well as methodological perspectives on the welfare regimes are still valid as sudden and unprecedented societal changes would have had a great impact on the social conditions in this part of the world. It is, actually, a comparative, historical and critical perspective on the theories and methodologies that shaped the doctrine of the modern welfare states in the 20th Century.