The education skills trap in a dependent market economy. Romania’s case in the 2000s

Tarlea, Silvana; Freyberg‐Inan, Annette

doi:10.1016/j.postcomstud.2018.01.003

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“…All advanced political systems, including the EU, find it helpful to remove some parts of the policy-making process from the direct control of the representative political level, and place it in the hands of experts and technicians. 1 This may happen for a number of reasons, such as the need to make wellinformed and effective choices in complex policy areas, or the desire to insulate certain decisions from the short-termist temptations of elected politicians (Pettit, 2004;Tarlea, 2018;Tarlea & Freyberg-Inan, 2018;Vibert, 2007). Whatever the rationale for delegating, in a well-functioning democratic system the role of experts must always remain in a midway position between zero and total autonomy vis-à-vis the political sphere.…”

Section: Technocracy and Bargainingmentioning

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The power of expertise: gauging technocracy in EMU reform negotiations

Tortola

Tarlea

2020

Journal of European Public Policy

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Is the European Union a technocracy? Observers and practitioners of EU politics have debated this deceptively simple question for decades, without arriving at a clear answer. To a large extent, this is due to the elusive nature of technocracy itself, a phenomenon that is hard to define with precision, and even harder to measure empirically. To tackle this problem, the article presents a novel approach to technocracy in the EU based on the study of bargaining settings, in which political and technical actors interact horizontally and simultaneously -as opposed to sequentially-thus allowing for a better appraisal of the power of experts. Using data gathered by the 'EMU Choices' project, we apply this alternative framework to the analysis of negotiations on the reform of the Economic and Monetary Union over the period 2010-15, focusing on the role of two institutional actors: the European Central Bank and the European Commission. While we find some evidence for technocracy in EMU negotiations, this has been mostly at the hands of the hybrid Commission rather than the quintessentially technical ECB. This suggests both caution in dismissing the EU as hopelessly technocratic, and the need for further research on the nature of the Commission.

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Section: Technocracy and Bargainingmentioning

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The power of expertise: gauging technocracy in EMU reform negotiations

Tortola

Tarlea

2020

Journal of European Public Policy

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“…The resulting economic trend materialized under what certain authors (Nolke and Vliegenthart, 2009;Tarlea and Freyberg-Inan, 2018) have called a 'dependent market economy' of the neoliberal type, similar to the Baltic States (Bohle and Greskovits, 2012), consisting of a more radical market-oriented economy with reduced social implications. Romania is an outsourcing and offshoring site mainly for German and Austrian capital (Marin, 2006).…”

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Transnational transfer of lean production to a dependent market economy: The case of a French-owned subsidiary in Romania

Mihaly

2021

European Journal of Industrial Relations

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This article addresses the implementation of lean production techniques in the Romanian subsidiary of a second-tier automotive supplier. Given the liberal institutional environment of the host country, the company anticipated a smooth transfer of lean production practices. However, the findings show that a host country’s economic dependence can be detrimental to the transfer of practices from the home country. The combination of low-complexity production and work intensification led to depressed employee motivation and frequent conflicts. These can be attributed to a mismatch between work organization and national economic profile, which suggests incompatibility between low-wage, low-complexity strategies and Japanese organizational models.

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“…According to Tarlea and Freyberg-Inan (2018), in Romania, higher education is oriented towards providing low and medium quality education, while the economy is oriented towards the production of industrial goods and services that require small and medium skills. In short, Romania is rooted in a low balance of abilities.…”

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Present and perspectives of the intellectual capital management in Romanian university environment

Tonis

Braicu

2019

Ind. Jour. Manag. & Prod.

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The theory of organizational learning seems to be practical when researchers can find connections between two or more variables that can be justified and implemented. The term “intellectual capital” has appreciated over time acquiring a growing value. Work based on sustained learning contributes to the development of the intellectual capital not only of the employers, but also of the universities. In the current period of “knowledge economy” and “corporate university” development, the creation and evaluation of knowledge are recognized as important and necessary to be included in the educational programs. Knowledge management regards tacit and explicit knowledge. During the theoretical training, students mainly access information in written or verbal format, transmitted mainly on the teacher-student communication channel. During practical activities and mutual interactions, students agree to the informal knowledge, highly sought after by employers. In this paper, we will deal mainly with the ways of coding the information of statistical interest, which will be subject to a meta-level coding at the programming languages level, applicable to the analysis of the central trend and the shape of the data series distribution by estimating the parameters of the regression equation. According to the analysis, it results that in the absence of some measures to stimulate birth rate or attract foreign students, the Romanian higher education will register a considerable decline compared to the reference period in terms of the number of enrolled students.

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The education skills trap in a dependent market economy. Romania’s case in the 2000s

Cited by 11 publications

References 21 publications

The power of expertise: gauging technocracy in EMU reform negotiations

The power of expertise: gauging technocracy in EMU reform negotiations

Transnational transfer of lean production to a dependent market economy: The case of a French-owned subsidiary in Romania

Present and perspectives of the intellectual capital management in Romanian university environment

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