The Contribution of Professional Associations in Romania to the Prevention of Poverty and Exclusion by Developing Social Businesses. - Part II

• Author: Ioan Constantin Rada - Liliana Doina M?gdoiu - Ioana Carmen Rada
• Position: University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania - University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania - The National Bank of Romania, Bihor county Branch, Romania
• Pages: 41-55

Vol. 3 No. 2

July 2017

ISSN 2410-3918

Acces online at www.iipccl.org

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Academic Journal of Business, Administration, Law and Social Sciences

IIPCCL Publishing, Graz-Austria

The Contribution of Professional Associations in Romania to the Prevention

of Poverty and Exclusion by Developing Social Businesses. - Part II

Ioan Constantin Rada

University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania,

Liliana Doina Măgdoiu

University of Oradea, Oradea, Romania

Ioana Carmen Rada

The National Bank of Romania, Bihor county Branch, Romania

Abstract

Global poverty is neither created by the poor, nor the result of any incapacity associated to

them; instead, it is the outcome of the system built by all the people, the institutions they set

up and the concepts they have formulated. In what follows we don’t want to suggest that

Professional Associations would become philanthropic associations through the establishment

and development of specifi c social economy foundations that concentrate their activity on

poverty issues. Such associations have actually come to witness the problems mentioned above,

namely the di cult situation of former employees from di erent areas; an example in this

respect could be the massive and "the most successful privatization of all time" of oil companies,

in 2004, when, by various subtle (compensatory) means, the new capitalists have fi red more

than 40 thousand people, relegating them and their families to a life of poverty. Private oil

companies have outsourced more services, which subsequently became the property of the

capitalists managing them, at the expense of society, proving their clear interest in gaining

signifi cant profi t. Therefore, Professional Associations in this area might become, among other

things, active organizations within society, assuming a social role, for both their members

from the oil industry and for non-members, for society at large. Professional associations

promote the idea of a new form of capitalism and a new type of company (understood as a

business), based on the generosity of people and defi ned by experts as "social business". The

fundamental purpose: to eliminate the social, economic and environmental problems; reduce

the consequences of many other problems in society, such as hunger, homelessness, disease,

pollution, lack of education, which fi nally lead to national insecurity.

Keywords: Professional associations; poverty; social exclusion; vulnerable groups; social

business; social economy; social entrepreneurship, a new form of Capitalism.

Gathering evidence

For this study, we have gathered evidence from: documents, archives, best practices,

direct observation, participant observation. Our a ention is focused on each source in

particular, respecting the principles of priority: "a.) multiple sources of evidence (two

or more sources that converge towards the same fi ndings); b.) a database (it refers to

the evidence collected, not to the fi nal report of the study); c.) a logical succession of

evidence (explicit links between the data collected, the questions and the conclusions

reached) "(Yin, 2005, p.122).