IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Business Management

15-20

Authors: MADHU MURDIA

Tourism is a movement of people from their native place to another place for holiday leisure, recreation, pleasure, and business purposes etc. as major purpose. It is not necessary that tourist will involve in any remunerative activity but as it is the natural phenomenon the host and guest will come in touch and interact with each other at the destination, this interaction definitely leaves the impression on host culture and community. Due to the impact on social life and culture on host population now a day’s tourism has become an area of social science analyses. The sociological study involves the applied customs, traditions, faith, ceremonies and way of living of a culture of a host community as well as it is also concerned with the social roles of tourist, tourist impact on society, tourist behavior, and factors affects the society norms, beliefs, thoughts and traditions etc. at the destination. This study inspects the impact of international tourist’s behavior and actions on the host population. The study is conceptual in nature and it is based on literature review available on tourism impacts. The primary objective of the study is to accentuate the positive and negative impacts of tourism on the basis of findings and researches available in the form of cultural impacts of tourism at a destination. It also enlightens the ways that how tourism development can be helpful for social and cultural development at a destination and how negative impacts can be minimize at the destination

29-32

Authors: ORTANSAANDREEA STIRBU, EDUARD GABRIEL CEPTUREANU & SEBASTIANION CEPTUREANU

SMEs management practices has so far been studied mainly in large companies (i.e. high-tech and multinational enterprises) because researchers could obtain relatively easy information regarding these processes and could explain easily the peculiarities of it based on case studies . However, in recent years a number of researchers focused on SMEs, because this type of organization account for over 90% of businesses all over the world, and there is a growing need to create sustainable SMEs, then developing and implementing change is highest in making progress towards sustainability. In this paper, we investigate management tools on SMEs from seven different EU countries, in order to better understand the nature of practices and help develop best practices from SMEs on EU. Drawing on a database collected from 72 innovative SMEs, we explore peculiarities and trends on SMEs management instruments, based on data base analysis from 2014-2015. The survey furthermore focuses on the motives and perceived challenges when SMEs adopt new management practices. Within the survey, we split instruments accordingly to management methodology steps. We find that the responding SMEs engage in many managerial practices and have increasingly adopted such practices during the past years. As a limitation of our study, we investigate only medium enterprises, because was difficult to identify a coherent base of change instruments micro and small enterprises. The results are restricted to the sample which is small in size, but generate a good insight into the changes occurring within it. This study is one of the few study in its field to use data from seven different countries in order to analyze management instruments and help to develop a common base of practice