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• How do the Spanish families face to crisis? The types and consequences of coping strategies

  156-170.

  Virto Lucia Martinez

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  63

  The impact of the crisis in Spain helped to harden the difficulties of a large number of households
  in Spain. Even though these conditions had a widespread impact, it has been more acute in
  families that prior to the crisis were dealing with difficult situations. The main objective of this
  paper is to identify strategies the households developed in order to face these difficulties. The
  results have been selected from a qualitative analysis of 34 excluded household´s life stories. From
  this analysis two interesting results were obtained: On the one hand, households have developed
  prevention and survival strategies. On the other hand, the study identifies the consequences of
  the strategies and their impact in terms of household´s social integration. With all the results,
  the paper invites to reflect on the limits of survival strategies.

• The Earning and cash management characteristics of the roma communities living on the margins of society in Budapest

  110-128

  András Balázs

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  64

  In this essay, I aim to explore the income and cash management characteristics of the roma
  communities living on the margins of society in Budapest. In my research, my main focus was the
  way people are living in the segregated streets of “Magdolna district” reacted to the declining
  opportunities after the economical system change. Another question to be answered is what
  strategies these families and households use to provide the sufficient amount of income, and if
  there is any kind of economical or ’life-management’ community function between them beyond
  the segregation.
  After reviewing the job opportunities, I concentrated on the characteristics of the consumption
  structure. I interviewed them about their costs of living as well as the possible ways of reducing
  their expences. I also tried to examine how the cooperation of extended families effect the
  everyday life of the smaller parts of these families.

• The situation of Hungarian minority households with children in Transcarpatia

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  Noémi Loncsák

  Ibolya Czibere

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  82

  In our study, we present the situation of Hungarian minority households with children in Ukrai-nian villages based on the results of our qualitative and quantitative researches. In the explora-tory research, 23 interviews were made, and in the questionnaire, research data were obtained from a total of 139 households and 253 children. We present the poverty of households with children along the standard of living and the deprivation features of the households. The core of our analysis is the specific labor market situation, the earning opportunities,and forms of employment that provide for livelihoods for the households with children. Beside the backward-ness of the area studied in the research, the strategies and life situations that characterize the Transcarpathian Hungarians are also presented, which are beyond the known European forms of poverty.

• Leadership challenges in virtual environment: The importance of the synergism in ICT toolset and leadership development

  27-48.

  Farkas Eva

  Nagy Levente

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  45

  The companies connected to the global value chain inevitably and necessarily apply virtualized
  solutions in their work organization. As such, the appropriate implementation of the shoring
  strategies, the increasing competition and the supply-demand imbalance on the local market of
  the high-skilled workers, all puts the existing organizational and leadership practices to the test.
  The article aims to highlight the main challenges the virtual team leaders (VTL) are facing and
  some best practices that might widen the toolset of the modern VTL. The results are based on a
  case study of a multinational info-communication technology (ICT) service company in which
  experienced managers and leaders shared their strategies. The main takeaways of the empirical
  research are (i) the emphasis on the “early-adopter” behavior and the proper usage of the latest
  technology in the communication, (ii) the importance of the ability of building trust and setting
  common goals; (iii) despite that everyone is perfectly connected via the internet, the regular
  personal presence is still the most powerful leadership tool.