
Claudia TucleaBucharest University of Economic Studies | ASE · Department of Tourism and Geography
Claudia Tuclea
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of Merits, entitled “Strategic Human Resource Management: Transforming Organizations for Competitive Advantage”. It focuses on the critical role of strategic human resource management (SHRM) in shaping organizational success and resilience in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) environment.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/merits/special_issues/2Z23VYS61H
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We are pleased to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue of Merits, entitled “Strategic #HumanResourceManagement: Transforming Organizations for Competitive Advantage”.
It focuses on the critical role of strategic human resource management (#SHRM) in shaping #organizational success and resilience in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex an...
This study examines the factors that lead students to consider or avoid a career in sales, focusing on behaviors and preferences during the transition period following the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Conducted in 2021, the study captures how the pandemic has changed traditional aspects of sales work, such as face-to-face interaction, and explore...
This paper examines the determinants of the entrepreneurial intention of business students in a specific crisis context, respectively the COVID-19 pandemic. One aim of this study was to evaluate whether the negative feelings associated with a crisis, in our case the fear of COVID-19 impacts the entrepreneurial intention, among other factors. To the...
This study aimed to evaluate the influence of job satisfaction and satisfaction with the organization on individual needs to use the Internet at work for non-work-related reasons. In addition, this study envisages a typology of employees based on cyberloafing behavior. To fulfil the research purpose, an online survey was conducted on a sample of 31...
This paper attempts to empirically investigate the main variables that might exert a significant influence over the green purchase decisions of a Romanian consumer. An online survey was conducted on a sample of 915 individuals. The objectives of the study aim to evaluate the influence of different types of variables (related to the person, the envi...
City life has become the norm for most of the global population and building sustainable cities is a growing trend, together with an increased focus on healthier lifestyles in urban settings. Given this framework, the concept of ‘rurbanization’ is gaining momentum as more and more people are interested in bringing natural green spaces within the ur...
This research aims at identifying the role of social media in evaluating the attractiveness of a tourism destination, with special emphasis on the health safety of the destination. Consistent with this objective, a survey has been carried out on a sample of 675 Romanian social media users. The research results led to the development of a model base...
Price represents a source of information customers may rely on in the buying decision
making process. The literature in this area shows that on the Internet, the process of searching for price information is more complex than on traditional stores, being influenced by various factors. This paper aims to identify and describe the relations between...
This chapter analyses the significance that tourists, on the one hand, and the business environment, on the other hand, lend to the concept of sustainable development in tourism. Starting from this point, the chapter highlights the characteristics of the sustainable development of tourism in the coastal areas of Black Sea. Sustainable development h...
This research aims to evaluate the individual and social implications of telework, along with the foreseeable permanent result that could be generated. Consistent with this objective, a survey has been carried out on a sample of 1180 Romanian employees, on which a model has been developed, based on structural equation modelling. The model includes...
This study focuses on analysing the perceptions of pricing tactics the hotels from Romania use, and also on the degree of influence these perceptions have on buying intentions. Given the importance of perceived fairness, it is essential to understand the major factors that influence customers' perception of the fairness of prices set by revenue man...
Green marketing is falling into the category of answers provided by the business world to the requirement to combine the economic development with the preservation of natural resources which represents a pressing concern of the modern times. In this context, the hospitality sector is facing as well an increasing pressure to pay attention to environ...
In a dynamic business environment, implementing innovative commercial technologies
facilitates the winning of new competitive advantages in the retail industry, given the
manifested influence on consumer buying behaviour towards commercial units, as well as
the significant contribution to the development of modern shops image. This paper presents
t...
The business incubators are entities that provide support to start-up companies, managing
the obstacles faced by entrepreneurs and facilitating the hazardous process of business
creation. This article aims to identify the existing views on best practices that can
contribute to the achieving of business incubators’ objectives. Moreover, the present...
The present study aims at identifying some dimensions of deviant workplace behavior, for this purpose being conducted a survey in small and medium-sized enterprises in Bucharest. In structuring the objectives of this research, the starting point was a typology of deviant workplace behavior drawn from the literature review.
Study findings showed tha...
The purpose of this paper is to explore the strategic behavior of travel agencies in Romania and their strategy development process before and during the current economic crisis.
Using 88 in-depth interviews with Romanian managers of travel agencies of different sizes, we pursued the understanding the extent to which they use strategic management,...
Retailers` social responsibility is treated in the literature in association with such topics as trade justice, ethics, or fairness. The concept can be defined according to various dimensions, involving characteristics such as quality products, price fairness, honesty, and ethical interactions with consumers. This paper aims to evaluate students' a...
Retailers' social responsibility is treated in the literature in association with such topics as trade justice, ethics, or fairness. The concept can be defined according to various dimensions, involving characteristics such as quality products, price fairness, honesty, and ethical interactions with consumers. This paper aims to evaluate students' a...
The individual career, defined by all positions, strategies and changes that occurr in a lifetime, depends heavily on educational and social experiences that are preceding it or accompaning it. Career planning is particularly important for both the individual and the organization. A realistic career plan makes the individual perceive opportunities...
Quality in tourism-related services, like in services in general, is basically about balancing customer perceptions andexpectations. Successful service providers are able to meet and, whenever possible, exceed consumers' needs andwants.For a tourist destination, IQM can be seen as a systematic quest for internal quality and external quality, i.e.ec...
Place in sustainable tourism is given the role of this activity. Tourism is one of the industries that must be involved in sustainable development as an industry of resources, dependent on the natural and human potential, cultural heritage of society. Is essential for tourism to be active in sustainable development issues and to cooperate with othe...
There is now an increasing trend of mundane and fashionable world to live together in with the environment, to spend more time in nature, to be closer to all that is unpolluted, peaceful and less known. Tourists requiring nature holidays in rural areas are becoming more and more. Ecotourism in the countryside or in the full nature is increasingly d...
This paper outlines the correlation between the power of film (both movies and television series) as a
motivational and image-making tool and the attractiveness of tourism destinations. In the light of this
relationship, our research analyses the phenomenon of film-induced tourism. Even this phenomenon has been recognized and reported, very few com...
This volume contains a selection of articles from epistemology and economics presented during the international conference "The Limits of the Knowledge Society". The conference was organized in Iasi, the 6th-9th of October by the Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch and the "Gheorghe Zane" Institute of Social and Economic Research in the project "The Know...
It becomes increasingly clear that, to have a long term activity and to be accepted on a
market, is imperative for companies to consider not only economic issues, but also the environment and society. There are many opinions of experts on the costs of social responsibility. Many managers wish only to maximize their current profits, without having a...
Place in sustainable tourism is given the role of this activity. Tourism is one of the industries that must be involved in sustainable development as an industry of resources, dependent on the natural and human potential, cultural heritage of society. Is essential for tourism to be active in sustainable development issues and to cooperate with othe...
There is now an increasing trend of mundane and fashionable world to live together in with the environment, to spend more time in nature, to be closer to all that is unpolluted, peaceful and less known. Tourists requiring nature holidays in rural areas are becoming more and more. Ecotourism in the countryside or in the full nature is increasingly d...
A wave of “greening” has affected markets all over due to an increased environmental awareness which has been reflected in tourism as ‘eco’-tourism products. Romania has the potential to be a prime player in this newly emerged ecotourism market. A long coastline, Danube Delta, panoramic hinterlands, the mighty Carpathians to undiscovered vistas and...
Our interest is focused on an important sector of the national economy: the hospitality industry. The paper is the result of a careful analysis of the literature and of a field research. According to the answers of hotels' managers, competitiveness is based mainly on service quality and cost control. The analyses of questionnaires and dedicated lit...
In the tourism activity, the cultural impact is very significant. The national cultural values generate the tourist or employee behaviour , but also the organizational values can influence this behaviour . And finally, the regional culture could be the main travel motivation. The tourism behaviour is under the influence of cultural and moral values...
In the present globalized world, the existence of a metropolis implies the presence of international activities within that area. Bucharest has significantly evolved from the small village founded by a shepherd many years ago to the metropolitan area it is today. Is Bucharest ready to assume its role as a metropolis? Are there any differences betwe...
L’étude de la culture des organisations connaît une ampleur croissante qui va de pair avec le développement des sociétés transnationales. Dans les conditions de l’internationalisation et du mix culturel on rencontre de telles études dans le domaine du tourisme international et aussi dans celui de Roumanie. Apres une incursion dans quelques études d...
This paper presents the conclusions of a quantitative research aiming to identify a relationship between the coordinates of the organizational culture in Romania (investigated with Hofstede’s model) and the individual and organizational performance. The research tries to validate the hypothesis according to which the Romanian cultural model is stil...
In this paper is presented one of the important sectors of the nationaleconomy, at least from its potential for development perspective: thehospitality industry. The research interest is related to finding out the mainfactors of competitiveness in this field. This research attempts to identify theessential aspects of competitiveness in the hospital...
Exercitii, studii de caz
The traditional companies are built on familiar bedrock of buildings, plants, and inventories. Competitive advantage is viewed in terms of scale and volume stemming from high-capacity use of machine-based factories. Such an approach fails to recognize how the leverage of knowledge is becoming a key to long-term success. Nowadays, organizations must...
The present paper has as an objective the concise analysis of the tendencies we could identify regarding the E-commerce in Romania. These tendencies have been identified after a research, analysing the secondary sources of information we can find in Romania. Starting from the hypothesis that in Romania, on line shopping is at the border between nec...
Romanian enterprises can use an easy handled and legal instrument with the purpose to influence public power in law’s elaboration and application. As a strategy, lobby must be, first of all, an ethical activity. In the present international environment, lobby becomes a useful weapon for Romanian enterprises if they want to survive in the strong bat...
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I would like to know the academic community's opinion regarding the professional evaluation criteria of the professors in the universities. What are the most appropriate criteria to accurately reflect the nature and the role of their activity? Is the exclusive evaluation based only on the number of articles published in journals with high AIS and on the number of citations a suitable option?