Claudiu George Bocean

University of Craiova · Department of Management, Marketing and Business Administration

In the contemporary digital era, emerging digital technologies are rapidly transforming society and the economy, offering considerable potential for addressing global challenges tied to sustainable development. This study investigates the influence of key digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing, the Intern...

Background: Maintaining a physically active lifestyle is a determinant factor of a healthy life and personal happiness. Meanwhile, physical inactivity remains a significant issue, resulting in negative consequences for public health. Objectives: This paper investigates the relationships between physical activity, physical inactivity, a healthy life...

In today’s competitive and globalized world, innovation is essential for organizational survival, offering a means for companies to address environmental impacts and social challenges. As innovation processes accelerate, managers need to rethink the entire value-creation chain, with digital transformation emerging as a continuous process of organiz...

In an era characterized by rapid changes and uncertainty, organizational resilience emerges as a critical factor for the survival and prosperity of businesses. Confronted with a progressively volatile and unpredictable organizational landscape, an organization’s capacity to swiftly and effectively address challenges and adapt to changes becomes ind...

In today’s landscape, digital technologies hold immense potential in tackling challenges associated with food sustainability. This study aims to contextualize a broader investigation of food sustainability and digitalization within the agricultural sector. Its objective is to explore the influence of digital technologies on sustainable food product...

Amidst the rapid evolution of digital technologies and their prospective implications for agricultural productivity, farmers are increasingly turning to Agriculture 4.0. As digitization permeates every facet of agriculture, the potential for boosting productivity while ensuring sustainability and resilience becomes increasingly tangible. The object...

Introduction Health status and access to healthcare services are crucial factors that directly impact the well-being of individuals and societies. In the European Union (EU), social protection measures are significant in supporting citizens’ health and providing access to healthcare resources. Methods This study investigates the relationship betwe...

Digital transformation generates challenges and opportunities at the individual and organizational levels. Implementing digital technologies impacts all countries’ economic growth and orientation toward sustainability. This paper aims to evaluate the effects of digital transformation on the economic performance and sustainability of European Union...

The growing concern for environmental sustainability drives efforts toward balancing economic growth with responsible resource management. Forests represent invaluable green assets central to combating climate change and supporting biodiversity. This research investigates the intricate interaction between forest resources and economic and green per...

In recent decades, digital transformation and sustainability have become two crucial aspects of economic and social development in the European Union (EU), improving government tax collection and other government incomes. This paper investigates the interplay between digital transformation and sustainability and their impact on total general govern...

The concept of work–life balance derives from the vision that professional life and personal life are two elements that balance each other synergistically in the development of an individual. Work–life balance can positively and negatively influence employees’ performance through employee satisfaction. Using the structural equation modeling (SEM) m...

The role of human resources as a change agent in the organizational change process holds great importance. Hence, it is crucial to identify ways human resources can support change. This paper investigates the direct and indirect relationships between human resource management (HRM) practices and organizational performance, as well as the mediating...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a progressively significant issue for organizations and governments. To benefit from a good reputation that reflects on organizational performance, organizations must ensure the balance between stakeholders’ needs. This paper studies the direct and indirect effects of CSR on organizational financial performa...

Sustainability and digital transformation are two phenomena influencing the activities of all organizations. Managerial accounting is an essential component of these transformations, having complex roles in decision-making to ensure sustainable development through implementing modern technologies in the accounting process. This paper studies the ro...

Organizations do not function in isolation in society. On the part of society, it is expected that organizations will work in the interest of society and have a sense of obligation to it, to be concerned with solving the problems they have caused. Therefore, the organization should have ethical standards and practice a solid organizational culture...

The exponential trend of digital technologies, doubled by the mobility restrictions imposed during the COVID-19 pandemic, caused a paradigm shift in traditional economic models. Digital transformation has become increasingly common in all types of organizations and affects all activities. Organizations have adopted digital technologies to increase...

Digital technologies affect all areas and activities of society. Accounting is no exception to this trend, as organizational information system accounting increasingly integrates digital technologies. The paper aims to study the integration of ethical requirements with the quality requirements in implementing digital technologies based on artificia...

Social responsibility (SR) is a concept or practice by which organizations take into account the interest of society by taking responsibility for the impact of their activities on all stakeholders. The SR of organizations implies ethical behavior concerning all stakeholders and a company’s commitment to the sustainable economic development of socie...

Employees' engagement (EE) and well-being (WB) are considered two interesting issues by many scientific researchers and practitioners within organizations. Most research confirms a positive correlation between EE and WB. EE is an essential premise for specific dimensions of employees' WB. At the same time, satisfied and physically and mentally heal...

To cope with an increasingly competitive and turbulent environment caused by economic, health, and political crises, companies need to adopt innovative management accounting tools to meet challenges, increase economic performance and ensure organizational sustainability. This paper aims to study the impact of using innovative management accounting...

E-commerce has gained momentum with the rapid development of technology, and nowadays, we are permanently connected, with constant access to information and a wide range of products. Not only does a desktop computer offer us this possibility, but the latest-generation tablets and mobile phones create a broad framework. This paper investigates Roman...

Healthcare managers consider the rewards and performances of employees as central elements of their activities due to the challenges caused by the phenomenon of healthcare employees’ emigrating to higher-income countries, which has reduced patient satisfaction and led to a negative image of hospitals. In this context, this paper analyzes how employ...

The physical distancing measures generated by the COVID-19 pandemic have forced companies to rethink employment patterns and to pay much more attention to the possibility of carrying out work through telework. The expansion of telework, a phenomenon that manifested itself even before the pandemic’s health crisis, has gained a particular momentum, c...

The last decades have seen continuous increases in electronic commerce (e-commerce) and particularly mobile commerce (m-commerce). These sharp increases, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, have led companies to become aware of the potential of this trade channel. This paper investigates the effects of antecedents on behavioral intention in m-...

The COVID-19 health and economic crisis has affected all areas of social life globally, including the economy. The world economy has declined due to purchasing power for individuals who have been forced to stay at home and cannot perform work. These restrictions to prevent the spread of SARS-Cov-2 have led to an increase in electronic commerce and...

Electric vehicles (E.V.) are one of the feasible solutions to address the challenges of sustainable development that require particular attention, such as climate change, depletion of fossil fuel reserves, and greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to the environmental benefits of electric vehicles, they can also be used as a storage system to allev...

The pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus (COVID-19) has significantly affected the tourism industry. Tourist destinations have adopted emergency measures and restrictions that have affected the mobility of individuals around the world. Beaches and resorts were empty, cities were deserted, people’s movements were stopped, and travel among differe...

Concepts of ethical behavior and corporate social responsibility have emerged in recent years due to organizations’ increasing ethical problems. Business ethics, social responsibility, and corporate governance are significant drivers for organizational performance, growth, and sustainable development (SD). In this paper, we propose an original tool...

In terms of sustainability, traditional disclosure does not provide the necessary information to all stakeholders, mainly addressing the company’s shareholders’ expectations. As a result, organisations need to disclose more non-financial information, which implies social and environmental issues. Many organisations currently provide sustainability...

At present, the educational system faces a number of challenges generated by phenomena such as globalization, digital technology expansion, sustainability, diversity, and the need for strong ethical standards. Educational institutions around the world are aware that training a quality and talented human resource for the labor market is no longer en...

An organization cannot cultivate and develop an ethical culture unless it has obtained adequate financial results from the point of view of the indicators that characterize profit and rentability. Organizations with larger resources - regardless of the size of their staff, have the means to exercise their social responsibility while serving their c...

Food safety policies have gained considerable importance in recent years, food safety being one of the indicators that illustrates the standard of living and quality of life within a nation state. In order to assess food security, we analyzed the Global Food Security Index (GFSI) that, economically, is based on GDP, degree of poverty and agricultur...

Today, people live in a society that increasingly raises the matter for businesses to get involve in economic and social models of sustainability.

At present, education faces the growing challenges of tense budgets, teacher retention, and the increasingly specialized needs of the labor market. Educational institutions around the world are aware that providing a quality and talented workforce is no longer sufficient to differentiate themselves from other education institutions. For educational...

This study analyses the role of leadership on a company’s orientation towards corporate responsibility and sustainability. The case studies of two large companies in different countries (Italy and Romania) led by managers and entrepreneurs with common traits in their sustainable leadership styles emphasize the role of the value-driven and ethical-b...

Consumers are stakeholders of an organization in many ways having a complex dimension. They are primarily ultimate beneficiaries of products and services. Consumers are also members of society interested in environmental issues and fair trade, members of local community (where the organization has its headquarters in the region), can be employed, r...

Currently, the adoption of a specific approach to business activities that highlights the strategic importance of corporate social responsibility hereafter CSR is the most important element influencing the existence and continuity of an organization. Thus, there is not a surprise that universities shall identify, in terms of own activities, the pos...

Today the world is facing rapid changes and economic, social and environmental challenges. In this context, social responsibility, sustainability and business ethics issues are becoming increasingly important, especially in the business sector. Organizations goals cannot be separated from those of the society and the environment they operate in. Th...

Currently, organizations still have not reached full maturity in terms of implementing CSR programs. They continue to address CSR in different ways and focused on different objectives. Despite the fact that many organizations, especially multinationals, have developed and implemented CSR programs, they have not managed to fully integrate them withi...

In times of financial and economic crisis companies face difficulties causing them to review their costs and restructure their activities. This affects also corporate social responsibility programs, both in terms of size and complexity, despite the fact that current economic, social and environmental challenges any society faces are even more prono...

At present, in the least developed countries and in a number of developing countries, one can notice weak public and organizational governance. Economies characterized by weak public and organizational governance are those economies in which governments do not wish or are unable to fulfil their responsibilities. Public authorities do not make effor...

Currently, the adoption of a specific approach to business activities that highlights the strategic importanceof corporate social responsibility hereafter CSR is the most important element influencing the existenceand continuity of an organization. Thus, there is not a surprise that universities shall identify, in termsof own activities, the possib...

Purpose – This paper aims to highlight the links among standardization, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and critical management. It also aims at understanding the implication of the normalization process for CSR but also questions the nature of this concept. Design/methodology/approach – To determine the interest in standardization, we forec...

Miguel Delattre, éditeur invité

Organizations are currently concerned with meeting consumers’ demands and needs by creating products that meet their expectations. Addressing wider issues of consumers’ protection and relying on a detailed research of the latest data from the European Union, our paper analyses and synthesizes ways to reduce consumers’ complaints on products and ser...

Sustainability of an economy can be achieved through socially responsible behavior of companies in both the balanced development of labour and environmental protection as well as in responsible consumption of non-renewable resources. This paper aims to highlight the impact of the implementation of quality management systems on increasing responsibi...

Worldwide corporations, as well as their stakeholders, are more and more conscious of the need for environmental management, SR behaviour, and sustainable growth and development. International standards are becoming more and more significant for corporations to work towards common environmental management practices. ISO 14001 is the first and the b...

Many corporations have recognized the importance of being perceived as socially responsible to the environment, employees or local community. They have worked hard to be labeled as sustainable organizations. Corporate behavior, however, implies a gap between theory and practice. Therefore, we consider it necessary to study how to transform corporat...

As a consequence of globalization, application of new technologies, turbulent economic environment, the uncertainties affecting markets, organizations must cope with ongoing transformational process. In this context, the project-based organization (PBO) emerges as an ideal alternative of organizational structure to deal with the emerging features o...

The paper aims to analyze the evolution of greenhouse gases and the main causative factors in Romania during 1989-2010. Globally, in developed countries demographic trends and economic growth caused an increase in greenhouse gases emissions which led to climate changes. Various studies have provided evidence those changes taking place in terms of g...

This paper grew out of the central issue addressed in Trading Up: Consumer and Environmental Regulation in a Global Economy by David Vogel, namely the impact of economic globalization on consumers’ protection regulations. Reviewing the extensive matter of consumer protection, with a thorough analysis of European Union last issued data, the paper su...

Following the predominance of macroeconomic stabilisation policies and passive policies for alleviate the reform shock in the first phase of transition, active labour market policies (ALMPs) have now come to play a more important role in transition economies. In this paper I present a theoretical and empirical analysis of different types of active...