Elvira Nica

• Professor
• Dean at Bucharest University of Economic Studies

This paper is an argue for considering climate change as a security threat, with all the advantages, disadvantages and implications involved in. Our work provides a condensed scientific explanation of how global warming leads to climate change and extreme weather events, and then frame climate change through both a narrow and broad understanding of...

Research background: In terms of evaluating the financial health and stability of the entire industry, the financial and economic analysis of individual companies is among the most critical. It is a composite of numerous fragmentary components that collectively convey information regarding individual activities. Purpose of the article: The energy i...

Remuneration of road transport drivers has been a hot topic since the EU's enlargement in 2004 when the new Member States strongly influenced the international road freight transport in Western Europe. The market opening to carriers from the new Member States has raised concerns that national carriers will lose their position in the original market...

Energy management in smart cities has gained particular significance in the context of climate change and the evolving geopolitical landscape. It has become a key element of sustainable urban development. In this context, energy management plays a central role in facilitating the growth of smart and sustainable cities. The aim of this article is to...

This study aims to examine the expansion of the electric vehicle fleet in the context of transport electrification in the European Union. We assessed the car market, following demand and sales trends for electric and hybrid cars. It was explored the possibility of a causal relationship among the percentage of BEV + PHEV in the total fleet and purch...

The concept of eco-innovation has become increasingly popular as the industrial industry should move toward sustainability. For businesses to establish core competences in the circular economy model, eco-innovation strategies are crucial components. Academicians are now studying the information behind these corporate decisions, with a growing body...

The purpose of this study is to examine the connection between child mortality in Eastern Europe and ecological footprint, urbanization, education, health expenditure, and industrialization. The study acknowledges the significance of understanding how these factors influence the infant mortality rates in this region from 1993 to 2022. The Grossman...

The article aims to analyse the public procurements in Romanian public sector hospitals in the pandemic year 2021, with the aim of identifying and analysing their particularities compared to the contracts concluded under normal conditions. The information used was extracted from the open data portal data.gov.ro and was processed with SPSS to identi...

In the last decades, an increasing attention has been given to the relationship between job satisfaction and employee motivation in the public sector. In a world of constant change and growing demands, it is crucial for public sector organizations to understand and promote a work environment that supports both employee satisfaction and motivation....

This study investigates the role of Human Resources (HR) strategies and technology integration in enhancing faculty satisfaction and performance at Kuwait's private higher education institutions (HEIs) amidst perceived institutional challenges. It investigates three key factors: technology use in performance evaluation, human resources' role in ada...

Innovation is a critical element in numerous domains, especially when it comes to determining the course of business success via efficient innovation management systems. The objective of this study is to determine which innovation category has the greatest impact on the effectiveness of innovation management by analyzing the correlation of innovati...

Digital transformation has become a desire for states due to its real benefits to society. Public sector employees must prepare professionally to successfully implement digitisation projects of public services. In this context, the issue of digital skills of civil servants is a priority for the public administration. In this study, we performed a c...

Research background: The article explores the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in predictive maintenance (PM) within Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) context. It addresses the increasing importance of leveraging advanced technologies to enhance maintenance practices in industrial settings. Purpose of the article: The primary objectiv...

The influence of artificial intelligence (AI) in smart cities has resulted in enhanced efficiency, accessibility, and improved quality of life. However, this integration has brought forth new challenges, particularly concerning data security and privacy due to the widespread use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. The article aims to provide...

In recent years, the interrelationships between the environment, energy, and health have received a growing amount of attention due to their substantial impact on the health of humans. By examining what influences Eastern Europeans' longevity between 1990 and 2021, this study hopes to contribute to this field of study. Energy consumption, health ex...

Road freight transport is one of the main modes of transporting goods in the European Union. This reality puts pressure on carriers to make every transport of goods fast, safe, cheap, and efficient. Based on these requirements, lorry drivers are often forced by their employers to break the current social legislation in the European Union and the ru...

This paper investigates the relationships between GDP, population, fossil fuel, renewable energy consumption, globalization, research and development (R&D) expenditure, and ecological footprint in 25 European nations from 1990 to 2021. To investigate the environmental impact, the research bridging two famous framework, Environmental Kuznets Curve (...

In recent years the interest in emotional intelligence within scientific literature has grown, but too little has been written about the influence of emotional intelligence within educational systems, especially the relation between emotional intelligence and teachers’ job performance, or emotional intelligence and students’ academic achievement. U...

The aim of innovations in road safety is to contribute to the better protection of road users and to minimize damage to their property. The main objective of this article is to identify disparities in perceptions of a front braking light by examining the road safety of road users based on their type of employment and the number of kilometers driven...

The aim of innovations in road safety is to contribute to better protection of road users and to minimize damage to their property. The main objective of the article is to identify disparities in the perception of an innovation element in road safety by road users based on their type of employment and the number of kilometers driven per year. The r...

Relevant research has investigated how predictive modeling algorithms, deep-learning-based sensing technologies, and big urban data configure immersive hyperconnected virtual spaces in digital twin cities: digital twin modeling tools, monitoring and sensing technologies, and Internet-of-Things-based decision support systems articulate big-data-driv...

The fundamental objective of this research is to learn how trade liberalization, male employment, urbanization, and foreign direct investment (FDI) affect women’s participation in the labor force. To continue, this study aims to determine the effects of trade and other factors on women’s employment in three distinct sectors (i.e., agriculture, indu...

The present research identifies the most relevant motivation factors of the civil servants from the Fiscal Administration of Bucharest, District 1, Romania, but also the ways in which their motivation can be improved. The purpose of this research was achieved by adapting and combining three different instruments used in the literature in order to e...

The purpose of this study is to examine how ChatGPT can assist physicians and patients by inspecting complex datasets and producing personalized treatment recommendations. We contribute to the literature on how ChatGPT produce factually precise and contextually significant structured discussion feedback to elaborate and emerging clinical questions,...

The dynamic loads acting on passengers during road accidents depend not only on the vehicle structure, but also on the properties of the applied passenger and driver protection system. Two-point seat belts are the most frequently used personal protection system for adult passengers in bus vehicles. The paper investigates the thread of dynamic loads...

The aim of our systematic review was to inspect the recently published literature on decentralized governance systems and integrate the insights it articulates on blockchain technology and smart contracts by employing Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-analysis (PRISMA) guidelines. Throughout January and May 2022, a quantitat...

Over the past two decades, research on public service motivation and civil servants’ performance has been developed continuously. This article examines the key aspects of the literature on public service motivation and performance of the public sector. Research on this subject shows that public service motivation has a great impact on individual an...

The present paper deals with burnout as a challenge of our modern business world, given the phenomenon of heavy work investment in our society. The present article is emphasizing the strong connection between business, psychology, and medicine when dealing with people working in a modern, international business environment. The research methods are...

This paper provides a systematic literature review of studies investigating autonomous driving technologies, lane detection algorithms, and adaptive and dynamic route planning tools. The analysis highlights that autonomous driving perception algorithms require multi-object detection and tracking tools, big geospatial data analytics, and cloud and e...

Developments in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have led to major changes in public administration in all democratic states. The fact that information can be made public and accessible from anywhere, at any time, requires a new approach to the process of computerization of public administration. The objective of the research was to k...

There is not enough research on decision-making and management process of organizations that do not make a profit. Economists should include healthy companies, as well as sick ones, the same way doctors do. Decisions that are rational or legitimate to the point of view of the parties, but which are incomprehensible to the point of view of the third...

The article deals with the issue of identifying the impact of parking policy on the economy of road transport focusing on the conditions of the European Union. The aim of the article is to identify the impact of insufficient parking and the impact of EU social policy governing the work of drivers on the economy of the road transport sector. In term...

The present article focuses on the use of information technology in education in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, analyzing the sustainability of online learning methods, as reflected in students’ attitude towards the researched topic. The paper aims to raise awareness about the importance of sustainability in education, despite challenges and...

Over the last 30 years, the competition in road transport has increased significantly. For a transport company to maintain its position in the road freight transport market, the knowledge of the accurate costs arising from the transportation process is an important tool in the current competitive struggle. Carriers quantify the transportation costs...

This paper analyzes the outcomes of an exploratory review of the current research on Internet of Things-based real-time production logistics, sustainable industrial value creation, and artificial intelligence-driven big data analytics in cyber-physical smart manufacturing systems. The data used for this study was obtained and replicated from previo...

The main objective of this article is to analyse the public policies in the area of economic education in the European Union, with the aim to identify the best practices that exist in different countries, to point out the major phases in the development of public policy in this domain and the main factors that contribute to the positive results. Th...

Research background: This article presents an empirical study carried out to evaluate and analyze perceptions and behavior-related intentions of consumers in smartphone-based mobile commerce globally. Purpose of the article: Building our argument by drawing on data collected from Nielsen and Statista, we performed analyses and made estimates regard...

Research background: Despite the relevance of customer experiences of technology-enabled business applications in smartphone-based mobile shopping globally in terms of browsing satisfaction, purchasing intention, and buying behavior, only limited research has been conducted on this topic. Purpose of the article: Using and replicating data from Stat...

Regulation (EC) No 561/2006 - known as the Driving Time Regulation - lays down rules on driving times, breaks and rest periods for drivers of Lorries and buses to improve working conditions and road safety. A number of new amendments to this regulation were adopted on 15 July 2020. An important change has been made in connection with the extension...

This article presents an empirical study carried out to evaluate and analyze Internet of Things sensing networks, artificial intelligence-based decision-making algorithms, and real-time process monitoring in sustainable Industry 4.0. Building our argument by drawing on data collected from Algorithmia, BCG, Deloitte, the Economist Intelligence Unit,...

Research background: The aim of this paper is to synthesize and analyze existing evidence on artificial intelligence-based decision-making algorithms, industrial big data, and Internet of Things sensing networks in digital twin-driven smart manufacturing. Purpose of the article: Using and replicating data from Altair, Catapult, Deloitte, DHL, GAVS,...

The aim of this paper is to synthesize and analyze existing evidence on connected vehicle technologies, autonomous driving perception algorithms, and smart sustainable urban mobility behaviors in networked transport systems. Using and replicating data from AAA, Abraham et al. (2017), Adobe Analytics, ANSYS, Atomik Research, AUDI AG, AUVSI, Capgemin...

This article presents an empirical study carried out to evaluate and analyze urban big data analytics and sustainable governance networks in integrated smart city planning and management. Building my argument by drawing on data collected from Accenture, Capgemini, ITU, McKinsey, and The University of Adelaide, I performed analyses and made estimate...

Earnings management is one of the most challenging, debated and controversial topics in finance and financial management. Organisational, legislative, and social norms regarding the ethics of earnings management may vary significantly, with the views of top management and economic environment playing significant roles in shaping the organisational...

Production of food-grade emulsions is continuously rising globally, especially in developing countries. The steepest demand growth is in the segment of inexpensive meat products where edible emulsions serve as lubricants to mitigate economic loses linked with mechanical damage during automated processing of artificial casings. Provided that product...

The purpose of this study was to empirically examine Industry 4.0 manufacturing systems. Building our argument by drawing on data collected from BCG, Capgemini, Deloitte, McKinsey, PwC, SME, and Software AG, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding networked, smart, and responsive devices. The structural equation modeling technique was us...

The present paper deals with burnout as a challenge of our modern business world, given the phenomenon of heavy work investment in our society. The present article is emphasizing the strong connection between business, psychology, and medicine when dealing with people working in a modern, international business environment. The research methods are...

Research background: Enterprises manage earnings in an effort to balance their profit fluctuations to provide increasingly consistent earnings in every reporting period. Earnings management is legal and very effective method of accounting techniques and may be used to obtain specific objectives of the enterprises involving the manipulation of accru...

Prediction of the financial difficulties of companies has been dealt with over the last years by scientists and economists worldwide. Several prediction models mostly focused on a particular sector of the national economy, have been created also in Slovakia. The main purpose of this paper is to create new prediction models for small and medium-size...

This article reviews recent literature concerning the Europa 2020 strategy. Using data from Eurostat and Eurydyce database , I performed analyses and made estimates regarding aims at formal, non-formal, ICT education or informal education for all levels, from pre-school to adult vocational training. I have also performed analyses and compared the o...

Analysing the impact of agricultural performance on foreign trade concentration and competitiveness defines an important step in identifying the opportunities, challenges and proactive measures in designing a functional and marked based agricultural model. The scope of this study is to investigate the evolution of Romania’s the foreign trade compet...

Although national economies are more and more interdependent due to the accelerating globalization, contemporary managerial practice indicates the trend of localization and adaptation to intercultural specifics of markets. Thus, the incorporation of sociological theories into the traditional managerial patterns is going to be an imperative of optim...

Because of the large number of communication tools available in the online environment, besides creating an attractive product, hotel management needs to accurately target each segment through meaningful content and find a relevant communication journey of informational nature. For this reason, the aim of the contribution is to propose customer seg...

This research investigates the way consumer repurchase intention in social commerce is shaped by electronic word-of-mouth at global scale. Building our argument by drawing on data collected from Deloitte, eMarketer, MarketingCharts, Marketing Insider Group, McKinsey, Mediakix, Nielsen, Smart Insights, and Statista, we performed analyses and made es...

We inspect the relevant literature on trust management in organic agriculture, providing both quantitative evidence on trends and numerous in-depth empirical examples. Our study adds to current research by analyzing environmentally sustainable consumer behavior, consumers’ perceptions, motivations, attitudes, trust, values, and purchasing intention...

The aim of this paper is to synthesize and analyze existing evidence on regulatory and governance mechanisms for self-driving cars. Using and replicating data from AUDI AG, Axios, BikePGH, Deloitte, Ipsos, Kennedys, McKinsey, and Statista, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding social equity benefits and machine learning-based ethical j...

Earning management is a collection of managerial decision that results in not reporting the true short-term, value-maximizing earnings as known to management. It is focused on the changes in financial reporting to mislead the stakeholders and achieve contractual benefits. Earnings management emphasizes the manipulation of accounting choices and ope...

Employing recent research results covering smart sustainable city governance and management, and building our argument by drawing on data collected from CompTIA, Deloitte, DNV GL, ICMA, KPMG, PTI, RICS, and SCC, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding data-driven Internet of Things systems and machine learning-based analytics. Structural...

The purpose of this study was to empirically examine cyber-physical system-based manufacturing. Building our argument by drawing on data collected from Capgemini, Catapult, CGI, Deloitte, Eclipse Foundation, PAC, PwC, SME, Software AG, and ZDNet, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding the link between smart connected sensors, industrial...

Research background: The trade sector is considered to be the power of economy, in developing countries in particular. With regard to the Czech Republic, this field of the national economy constitutes the second most significant employer and, at the same time, the second most significant contributor to GNP. Apart from traditional methods of busines...

The main aim of the paper is to assess the impact of fix capital, energy use and domestic material consumption in changing the inland Romanian economic paradigm, from an economic perspective, using the intensive form of the Cobb-Douglas function. In order to identify various connections of economic growth, sustainable development, energy usage has...

We inspect the relevant literature on sustainable smart cities, providing both quantitative evidence on trends and numerous in-depth empirical examples. The data used for this study was obtained and replicated from previous research conducted by ESI ThoughtLab, McKinsey, and Osborne Clarke. We performed analyses and made estimates regarding how cit...

This article proposes a synthetic analysis of the development level of regions in Romania with the concentration/diversification model, using Gini coefficients and Lorenz curve, based on the current statistical indicators. Knowing the degree of concentration and also the influence factors is useful in making decisions and setting regional policy me...

This article complements a substantial stream of research (especially Cope and Kalantzis, 2017) through an in-depth investigation of the ways a learning setting is similar to an ecosystem, comprising the elaborate interplay of human, textual, musing, and spatial underlying forces that take a consistent, systemic configuration. E-learning is instrum...

Analyzing of the effects and the determinants of the energy paradigm changes on influencing the economic growth in European Union starts from the assumption that the economy is highly dependent of energy consumption in achieving of the economic growth and welfare for population. Consequently, the changes in the energy paradigm imply significant tra...

This paper draws on previous relevant findings (e.g., Graham, Hjorth, and Lehdonvirta, 2017; Ravenelle, 2017; Sargeant, 2017). Using data from OECD, US Bureau of Labor Statistics, FRED, Pew Research Center, and BloombergView, we performed analyses and made estimates regarding change in self-employment as share of total employment, self-employment r...

We rely on recent literature (e.g. Korte, Lin, 2013; Moyson et al., 2017; Nifadkar, Bauer, 2016) to prove that the impact of social connections and network relations is instrumental in the capacity of newcomers to harmonize successfully into the organization. We conducted our survey in 150 top tech companies covering ICT workforce based on CompTIA...

Following recent research on technology-driven economic growth, we have identified and provided empirical evidence on how highly automated environments and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI) bring about innovative kinds of skills and employment disruptions. Using and replicating data from Bureau of Labor Statistics, CEA calculations, Fre...

The recent transformation of the national economies has raised numerous theoretical and practical aspects in measuring economic growth, welfare, environmental performance, and competitiveness, representing a challenging research topic within the context of economic paradigm transformation. Despite its importance, a fully operational model to be use...

Following De Grauwe (2016), this research advances the idea according to which economies that are part of a monetary union issue debt in a medium of exchange they cannot control: financial markets develop the capacity to impose default on such economies. We are interested in how previous research analyzed the notion that, when economies are autonom...

Following Clark and Mayer (2016), this paper develops the notion that e-learning is instruction provided on a digital device, e.g. a smart phone or a laptop computer that is conceived to back individual learning or organizational performance objectives. Instructional methods that reinforce human learning mechanisms are an important component of suc...

The current transformations of the Romanian agricultural sector have imposed new paradigms in using the land resources. The objective of this study is to assess Romanian agro-food products competitiveness on world market, in terms of land use changing paradigms. The research question is whether the land is cultivated with crops which are competitiv...

Environmental taxation represents a key influence on sustainable development in post-transition countries. Romania has experienced important transformations of environmental policy, including taxation, due to sustained reliance on traditional energy sources to satisfy its energy needs. The aim of this paper is to show a possible causal relationship...

Scholarship about the role of managed systems when considering the impacts of climate change, the environmental problem arising from polluting-resource use, the economic aspects of strategies to slow climate change, and the connection between climate change and economic growth has increased and consolidated, especially in recent years. The main obj...

The analysis presented in this chapter contributes to research on alleviation and adjustment costs to climate change and requisite investments, the negative influence of agriculture on the environment, and the intricate character of the connections between development, poverty, and environment. In this chapter, the author is particularly interested...

Introduction: Postoperative peritoneal adhesions can cause severe complications, preventing methods being of a great importance, bioabsorbable membranes being able to prevent localized adhesion. Material and method: The study was a single-center prospective, randomized controlled investigation, safety and efficacy of collagen-based sponge in the st...

This paper presents a heuristic methodology for estimating the possible variation of the liquid biofuel potential of a region, an appraisal made for a future period of time. The determination of the liquid biofuel potential has been made up either on the account of an average (constant) yield of the energetic crops that were used, or on the account...

The theory that we shall seek to elaborate here puts considerable emphasis on technological features of China’s steel production, its emergence as the world’s most significant steel producer and main manufacturing base, and the transitory decline in steel demand related to the international financial crisis. The purpose of this article is to gain a...

Co-authors: Gheorghe H. Popescu (Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University, Bucharest) and Elvira Nica (Bucharest University of Economic Studies) An open source learning management system (LMS) and course authoring tool, edX has been set up as a not-for-profit enterprise and its primary backing has come from MIT and Harvard. EdX is testing out diverse...

An innovative start-up and important online course supplier, Udacity charges a subscription for course involvement, limits course recruitments, and associates straightforwardly with scholars to create courses that are devised to benefit from their MOOC platform, being thus effortlessly tailor-made and improved. Udacity produces them in its own stud...

Coursera is an education platform affiliated with elite universities and other entities throughout the world, to provide courses online for any learners to take, furnishing choices for teaching and evaluation that are grounded on pedagogical investigation. Originally Coursera concentrated on producing free, online adaptations of courses taught by s...

The article starts from the premise that agricultural bioenergy crop production has massive influence in changing the land use paradigm in Romania, due the fact that important land surface areas are cultivated with such crops because of the increasing demand of biofuels. The main aim of the paper is to answer a research question: are there any chan...