Larisa Ivascu

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Polytechnic University of Timişoara

This book presents a multidisciplinary approach to digital transformation process of organizational transformation, offering support throughout the implementation process to all those interested. The digital transformation (DT) is a priority for many companies in the context of technological evolution. The use of appropriate tools, methodologies, m...

The book aims at presenting a multidisciplinary view meant to illustrate several significant efforts and results about the contribution of information technologies to make available new resources and enable rationally usage the existing ones in the context of the ever-growing trends to use ever more resources. Authors from various countries have be...

This study examines the impacts of women’s social, political, and psychological empowerment on their participation in civil societies and further its impacts on their entrepreneurial resilience. This study employed the quantitative approach, and data were collected through surveys, which were later analyzed with Smart PLS 4. This study’s findings r...

Digitization, digitalization, and digital transformation are increasingly being adopted by organizations across various industries. When talking about digitization, most private companies have passed the initial stages of the process. As these organizations progress through the various stages of digitization, there is a marked shift toward comprehe...

In the context of severe climate change over the past 20 years, which has led to reduced rainfall and reduced crop yields, identifying solutions to meet these challenges has become a priority for agricultural researchers. Thus, conservation and ecological, organic farming practices have emerged, which can mitigate and even improve crop productivity...

In today's business landscape, the paramount focus of firms is to achieve advanced corporate sustainability. This objective has led to the development of big data analytics, reliable big and cloud data analytics capabilities, and blockchain technology as powerful tools worldwide that have helped firms increase sustainable performance. Capitalizing...

Recorded fatalities as a result of road accidents place Romania at the top of the European countries with the most worrying statistics, situating the mobility management in a deficient position, often motivated by the vulnerability of the road infrastructure. The present paper, conducted with the statistics provided by the Romanian Police, analyzes...

Romania's automotive sector is experiencing an evolution towards sustainable transport, with an increasing interest in incorporating solar power technology into vehicles. This article examines the present state of solar power use in Romania's automobile industry, including difficulties, possibilities, and prospects. The analysis looks at technology...

The transportation sector wields substantial influence on society, encompassing economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainability. Recognising environmentally conscious actions initiated by individuals, particularly at grassroots levels, fosters the development of a pro-environmental social identity. The article aims to analyse the tr...

The book offers aspects related to the health and process safety field, complex approaches to artificial intelligence, the role of accounting and auditing in the digital age, DT in agriculture, artificial intelligence in the maritime domain, education, management, sustainability and mobile technologies in learning. Digitization, digitalization and...

In our times, digital transformation (DT) represents one of the main factors that affect economic entities in a dynamic and changeable global market. Embracing digital transformation will help companies overcome the J-shaped productivity curve and help them increase the effects generated by adopting a series of new technologies. The effects of digi...

This research article investigates the synergies between artificial intelligence (AI), digital transformation (DT), and financial reporting systems within the business context. The central theme explores how organizations enhance their decision-making processes by integrating AI technologies into digital transformation initiatives, particularly in...

The circular economy is a modern and captivating subject, even though different areas remain inadequately explored. Creating a circular economy strategy involves transforming the traditional linear model of production and consumption into a system that is more sustainable and regenerative. In order to create a circular economy plan, a comprehensive...

Approaching sustainability and achieving its objectives are increasingly common organizational approaches. Renewable energy is a global concern and is addressed in most strategies. This paper offers an extensive literature review on the interrelation between green energy and sustainability. With increased worldwide awareness of the issue of climate...

The growing number of road accidents in Romania, combined with European pressure for a 25% reduction in road deaths by 2025 and a 50% reduction by 2030, underlines the importance of rigorous road safety management. Understanding the factors identified at local, regional and national level, as well as mitigating the specifics of accidents, is impera...

At the end of 2021 in Romania 43% of the country’s total population held a driving license. Practically 1 in 2 people in the country drive a car. The car industry has historically been focused on marketing strategies and age group approaches so that the product, the car, would be attractive to the consumer market. Technological developments have be...

The public sector presents important steps for digital transformation. Digital transformation uses a series of tools and methods to improve the relationship with citizens and improve benefits. This paper explores the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in governance processes and provides public institutions with insight regarding the impact of in...

Innovation is a vital element of an organization's success. Companies must implement efficient, innovative plans and policies to consistently develop novel innovations. Based on the theory of planned behavior, the current framework formulated the idea of entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial mindset, and technological knowledge with entreprene...

Road accidents are one of the biggest challenges to public safety worldwide. Although there are many factors that contribute to these accidents, drink and drug driving remains one of the most dangerous but avoidable risk factors. The radiography of road accidents in recent years shows an increasing propensity to use banned substances behind the whe...

Quality 4.0 together with industry 4.0 are the basis for the development of last-generationfactories, the so-called smart factories that operate based on the principle of smart manufacturing. Thisresearch aims to develop a rationale for which automated visual inspection with computer vision andmachine learning, as an integral part of Quality 4.0, i...

Solid waste generation is a significant problem affecting the ecosystem, human health, and safety. However, the issue is not given the attention it truly deserves. Consequently, this study is aimed at assessing the impact of various factors, such as economic growth, public awareness, infrastructure, and technological advancements, on generating mun...

In the twenty-first century, the surge in natural resource consumption and climate change has necessitated stringent measures to ensure ecological integrity and corporate sustainability. Organizations are increasingly adopting green practices, including green human resource management (HRM), green corporate social responsibility (CSR), and the prom...

Financial education contributes to a better planning of students' resources. The lack of financial education modules in the first years of studentship leads to the mismanagement of the financial budget by young students. Students will be future consumers of financial services. In this sense, additional solutions are needed for training the financia...

This study aims to elaborate on the embeddedness of digital technology applications and their effect on firms’ sustainable performances under the mediating conditions of team innovation performance and digital organizational culture. The study employs a quantitative approach, and data were collected from 319 employees working in the information tec...

University staff has been the most vulnerable actor (or even stakeholder) in the process of the online transition of all the academic activities (education, scientific, communication, internationalization, involvement in the community etc.). University missions has been re-shaped and re-designed considering the new ways (methods and tools) for comm...

This research project aims to outline the concept of modelling an infrastructure segment to enable such testing. The expected results directly influence the possibilities of developing level 3,4,5 technology in the field of autonomous cars, The identification of new smart infrastructure and connectivity solutions and the determination of road safet...

Background: Over the years, the workplace landscape has significantly evolved, demanding an optimal psychological approach to establish an environment that values individual work and health. A firm's culture inspires it to adopt business practices that enable its employees to live healthier lives. Objective: The study aims to measure the mediati...

The product life-cycle marketing approach is a concept that describes the sales and profit margin of a given product category over a prolonged period - from lust to dust. The concept holds that a product's sales and profits change over time in a predictable manner-at least in the four distinct major stages of introduction, growth, maturity, and dec...

The paper addresses sustainable development and shows the capacity of the Romanian market to achieve the goals set in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The new Agenda focuses on a holistic approach to sustainable development in order to achieve global development. Sustainable development is addressed nationally and internationally becaus...

Promoting is part of the marketing mix. The promotional activity communicates the benefits of the products or actions of potential and current customers. The tools used in the promotional mix are advertising, direct marketing, sales promotion, public relations, personal sale and sponsorship. This study carries out a marketing analysis to promote pr...

The objective of the study is to elucidate the impact of a vigorous board on the performance of firms. The contributive concept of vigorous board has been formulated through data employment analysis while contemplating the seven attributes such as board meetings, non-duality, number of external directors, number of supervisors, audit committee memb...

The paper aims describing a collaborative international initiative of four European universities to develop a training program for supporting university teaching staff in creating and using multimedia technologies effectively (extend their digital competencies). Thus, teaching and researching staff from higher education institutions will follow a d...

3D printers are a fascinating tool for engineering teaching and education, related to a large variety of subjects. More and more universities are integrating not just the topic of additive manufacturing, but 3D printers’ infrastructures to create great learning experiences. The main scope of the paper is to analyze the state of teaching and learnin...

In the current era of business, environmental sustainability has emerged as an issue of critical relevance. The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between environmental leadership and environmental learning and its impact on the organization’s performance. This research contributes to the existing body of knowledge by identif...

The grim effects of COVID-19 have widely obstructed every sector of life, and the education sector is not an exception. The physical meeting restrictions, lockdowns, social distancing, and movement control orders increased the dropouts of students in educational institutes. These drop-outs compromised the contribution of the educational sector to t...

The paper’s main objective is to evaluate the repercussions of economic growth, industrialization, and foreign direct investment (FDI) on OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) municipal solid waste (MSW) from 2000–2020. Further study includes the role of technology in managing waste activities’ repercussions. We also explore...

In order to be able to carry out their activity and at the same time comply with the restriction measures imposed by the governments of the world with the aim of limiting the spread of the novel coronavirus, economic entities tested their resilience and adaptability, using much more the digital technology. Whether they were prepared for this purpos...

This study examined the mediating role of corporate social responsibility practices and the nexus between the operational excellence of competitive strategies and the performance, of Islamic banks operating in Pakistan. Particularly, two competitive strategies, namely, the cost-sensitive strategy and the differentiation strategy, were considered. T...

Recognizing the factors that stimulates the student's academic performance requires investigation of different learning strategies that influence teachers' self-efficacy. With the growing diversity of teaching methods, motivational and instructional strategies have gained significant attention, potentially leading educators to use them as the criti...

This research uses an exploratory approach to evaluate digital financial literacy education and its impact on financial knowledge and financial behavior of rural residents. The villages in Siem Reap province were selected for this analysis, both for the provision of digital financial literacy education and for the measurement of digital financial l...

In the wake of digitalization, the emergence of novel technologies has urged financial institutes to embrace blockchain. technology, which has led to a substantial improvement of their sustainability performance. Nowadays, digital transformation has strongly compelled banks to develop a positive behavior towards technology adoption in order to ensu...

Digital technology has drastically transformed businesses’ activities, operations, and processes. Today, digital efficiencies have inspired companies to take initiatives to leverage the firm’s environmental performance. The study’s primary purpose was to examine how a digital transformation strategy affects environmental performance under the media...

Since the beginning of the 21st century, agility and sustainability have played a significant role in the global manufacturing industry. The manufacturing paradigm leaning toward green procurement and organizational agility has crossed all levels of sustainability by colossally influencing the firms’ sustainable practices, innovation capacity, and...

In a global economic system where essential resources are limited, demand is increasing and environmental degradation is more pronounced, the only viable option to ensure sustainable development is to create an environmentally friendly and efficient economy in order to produce more economic value with the same or fewer resources. The aim of this pa...

Objectives-Aim Assesment of echocardiographic parameters in patients with coexisting obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and heart failure (HF) Methods ▪ 143 OSA and HF patients were included. ▪Data collection: socio-demographic data, NC, AC, sleep questionnaires, comorbidities, blood test data, polygraphy and echocardiographic data (TDV-telediastolic vo...

Pakistan’s textile industry is suffering from an electricity shortage and political turmoil. Due to a state of instability in which nothing is certain, things cannot be brought into balance by the state. Therefore, we employ firm-level data (101) to investigate the impact of expected and unexpected power outages on textile firm productivity through...

BACKGROUND: The service sector is facing challenges due to its competitive environment. Thus it needs a transformation of the traditional sector into the learning sector. In this competitive atmosphere, organizations and institutions are putting several efforts into making itself learning organizations to upgrade their effectiveness and efficiency....

Companies should include consumers' concerns about sustainability in their strategies, a reason why it is essential to understand the consumer's decision-making process. Sustainability is a topic of interest and is increasingly considered by consumers. Actions are taken to raise the level of environmental and social sustainability in the growing in...

The higher education sector was affected by this pandemic, managing enduring challenges since early 2020. Institutions of higher learning (IHL) are prepared to address unsurmountable challenges to ensure that students are not deceived and are being given the proper nurture, coupled with adherence to syllabuses. Simultaneously, the COVID-19 pandemic...

Due to the continual fusion reaction, the sun generates tremendous energy. This solar energy is freely available and can be extracted by installing a large-scale solar power plant. Therefore, such PV solar plants are key contributors to cutting the energy deficit in remote areas. This study focused on predicting a 10-year performance analysis of a...

The study objective was to examine the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the performance of healthcare employees. The study was informed by a theoretical framework that incorporates different psychological issues (i.e., stress, depression, and anxiety) that influence healthcare workers’ performance through the mediating roles of job...

To achieve sustainable development, companies are aware that they need to move from the ‘take-make-consume-throw away’ pattern toward an economic model based on sharing, re-use, repair, refurbishing, and recycling. Implementing the circular economy concept into a company’s business model is not an easy process, given that some eco-innovations have...

Sustainability is being addressed by more and more organizations. In the context of sustainable global development, the circular economy is gaining interest from governments, people and various organizations. The circular economy has the main measure of reducing the amount of waste generated and of streamlining the number of organizational resource...

The paper examines how environmental, social, and governance (ESG), including management incentives, influence a firm’s financial performance. The study method is based on an empirical analysis of data describing firm-level information about corporate financial performance and corporate sustainability performance between 2001 and 2020, summing up 6...

Our minds are powerful, creative, forceful, and strong, controlling our thinking and behaviors. A series of high-profile accounting and financial scandals have been revealed in the past few decades, and the Enron case was the most representative of them all. Corporate decision-makers have traditionally enjoyed high remunerations, compensations, and...

In recent years, advancing industrialization and rapid climate change have considerably influenced the global consumption pattern of natural assets. Undoubtedly, this massive utilization of natural resources and hazardous environmental emissions have profoundly curbed the worldwide socio-economic context, substantially causing this ecological burde...

The life we considered normal was disrupted due to measures taken to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. Quarantine, isolation, social distancing, and community containment have influenced consumer behavior and contributed to the rapid development of e-commerce. In pandemic times, even those unfamiliar with the online environment have had to...

Sustainability has recently emerged as an important step at national and international level. More and more companies are addressing the principles of sustainability and setting global goals to achieve. The pandemic period accentuated the implications of organizations in the social dimension. These implications targeted employees, quality of life a...

The COVID-19 pandemic has directly influenced higher education by converting traditional face-to-face (F2F) learning to blended learning (BL). Because of this dramatic change in the academic environment, it is essential to evaluate student views and preferences and how the BL setting affects their academic performance. Therefore, the current resear...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is continuing to have severe effects on tourism-related industries, as safety precautions have become essential to follow. Based on this, this study aims to explore the role of perceptions of the tourist of safety in tourism destination choice with the mediating effect of tourist trust (TT) in the contex...

Background: The ravages of COVID-19 have created a worldwide emergency in healthcare units. Under these circumstances, the perception of an infection threat is primarily affecting the employees' performance in reducing contagion effects. Objective: The purpose of this study is to develop substantial measures of support for healthcare employees t...

Purpose The study objective is to investigate the relationship between workplace ostracism, workplace incivility, and knowledge hiding behavior (evasive hiding, playing dumb, rationalized hiding) while considering the mediating role of job anxiety. Methods The study collected data through structured questionnaires from 275 participants (ie, employ...

The coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) has undoubtedly created immense health problems in the global healthcare sector. Apart from its impact on physical health, it has devastatingly affected the psychological well-being of individuals. Based on Affective Events Theory (AET), the current study aims to contemplate the relationship between Fear of COVID...

Innovation has led to the rapid development of the manufacturing industry. The future directions of the manufacturing industry will highlight new competencies that employees will have to have and requirements that companies will have to have. The evaluation of these directions and the proposal of some organizational strategies represent necessary e...

The green manufacturing (GM) approach has been defined and described in the context of improving the level of companies’ competitiveness, innovation, and efficiency. Engaging businesses in adopting the principles of the circular economy helps them respond to regulatory constraints and opportunities related to green manufacturing, too. In addition,...

This book informs and educates readers about sustainable development management, approaches and applications in manufacturing processes and presents the trends to the next economic and social paradigm: the Industry 5.0 and Society 5.0. Educational aspects, case studies from various companies, together with the analysis and synthesis of the literatu...

Social responsibility for sustainability has become an important dimension in the current context. More and more industries are evaluating this responsibility and are actively involved in addressing human resources to increase motivation, communication and reduce negative factors. The mining industry is important, especially from the perspective of...

Global annual extraction has increased due to market demand. It is anticipated that this aspect will continue in the future. The mining industry is one of the important industries at national level. It also anticipates certain aspects of sustainability that must be seriously evaluated. The main objective of this paper is to evaluate mine waste reus...

Concepts such as eLearning and eTeaching have become a reality today in a pandemic context facing people around the world. eTeaching and eLearning enables teachers and students to take online courses with the help of electronic equipment such as computers, laptops, tablets and even smartphones. Despite the shortcomings of adapting traditional unive...

The advocates of classical finance rebuffed investors' sentiment, but some behavioral finance researchers highlight the effects of sentiments on investments and asset pricing. Primarily this research measured the investors' sentiments relationship with Bitcoin returns by using the market data proxy approach. We construct a sentiment index that comp...

The biggest challenge of today’s world is to adjust to the rapidly changing environment brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, where uncertainty and unpredictability have become the norm. The advanced technological tools used during the pandemic have altered communication, employee motivation, and the employees' desire for personal connectivity. T...

Abstract: The pandemic period developed new work behaviors. Home office and teleworking took the place of office work. This period affected certain organizational activities and developed new opportunities to work. Teleworkers are affected by several factors during this pandemic period. This paper presents the dataset of a survey on workplace human...

The relationship between income and pollution is contested, yet wealth alone is insufficient to regulate emissions, which necessitates environmental regulations. Even if inadequate environmental laws may overcome market failures produced by pollution’s negative externality, a thorough examination of their function in pollution management is critica...

This study examines causality relation between the quality of national institutional frameworks designed to ensure higher energy efficiency and the distance to the achievement of the EU Commission targets in terms of energy consumption, using a panel of 21 EU member states. Through panel unit root tests and an estimated VAR model, our results revea...

The risk is encountered in every activity, operation, process, system or decision-making project. Given the importance of this concept at the individual and organizational level, this approach emphasizes the characteristics of the concept. This chapter aims to make an inventory of the concept of risk, its importance for organizations. This chapter...

Malaysia is not shielded from the issues of food insecurity. Despite economic progression over the past few years, food insecurity is continuing to affect several vulnerable groups (Orang Asli, elderly, students, B40). It is a growing concern that should not be taken lightly, especially with the recent rise in food prices coupled with low income am...

The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled countries worldwide to enforce stringent measures to maintain social distancing, by locking down populations and restricting all kinds of transport. Besides their impact on the virus, these dramatic changes may also have positively contributed to a sustainable environment. The study aims to measure the effect of...

A voltage stability index is proposed using a new single-port equivalent depending on component peculiarity representation and sensitivity persistence to locate and determine long-term voltage instability in transmission and distribution power networks. The suggested single-port equivalent effectively represents the equivalence of various component...

t During the pandemic period, strategic planning and thinking are very important elements for continuing the organizational activity. These activities are part of the strategic management that is approached in most organizations. Strategic planning is the input for strategic thinking. Planning is the analytical part, it includes a series of proc...

This chapter aims to make an inventory of what sustainable development (SD) means. Evaluating the implications of the concept from 1951 to the present, one can observe a substantiation of the concept and an intensification of the involvement of organizations. The implications of individuals, organizations, local and international authorities are at...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) significantly transforms the global agricultural sector, thereby boosting the foreign economy. Primarily, the study focuses on the social practices of Agro-companies operating in Pakistan, thus influencing consumer buying intention. The study presents the extended theoretical contribution to the theory of plann...

The descriptive analysis (based on a longitudinal analysis of the available data from four surveys developed in 2009-2019) aims characterize the customers’ perception on social responsibility dimensions in the case of the water company Aquatim of Timisoara, Romania. This is the basis for the communication strategy definition for its efficiency incr...