Matei Tamasila

Polytechnic University of Timişoara · MANAGEMENNT

The main focus of this article is to highlight the relationship between social intelligence and entrepreneurial intentions of students from higher education systems. This relationship is essential for the deployment of the concept of social economy and the promotion of socially responsible business models. Family businesses and social enterprises a...

More and more corporations are adopting a hybrid work style in which employees can work both at the office and at home. The popularity of the hybrid workplace is a result of the Covid-19 pandemic crisis and one of the components of the hybrid work mode is the internal organizational communication platform without which the hybrid work mode could no...

The paper presents some of the outcomes of a comparative study between students from Romania (Timisoara Politehnica University) and Bulgaria (Ruse University “Angel Kanchev”). The questionnaire has been given to the students in 2010 under a joint research project. The second and third questionnaires have been fulfilled in 2019 and 2021 under INTERG...

The global transportation sector is a linchpin of economic growth, yet its predominant reliance on fossil fuels, as documented by Mwasilu et al. (Renew Sustain Energy Rev 34:501–516, 2014), presents pressing challenges. The Energy Information Agency (EIA) projects a substantial 54% increase in petrol consumption by 2035, compounded by soaring price...

Energy is fundamental to modern life but poses serious environmental challenges, notably greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and climate change. Romania, as an EU member, adheres to EU climate and environmental regulations. This paper reviews Romania's energy transformation over recent years, assesses its compliance with the Paris Agreement, and recomme...

This study compares the level of value added and productivity generated by the companies activating in the water and wastewater sector and investigates their determinants. To this end, we perform a panel data analysis over the period 2007 to 2014 using firm-level data. We include in our analysis nine public companies located in four counties inside...

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...

University's system needs to encourage graduates with relevant occupational skills in today's work communities. The interest given by university institutions to the development of entrepreneurial skills is to support the business environment in the Western Region of Romania. Investigating a sample of 100 respondents aged between 20-25 years old sho...

The automotive industry dominates the economy of the west part of Romania, making necessary the identification of firm growth drivers. Accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the nonlinear impact of firm size in influencing firm growth. To do so, we use a panel quantile regression with fixed effects for a set of 19 automotive companies...

Family businesses are a significant part of the world economy. This type of business has already become an essential source of employment, and its economic relevance affects more than half of the national GDP of many economies around the world. This article's primary purpose is to present evidence related to students' willingness to integrate their...

The present paper helps to raise awareness in changing employee civic behavior regarding waste management within organizations and provides a solution for waste management in organizations by initiating behavioral plans. The authors highlight the need for proactive collaboration between human resources management practices, as involvement in waste...

Caring for the environment in which we live has become a sensitive issue in the major ecological debates around the world. The attention is directed to the promotion and use of alternative means of transportation. The emergence and use of alternative means of transportation offers eco-friendly benefits to the population. The bicycle-sharing new tre...

In an efficient OSH management system, it is necessary to approach continuous improvement, being recommended the PDCA system (Plan Do Check Act). In Romania, there is well-developed legislation, who establishes measures and actions in the field of OSH. The companies comply by creating an implementation plan, but most of them remain at this stage, w...

This paper analyzes the factors explaining the slight decrease of CO2 emissions in the European Union (EU), recorded during the last period. With a focus on 12 EU countries, we apply a panel data analysis over the period 1990 to 2017 and we investigate the impact of renewable energy share in energy production, and the role of EU environmental regul...

This work assesses the influence of financial constraints on firms’ investment structure. Previous works state that financially constrained firms chose to invest more in tangible assets, in the detriment of intangible assets. However, none of these researches investigated the structure of investment of firms from scientific R&D industry. Therefore,...

The European Union strategy on air quality management is based on an articulated legislation. In spite of that, some criticalities can emerge in specific cases. The present article focuses on case studies that point out potential criticalities of indoor air quality, in some cases related to outdoor conditions, in other ones depending only on indoor...

In the beginning of 21st century many jobs have already been displaced by the automation and the artificial intellect. Many others are going to be displaced, due to the corporative plans for higher profits with less human resources. Variety of films about Detroit city describe the consequences from these on-going changes. The only cell, which treat...

Researchers discover new approaches, modified frameworks to smoothly pass from traditional processes to digital processes execution. This transition offers inevitable new types of risks. We may call interconnected risks referring to humans, systems-data and objects. The research team assessing primary risks in an industrial production scenario thro...

Sustainability and leanness are organizational approach concepts for more efficient activities and increased competitiveness. This paper presents a study and an application of the concepts of sustainability and lean, with the purpose to capitalize on the benefits of the two concepts’ tools when used together in an industry and education activity. A...

Purpose-The present paper identifies the importance of knowledge transfer between key players involved in managing a RES project. Methodology/approach-The research tool used is the questionnaire, addressing questions both the developer of the RES project and project manager. The questionnaire contains questions and is built using a Likert scale. Th...

We investigate the long-run relationship between profitability, liquidity and capitalization for companies acting in the public administration and defense sector from Hungary and Romania, using firm-level data for the period 2006–2015. Our panel cointegration analysis proves the existence of a long-run relationship between the analyzed variables. T...

The actual paper provides an overview of the actual challenges encountered in municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in the west region of Romania, respectively introduction of new collection systems by local/county authorities. Due to the social environmental debates, problems in waste management have become more and more complex, also into the c...

The expansiveness of latest generation technologies triggers manufacturers from different industry sectors more complex situations in order management with various loyal customers and occasional customers. More specifically, orders variations in logistics chain make it difficult to achieve entrepreneurial partnerships in the context of new technolo...

This paper tests the relationship between cash flow and the investment decision of firms from the Romanian agriculture sector. Although the role of cash flow in influencing the investment decision is explained by the financial frictions theory, the investment – cash flow nexus is controversial in empirical investigations. However, only few studies...

This paper investigates the impact of external and internal conditions on firms’ investment in CEE countries, applying a panel data analysis, over the time-span 2008–2014. We use AMADEUS statistics for 412 companies and we focus on the extractive industry. The external conditions are associated with the macroeconomic uncertainty related to the econ...

Sustainability is a complex concept that is addressed by most companies, and is the direction of their development. Culture and education for sustainable development must start from higher education. At the level of higher education, the presence of sustainability subjects was mainly assessed in the curricula of study and also the understanding of...

The complexity of projects implementation in Renewable Energy Sources (RES) requires finding collaborative alliances between suppliers and project developers in RES. Links activities in supply chain in RES, respectively, transportation of heavy components, processing orders to purchase quality raw materials, storage and materials handling, packagin...

Wind power implementing projects implies a deep analysis of competencies and involves a good partnership among project teams through exchange of information, resources, and allocation of specific roles. It is considered to be important in finding mutually profitable cooperation models that support project staff essential training for research, deve...

Purpose-The limitations of supply chain collaboration models currently requires the development of a conceptual model applied to renewable energy projects (RES) that can provide a dimensioned agreement between logistic chain links. Methodology/approach-The research team after analyzing limitations of supply chain collaboration models for RES projec...

This paper studies the leadership style and leaders’ power in a large scale organization. Our case study analyzes a higher education organization (university) with 1352 employees targeting the support positions in the organization for didactic activities (auxiliary didactic employees and non-didactic employees). The organizational power of a leader...

This paper investigates the long-run relationship between the entrepreneurial activity, tax evasion and corruption in 15 European countries. We posit that tax evasion and corruption have a negative influence on entrepreneurship, but some endogeneity issues appear when investigating this relationship. Therefore, we use a panel cointegration analysis...

The purpose of this paper is twofold. On the one hand, the paper draws a comparison between the national entrepreneurial potential and characteristics in Romania and Greece, using the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) statistics. On the other hand, the paper aims to investigate the students' entrepreneurial potential and the role of education,...

This paper explores the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the entrepreneurial activity in 16 European countries. By using Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data, which enables the distinction necessity-driven vs. opportunity-driven entrepreneurs, we assess the influence of both inward and outward FDI on the entrepreneurial activity d...

This paper analyzes the need for advanced/innovative eLearning type of products intended for lifelong learning and teaching in the engineering and management field. This field is relatively new in Romania and needs modern educational techniques in order to improve the efficiency and quality of graduates for a fast integration in the labour market....

The strategy developed by the European authorities regarding the improvement of the economic performance in a knowledge- based economy has not provided the expected results. One reason for this semi-failure is related to a shy entrepreneurial activity stimulus generated in the member countries. In this context, the paper will show that the entrepre...

This paper considers the impact of foreign direct investments (FDI) on the entrepreneurial activity in 16 European countries. Data for the early-stage entrepreneurial activity are provided by the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), which made also a distinction between necessity- and opportunity-driven entrepreneurs. We assess the role of both i...

The paper makes a comparative analysis, regarding the offer of facilitators for entrepreneurship education in a region of Central and Eastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia), using a model that is starting from Kano's model of satisfaction, the five levels of inventiveness proposed by Altshuller, and the activities and product/services...

The paper makes a comparative analysis, regarding the offer of facilitators for entrepreneurship education in a region of Central and Eastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Serbia), using a model that is starting from Kano’s model of satisfaction, the five levels of inventiveness proposed by Altshuller, and the activities and product/services...

The paper objectives are: to identify, analyze and structure in a database, using key group criteria, the main national facilitators for entrepreneurship focusing on particularities of the West Region of Romania. The target groups chosen to achieve these objectives are: top graduated and post graduated students, Ph.D students and young researchers....

The paper presents and analyzes the results of a study realized at the national level regarding the degree of innovation in Romanian SMEs. The study was realized on a representative sample of SMEs from different activity sectors (such as industry, construction, service). The main objectives of this analysis are: -identification of activity domains...

Methodological approach The logic of questionnaires used by a Bulgarian-Romanian scientific project: The year of 2010 has marked the beginning of a bilateral project between Ruse University "Angel Kunchev" (Bulgaria) and University "Politehnica" Timisoara (Romania). The goal of this bilateral project is to discover some knowledge gaps of the studen...