Mihai Cioc

• PhD
• Senior Lecturer at Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Tourism is a critical economic sector for many countries, making substantial contributions to GDP and job creation. Analyzing performance in this domain has become indispensable for understanding and enhancing its economic, social, and environmental impact while promoting the sustainability and competitiveness of tourist destinations. In the contex...

Recently, there have been significant changes in the labour market and in the lives of employees, as modern society adapts increasingly easily to the implementation of artificial intelligence tools. However, technological changes have also created challenges, including a gap between available and required competencies in the use of artificial intel...

The paper aims to discover if the particular macroeconomic factors are influencing the capacity of small businesses in Romania to generate more added value in the national economy. In order to analyze the impact of the selected phenomenon on the performance of the businesses as expressed by the ratio of the added value, a regression analysis, a cor...

This study conducts a complete review of scientific production using the quantitative approach of bibliometric analysis to help us comprehend the existing structure of studies and to indicate future research directions on job performance determinants and job satisfaction. By restricting its study subjects and recognizing specific trends, the articl...

The joint action of the European directives and the national strategies make the issue of energy efficiency of the dwelling stock one of the main research directions in the field. The purpose of this study is to create and apply a methodology for developing the portfolio of projects to increase the energy efficiency of the dwelling stock at a regio...

The research aimed to assess the general features of all innovative start-ups and spin-offs funded in Romania with EU grants between 2007 and 2013, in correlation with the existing policies at national and regional level, and with the implementation status of other structural funding programs. The results of the research can be harnessed in the des...

The concept of information as we use it in everyday in the sense knowledge communicated plays a central role in today's society. The concept became particularly predominant since end of World War II with the widespread use of computer networks. Given the central position of information in the New Economy, its approach is made from the economic theo...

At the level of public companies, performance management tends to become the main instrument for stimulating competitiveness and alignment of their management practices to the private sector ones. This approach is particularly important given the fact that, in Romania, the general public opinion is that between public and private companies there is...

Strategic management of the Romanian healthcare system could be a solution for the numerous problems Romanian contributors (and, of course, non-contributors) face when they need medical care services. This paper will review present challenges and the current status of the system in Europe and Romania, as well as the stage of implementing the princi...

Though defensive driving is a relatively new concept in Romania, there are many companies that use such programs to improve their transportation system. The desired benefits primarily aim the reduction of fleet operating costs associated with the repair, maintenance and fleet renewal grade, and also with the employees’ remuneration based on specifi...

Though defensive driving is a relatively new concept in Romania, there are many companies that use such programs to improve their transportation system. The desired benefits primarily aim the reduction of fleet operating costs associated with the repair, maintenance and fleet renewal grade, and also with the employees’ remuneration based on specifi...

In the context of the global economy, increasingly more companies are entering the social responsibility demarche, taking some economic, social, and environmental actions that have a certain positive impact on society. From this perspective, the organizations intend to develop green information technologies (green IT) as an essential condition to a...

The specific constraints known by the public sector, especially in the last two decades, raise a series of questions, not only from the perspective of the State’s capacity to exercise its shareholder role, but also from the one of the public enterprises’ capacity to obtain performance. Their restructuring aims the mechanisms’ implementation of the...

The present paper is the result of a research approach realized on the Romanian car rental services` market. Beginning from the characteristics of this economic sector and from the activity`s specificities of the car rental companies, the present study intends to develop an evaluation model of the position on the competitive market of a Romanian co...

The first part of the paper addresses the issue of group decision making, in the context of theoretical and methodological conceptualization of the main approaches for developing and using collaborative platforms, as well as those related to deployment of GDSS (Group Decision Support Systems). The second part of the paper is focusing on a business...

The actual economic stage in Romania imposed the adopting of some quick measures in the direction of creating the regulatory framework that should encourage the increasing of public enterprises’ performances. In this context, GEO (Government emergency Ordinance) nr 109/30.11.2011 states a set of legislative and best practices standards regarding th...

The economic intelligence represents a practice, which has always been informally present in organizations. The active monitoring of the external environment in order to surprise the opportunities or the threats that aim the organization’s life, as well as the reaching in legal and ethical limits to influence practices in the economic competition,...

This paper’s purpose is to realize a study at the level of some Romanian companies with private capital, regarding the maturity level they reached in developing informatic security practices, especially of those regarding the information systems’ risk management. The study focuses on the analysis of some indicators specific for the informatic envir...

The today’s environment of the enterprise is characterized by an extremely dynamic and complex context, which is reflected in the market globalization and in the explosive development of the informatic and communication technologies. In front of these challenges the Economic Intelligence is the best strategic management practice which grants the or...

The entire decisional simulation cycle of socio-productive systems obeys the three research levels: analysis, designing and management of the simulation activity. The analysis represents the research process of the system’s component with the purpose of highlighting the following issues: the role of the system within the economic enterprise system;...

Although seen as a sector with a high degree of inertia and conservatism the public administration system determines the public institutions to record a set of influences both from the internal and external environment. The public administration system is influenced by the frequent legislative changes and recently by the requirements claimed by the...

The complexity, dimension and the scope of the economic problems specific to the correct development of organisational strategie require, on the one hand, the structuring and systematisation of their entire simulation activity in view of solving them. On the other hand, they require the adequacy of a relative independence resulted from the very nat...

The importance of the private sector’s involvement to assure a satisfactory quality of human life given by its five characteristics, emphasized in various documents promoted within the European Union : the service universality, continuity, quality, tariff accessibility, protection of users and consumers No doubt the consumer’s perception is largely...

The performances of water supply public service are influenced by a large number of organisations from public or private sector, of different importances and sizes. The actions of those “actors”, defined in the context of this paper as “stakeholders”, have a great impact on the key performance indicators related to the water supply market. By ident...

In the water supply sector, as in many sectors of the economy, the fundamental objective of benchmarking is to search and identify best practices. Collection of data is not benchmarking, but is a necessary step to conduct benchmarking. In many countries, such as Romania or Bulgaria, the lack of data prevents benchmarking as the data to do so is eit...