Stefania-Cristina Curea

• Bucharest University of Economic Studies

In the electronics sector, artificial intelligence (AI) has grown into a disruptive force that is changing how humans engage with technology and creating new opportunities. AI is expanding the capabilities of electronic devices, granting them higher intelligence, increased intuitiveness, and the ability to comprehend and react to human behavior. Th...

The configuration of economic development, through complexity, rhythm, and amplitude, imposed Industry 4.0 as a new industrial paradigm characterized by advanced digitalization and automation. Appropriate behavior of organizations from a sustainable perspective and the expansion of performance evaluations by considering economic–financial, social,...

The COVID-19 pandemic gives us the largest telework experiment ever conducted globally, that will most likely leave visible and lasting marks on the organization of the labor market in the future. The purpose of this approach is to investigate the wellbeing from the social and emotional perspective of the individual, considering relevant relational...

This study analysed the relationship between informality and sustainable development goals using the bibliometric analysis. The empirical results emphasized that urban development, women’s agenda, and decent work are the main areas of informality circumscribed in the issue of sustainable development, guiding the priorities in research and for decis...

The study aims to investigate the research field of informality from a dual perspective—unilateral versus multilateral—in relation to Sustainable Development Goals. It highlights the dynamics of the literature and potential future research directions through mapping that enables the investigation of scientific knowledge. To elaborate the temporal d...

This paper proposes a new approach toward understanding the financial performance dynamics in the EU retail sector (pre-pandemic); we focus on the connection between indebtedness and solvency risk and other areas of corporate performance (e.g., liquidity, assets efficiency, and profitability). Its contribution resides in identifying the drivers beh...

Improving employee performance is one of the main levers for companies to achieve their goals. The detachment of work from place is a growing trend, affecting the performance levels of both employees and employers. The purpose of this research was to assess job satisfaction in telework conditions, based on areas considered decisive and evaluated by...

The introduction of quality, performance, and social responsibility systems in organizations that are open to learn and wish to permanently improve their activity ensures the sustainable development of those organizations. The purpose of this research is to investigate the characteristics of these three systems in order to identify the common impac...

The European Union’s environmental goal by 2050 is to become the first climate-neutral continent in the world. This means specific efforts for diversifying the energy mix and investing in low-carbon energy. Our study investigates the nexus among carbon emissions, energy consumption and mix, and economic growth in a modified framework that includes...

Research background: Having a similar background before the 1990, the ex-communist countries in Europe started to differentiate one from another in terms of social and economic development. Nowadays, in many aspects of the socio-economic environment, the differences between them are significant. There are many factors to be considered when analysin...

he implementation of the sustainable development concept within academic environments is one of the top priorities of the national and international academic management. The aim of the article was the analysis of the weights of the five Universitas Indonesia GreenMetric criteria used to assess the academic sustainability level, which determine the...

Our research investigates the performance of companies from Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries in the period after the Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2009 with the aim of identifying the driving factors behind accounting- and market-based performance. We include in the analysis companies from various industries in CEE countries that are...

The existence and continuity of life on Earth is based on the existence of an ecological balance. Under the influence of pollution, the quality of the natural environment gradually degrades. Thus, pressures are exerted on the environment, including from energy production and consumption activities. The different phenomena of pollution, associated w...

Our study addresses the link between ownership concentration and corporate performance in the manufacturing sector in the European Union in an economic environment stressed by the global financial and sovereign debt crises. This is, to our knowledge, the first attempt to tackle differences between companies with different origin-countries in EU fro...

The paper presents the result of economic-financial analysis on level of NACE 108x code – Manufacture of other food products. The data include relevant information about the market of such products, being analysed the economic-financial situations of a sample of over 580 companies, representing over 90% of the companies in this industry. The analys...

Retrofitting apartments represents an important necessity for Bucharest, as the city’s main body of residential construction was built during the communist era. The purpose of this paper is to reiterate the necessity of retrofitting apartments in Bucharest, through an analysis on the residential market on a large data sample of 19.795 transactions...

Obiectivul comun al legislaţiei în domeniul concurenţei şi respectiv al celei referitoare la protecţia consumatorilor îl constituie asigurarea deplinei suveranităţii a acestora, precum şi a bunăstării lor. Pe baza analizei literaturii de specialitate am fundamentat, ca obiectiv principal al cercetării noastre, analiza corelaţiei dintre gradul de co...

The common aim of legislation in the field of competition and consumer protection is to ensure the consumers' sovereignty and well-being. Based on the analysis of literature in this field we have established, as the main focus of our research, a study of the correlation between the degree of market concentration and the level of consumer protection...

Cartea cuprinde 17 studii de caz grupate pe trei zone de interes: - analiza si strategia economico-financiara (primele 3 studii de caz) - analiza economico-financiara (studiile 4-11) - evaluarea firmei si a proprietatilor imobiliare (studiile 12-16)

In the holistic vision, “the whole living” means a system of “integrated whole living”, both in the natural and manmade environment. The harmony of “the integrated whole living” is an expression and fundamental condition of the essence of life, defined by the following attributes: granting, coherence and resonance. Ensuring harmony in the manmade e...

The present paper focuses on the interdependent link between education and performance on the job. Its main purpose is to establish a framework to pursue strategic directions in educational policies to increase the competitiveness of the Romanian business environment, using as departure point into study a review of the literature on the links that...

The authors of this study aim to analyze human capital funding by use of two main approaches – education funding and population health funding and thus try to point toward key innovative development strategies that lead to the creation of added value to the national economy. In the study conducted for Romania we conclude that major draw backs are t...

Although the economists have studied the relationship between human capital and economic growth over several generations, there are still different opinions of how this relationship can be described in a formal model. This paper aims to develop a system of macroeconomic indicators, placed in the current economic context in our country, that would r...

This work deals with the subject of the school dropout, a subject of actual interest, given the high rate of the school dropout in our country and its negative consequences. In order to efficaciously act against it, it is necessary to know the causes that could lead to the appearance of the school dropout phenomenon and to describe the good practic...

Human capital holds a primordial place in the national wealth of developed countries due to the change in its role from a constitutive element of cost to the main productive and social factor of economic growth. In the current research we want to put forward a system of indicators that would reflect the impact of education, professional development...

Contemporary society is more and more aware of the need to protect environment by creating mechanisms in accordance with the structure and developments of economic and social framework. Thus, at the threshold of the third millennium, a realistic economic outlook cannot be created without considering the ecological component. The position of interna...

The question we started from in writing this material is whether or not the assemblies of economical events have or not a common root cause. Is the money our sole trade currency? The huge deployment of forces in the present economical environment seems to have higher stakes than just money. The "product" concept presently includes increasingly more...

It seems that nothing is certain any more... It has all been transformed from true to approximately true, and this is due to the fact that the anthrop economical environment is based on simplifications that loose their objectivity because of the occurrence of new paradigms, becoming more or less caduceus. This is why we cannot plead for a firm posi...

This survey on open source software presents an appropriate grade of understanding the major aspect of a new IT philosophy as following, giving an overview about history and evolution of open source software, differences between open source, freeware, proprietary software, common misunderstandings between them and the like. The paper is also to pro...

The EU successive strategies for sustainable development tend to put emphasis on conservation and recovery of the natural capital. As a member country of the European Union, Romania has undertaken specific obligations regarding the transition to a model of sustainable development, the principles, objectives and methods of work agreed in the EU. Thu...

The role and importance of fundamental analysis in the prediction of the course development companies can not be denied. However, among the specialists in the field, dilemma persists on its share in relation to technical analysis. In the context of the financial crisis resulted in a pronounced decrease in the stock indices worldwide, identification...

In the strategic analysis based on value chain concept, logistics represents main activities. Competing on the global market increase the importance of specific operations like transport of merchandise, warehouse exploitation, i.e. Creating and sustaining competitive advantage in the field of logistic activities is achievable through outsourcing or...

The major mutations occurred in the economic phenomena and processes as a direct effect of globalization along with the increased concurrence implies the use of innovation as a first strategic option. The research and development activity - the main component of the knowledge-based economy, play an important role in sustaining the innovation. Bette...