bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Cybersecurity challenges in the knowledge economy
Authors: Ursache Vlad-Mihai 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
The paper aims to study cybersecurity correlations with the knowledge economy, focusing on its challenges in this new age of economy. The relevance of the cybersecurity concept is sustained by the academic literature that shows its important role in the business environment, where disruptive changes will become the norm. In the digital age the disruptions are happening frequently which gives organizations less time to manage the change and the fact that they are almost constrained to develop new strategies to answer the challenges of the changing business environment. The knowledge economy has evolved and with that, new concepts began to appear out of necessity and the need to secure the dynamic environment of knowledge management systems. Considering the unprecedented access to information and advancements in conducting academic research, in the present landscape of the knowledge economy and cybersecurity domain, new methods are available to structure and examine a body of literature. The text mining and scientific mapping analysis conducted with VOSviewer software version 1.6.18 is allowing us to identify meaningful insights about the knowledge economy concept, such as the (1) existing research gaps, at least on cybersecurity challenges in the knowledge economy and the (2) the research interests seen for the time period between 2019 and 2021. To achieve this, a database derived from Web of Science’s core collection has been used, and the text mining based on term co-occurrence analysis contributed to a deeper understanding of current and future workspace dynamics.
An empirical analysis of modern employees and their demands. How well-established enterprises cope with their expectations
Authors: Suciu Marta-Christina , Mitucă Mircea-Ovidiu , Stativă Alexandru-Gheorghe , Bocăneală Ana-Maria , Mihai Dănuț-Georgian 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
The main goal of the paper is to illustrate, deeply reflect and highlight how the employees demands and their expectations had evolved through time and correspondingly how companies should address the anticipated challenges that might come along with these changes. Within the current turbulent and dynamic business environment managers need to be highly aware of their employee level of motivation in order to keep and possibly to increase their company’s competitiveness. From a methodological point of view, the paper uses an empirical analysis designed such as to better provide a set of relevant and valuable data, information and knowledge that would have to be used in order to anticipate the trend and expected dynamics of employees’ demand and their corresponding expectations. Enterprises should make efforts to anticipate these potential complex changes that are starting to materialize. These emerging challenges might bring diversification and amplified volatility of the main influencing factors that will determine companies to better identify and to find more efficient and effective ways to adapt their Human Resource strategies and policies in order to assure a sustainable increase of labour productivity that would highly and constantly contribute to obtain, keep and support their company competitiveness based on a long-run competitive advantage.
Study regarding the volatility of main cryptocurrencies
Authors: Micu Raluca , Dumitrescu Dalina 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Developments in digital technologies are considered to be the most important innovations since the advent of the internet. In several countries, this has led to a significant change in the way payments are made, leading to new forms of payment, such as crypto-currencies. With regard to cryptocurrencies, it remains a complex issue involving especially volatility, but also money laundering and consumer protection issues. While most countries consider cryptocurrencies too volatile to be used as a payment alternative, crypto-currencies gain interest of investors in the last 10 years due to the possibility of obtaining large profits. The aim of the paper is to study the volatility of the first 5 cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Binance Coin, Cardano and Ripple) through GARCH models. The process of evaluating highly volatile cryptocurrencies is complex and depends on many parameters. Therefore, our results would be particularly useful in terms of portfolio and risk management and could help them to be more agile in evaluating their investments, in making optimal decisions and making future forecasts. We find that the GARCH (1.1) models provide the best fit, in terms of modelling of the volatility in the most popular and largest cryptocurrencies. The results show that for BTC, ETH and XRP the appropriate model is GARCH (1.1) and in the case of BNC and CARDANO GARCH-M explain better the volatility of the crypto-currencies. Therefore, more in depth analysis of the datasets may be required to confirm or deny possible structural change. The study can be complemented by carrying out an event study on the 5 cryptocurrencies analyzed or extending the analysis by applying other GARCH models, to research the optimal model for several cryptocurrencies.
Evaluating the efficiency of the technologies used in SCM applying MLOps model
Authors: Puica Elena 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
One of the complex challenges is to justify the efficiency of information technology (IT) in Supply Chain Management (SCM). This manuscript presents an approach to investigating the effects of IT on technical efficiency in SCM through an analytical study. In the first stage, the measurements that in-fluence the efficiency of technology are presented that quantity the level of technical efficacy in SCM. In the second stage, those measurements are analyzed by applying a Machine Learning model to generate the efficiency level upon the corresponding IT Solutions in SCM. Statistical solid evidence is presented to confirm that technology exerts a significant favorable impact on technical efficiency in SCM and, in turn, gives rise to the productivity growth claimed by recent studies.
Synchronization of Business Cycles in European Union Countries
Authors: Grecu Robert-Adrian 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected economic activity worldwide. Despite the progress made by vaccination campaigns, important uncertainties still linger amid persistent global value chains disruptions and the ongoing energy crisis. A proper understanding of the behavior of the economy is therefore essential for future policy decisions. While there are plenty of studies regarding business cycles, using various methods from univariate filters to more complex methods, less papers focus on large scale comparisons. In this paper, we provide an overview of business cycles in European Union countries. We use the Hodrick-Prescott filter in order to measure the cyclical component of the gross domestic product and the Bry-Boschan-Quarterly algorithm for further analysis, namely the duration and the amplitude of the business cycles. Our results show that their size in European Union countries varies from 2.7 to 6 years and their amplitude is between 1.6 and 5.6 percentage points. We show that in developed economies, business cycles are more stable. Furthermore, strong correlations in terms of business cycles are found in the case of certain groups of countries, such as the Baltic ones or Belgium, Austria and France. In the case of Romania, its business cycle is more similar to the one of Bulgaria, Croatia and Slovenia. These results could provide useful information for policymakers in terms of future policy decisions conditional on both the current state of the economy and its structural characteristics. Under these circumstances, support measures should also take into consideration such properties of the economy.
The impact of trade openness on FDI inflows in Asian emerging economies
Authors: Rathnayaka Mudiyanselage Malsha Mayoshi , Epuran Gheorghe 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
In many countries, foreign direct investment is becoming one of the most significant components of economic development. The Asian emerging market is regarded as one of the best places to invest. Many governments have taken steps to deal with international trade to attract more foreign direct investment and open up their economies by implementing several progressive policies and creating a free trade zone. The main objective is to examine the impact of trade openness on foreign direct investment inflows in Asian emerging economies by employing the Panel-Pooled Mean Group Autoregressive Distributed Lag (PMGARDL) model and examining the direction of the causality between trade openness and FDI inflows using the Granger causality test period from 1996 to 2019. To examine the impact of trade openness on FDI inflows, we employed potential determinants of FDI such as GDP, population size, inflation, mobile telephone subscriptions, gross fixed capital formation, and total reserve as control variables in the model. As a result, trade openness has a positive and statistically significant impact on FDI inflows in the long run, but there is no significant relationship between trade openness and FDI inflows in the short run. The Granger causality test indicated that Asian emerging countries have a unidirectional causal relationship and that the causality runs from trade openness to foreign direct investment. In line with the findings, it is better to promote strong open trade policies to improve the investment climate in each country to attract more FDI into the region.
Agile approaches to developing e-Business solutions in a secure cyber environment
Authors: Ștefan Marius 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Modernity is characterized by major transformations and evolutions, which have penetrated into the depths of all levels of human existence, in all economic, political and social spheres, thus significantly increasing the quality of life. The Information Society is the model of society in which the main good is information itself. Although the accelerated development of information and communication technologies (ICT) is the process behind the evolution of the information society, the new model of society means much more than technological progress. In the technological age, action plans and policies are being developed to meet the challenges, the most important technology being ICT, which allows information to be processed and conveyed in a revolutionary way.
The information society is the ICT-based knowledge society. Information society technologies will evolve in the direction of being at the fingertips of the knowledge process, by generating, storing, and transmitting knowledge. Knowledge is the result of the information management process, thus promoting innovation, economic development, and decision-making in an efficient and transparent way.
The new Social Responsibility: from corporate view to entrepreneurship applications amid the COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Negrutiu Cristian , Patrintas Corina 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
While the interest in Social Responsibility has increased in the last decades, partially also due to the easy access that people now have to information regarding the companies they choose to work with, in Romania this sort of initiatives are still lacking, performed to answer law requirements or as a PR tool. The current study aims to put under the magnifying glass the external trends in Social Responsibility that go from the Corporate arena to entrepreneurship, while taking into account the changes brought by the COVID-19 pandemic at a global level. The study will be then contextualized to Romania in order to place the position of the East-European country on the Global chart and further investigate the possible trend in the Social Responsibility field.
Distribution management in the hypermarket system
Authors: Buzoianu Ovidiu Andrei Cristian , Gombos Svetlana Platagea , Barladeanu Tiberiu Vasile , Istrate Bogdan 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Due to its complexity, the issue of goods distribution must be approached in a much broader context, to highlight the consistency and prospects of such a sector, taking into account the diversity of all its forms – retail, wholesale, medium trade, etc. And on the other hand, the need to correctly evaluate the decisive role both in the development of production, but also in the modernization and promotion of consumption, so that it is close to all forms and sectors of the market. In such a sense, it is necessary to start from the exchange of goods and their role in the economic evolution of each country or community. The organization of the exchange of goods, in the realization of which trade is involved, is one of the basic acts of society. That act, which involves the whole social structure, through all or more spontaneous actions, in fact defines the place of the economy in the context of social life, specialization and the increasingly rigorous delimitation of the fields of action both in the case of national borders and worldwide. The multitude of collective or private entrepreneurs, who produce or sell products, the increase in the number of consumers or businesses in need of products, the emergence of representative buyers, but also various categories of intermediaries, over time have led to the emergence of an optimal framework for development and development exchanges.
A review on the competitiveness and performance of ecological, organic and regenerative agricultural systems
Authors: Constantin Marius , Deaconu Mădălina Elena , Petrescu Irina-Elena , Istudor Mihai , Tărăşilă Georgiana Adriana 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Over the last three decades, agricultural systems have been at the center of numerous policies designed to deliver society closer to a more sustainable future. Emergent research show agriculture as a vector of change that can significantly contribute to transforming economic models–from linearity to circularity–one of the premises of the circular economy. Turning waste into resource suggests new windows of opportunity for agriculture, as well as its potential to gain competitive advantages in relation with other economic sectors and become highly performant in this regard. Considering the new meanings of competitiveness and performance in the economics of sustainability, the objective of this research was to carry out a literature review on three types of environmentally friendly agricultural systems (ecological, organic, regenerative), and explore how the concepts of competitiveness and performance converge and/or diverge based on the different characteristics of each type of agricultural system. The literature is generally convergent towards the fact that ecological, organic, and regenerative agricultural systems are highly competitive in terms of low environmental impact, especially if compared to conventional agriculture, yet they are poorly competitive from a legislative point of view–as it is considered that those three agricultural systems are highly reliant on incentives and political support. From an economic perspective, they are also not the best-performing in terms of cost generation, yields, and income volumes. More research is still needed in order to identify pathways for the large-scale practicing of profitable, resilient, and environmentally friendly agricultural systems.
Tackling market opportunities for the biomass production in Romania
Authors: Ignat Raluca , Chiripuci Bogdan-Cristian , Pătărlăgeanu Simona Roxana , Constantin Marius , Lazăr Valentin 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
The European Green Deal sets out a detailed vision for Europe to become a climate-neutral continent by 2050 by providing clean, secure, and affordable energy. Thus, with the aim of providing a market-oriented perspective on the economic potential of biomass-related activities, several data were analyzed in this research paper. The positive impact of the green transition is necessary to be studied both at macroeconomic and microeconomic levels. In this context, the research question addressed was: What is the impact of the green transition on farms’ performance and national economy? A descriptive statistical analysis was carried out in order to prove the importance of specific crops, taking into consideration the movements in the energy market and the farmer’s constraints in the era of the European Green Deal. The main objective of this research was to determine if biomass is one of the optimal solutions able to gather all these European desiderates. This conference paper identifies the best scenario for an agricultural farm using diversification activities and the macroeconomic impact of the biomass crops. Currently, the European context is the most favorable for resorting to biomass crops, especially if considering the recent global energy market dynamics. Additionally, there is a need for activities diversification at the farm level in order for them to become greener and to boost their socio-economic and environmental performance. Results confirm that there is considerable economic potential for biomass production in Romania. The added value of the paper is provided by both microeconomic and macroeconomic approaches.
The economy of material flow cycling in anthropized and anthropogenic systems
Authors: Negrei Costel , Istudor Nicolae , Petrescu Irina-Elena 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
The dematerialization of the development of anthropized and anthropic systems/complexes represents an objective of maximum importance for ensuring the coevolution of human activities and the natural environment, from the perspective of sustainability requirements. In this context, the use of methods for analyzing the reciprocal flows between the natural environment as a system and the socioeconomic system, in physical and energetic expression, provides us with the information support necessary to adopt measures to reduce specific consumption of ecosystem goods, respectively pressure on biophysical support of socio-economic systems, regardless of the spatial scale at which they are identified.
Approaches in the field of industrial ecology, but not only, have highlighted the need and possibility of material flows cycling, but this is a first step towards dematerializing the development of anthropogenic and anthropic systems/complexes. From the perspective of global performance, research is needed on cost/benefit analysis of decisions in this regard and evaluation of effects/impacts on structural and functional processes at the level of technical-productive organizations.
Local budget balance and influence factors
Authors: Platagea Gombos Svetlana , Mocanu Viorel , Istrate Bogdan , Barladeanu Tiberiu Vasile 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
The local budget appears as the main component of local finances that derives from all public finances and is individualized by a certain structure in which the number of administrative-territorial units in a country, the public services provided, the degree of economic development, etc. participate. local budgets reflect economic relations in the form of money that appear in the process of distributing the national income through which the funds necessary for the interests of the local public authorities that are coordinated by them are formed and distributed. The local public finances are also characterized by a transfer of value that takes place between the participants in economic establishment and use of the mobilized financial resources at the disposal of the authorities. The transfer of value is done without a direct consideration, which means that the person from whom the transfer of money resources is made from the local budget. Local public finances reflect the participation of individuals and legal entities in the form of taxes and fees in the formation of local budget revenues without direct and immediate consideration.
Implementation by Romania of the Energy Governance based on the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plan
Authors: Panait Daniela Zănescu 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
The current paper completes the empirical literature on the European Union (EU) climate and energy policy design and evaluation, namely the implementation part related to the development, assessment and approval of the Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs) of the Member States (MS) for the period 2021-2030. These strategic documents are foreseen by the Governance Regulation no. EU 2018/1999 as the main tools used to implement the climate and energy policies and targets by 2030.
This paper is organized as follows: the abstract gives an overview of the paper and its main conclusions. Section 1 depict the introduction and background about the whole process around NECPs and the main provisions related under the Governance Regulation. Section 2 reviews literature from the perspective of the EU negotiations on 2030&2050 energy and climate targets, legal aspects of climate and energy governance and the process of NECPs development and approval. It also includes a short presentation of the data used for the analysis, including their sources. Section 3 gives an insight about the approval of Romania‘s NECPs by the European Commission. At the same time, this section briefly comments on proposals made by the national authorities and the recommendations using as starting point Romania‘s position in 2014 during the 2030 climate and energy negotiations while taking into account the dynamic of the geopolitical situation to date. Section 4 concludes.
Greening: politics and economics for social auditing. Sport management as common denominator
Authors: Vargas Vanesa Mădălina , Niţă Sorin , Marin Aurel , Joga Florentina Ecaterina , Stoica Mihaela-Ionica 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
This paper considers sport as a driver for politics and economics green incentives. While there are dichotomies in between green politics and economics, sport acts like a catalyst in between the two, by making use of its social dimension. In this respect, a stakeholder perspective is encouraged, especially when considering Corporate Social Responsibility coupled with ESG principles and non financial reporting. Sports is a 1.3 billion dollars industry that can set certain good practices and in this sense its “sport for development and peace” should be understood in broader terms. Social audits should be more extensive in order to capture better the links in between social, environment and governance factors, as reports from sports industry recently showed.
Impact of Engineering Change Request in Production System in the Pandemic Period
Authors: Pop Oana Bianca , Uifalean Dorel Cristian 
Published: August 2022

Abstract
Technical changes are part of the product or process life cycle. Their role is to develop the product and achieve the best production process. If it is functional, then engineering modifications are the best way to go. This work paper considered, the principles for change, how to effectively implement change in an organization, the importance of managing change and the role of management in change. The theoretical part of the work paper offer information about internal performance, and the implications during the implementation of changes in production system. From presented analysis show that the human factor is the key to the successful implementation of changes. After a successful study of the topics, it emerged that change requires management and full support of employees. Proper timings should be designed during change implementation. Lastly, a successful change agenda considers both internal and external stakeholders, that is, employees, management, and customers. To better the writings on the concept of change and management, this study is open to future research and more insight on change. The internal project team will use all these information in scope to ensure the success of the change. The analysis of engineering change request data shows that even though the quality of the engineering change request varies, there are several often-followed guidelines and best practices, in addition to the formal requirements for an engineering change request.