Bizexcellence

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Vlad Roșca, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies This mini-track is dedicated to young students who are at the beginning of their scientific research career. The track welcomes papers from undergarduate and graduate students (BA, MA, PhD candidates) with an interest in business administration or in economics. Vlad I. Roșca, PhD, is a graduate of FABIZ, German language specialization, BSc (2009) and MSc (2011), also holding a BSc in Marketing (2010) [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Adriana Miclea, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, UNESCO Department for Business Administration The development and use of new models and concepts to support decision making in business and project management problems has been increasing in recent years, with a variety of techniques being applied. Usually, decision support in these realms needs to consider different criteria to evaluate whether a solution is good. In the assessment of solution quality, different stakeholder views must often be [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Francesco Bellini, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy Sorin Anagnoste, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Technology has been the driving force for growing during the last year. We saw organization and institutions alike rapidly adopting and changing how they work and interact. While, the trend will continue what has happened recently disrupted the current way of doing business promoting as alternative services and products. Tech companies in the developed countries have a [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Ovidiu Ioan Dumitru, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Simona Chirică, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Patrick Sensburg, University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration and Management of North Rhine-Westphalia (FHÖV NRW), Münster The recent evolutions of the international markets forced the companies, big or small, international or national, public or private, to adapt to the new dimensions of business environment. They had to adapt, to change their way of dealing [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Petre Caraiani, Institute for Economic Forecasting, Romanian Academy, Romania Luis Rojas, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Spain Cristian Badarinza, National University of Singapore The recent years in the aftermath of the last financial crisis saw many challenges for macroeconomics. New issues that were mostly neglected appeared at the forefront of concerns for policy makers and the academia, e.g. liquidity trap, crisis spillover, unconventional monetary policy, austerity measures, slow recoveries. In the light of these challenges, [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Mihai Busu, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies In the past decades, applied statistics was largely used in economics and management. The purpose of this session is to show how statistics can be successfully applied to analyze multivariate complex data in economics and management. Manuscripts applying statistics concepts to the modeling of the COVID-19 epidemic are especially welcome. Similarly, manuscripts introducing applied statistics models which can be useful to practitioners are highly appreciated. [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Robin Jarvis, Brunel University, UK Adriana Dutescu, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Digitalisation impacts the business environment in various ways and generates opportunities s and has long-term consequences. The ongoing expansion of digitalisation is generated by the increasing need of connectivity and higher information speed, which is developing and reshaping business models and generates new openings for financial services. Business intelligence and Business Analytics are transforming the paradigms companies are using to [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Wolfgang Karl Härdle, C.A.S.E. – Centre for Applied Statistics and Economics School of Business and Economics Humboldt – Universitätzu Berlin, Germany Vasile Alecsandru STRAT, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest Daniel Traian Pele, Bucharest University of Economic Studies Data Science provides insight and understanding of large amount of unstructured and heterogeneous digital sources. Today’s business activities in the modern digital society produces masses of information that needs to be filtered, analysed and structured for [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Cristian PAUN, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Ionuț DUMITRU, Fiscal Council, Romania Raquel MENESES, Porto Business School On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.” – Murray N. Rothbard Capital is the most important production factor. Without the existence of capital, other resources such as labour or raw materials [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Corina Pelau, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Marketers become more accountable for the marketing performance and the return on investment of their organizations. They must exploit opportunities and face challenges that abound on national and global scale. Various marketing dilemmas in the fields of practice and research call for the right answers. Do opportunity identification and marketing performance depend on the size and financial resources of the organization? How do innovation, creativity and [...]