ICBE 2023

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Shahrazad Hadad, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Dalia Poleac, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania The aim of this mini track is to explore how businesses can use creativity and design to address current and future global challenges.No formal cross-sector collaboration convention has been established so far between the creative industries and the corporate world. However, in the future, creativity is expected to grow in demand as part of the skills taxonomy [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Raluca Georgiana Lădaru, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Mariarosaria Lombardi, University of Foggia, Italy The COVID-19 pandemic, Russian invasion of Ukraine, growing global population, increasing of food prices, reducing rural poverty, protecting the environment, climate change and the biodiversity crisis are just some of the challenges currently facing the agrifood systems around the world. Main topics covered by the hereby call for papers are related to solutions in order [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Mina Fanea Ivanovici, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Małgorzata Siemionek-Ruskań, University of Gdańsk, Poland Greening the economy has become a desideratum not just in EU member states, but worldwide. The economy is adapting to these requirements and it imprints new consumption patterns to reduce the carbon footprint, environmental protection, green finance, renewable energy, just to mention a few. In European countries, numerous changes have occurred after the Paris Agreement of 2015 [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Narciz Bălăşoiu, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Gregory Simons, Uppsala University, Sweden The interdependencies between the economy and security have become indissoluble, while the ability to decipher the security environment is a fundamental prerequisite for anticipating regional or  global economic trends. Security is an increasingly complex, sophisticated and dynamic concept that has undergone a real metamorphosis in the last decade. Assymetric and hybrid challenges have taken the place of conventional threats, [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Octavian-Dragomir Jora, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania International markets have been severely disrupted by the pandemic, which affected supply and demand conditions as well as productivity. At the same time, the new economic model across the world will be fundamentally linked to the digital transformation and the climate economy. Both public and private stakeholders can contribute to and benefit from the new financial instruments aimed at the massive investments required for a greener [...]

Mini Track Chair: Raluca Mihaela Drăcea, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Jonel Subić, Institute of Agricultural Economics from Belgrade, Serbia Marko Jeločnik, Institute of Agricultural Economics from Belgrade, Serbia TBD Raluca Mihaela Drăcea is an Associate Professor at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Faculty of Agri-Food and Environmental Economics. She has a degree in Banking Finance and since 2021 she has been habilitated in Economics at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies. He is the author and co-author of several scientific papers and has participated in a number [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Vanesa Vargas, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies Raul Cristian Bâg, 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. Vanesa Vargas is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration in foreign [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Daniel Traian Pele, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Miruna Mazurencu Pele, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Sadok BEN YAHIA, Technology University of Tallinn (TalTech), Estonia 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 prediction and modelling. Text mining, herding analysis and sentiment [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Adrian Dumitru Tanţău, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Holger Berg, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany Energy is one of the most important fields of study in our contemporary society. Special focus is placed on energy research based on the recent events such as the convention for limiting global warming proposed by COP21, the multiple financing opportunities for business and research in the energy field and the sustainability efforts that [...]

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln Mini Track Chair: Vlad Roșca, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Antonio Giangreco, IESEG School of Management of the Catholic University of Lille, France This track is dedicated to scholars, practitioners, professionals and students who want to share their knowledge and experience about the growing global sports industry. Although the global sports industry declined about 15% in 2020 due to the Covid-19 slowdowns, it is still evaluated at nearly $400bn, being expected to reach [...]