ICBE 2026

Mini Track Chair: Maria CARATAȘ, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Irene ROSBERG,Copenhagen Business School / Blue MBA, Denmark This mini-track explores how maritime logistics and port ecosystems develop business models that support strategic connectivity, competitiveness, and long-term adaptation in a changing international environment. It focuses on the role of ports and related transport networks as key enablers of exchange, coordination, and regional integration, with particular attention to how organizations respond to technological change, infrastructure pressures, and evolving trade patterns. The track aims to examine how firms, institutions, and public actors build value through improved [...]

Mini Track Chair: Mihai GHEORGHE, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania This section showcases measurable outcomes from applied AI across industries, pairing business results with the data and engineering that made them possible. We invite case studies, technical deep-dives, and research-in-practice that demonstrate how organizations built the data foundations, operationalized models (MLOps/LLMOps), navigated governance and EU compliance, and delivered impact—whether in forecasting, process automation, decision intelligence, or multilingual NLP for Romanian contexts. Submissions should emphasize methods, architecture, and lessons learned, with clear metrics and transferable practices that bridge economic research and applied informatics. The main topics [...]

Mini Track Chair: Daniela Staicu, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Todor Yalamov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria The Role of Multiculturalism in Digital Transformation Strategies At its heart, digital transformation is just as much about shifting mindsets and behaviors as it is about embracing new technologies. This mini-track explores how multicultural dimensions—such as cultural diversity, global mindsets, and inclusive practices—influence and shape digital transformation efforts across organizations. It seeks to understand how culturally aware strategies, international collaboration, and diverse workforce perspectives can foster innovation, improve user engagement, and enable successful digital adoption [...]

Mini Track Chair: Mihai TOMA, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania The integration of data science into behavioral economics has created new opportunities for analyzing and understanding human decision-making. Behavioral economics has reshaped traditional economic thinking by emphasizing cognitive biases, bounded rationality, and social influences that drive individual and collective choices. At the same time, advances in data science and machine learning provide powerful tools to collect, process, and interpret increasingly large and complex datasets, ranging from online surveys and controlled experiments to digital traces of real-world behavior. This mini-track seeks to highlight how these two [...]

Mini Track Chair: Petre CARAIANI, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Liviu-Adrian COTFAS, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Camelia DELCEA, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania This special track will bring together innovative methodologies and diverse perspectives to tackle the complexities of modern labor markets shaped by digital transformation and Industry 4.0. Cutting-edge approaches, including Artificial Intelligence (AI), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Semantic Web technologies, and Agent-Based Modeling (ABM), are nowadays at the forefront of analyzing and predicting labor market dynamics, in addition to more traditional approaches such as quantitative and qualitative methods. A strong emphasis [...]

Mini Track Chair: Mihaela IACOB, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Cosmin Octavian CEPOI, “Victor Slăvescu” Centre for Financial and Monetary Research Technologies’ continuous evolutions (or disruptive revolutions) made their imprint on the financial side of the economy inasmuch they were impacted by the availability and accessibility of capital. Such a statement looks like a truism, yet it needs to be carefully revisited for the interplay between the two is, more often than not, subject to reductionist views.For instance, on the one hand, there is the fuse suggested by the “fintech” designation, meaning the ensemble [...]

Mini Track Chair: Adriana DAVIDESCU, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Rim Jallouli, Higher School of Digital Economy (ESEN), University of Manouba, Tunisia Mohamed Anis Bach Tobji, Higher School of Digital Economy (ESEN), University of Manouba, Tunisia This mini track examines the application of advanced data science and machine learning models in solving modern economic problems. It highlights the ways that these models can help in the analysis of the economic phenomena, decision making and building of forecasts over economic processes. Topics include issues in macroeconomics, finance, labor economics, and policy analysis demonstrating the [...]

Mini Track Chair: Irina PETRESCU, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Mihai DINU, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Ammar Mouaky, Green Energy Park (GEP),  Maroc Goranka Knežević, Singidunum University in Belgrade One of the main challenges of the modern world is related to access to food and energy. That is why the importance of the supply chain has increased recently, even more so during the recent crisis periods, namely the Covid 19 crisis and military conflicts, to which is added the crisis related to the environment.In this sense, the development of logistic strategies designed [...]

Mini Track Chair: Petre Caraiani, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania 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, this session aims at putting together papers looking at such issues. The main topics covered by the hereby call for papers are related to: Business Cycles Models Monetary Policy (Including post-crysis) [...]

Mini Track Chair: Octavian-Dragomir JORA, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Egle RADVILE, Vilnius University Business School, Lithuania The exploration (aiming, inherently, at some kind of, at least, intellectual exploitation) of the future, as well as of the past, while differing on their basic ingredients – “visions” and “vestiges”, respectively –, shares a couple of adamant blemishes – our “incomplete information” and “bounded rationality”. We stubbornly compose mosaics (by means of imagination) about a past which we did not witness; and we, more or less superficially, extrapolate tendencies/trends (with a historical basis) for a future [...]