ICBE 2026

Mini Track Chair: Christian FIESELER, BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway Miruna MAZURENCU, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Mihai SACALĂ, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania The diffusion of rapidly improving, powerful artificial intelligence (AI) technologies is rendering automated decision making an increasingly common component of organizational processes, in which employees, managers, clients and the public are more and more facing a reality where machines make ‘decisions’ that are implemented without always meaningful avenues for questioning and redress. While AI and its employment in organizations has made great progress over the last decade, [...]

Mini Track Chair: Vanesa VARGAS, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania We are pleased to invite submissions for the HERMES workshop on "Entrepreneurship as an Engine for Sustainable Growth" at the 18th International Conference on Business Excellence. This section aims to explore the multifaceted role of entrepreneurship in fostering sustainable growth, addressing challenges, and unlocking opportunities for businesses, economies, and societies. The HERMES network was founded in November 1997 as an initiative of the Ecole de Management Strasbourg (former IECS) of the Robert Schuman University in Strasbourg. Three years later, on the 31st of March 2000, [...]

Mini Track Chair: Carmen Valentina Rădulescu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Jonel Subić, IEA Belgrad, Serbia Sorin Burlacu, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Concerns over climate change, clean air and water, renewable energy and land use, continue to draw attention to sustainability, sustainable urban planning and the developmental strategies, practices and models that ensure habitable, self-sustaining communities. The role of agriculture as promoter and enabler of a circular economy has become clearer and of great significance in tackling challenges of natural resource depletion, waste management, food security and more. The main topics covered [...]

Mini Track Chair: Adrian TANȚĂU, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Holger BERG, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Germany Integrated energy systems are key solutions in decarbonizing the energy systems and reducing the GHG emissions (e.g. CO2 emissions) in order to combat climate change. Energy systems include production (Hydro, nuclear, photovoltaic, wind, gas, coal), transport (electricity, thermal energy, hydrogen), storage and energy use (industry, transport, households). Digital circular economy is more than: reduce, reuse, recycle and remove. It can reduce also the internet network energy consumption and can be associated with a reduction of emissions in [...]

Mini Track Chair: Dana BOLDEANU, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Florin MIHAI, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Tamás OROSZ, Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary Over recent years, companies from different domains started to invest in ERP systems with the aim of exploring opportunities and employing technology to optimize business performance. Balancing between reducing costs and risks and increasing business resilience, the companies are facing challenges related to the development of ERP systems in the context of business disruption and need for adaptation to the new digital technologies. The main topics covered [...]

Mini Track Chair: Raluca Georgiana Lădaru, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Mariarosaria Lombardi, University of Foggia, Italy Andreea Apetrei Kalveram, Universidad Católica de Valencia, Spain 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 to achieve resilient and sustainable agri-food systems under global change. Lădaru [...]

Mini Track Chair: Mina IVANOVICI, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Boris DZIURA, The University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia Christian NĂSULEA, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania The ongoing macroeconomic challenges are manifold, such as: changes in monetary and fiscal policies, migrationary phenomena, labor market disequilibria, war and acute the geopolitical tensions, (early) signs of recession, persisting inflation, energy crisis and a redesign of energy polices and geopolitical interdependencies, technological pressure and AI democratization. All these challenges affect the business environment and the ease of doing business, and entrepreneurs need to find [...]

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, making the new means of waging a war increasingly difficult to anticipate and counter. Information warfare, economic warfare, cyber [...]

Mini Track Chair: Alexandra CIUCU, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Cristina GEAMBAȘU, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania Ioana BIRLAN, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Romania 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. Alexandra Ciucu is a PhD student at the Doctoral School of Cybernetics and Economic Statistics and a research assistant at the [...]

Mini Track Chair: Marius MATEI, 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 extraction are quantitative tools to augment forecasts in finance, banking and behavioral economics. Smart data analytics is the way to apply data science in a digital society. In this track we [...]