Studies in Business and Economics

2006 - 2026

From Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Economic Sciences
Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Faculty of Economic Sciences Dumbravii Avenue, No 17, postal code 550324, Sibiu, Romania.
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Volume 21, issue 1, 2026

GREEN FINANCE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ROMANIA: A NORMATIVE-INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE EU TAXONOMY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR EMERGING ECONOMIES pp. 1-19

Cristina Oneț

RECONFIGURING FINANCIAL INCLUSION. THE IMPACT OF FINTECH ON TRADITIONAL BANKING STRUCTURES IN EASTERN EUROPE pp. 20-36

Andrei Cristian Spulbar and Cristian Valeriu Stanciu

HOFSTEDE’S CULTURAL DIMENSIONS AS PREDICTORS OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS pp. 37-63

Carolina Țîmbalari and Mihaela Herciu

COMPARISON OF LOGISTICS PERFORMANCE INDEX DEVELOPMENT AMONG EU MEMBER STATES pp. 64-87

Jiří Franek, Xénie Lukoszová, Hana Štverková and Zuzana Čvančarová

SAMPLE SIZE MATTERS: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF THE I.I.D. ASSUMPTION AND RISK-RETURN ESTIMATIONS IN LATIN AMERICAN AND US STOCK MARKETS pp. 88-109

María Inés BARBOSA Camargo, José Rodrigo VÉLEZ Molano and Jorge Mario SALCEDO Mayorga

UNDERSTANDING E-COMMERCE ADOPTION ACROSS COUNTRIES WITH PLS-SEM AND FSQCA: THE INTERPLAY OF INTERNET USAGE, EDUCATION, AND ELECTRONIC SECURITY pp. 110-132

Kadir Özdemi̇r and Ahmed Yusuf Sarihan

BARRIERS TO YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN RURAL AREAS: A SYSTEMATIC LITERATURE REVIEW pp. 133-155

Alexandra Novac

GOVERNANCE, PERFORMANCE, MACROECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL STABILITY: COMPARATIVE STUDY ON INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA LISTED BANKS pp. 156-182

Saiful Saiful, Sriwidharmanelly Sriwidharmanelly, Eddy Suranta, Hilwani Hariri and Yusarina MAT Isa

FORECASTING CONSTRUCTION IN EUROPE: THE LEADING ROLE OF BUILDING PERMITS IN COST MANAGEMENT pp. 183-207

Cosmin Filip, Lavinia Mastac, Gabriela Drăghici, Adrian Ghencea and Monica-Gabriela Amuza

RESILIENCE AT THE LOCAL LEVEL: LINKING DIGITAL GOVERNANCE MATURITY TO MUNICIPAL RESILIENCE EMPIRICAL INSIGHTS FROM LITHUANIA pp. 208-229

Mindaugas Butkus, Ilona Bartuseviciene, Rita Toleikiene and Vita Jukneviciene

THE IMPACT OF FINTECH INNOVATION ON MARKET PERFORMANCE: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-PANDEMIC US FINTECH STOCKS pp. 230-252

Nono Heryana, Nugraha Nugraha, Disman Disman, Mayasari Mayasari, Rini Mayasari and Solehudin Solehudin

GENDER DIVERSITY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: THE CASE OF PORTUGUESE MEDIUM FIRMS pp. 253-279

Ana Reis, Maria do Rosário Correia and Luís Pacheco

DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS OF BANK RISK, CAPITAL, LIQUIDITY, AND PROFITABILITY IN INDONESIA: EVIDENCE FROM VECM AND ARDL MODELS pp. 280-305

Mohammad Sofyan, Sri Langgeng Ratnasari, Etty Puji Lestari, Deni Sunaryo and Ahmad Hidayat

ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIAL, AND GOVERNANCE (ESG) AND PUBLIC POLICY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW pp. 306-331

Ahmad Sholikin, Melvin Sarsale and Siti Shoimah

MAPPING THE NEXUS OF SHADOW ECONOMY, TECHNOLOGY, AND INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS pp. 332-359

Lavinia Mastac, Liliana Nicodim and Oana Roxana Radu

INSIDE WORKPLACE WELL-BEING METHODS FOR HUMAN RESOURCES SPECIALISTS pp. 360-380

Delia-Elena Rusu and Sebastien Bourdin

GOVERNANCE-BOUNDED ALGORITHMIC DESIGN LEVERS SHAPING DIGITAL CONSUMER BEHAVIOR: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW AND LAYERED MODEL pp. 381-402

Rony Arpinto Ady, Vincent Didiek Wiet Aryanto and Diana Aqmala

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION NEEDS ASSESSMENT IN MANUFACTURING SMES: AN INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY INTENSITY PERSPECTIVE pp. 403-424

Claudia Ogrean, Bogdan Constantin Pîrvu and Mihaela Herciu

Studies in Business and Economics

Sbe 21.1

Volume 20, issue 3, 2025

Studies in Business and Economics pp. 3-4

Sbe 20.3

THE MEDIATING ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE SHARING AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION IN THE EFFECT OF PERSON-ORGANIZATION AND PERSON-JOB FIT ON INNOVATIVE WORK BEHAVIOR: A RESEARCH ON THE IT SECTOR IN TURKEY pp. 5-27

Hamran Amirli and İsmail Bakan

THE FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS USING LOPCOW AND AROMAN INTEGRATED MCDM APPROACH: AN APPLICATION IN AIRPORT GROUPS pp. 28-53

Veysi Asker, Mehmet Yaşar and Kasım Kiraci

MAPPING THE FREELANCE ECONOMY: A CROSS-PLATFORM STUDY OF WORKFORCE CHARACTERISTICS, CHALLENGES, AND EMERGING TRENDS pp. 54-75

Lia Alexandra Baltador, Nancy Panța and Mihaela Rotaru

PATTERNS IN WORLDWIDE LITERATURE ABOUT GREEN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT: BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS AND KNOWLEDGE MAPPING pp. 76-106

Liliana Bunescu and Andreea Șerban

THE IMPACT OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ON ACCOUNTING EDUCATION pp. 107-134

Ionela-Corina Chersan

ON ‘DOGHNUT ECONOMICS’: REFLECTIONS ON ITS IMPLICATIONS AND RELEVANT POLICIES pp. 135-150

Delia Elena Diaconașu, Lucia Mariana Frăticiu, Ioana Negru and Virgil Nicula

DOES CORPORATE GOVERNANCE IMPROVE SMALL-FIRM PERFORMANCE? THE MEDIATING ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE pp. 151-171

Alejandro DIAZ Peláez, José Antonio Clemente-Almendros, Carlos Mario Londoño-Toro, Camilo Alarcon-Nieto and Raquel Patricia SALGADO Herrera

SOCIAL MEDIA AND HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT. AN OVERVIEW FROM A BIBLIOMETRIC PERSPECTIVE pp. 172-186

Mircea Fuciu, Anca ȘERBAN (sims) and Carolina Tîmbalari

THE OUTSTANDING TECHNOLOGICAL BREAKTHROUGH AND THE TRIAD OF CLASSIC, SOCIAL AND PUBLIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP-GROUNDS FOR A PROSPEROUS SOCIETY pp. 187-203

Ana-Maria Grigore and Ion Popa

MEDIA USE: A DEVELOPMENTAL PERSPECTIVE USING THE BIBLIOMETRIC APPROACH pp. 204-226

Raluca Sassu

COMMUNITY BASED MARKETING FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION. LESSONS FROM A PARTICIPATORY MEDIA PROJECT pp. 227-239

Roxana Florența Săvescu

ROLLING WALK-FORWARD LSTM FOR DAILY STOCK-RETURN PREDICTION IN EUROPEAN DEFENCE MARKETS pp. 240-260

Cristi Spulbar and Cezar Cătălin Ene

ANALYZING THE IMPACT OF ESG SCORES ON FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE USING CCEP ESTIMATION: EVIDENCE FROM BORSA ISTANBUL pp. 261-279

Tülay Telli̇oğlu and Banu Demi̇rhan

AIR CONNECTIVITY AS A DRIVER OF DESTINATION COMPETITIVENESS: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF EUROPEAN CITIES pp. 280-294

Cosmin Tileagă and Mihai Gabriel Cristian

TWO-SPEED ROMANIA: AN ANALYSIS OF REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS PATTERNS pp. 295-321

George Tudose, Ioana Alexandra Radu, Alexandra Horobet, Maria Louisa Bucur and Iulia Maria Apostu

WHY DO SHOPPERS PREFER M-COMMERCE? DISCOVERING KEY DRIVERS BASED ON A SEM–ANN APPROACH pp. 322-344

Simona Vinerean, Carolina Țîmbalari and Alin Opreana

SECULAR STAGNATION: A LONG-RUN PHENOMENON, SHORT-RUN POLICIES. THE CASE OF THE U.S. ECONOMY pp. 345-365

Val Vlad and Cristina Elena Popa

ESG PERFORMANCE, FIRM VALUE, AND THE MEDIATING ROLE OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM TOP ESG COMPANIES IN THE LARGEST ASEAN ECONOMIES pp. 366-386

Andi Wijayanto and Fajar Supanto

TWENTY YEARS OF STUDIES IN BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS pp. 387-391

Mihaela Herciu and Claudia Ogrean

Volume 20, issue 2, 2025

Studies in Business and Economics pp. 3-4

Sbe 20.2

BEHAVIOR OF MANAGERIAL OWNERSHIP AND GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP TOWARD TAX AVOIDANCE IN INDONESIA AND MALAYSIA pp. 5-22

Masripah Masripah, Dianwicaksih Arieftiara, Shinta Widyastuti, Marziana MADAH Marzuki, Muhammad Syukur and Maheran Zakaria

TRENDS IN ZOMBIE FIRMS RESEARCH: A BIBLIOGRAPHIC REVIEW pp. 23-46

Ivana Blažková, Ondřej Dvouletý and Gabriela Chmelíková

CAN WELL-BEING AND SOCIALIZING THROUGH FITNESS FOSTER THE FITNESS CENTER SATISFACTION AND LOYALTY? EMPIRICAL RESEARCH IN A POST-CRISIS CONTEXT pp. 47-69

Luiela Magdalena Csorba, Dan Cristian Dabija and Nicolae Horațiu Pop

DECODING THE PERSONALIZATION-PRIVACY PARADOX: FROM THEMATIC SCHOLARLY CLUSTERS TO PRACTICAL INSIGHTS pp. 70-97

Oana Duralia, Claudia Ogrean, Mihai Țichindelean and Monica Țichindelean

CEO CHARACTERISTICS AND COMPENSATION: A CHANNEL ANALYSIS OF U.S. LISTED FIRMS pp. 98-112

Cosmin Enache, Claudiu Boțoc and Sorin Gabriel Anton

REVIEW OF RESEARCH ON DETERMINANTS OF STOCK PROFITABILITY: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS pp. 113-136

Vasco Ferreira, Luís Almeida and Victor Moutinho

THE EVOLUTION OF SKILL DYNAMICS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE FUTURE OF WORK pp. 137-154

Blanca Grama and Ramona Todericiu

THE SUSTAINABILITY REPORTS (ESG) AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE STOCK PRICES OF THE LISTED COMPANIES: A SYNTHETIC ANALYSIS OF ACADEMIC LITERATURE pp. 155-178

Adrian Moroșan and Diana Vasiu

CEO CHARACTERISTICS AND HEDGING DECISIONS: EXAMINING THE MODERATING ROLE OF MANAGERIAL ABILITY pp. 179-199

Lidya Nurrahmawati, Anis Chariri, Akhmad Samsul Ulum and Inayah Risqi Alisa

ASYMMETRIC IMPACT OF INTEREST RATES ON STOCK MARKET RETURNS: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM SOUTH AFRICA pp. 200-217

Dumisani Pamba

RELIGIOSITY AND MANAGERIAL DECISION-MAKING: A LATENT CONFLICT OR A SOURCE OF CONSISTENT VALUES? pp. 218-237

Iustin-Cornel Petre and Kamer-Ainur Aivaz

SUSTAINABILITY AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOR IN GREEN HOTELS: INSIGHTS FROM A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS pp. 238-252

Roxana Elena Popșa

MAPPING THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN ONLINE REVIEWS AND ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE IN TOURISM: A BIBLIOMETRIC STUDY pp. 253-270

Andreea-Simina Porancea-Răulea

CORPORATE SUSTAINABLE VALUE: CONCEPTUALIZATION, MEASUREMENT AND FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS pp. 271-291

Alina Rădoiu, Cristina Maria Bătușaru and Ioana Raluca Sbârcea

DATA ANALYTICS, DECISION-MAKING PROCESS AND BUSINESS PERFORMANCE: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS pp. 292-313

Alexandra Radu and Mihaela Herciu

ALTMAN Z-SCORE MODELING AND FINANCIAL RISK ANALYSIS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON COMPANIES LISTED ON THE BUCHAREST STOCK EXCHANGE pp. 314-340

Cristi Spulbar, Dumitru Cinciulescu, Cezar Catalin Ene and Lucian Florin Spulbar

MANAGERIAL PERSPECTIVE OF SHARING ECONOMY. A BIBLIOMETRIC APPROACH pp. 341-355

Simona Cătălina Ștefan, Ion Popa and Andreea Breazu

LEGISLATIVE RISK AND MARKET RESILIENCE IN EMERGING ECONOMIES: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF POLITICAL INFLUENCE ON ROMANIA’S FINANCIAL MARKET pp. 356-375

Diane Paula Vancea, Cristian-Dan Opariuc, Luciana Simion and Lavinia Mastac

PORTFOLIO SELECTION AND OPTIMIZATION IN ROMANIAN AND POLISH STOCK MARKETS pp. 376-389

Radu-Alexandru Șerban, Diana Mihaiu and Vasile Brătian

FROM THE ARCHETYPE OF THE EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIP TO ALGORITHM MANAGEMENT. CHALLENGES REGARDING MANAGERIAL DECISIONS IN EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS pp. 390-404

Monica Gheorghe

Volume 20, issue 1, 2025

Studies in Business and Economics pp. 3-4

Sbe 20.1

MONETARY POLICY RESPONSE DURING COVID-19 AND THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE WAR: EVIDENCE FROM EURO AND NON-EURO AREA pp. 5-18

Florin Aliu, Albulena Kastrati and Yelyzaveta Apanovych

THE IMPACT OF IOT USAGE ON BIG DATA ANALYTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN INTEGRATION pp. 19-42

Şemsettin Çiğdem, Bülent Yildiz, Ieva Meidute-Kavaliauskiene and Renata Cincikaite

SPINNER INNOVATION: INTEGRATED MODEL FOR THE DEVELOPMENT AND PREDICTION OF INNOVATION pp. 43-57

Ronnie Figueiredo

THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION ON SUSTAINABLE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT pp. 58-76

Jana Hornungová and Kateřina Petrová

UNVEILING THE AUDITOR'S LENS: IMPACT OF WORKLOAD, TIME PRESSURE, PROFESSIONAL SKEPTICISM, AND COMPETENCE TO FRAUD DETECTION pp. 77-96

Hera Khairunnisa, Gentiga Muhammad Zairin, Sharifah Milda Amirul, Rida Prihatni and Hasyim Rachman

DIGITALIZATION AS CATALYSTS OF CHANGE IN FINANCE, ACCOUNTING, AND REPORTING: UNCOVERING SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG FINANCIAL FACTORS pp. 97-124

Enkeleda Lulaj

IMPACT OF TRAINING, TRUST AND CUSTOMER SATISFACTION ON THE REPUTATION OF BANKS IN ROMANIA pp. 125-141

Anamaria Mișa and Kamer-Ainur Aivaz

MANAGEMENT OF FINANCIAL RESOURCES AND PROFITABILITY OF COMPANIES IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC pp. 142-162

Mihaela Neacșu, Diana-Elena David and Iuliana Eugenia Georgescu

TREND IN THE LITERATURE REVIEW OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS pp. 163-179

Nuryakin

THE IMPACT OF CSR DIMENSIONS ON FIRM PERFORMANCE: QUANTITATIVE RESEARCH OF IRANIAN SME’S pp. 180-200

Mohammadsadegh Omidvar, Iza Gigauri and Felix-Angel Popescu

APPROACHING THE ENTREPRENEURS’ POINT OF VIEW FOR THE PUBLIC SECTOR pp. 201-212

Sotirios Papadopoulos and Persefoni Polychronidou

ON SKEPTICISM IN THE PRACTICE OF THE PROFESSION OF AUDITOR pp. 213-227

Daniela Petrașcu and Ionel Marius Cetină

INNOVATIONS OF THE EUROPEAN DIGITAL SPACE IN THE BANKING PAYMENT SERVICES MARKET pp. 228-246

Oleksandr S. Prystеmskyi, Alina Zh. Sakun, Andrii S. Mokhnenko, Serhii V. Kostornoi and Roman A. Antonov

TRADE FACILITATION AND FIRMS: A LITERATURE REVIEW pp. 247-262

Mwangelwa Sibupiwa and Abubaker Qutieshat

THE FUTURE OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP: STRATEGIC APPROACHES FOR BUSINESS ADAPTATION IN A CHANGING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT. FROM RISKS TO OPPORTUNITIES pp. 263-280

Sorin Terchila

RELATIONSHIP AMONG R&D, PRODUCTIVITY, AND FIRM EXPORTS: THE MODERATING ROLE OF CREDIT CONSTRAINTS pp. 281-292

Dengjun Zhang, Ermanno Affuso, Jan Buleca, Peter Toth and Rudresh Pandey

AN OVERVIEW OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION IN UNIVERSITIES pp. 293-303

Livia Ilie and Camelia Budac

TALENT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES FOR GENERATION Z: AN EXPLORATORY STUDY IN ROMANIAN ORGANIZATIONS pp. 304-318

Cristina Holban and Maria Viorica Bedrule-Grigoruță

GAMIFICATION IN PROJECT MANAGEMENT pp. 319-339

Raluca Petronela Mahu

AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF THE INTERDEPENDENCIES BETWEEN INVESTMENT, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND FISCAL PERFORMANCE: EVIDENCE FROM ROMANIA pp. 340-373

Nicoleta Claudia Moldovan, Cristi Spulbar, Simona Maria Ene and Raluca Ioana Racataian

RETHINKING DYNAMIC CAPABILITIES FOR A DIGITAL WORLD: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF EMERGING TRENDS AND CONCEPTUAL SHIFTS pp. 374-391

Claudia Ogrean