Innovative Approaches in Economics, Leadership, and Technology

Alina Mihaela Dima is Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration in foreign languages at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Romania). She is Vice-Rector for Scientific Research, Development, and Innovation at the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, and previously, she was Director of the Department for Business Administration (UNESCO Chair). Her main research fields of interest are international business, competition policy, European integration, and higher education. She is Chief Editor of the journal 'Management & Marketing': Challenges for Knowledge Society (Sciendo/De Gruyter) indexed in ESCI-Clarivate and Scopus. She is editor of several international books, has coordinated national research projects, and authored various papers published by prestigious international journals. Cristian Badarinza is an Associate Professor at the National University of Singapore, a Faculty Affiliate of the Institute of Real Estate Studies, and a Network Associate of the Centre for Economic Policy Research, London, UK. He has obtained a Ph.D. and a M.Sc. in Economics from Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His research interests focus on the areas of residential real estate, household finance, and financial economics. He is part of the Oxford-Harvard-Sloan Initiative for International Comparative Household Finance which connects academics from Europe and the US and seeks to explore how household financial markets (such as mortgage, pension, and risky asset markets) are set up around the world.

• The Leontief Input-Output Exploration of Romania's Operational Programme Human Capital: Impacts and Implications for GDP Growth.- Exploring the Dynamics of Knowledge Ecosystem: A Systematic Literature Review.- Study on the Interactions between Fiscal Policy, Monetary Policy and Financial Stability in Romania.- Economic Sanctions as an Instrument of Economic Diplomacy – The Case of the War between the Russian Federation and Ukraine.- Correlation between CO2 Emission and Fuel Consumption in Hybrid Vehicles.- The Role of Accounting and Accounting Profession in Delivering the SDGs Agenda.- Basic Education & Basic Digital Skills Insights for Romania & Italy.- Current State of Agricultural Land (Areas) as a Factor for Development of Plant Production in Serbia.- Mapping Environmentally Sustainable Business: A Bibliometric Analysis.- Patterns of Sustainable Decision-Making based on Decision Biases and Professional Group Performance.- Cultural Intelligence versus Artificial Intelligence: Which Works Better for Organizational Leadership in Multinational Companies (MNCs)?.- AI and Branding: Navigating the Future.