Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Serial Mediation Pathways Linking Physical Performance to EQ-VAS-Assessed Self-Rated Health in Older Inpatients

Background/Objectives: This study examined patterns of cross-sectional indirect associations involving cognitive status, depressive symptoms, and functional status in the relationship between Tinetti Mobility Test (TMT)-assessed balance and gait performance and self-rated health...

Love It, Hate It, Can't Quit It: Mapping the Duality of Social Media Use

ABSTRACT Social media use (SMU) is increasingly central to consumer–brand engagement; however, consumers routinely describe it as both a source of connection and utility and a driver of loss of control and diminished well‐being. This research advances an integrative duality frame...

Digital Connectivity and Skills Differences: Assessing Digital Convergence in the Digital Decade of the European Union

Digital transformation is a central objective of the European Union’s Digital Decade, but progress across Member States may differ substantially between connectivity, human capability, technology adoption, and public-service digitalisation. This study examines digital convergence...

Learning from failure by using a hybrid model technique: the Suez Canal incident

Abstract This paper examines the grounding of the Ever Given in the Suez Canal using a hybrid analytical framework integrating Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Reliability Block Diagram (RBD), and Bowtie Modelling enhanced by the Haddon Matrix. The framework identifies causal pathways...

Divergent Rehabilitation Targets in Pediatric Cerebral Palsy: Asymmetry-Bounded Versus Symmetry-Disrupting Strategies in Hemiplegic and Diplegic Gait

Rehabilitation for gait asymmetry in cerebral palsy (CP) commonly treats improvements in gait symmetry indices as a subtype-general marker of therapeutic success. Building on a trajectory-divergence model developed in a companion review, we propose that hemiplegic (unilateral spa...

Conceptualising family business 5.0 as a socioemotional wealth driven framework for responsible family business transformation

Abstract Purpose This paper introduces the construct of Family Business 5.0 (FB5.0) as a conceptual domain of Industry 5.0 (I5.0), providing a human-centric framework for sustainable digital transformation in family businesses (FBs). It explores how emerging technologies can be h...

Sustainability Reporting in Romania Under the CSRD and ESRS: An Exploratory Multiple Case Study of Listed Companies

The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) was adopted in order to improve the quality of this type of reporting in the European Union. However, its scope and requirements were quickly softened in order to reduce the reporting burden on companies. This paper is an ex...

When Stakeholder Pressure Meets Green: Explaining Sustainable Supply Chain Management Adoption in a Late EU ‐Accession Economy

ABSTRACT Recent regulations have introduced unprecedented mandatory sustainability requirements for EU companies, with significant implications for firms embedded in supply chains. These requirements increasingly affect not only large companies but also small and medium‐sized ent...

Driving phronesis as a milestone for engineering autonomous vehicles

Abstract One of the main ethical reasons why autonomous vehicles (AVs) have been portrayed as the future of transportation is their potential to enhance road safety by eliminating human error. However, while AVs may mitigate known hazards, their successful deployment in the near...

Incorporating data drift to perform survival analysis on credit risk

Survival analysis has become a standard approach for modelling time to default by time-varying covariates in credit risk. Unlike most existing methods that implicitly assume a stationary data-generating process, in practise, mortgage portfolios are exposed to various forms of dat...

Twin Transition Priorities Within the Sustainable Development Goals and Economic Freedom in the European Union: A Pillar‐Level Analysis

ABSTRACT Europe's twin green and digital transition seeks to align sustainability with digitalization, yet it remains unclear whether progress in twin transition‐relevant SDGs coincides with changes in economic freedom dimensions. Using an EU‐27 panel from 2000 to 2024, we examin...

Interested, able and prepared: stakeholders’ influence in local communities during the war in Ukraine

The capacity of local actors to step up and exert a positive influence in their communities has been a key focus of international assistance in the contemporary context of overlapping crises. The centralization of powers has appeared to diminish local stakeholders’ influence in c...

Nutritional Strategies for Recovery–Adaptation Coupling After Exercise: From Muscle Damage to Performance Remodeling

Background/Objectives: Recovery nutrition must restore near-term readiness without indiscriminately suppressing biological signals that contribute to repair and training adaptation. This review evaluates recovery–adaptation coupling (RAC) as a research framework and clarifies its...