{"title":"Leadership Influence on Work Satisfaction Level in COVID-19 times in Romanian SMES","authors":"Cristina Maria Sanda, I. Stegăroiu, G. Sanda","doi":"10.2478/vjes-2022-0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2022-0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Choosing the right leadership style is a constant concern in business management because it can directly influence its financial results. Through this paper, we wanted to check to what extent the leadership style can influence the level of satisfaction of the employee, his desire to change jobs, and to what extent it accentuates or improves the effects generated by the COVID-19 pandemic (anxiety, work from home, the economic crisis generated]. We also wanted to check to what extent a high degree of job satisfaction can negatively influence the employee’s desire to look for a new job. In the empirical research, we used the MLQ questionnaire to determine the management style, and we used the Likert scale for other variables.","PeriodicalId":399236,"journal":{"name":"Valahian Journal of Economic Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121268039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Need to Implement Change in Educational Leadership","authors":"Roxana Maria Anghel Blidaru","doi":"10.2478/vjes-2022-0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2022-0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article is inspired by the practical approach to education reforms, within education for all. These reforms have greatly fueled political dialogue and exchange of experience. Given the number of countries and regions of the world concerned, these reforms take place in a wide variety of contexts that underlie the specificity of each. Consequently, any possibility of classification and typology may encounter theoretical and practical obstacles that are difficult to overcome. Although we do not ignore them, observing certain dominant common features of these reforms allows us to try it through a double input: the expectations and the conduct of change, especially those determined by the globalization of reforms through the frameworks of successive education assessments and international assessments (PISA, TIMSS, PASEC, SAQMEC). The challenge is threefold. It is primarily a matter of categorizing expectations and strategic choices that make it possible to distinguish policies in the field of educational reform. This opens up a deeper understanding of the nature and impact of each of these different types of reform to better inform the analysis of the options that have guided the unfolding of change. The second challenge is to identify the major challenges faced by change management. Such challenges, by their scale and complexity, often explain the discrepancies between expectations for change and the results of reforms. One of the implications is also that addressing these challenges creates the critical conditions for successful reforms. The reflection on the lessons learned then opens the way to new perspectives for the development of reforms to which current and future trends in the evolution of education systems are articulated.","PeriodicalId":399236,"journal":{"name":"Valahian Journal of Economic Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129070009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Ghibanu, M. Stefan, Violeta Andreiana, G. Stoica
{"title":"The Management of the Corruption Phenomenon and its Approaches","authors":"I. Ghibanu, M. Stefan, Violeta Andreiana, G. Stoica","doi":"10.2478/vjes-2022-0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2022-0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Corruption is one of the plagues of the modern world that is characteristic especially of the economic, administrative, and political areas. The history of civilization shows us that this phenomenon has existed in the world since the beginning. Still, depending on the era and the measures taken against it, it was more or less developed. From an economic perspective, it is considered to be particularly harmful because it constitutes an obstacle to the healthy, prosperous, and fair development of a nation. In our era, the phenomenon of globalization has acquired very strong valences, unfortunately, and corruption has acquired an impressive development, ripping the fruits of global deepening, especially now that we are also talking about corruption manifested across borders when it affects or is promoted by multinational companies. Of course, the phenomenon of corruption cannot be completely eradicated and there is no country in the world that can boast of such a performance, but firm measures are needed to limit and stop it. Romania has been dealing with this phenomenon for a long time, and the legislative measures, the political will and the pressures of the European institutions should aim, in the medium term, to reduce it. The present article evokes the terminological aspects of the phenomenon of corruption, analyzing its causes and possible solutions, but also a perspective of mathematical modeling of its progression. The study’s novelty is given by the deepening of the corruption phenomenon in light of the opportunities offered by the new paradigm of the globalization phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":399236,"journal":{"name":"Valahian Journal of Economic Studies","volume":"112 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133997306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Competitive Strategies on the Romanian Market. A Possible Case Study","authors":"C. D. Ivan, Laura Marcu, B. Savu","doi":"10.2478/vjes-2022-0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2022-0018","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In a continually changing world, marked by the exacerbation of the competitive struggle, the companies’ management need to constantly analyze the field in which they run their activity to obtain information allowing them to elaborate competitive strategies in order to maintain or increase the companies’ profitability. To attain this goal, the companies need to understand the activity field in which they are running their activity, the existing and potential competitors, customers, suppliers etc. In the present article, we aim to analyze the competitive strategies in the Romanian lighting product market. We have chosen this field due to the dynamism and the competition for finding highly efficient solutions for lighting. The intended analysis represents a possible case study in this field.","PeriodicalId":399236,"journal":{"name":"Valahian Journal of Economic Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116181469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Cati-Loredana DUMITRU (SOARE), George Ciprian Gîju, V. Drăgoi, L. Preda
{"title":"A Critical Analysis of the Current Financial Statements and How they Manage to Provide or Imagine Faithfully to Complete the Market Value of the Companies","authors":"Cati-Loredana DUMITRU (SOARE), George Ciprian Gîju, V. Drăgoi, L. Preda","doi":"10.2478/vjes-2022-0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2022-0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Beyond international accounting standards, which recognize that there have been significant investments in intangible assets in recent decades and have complaints that do not identify investments in intangible assets in financial statements, distorts the assessment of companies’ performance and does not allow for a fair evaluation of the market value of them, there are also numerous recent studies that confirm this. In today’s knowledge economy, we find that the information provided by recent financial statements needs to be more sufficient for stabilizing strategies, decision-making, and the stability of the actual market value of companies. This article proposes a critical analysis of the current financial statements and how they manage to provide or imagine faithfully to complete the market value of the companies.","PeriodicalId":399236,"journal":{"name":"Valahian Journal of Economic Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124792991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Start-ups and Business Accelerators in Algeria: Financing and Marketing","authors":"Said Fetni, Hadjer Barhoum","doi":"10.2478/vjes-2022-0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2022-0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Emerging institutions play an important role in the economies of the contemporary world, and because of the sensitivity and weakness of these institutions, especially in terms of financing and marketing, in the presence of a fierce environment of competition, countries have resorted to providing several support mechanisms, and perhaps the most prominent of these mechanisms are the platforms of entrepreneurs, especially business accelerators, where The latter provides the necessary facilities and assistance such as accompanying, financing and even marketing for the establishment of emerging institutions, especially those based on new technological initiatives until they become able to continue and compete in the external environment. Therefore, through this research paper, the role that business accelerators play and their contribution to enhancing the presence of emerging institutions, working on their success and continuity, raising the level of creativity and innovation, as well as activating the relationship between research centers and emerging institutions by transforming these ideas into successful projects, as well as highlighting the most important models of these Accelerators in Algeria.","PeriodicalId":399236,"journal":{"name":"Valahian Journal of Economic Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134090356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of ISO 56000 Standard on Managerial Practices towards Sustainable Development - A Prospective Study on an Algerian International Port Company -","authors":"Rayane Rezak, Assia Djenouhat, H. Kherbachi","doi":"10.2478/vjes-2022-0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2022-0020","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The ISO56000 innovation management standards were released in 2019 and 2020. These standards provide guidance to product and process organizations for the development, implementation, and utilization of innovation management systems. The businesses can advance the field of innovation management by putting this certification into practice. This study was conducted to examine the relationship between the leading innovative management companies and management-related businesses regarding the implementation of the ISO 56000 standard in the port company DJEN, Jijel, Algeria. Data was collected using questionnaires from a random sample of 26 respondents. A quantitative methodology has been chosen and treated by SPSS.v26. The effectiveness of the ISO 56000 standard’s implementation is the main topic of this study. The findings imply that the port organization must adopt the ISO 56000 standard in order to consistently balance the economics with the environment and enhance skills and staffs involved in the company.","PeriodicalId":399236,"journal":{"name":"Valahian Journal of Economic Studies","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125285216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nabila Nehla Tebergaoui, Réda Djaouahdou, Karima Benhaoues, A. Tăbîrcă
{"title":"Exploring the Position of Modern Technologies in Activating the Remote Audit Approach in Light of the Corona Pandemic - a Big 4 Case Study –","authors":"Nabila Nehla Tebergaoui, Réda Djaouahdou, Karima Benhaoues, A. Tăbîrcă","doi":"10.2478/vjes-2022-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2022-0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The extraordinary events of the COVID-19 pandemic have led Big 4 Audit Firms, like many other global companies, to a place where everything is different. Overnight, all practitioners worldwide have been forced to work in an entirely new environment that requires them to scramble for survival. However, the same destructive forces and the challenges of maintaining business continuity, as well as the widespread working home methods and providing remote services, have offered enormous opportunities and potentials for audit firms [in particular, Big 4 audit firms] to develop their digital innovations and increase reliance on modern technologies. Therefore, the main objective of our research lies in exploring the position of modern technologies (particularly in Big 4 audit firms) in activating the remote auditing approach considering the COVID-19 pandemic. So, in achieving the objectives of the research, we relied on the documentary descriptive approach, through which we reached several results, most notably that Modern technologies have contributed to drawing the line between what is possible in the external audit profession and what can only be imagined, by expanding the circle of possibilities and enabling auditors to practice their jobs anywhere, anytime and in real-time with the auditee, which translates into activating the remote auditing approach.","PeriodicalId":399236,"journal":{"name":"Valahian Journal of Economic Studies","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115414975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth in WAEMU Countries: an Empirical Analysis using Panel Data","authors":"Ferdinand Moussavou","doi":"10.2478/vjes-2022-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2022-0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper analyzes the relationship between electricity consumption and economic growth, as well as the determinants of this relationship, in the countries of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) over the period from 1990 to 2018. The results obtained from the Autoregressive Lagged Model (ARDL) show that, in the long run, economic growth, the degree of international openness, and gross fixed capital formation explain electricity consumption. In the short run, no variable affects this consumption. Furthermore, in the country-by-country model, the results indicate differentiated effects. They show, in the long and short term, the absence of the effects of economic growth on electrical energy consumption.","PeriodicalId":399236,"journal":{"name":"Valahian Journal of Economic Studies","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117047247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of the Profitability of an SME from the Perspective of Quality Management","authors":"Raul Bogdan Mircea","doi":"10.2478/vjes-2022-0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2478/vjes-2022-0019","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Profitability can be defined as the positive result obtained by an entity that operates for profit, through the efficient use of material, financial and human resources, in a way that allows it to carry out the activity in optimal conditions for financiers, employees and business partners but mainly to ensure its future performance. There is a direct correlation between the level of performance of economic entities in an economy and its well-being. The stable long-term profitability recognizes an economic entity’s value through performance and efficiency. This paper aims to study the role of quality management in obtaining profitability. In this sense, we conducted a study in a company in Arad, and we calculated specific efficiency indicators from the quality perspective.","PeriodicalId":399236,"journal":{"name":"Valahian Journal of Economic Studies","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117084582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}