Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Challenging Global Times: Proceedings of the 16th International Symposium in Management (Sim 2021)

Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Challenging Global Times begins to address the need for a response to unprecedented global situations that require large-scale cooperation as well as individual organizational and institutional changes. Embodying the proceedings of the 16th International Symposium in Management, held in Timisoara, Romania in October 2021, this book gathers interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary studies, which highlight less-high-profile research concepts in management and industrial engineering.

The contributions discuss details of state-of-the-art business-process-management techniques that integrate innovative methods with technologies that promote organizational agility. The methodologies used are sparking breakthroughs in entrepreneurship, financial management, supply-chain management and sustainability management. Other contributions deal with the important process of digitization, which underlies the Industry 4.0 idea and raises issuesacross the fields discussed in this volume. Related areas, such as management-information systems and business philosophies that adapt and use contemporary approaches to maximize organizational knowledge feature among the contributions. Similarly, reflecting the role of small and medium-sized enterprises in catalyzing economic growth, part of the book focuses on a set of tools and techniques designed for their benefit.

This book assembles contributions from international sources that will help researchers and students interested in industrial and business management to tackle problems that persist from the economic crisis of the late 2000s right up to those that arise as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic of the early 2020s.

Gabriela Ioana Prostean is a professor at the Polytechnic University of Timisoara. She has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering, with an engineering specialization in automation and computers. Her publishing activity is related to the current Industrial Revolution, publishing in peer-reviewed journals such as Neurocomputing, Sensors, Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems. She also has an intense publishing activity in international conferences. She is a member of the editorial committees of various specialized journals, such as: ＂Review of Management and Economic Engineering＂, ＂Scientific Bulletin＂ - Polytechnic University of Timisoara, Transaction on Management Engineering Economy, Transportation Engineering. Starting with the 13th edition of the SIM Conference, in 2015, she served as editor of the SIM Conference volumes.

Juan J. Lavios is Professor at the Universidad de Burgos, Department of Industrial Engineering. He has a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering. He was Coordinator of the Bachelor Degree in Industrial Management Engineering and Lecturer at the Polytechnic School in the University of Burgos from 2010 to 2018. He has taken part in several research projects regarding organizational modelling and production management: Multi-agent systems for the control of distributed job shop manufacturing systems (financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economic Affairs and Competitiveness ); Managerial Integration and Management of the Supply Chain based on Multi-agent Systems (financed by Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology); and Analysis of networks in industrial management engineering (financed by the Research Program of the University of Burgos). As for the educational innovation, he uses methodologies of development of creativity and entrepreneurship. Starting with the 15th edition of the SIM Conference, in 2010, he became an editor of SIM Conference volumes.

Laura Brancu is associate professor of Management at the West University of Timisoara. She has a PhD from Lille University in France and is the author of over 25 articles presented at international conferences. She received, in 2015, the IACCM 2015 Best Conference Paper Award for a co-authored paper on cross-cultural differences and corruption level. She is also the co-editor for three international conferences. Laura Brancu acts as reviewer for peer-reviewed journals such as International Journal of Cross Cultural Management, Journal of International Education in Business, Cross Cultural & Strategic Management or International Journal of Intercultural Relations.

Faruk Şahin is professor of management and strategy and head of departmnet of international trade and logistics at Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University, Turkey. He has published more than 20 articles and papers in peer-reviewed journals (for example, Journal of of Management & Organization, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, International Journal of Selection and Assessment, Leadership & Organization Development Journal, International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior & Research) and presented many research papers at national and international conferences. In 2018, he received Scientific Achievement Award from Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University. He has been named a 2020 Emerald Literati Award winner for a research paper he co authored on entrepreneurship. He received a grant from Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). He also served as an editor of the Journal of Human and Work.