Is the Food System prepared for 2030? Considering that Zoomers (Generation Z) will be the largest global cohort in the world at that time, the purpose of the study is to identify what can be learned now from their eating habits to diversify and create a more resilient Food System prepared for the future. Researchers have discovered that the Food System should encourage sustainable and healthier food production by empowering a resilient local production. These changes are aligned with Zoomer preferences for local and organic food, considering their moral, ethical, and economic implications. To gather data, a quantitative investigation was performed among university students from Romania using an online survey in which 343 responses were recorded. A direct logistic regression was performed, similar to the one presented by Wilson and Lorenz (2015), to assess the impact of factors on the changing eating habits of Zoomers. The results showed significant changes in the diet of Zoomers who are facing an increased internationalization of the food consumption; they seek convenience but are also more eager to consume healthy food. For a more resilient Food System, special importance should be given to these preferences, through local and organic production, improving delivery methods, and enhancing the food experience in a responsible and ethical manner in order to prepare it for the next majoritarian cohort. These findings can be further developed by adapting the current Food System to emerging food eating habits and also by addressing how Zoomers’ food choices can improve the environmental impact of the Food System.

The Romanian traditional pattern of food consumption as a whole is no longer a reference point in shaping a healthy and sustainable food behavior due to the growing discrepancies between the return to traditions and the constraints of sustainable development, so the aim of this study is to provide solutions for reshaping the food pattern by incorporating the principles of sustainable diet. The research conducted is based on qualitative data and the semi-structured interview was used as method of data collection from a sample of 21 Romanians traditional food consumers. The study led to a typology of respondents that combines two consumption orientations, “healthy” and “convenience”, with two attitudes towards traditional diet, “hedonism” and “conformism”. Although respondents do not completely reject the idea of flexitarianism, they showed the tendency for overconsumption of meat-based traditional foods and a weak concern for environmental sustainability. For these reasons, a set of recommendations for a new model of sustainable diet for Romanian population, focused on the relationship between traditionality, sustainability, and health, was put forward. The research findings show the need for supporting nutritional education programs and extensive information campaigns targeted at Romanian consumers to encourage the adoption of flexitarian style and the switch to a more sustainable diet in the near future.

The present study investigated the factors that influence the feasibility and competitive advantage of a digital freight forwarder through a binary logistic regression model. The research is a concrete application of sustainable entrepreneurship in the transport and supply chain sector. The novelty of this topic presents a research gap that needs to be covered with dedicated studies. After the literature review and concept clarification, the article presents quantitative research involving an online questionnaire administered among a sample of transporters in Romania. Through analysis of the data collected from 405 respondents, it was found that the most important factors when selecting a digital freight forwarder are the existence of both sales and dispatch departments. Furthermore, apart from greening the industry, a digital freight forwarder has several other advantages for all stakeholders and society. The study concludes that the concept has the potential to disrupt the entire industry through a unique combination of efficiency, transparency, and sustainability.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the reaction of the insolvency rate to the various shocks in the economies of Romania and Spain through a Structural Vector Autoregressive model. Departing from quarterly data for 2008–2016, it was found that the future values of the insolvency rate are explained by the past values of the interest rate and the retail trade index, more precisely macroeconomic risk factors cost of debt and changing in demand are main responsible for the health of non-financial corporations sector. In contrast, the influence of the investment rate on insolvency rate is not predictable. In addition, both in Romania and in Spain the interest rate is the main determinant of the insolvency rate variation, beyond its own innovations, in horizons of over 2 quarters. These results were obtained under the circumstances that the analysed period was characterized by the Great Recession and its recovery. In this situation, firms faced a lesser demand as well as a tightening on the possibilities of obtaining the external funds they needed, not only to finance their expansion projects but even their daily operations. Consequently, many firms faced a negative environment that forced them to go out of the market.

Romania's foreign trade represents an important activity of the national economy with significant influence on development, growth and modernization both of production and services as well as of economic efficiency and increasing revenues. In this respect, the present paper intends to investigate the effects exercised by domestic absorption and RON/EUR exchange rate on Romania's agricultural imports on the basis of vector autoregressive models and co-integration.

Romania, as an EU member state, supports developing countries to integrate trade into their national development policies, in programs and strategies to reduce poverty by regulations related to technical assistance for the participation of these countries in the negotiation and implementation of the Doha Development Agenda agreements. However, in the period 2007-2013, on average, only 3.67 percent of the total imports of agricultural products from developing countries came from countries of Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. In this context, the present paper intends to investigate the effects exercised by the domestic demand and the RON/EUR exchange rate on the Romania's agricultural foreign trade with developing countries on the basis of the Vector Autoregressive Model.

Human skin acts as a barrier between the organism and the external milieu, being subjected and permanently responding to aggressions from various environment factors. Through alteration of cutaneous microbiome, production of reactive oxygen species, activation of aryl hydrocarbon receptor and induction of inflammation cascades within skin cells, pollutants trigger and/or aggravate a multitude of skin conditions, subsequently leading to a large number of consultations in dermatology services, and therefore, to greater health expenditures. Our model proves that the number of hospital admissions in dermatology services throughout the European Union is positively correlated with air pollutants and current health care expenditure and negatively correlated with pollution abatement capital expenditures.

The article “Macroeconomic determinants of corporate failures. Evidence from Romania and Spain” by Ion Anghel, Calcedonia Enache, Fernando Merino published in Journal of Business Economics and Management, 21(3), 743–759, https://doi.org/10.3846/jbem.2020.12217, contained the following errors: Some information in the 5th graph about Jmax was not given in Table 2, page 752. Information for Spain should be added in Figures 2 and 3 in page 753. Some results in Table 4 should be presented in bold in page 754. These have been corrected. The publisher and the authors Ion Anghel, Calcedonia Enache, Fernando Merino apologise for the errors.