Browsing by Author "Apostu S.A."

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    Agile Leadership and Perceived Career Success: The Mediating Role of Job Embeddedness
    (MDPI, 2022) Akkaya B.; Panait M.; Apostu S.A.; Kaya Y.
    Agile leadership is an important managerial function in which responsiveness and innovation appear to be essential elements for the long-term development and success of any business. The world has become increasingly volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) during and post COVID-19. Managers are required to possess agile leadership to facilitate their employees’ successful careers. Therefore, this study aims to find out the relationship between agile leadership and career success by examining the mediation of job embeddedness in healthcare organizations. The descriptive research design and survey method were employed in this study. The data were collected by using three scales from healthcare employees in healthcare organizations in Turkey. Hypotheses were tested using structural equation modelling (SEM). The data were analysed by using SPSS and AMOS programs. The findings of this study showed that agile leadership behaviours enhance career success. Moreover, the relationship between agile leadership and career success is mediated by job embeddedness. The role of agile leadership in promoting employees’ career success has rarely been studied in the literature. This is one of the first studies to examine the effect of agile leadership on career success along with the mediating role of job embeddedness. Healthcare managers have faced many critical challenges at their workplace during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the lens of managing efficient healthcare organizations in many contexts, this research sheds some important light on the association between agile leadership, career success, and job em-beddedness. Managers with high agility levels used strategies such as group decision making, problem solving, effective internal and external communication, and adaptation to uncertain environment in order to increase their career success. © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
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    Digitalization, sustainable development, and industry 5.0: An organizational model for twin transitions
    (Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., 2023) Akkaya B.; Apostu S.A.; Hysa E.; Panait M.
    The business world finds itself in a state of transition, driven in tandem by the strategies of digitalization and sustainable development. A complex process, various stakeholders approach the transition with different tools. Public authorities create the legal and institutional framework, companies fuel the process of technological innovation but also promote sustainable development in their activity. Social responsibility has become a key element of the business strategy also embraced by portfolio investors, universities, consumers. Digitalization, Sustainable Development, and Industry 5.0 offers cutting-edge multidisciplinary research, with expert insights on the technologies and strategies businesses use in the twin transition process. The challenges of a Society 5.0-based new normal organizational model and the contributors' solutions both inform and teach regarding the present, as well as illuminate the path ahead. Understanding the best practices that have emerged in the twin transition allows researchers and practitioners alike to become more effective and serve as a launching point for future generations. The chapters present strategies for academics, researchers, managers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs looking to use new information technologies for business development while protecting the environment. Administrators, educational leaders, policymakers, researchers and other professionals can utilize the extensive research on managing organizations and providing valuable leading and professional development initiatives as well as implementing the latest administrative technologies. © 2024 Bülent Akkaya, Simona Andreea Apostu, Eglantina Hysa and Mirela Panait.
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    The foreıgn dırect ınvestments, economıc growth, renewable energy and carbon (CO2) emıssıons nexus: an empırıcal analysıs for Turkey and European Unıon Countrıes
    (Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2023) Çomuk P.; Akkaya B.; Ercoşkun S.; Apostu S.A.
    The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of foreign direct investment, economic growth and renewable energy variables on carbon (CO2) emissions belonging to 27 European Union member states and Turkey for the period of 2002–2019 by using a panel data model. In this study, the foreign direct investment variable is used as a share in GDP, the economic growth variable is reflected by the gross domestic product data in dollars per capita, the carbon emission data are estimated in million tons and renewable energy is calculated in total, as share of primary energy supply. The findings obtained from this study indicated the effect of the related variables on CO2 emissions was statistically significant, the impact of foreign direct investment and economic growth on CO2 emissions was positive, and the impact of renewable energy on CO2 emissions was negative. From the evidences obtained from the results of this study, it is seen that countries should apply policies prompting the utilization of clean and renewable energy sources in their economy in order to achieve sustainable economic growth. Properly designed policies in this direction are of vital importance to decrease carbon release and to enable the switching to low-carbon economy. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V.
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    What price Romania has to pay for being one of the main providers of physicians in Europe?
    (Emerald Publishing, 2024) Apostu S.A.; Akkaya B.
    Purpose: The migration of physicians is a global interest, causing imbalances between developed and developing countries. Romania is one of Europe's major providers of physicians, not because there is a surplus, but because physicians are drawn to places with better living and working conditions. Medicine in Romania is increasingly highly advanced, and Romanian physicians are well appreciated all over the world. Despite being one of the countries with the most medical graduates in the world, Romania is suffering a doctor exodus. After joining the EU, the problem of physician migration became widespread, resulting in a deficient and inefficient healthcare system. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to estimate the losses registered by Romania because of physicians' decision to migrate. Design/methodology/approach: These losses were calculated in two ways: utilizing the statistical life value and the amount of money invested in training a medical graduate. Findings: According to the findings, the losses in 2018 were 104.16 million euros, approximately 0.12% of GDP. Originality/value: The originality of this paper consists in data, being provided by the College of Physicians from Romania and the method used, this study being the only one that estimates the cost of Romanian physicians' migration. The paper adds to existing knowledge an empirical results regarding quantifying the value reflecting the departure of physicians, using value of statistical life and the amount of money invested in preparing a medical graduate. © 2023, Emerald Publishing Limited.