Expert Opinions

The present contribution is an extended abstract of the chapter with the same title, signed by Dr. Andreea Mitan in the book edited by Alexandra Zbuchea, Florina Pinzaru, and Cristian Vidu – Changing the Game. AI and Education.  AI is a game changer. Since ChatGPT, one of the more famous Generative AI tools, became available to […]

Created by OpenAI and released to the public in November 2022 (Zhai, 2022), ChatGPT is a universal conversational chatbot with the ability to converse naturally and openly on a variety of topics. It is made to produce human-like texts in response to requests or chats – summarizing, translating, paraphrasing, generating content, describing art, composing email […]

At the present moment, teaching with AI is a controversial issue, still. Some countries and organizational institutions have declared against the use of AI in education. I find this unthinkable. For me, it is like trying to stop the use of the Internet or any other technology that was, once, novel but time proved its […]

This is an extended abstract of the chapter Artificial Intelligence – from idea to implementation. How AI can reshape the education landscape?, written by Dr. Cătălin Vrabie, for the volume Changing the Game. AI in Education, edited by Alexandra Zbuchea, Florina Pinzaru, and Cristian Vidu. The journey of technological evolution has been marked by the […]

Heraclitus of Ephesus stated that we can not go into the same river twice. Each time it is a different river because everything flows (panta rei). This absolutization of becoming is dangerous as it is pointing to relativism and, in consequence, to skepticism: if things are constantly changing, how can we reach the truth? A […]

The relationship between academia and business, especially for research advances in economic sciences, represents more than a desiderate. It is, in many cases, the necessary framework for testing new theories and the source of further research progress. University Lecturer Sergiu Stan proposes a desktop research report on these complex interdependencies between academia and the business […]

In this article, the reader may discover more about how international research networks in the field of Management work. Insights on practices concerning intellectual capital valorization from various universities in Europe are presented. The first part of this study introduces an inventory of relevant academic perspectives on international research networks, focusing on the networks concerned […]

Without intellectual curiosity, research is pure opportunism. I do not conceive research without intellectual curiosity. Social phenomena, the same as the natural ones, simply exist. Researchers do not produce them. A researcher does research because they wonder why a phenomenon occurred, how it manifests itself, which are its consequences, if and how those consequences can […]

When conducting research, a thorough explanation of the employed methodology must be made to be deemed scientific and subsequently accepted for publication in a journal following a process of (blind) peer review (which is anonymous).  There are two types of methodology: positivist and interpretive (ethnographic). The vast majority of social science journals (whether we refer […]

In The Division of Labor in Society (2008), Emile Durkheim claims that humanity, as it evolved from a primitive society to an industrial one, underwent shifts ranging from a low to a high division of labor, from social solidarity based on resemblance to one that is determined by an interdependence caused by a wide array of professional […]