The companies involved in the energy sector must reinvent themselves to be innovative and adaptable to contemporary environmental changes. The promotion of renewable energy in rural communities is a great challenge for these companies. They should focus on improving the environment scanning actions and the knowledge management (KM) system and enhancing the collective intelligence to avoid the loss of information, to foster innovation, and to maintain a competitive advantage. To achieve these goals, energy companies require appropriate management tools and practices. The purpose of this study is to propose a theoretical framework of organizational intelligence (OI) supported by a cross-perspective analysis of various aspects: economic intelligence (EI) and KM practices, entropy processes, and organizational enablers. A pilot investigation for testing the framework in the case of Transelectrica S.A. has been elaborated. The findings reveal that the elements of the OI framework are embedded in Transelectrica’s system and they need to be further developed. As an intelligent company acting in the Romanian energy market, Transelectrica has a higher potential to promote projects in the renewable energy sector. The main conclusion highlights that OI is a multidimensional construct that provides the organization the ability to deal with environmental challenges in a “new economy”.

This paper examines the impact of social stratification on trust in recommender systems. Recommender systems have become an essential tool for users to navigate vast amounts of information online, but trust in these systems has become a concern. The focus of this study is to investigate whether social stratification, defined by socioeconomic status, affects trust in recommender systems. We first review the literature on trust in recommender systems and social stratification, highlighting gaps in the current research. We then describe the methodology used in our study, which involves the analysis of valid and consented responses received from 487 participants from different socioeconomic backgrounds, registered in an online survey. This study aimed to investigate the influence of social stratification, specifically income, on trust in recommender systems. Results showed a curvilinear relationship between income and trust in recommender systems, such that moderate income levels were associated with higher levels of trust, while both low- and high-income levels were associated with lower levels of trust. These findings suggest that income plays an important role in shaping users’ trust in recommender systems and highlight the need for future research to examine the complex interplay between social stratification and trust in technology.

Public Policies are logic sequential activities for solving some high priority problems, which are meant to achieve some objectives and obtain some results with limited, well-defined resources. The model used by public administration for elaborating and implementing the public policies is a result-oriented management model. In this model, the monitoring and evaluation phases play a crucial role in measuring and analyzing the results. The results obtained are then compared with the expected results. Public Policies Elaboration is an extremely complicated process, with many actors involved, lots of decisions and links with other public policies already implemented or being implemented. The decisions taken within this process have different results on the people affected by them.

In this article we present aspects regarding the objective of the treasury budget, the stages of its preparation and the elaboration of the provisional financial statements. The purpose of the treasury budget consists of translating the expenses and income generated by various activities in collections and payments monetary terms. Its elaboration is the result of an exhaustive budgetary approach, completed by preparing the provisional financial statements, that must be coherent with the long-term planning activities existing in the enterprise. In other words, the treasury budget transforms the expenses and income of all previous budgets in collections and payments, notion which favours that of the monetary fluxes due date.