Digital transformation has become a topic of interest since public institutions digitalize their processes to improve efficiency, while citizens wish to solve their issues through online platforms. Even if this topic is a priority, the Digital Economy and Society Index reveals that digital public services from UE are under 30% development and implementation. This paper presents the current research made on digital public services and the perspective of Romanian citizens on the adoption of these platforms. The authors conduct bibliometric research to highlight the current progress and concerns. Furthermore, a quantitative analysis is made to determine the perception of Romanian citizens on digital public services and the factors that influence their decision to use them instead of traditional methods. According to the bibliometric analysis, 23 countries showed a raised interest for digital public services after 2020, which was a crucial moment that pushed digitalization among public institutions. Although Romanian citizens are aware of the benefits brought by digital public services, they encounter issues in terms of lack of information and technical support, knowledge, data security, and the complexity of these platforms. Therefore, the government should implement an integrated approach that considers cultural values as well as reliable and accessible digital solutions.

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) represents a critical technology for achieving climate neutrality targets, particularly for regions with significant industrial CO₂ emissions. This study presents a comprehensive numerical simulation assessment of CO₂ geological storage potential in the Sarmatian formations of the Getic Platform, Romania, located near the Turceni power plant—one of Europe’s largest thermal power facilities. Using ECLIPSE 300 compositional simulator with the CO2STORE option, we developed reservoir dynamic models incorporating geological properties, fluid characteristics, and pressure–volume–temperature (PVT) data specific to the Sarmatian aquifer system. Multiple injection scenarios were evaluated, including configurations with 3, 4, and 5 injection wells at varying inter-well distances (2000–10,000 m). The simulations covered a 20-year injection period followed by 300 years of monitoring. While previous assessments have provided static capacity estimates for Sarmatian formations, this study presents the first dynamic simulation-based evaluation of multi-well injection scenarios and long-term CO₂ trapping behavior in this geological setting, directly linked to the Turceni Power Plant emissions profile. Results demonstrate that the study area (Zone V) can accommodate the target CO₂ injection rate of 2.07 × 10⁶ Sm³/day using five injection wells, with final reservoir pressure increasing only 7–9 bar above initial conditions, well below fracture pressure thresholds (~280 bar). Long-term simulations reveal favorable CO₂ trapping behavior, with significant portions immobilized through residual and dissolution trapping mechanisms. The static storage capacity was estimated at 2.44 × 10¹⁴ kg CO₂. These findings support the technical feasibility of large-scale CO₂ storage in Romanian Sarmatian formations, providing quantitative evidence for CCS implementation strategies in the region.

The purpose of this paper is to identify how online shopping platform users in Romania influence businesses’ performance. The emergence of e-commerce has led to a revolution in global commerce by diversifying and improving sales and purchasing actions for existing products and services on the market. In Romania, buyers’ behaviour shows a more restraining of online commerce behaviour. Most sales are still registered according to the classic system of physically going to stores, although the number of online users has grown significantly over the last decade. The reluctance of buyers to buy from the online environment leads to the low performance of companies in the e-commerce market. The hypothesized model is empirically tested using data collected from a survey on Google Analytics platforms of some online companies in Romania. The authors used SPSS Software to examine the reliability and validity of the measurement model. There have been analysed various links between some variables that were obtained from Google Analytics, data that were collected by age groups, gender or geographical area. Through an empirical analysis is being analysed the role of tracking data on the websites in order to improve company performance. By analysing those variables, the authors analysed if the number of sessions acquired, the bounce rate of the acquired visitors or other variables can improve the company performance. This study offers a new perspective on company performance in online firms. The analysis of variables describing user behaviour in the online environment in interaction with e-commerce platforms has led to conclusions about the performance of online companies. The theoretical contributions and managerial implications of the study are discussed.

Online banking services create a way to reduce costs, attracting new segments of population and growing the bank performance and improvement of services. Client’s satisfaction is the main benefits of the banks. The aim of the paper is to investigate and to analyze the factors that influence the adoption of internet banking system in Romania. One of the problems faced by consumers using Internet banking is confidentiality. This makes security in transactions to be essential. For this, the main objectives are: identifying critical factors that contribute to the acceptance of internet banking system and the link between them and also identifying the demographic factors that influence the adoption of this system in Romania. The data collection was done by a quantitative research using the questionnaire method as a survey tool and it was made up of questions measured using the Likert scale. It contains variables based on the construct’s relevance to Internet Banking. All assumptions about the relationship between dependent variables and independent variables are developed and tested using multiple reliability, validity, and regression. It was used a statistical software and with it were analised 6 independent variables, named social influence, perceived ease of use, perceived usefulness, perceived risk, perceived confidence and intention to use Internet banking. The attitude toward using Internet banking system will be the dependent variable. To verify the acceptability model’s validity, it was used the Structural Equations Model. The results are partly supported by the developed hypotheses and are presented after the reliability test where Cronbach’s Alpha is calculated suggesting the internal reliability of the consistency for the scale. The significant effect that influences the attitude toward using Internet banking system is represented by the perceived usefulness, the perceived risk, the perceived confidence and the intention to use internet banking.

Digital innovation platforms are increasingly supporting organizational innovation processes and cooperation between companies and academia. Enterprise-oriented solutions and open and participatory platforms continue to differ considerably, despite the emphasis in the literature on their potential to integrate stakeholders, resources and information. Focusing on the interaction between academia and the private sector, this research analyzes the differences between digital innovation platforms in terms of functionality, governance and openness to collaboration between organizations. Six well-known digital innovation platforms were used for qualitative multi-criteria comparative analysis, using functional, technological and collaborative characteristics. The research analyzes theories on governance maturity, standards alignment and academic integration, in addition to research concerns on internal process orientation and external collaboration. The results show a clear difference between systems that emphasize accessibility and external involvement and those that focus more on structured internal innovation processes. Even though many platforms have complex technological capabilities, they are still underutilized to support long-term academic collaboration. In addition to highlighting the limitations of current platforms, this study proposes important design options for future digital solutions that can effectively support collaboration between academia and the private sector.

The subject of prosumers is a hot topic mainly because of the environmental benefits of renewable electricity generation. At European and national levels, the aim has been to increase the number of prosumers through policies that encourage the practice, but in addition to policies, there are a number of other factors that have a negative or positive influence on the development of the number of prosumers. A number of articles deal with factors such as average income, age, type of housing, and so on in EU countries such as Austria, Poland, UK, but the subject is insufficiently researched, especially in Romania. The research methodology consisted in collecting data available online on the websites of institutions accredited to collect data on the evolution of prosumers and observe the most prosumers and the availability of the national grid in Romanian counties. Subsequently, data on climate, economic, technical and social conditions were collected and studied to see if they influenced the increase in the number of prosumers. The research results highlighted that the analysed factors have an impact on increasing the number of prosumers. In areas where incomes, living standards and climatic factors were above average, technical factors did not discourage the increase in the number of prosumers, but in those with economic and social conditions below the national average and with the electricity grid already loaded, even if the photovoltaic potential is very high, the growth rate is very low. The main results pursued in this paper are the observation of national conditions that influence the increase in the number of prosumers in Romania in order to be able to develop strategies, establish and adopt policies or measures in the future to support prosumers in disadvantaged areas or in energy poverty, and also to reduce the negative impact of the environment.