Arnis Sauka (SSE Riga)

4th February 2019

Dr. Arnis Sauka is an Associate Professor and the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Business at SSE Riga. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Siegen (Germany) and has been a Visiting Scholar at Jönköping International Business School (Sweden) and University College London (U.K.). His academic research findings, which deal with the shadow economy, tax morale, productivity and competitiveness, social responsibility, internationalisation of companies and entrepreneurship policies, have been published in journals, including Journal of Business Ethics, International Small Business Journal, Journal of Comparative Economics, Journal of Baltic Studies, Baltic Journal of Economics  as well as number of edited books and book chapters published by Springer, Routledge, Edward Elgar, IGI Global, Blackwell and Peter Lang.

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Elena Druică (University of Bucharest)

4th February 2019

Elena Druică is full professor of Statistics for Business, Applied Econometrics and Data Analysis with the University of Bucharest. She was formally trained in Mathematics, completing her PhD in 2003. During her PhD she studied genetic algorithms and optimization processes, developing a new classification of objective functions that converge to the optimum in polynomial time. During her second doctoral work she studied Economics with a particular focus on risk assessment. Elena Druică is interested in structural equation modeling of various social and economic phenomena. She is trained in R programming language.

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