Adina-Roxana
PhD Thesis

AN ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF THE ORGANIC MARKET IN ROMANIA DURING 2012-2014

AN ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE AND PERFORMANCE OF THE ORGANIC MARKET IN ROMANIA DURING 2012-2014

The thesis was publicly defended on  21.06.2017

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Executive Summary

 

Romanian organically certified market

 

In Romania, the certified organic market has been slowly growing over the past few years. However, given the lack of available data regarding the market structure, this research aims to fill the knowledge gap by revealing the characteristics of the organic market in Romania during 2012-2014, the main external factors that influence the organic operators, and the business performance of organic companies.

Risks and benefits

 

The thesis begins with highlighting the risks and benefits of organic agriculture, and critiques and improvements of the third party certification system. A first practical contribution of the research results is a scoring system, meant to reduce the transactional risks for the potential trading parties on an online trading platform for organic agricultural products.

Certification process

 

After explaining the certification process for a Romanian operator, the research focuses on detailed analysis of the supply side of the market, meaning the geographic distribution of the organic operators, type of legal entities, and the permanence of the operators in the certified organic system.

E-commerce

 

Moreover, for a sample of 50 e-shops selling organic products and analysis was performed in order to facilitate some strategic decisions for a manager.

Additionally, for a sample of 410 certified organic companies the business performance was analysed based on two financial indicators: return on assets and profit margin.

Overall, this thesis brings unique results, both practical and academic.

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Adina-Roxana
Published academic papers

As of February 2024, the list of my published articles is mentioned below. Whenever possible, I will share the link where the paper is available.

Should you have any questions on any of the papers, kindly contact me at: adina.munteanu@upb.ro

 

2023
  • COACHING AS A TOOL FOR IMPROVING QMS IMPLEMENTATION – A CASE STUDY IN A SHARED SERVICE CENTER IN ROMANIA, Cross-Cultural Management Journal, Volume XXV, Issue 2 / 2023.  by Munteanu, A.R. & Pavel, A.P. ; link to paper  
2019
2017
  •  STRESS REDUCTION THROUGH INNOVATIVE TRAINING: DANCING WITH STRESS. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences. ISSN: 2226-3624., 2017,  Vol. 7, Issue 3 pages 208-215 by Nutu, I. V. and Munteanu, A.R.
  •  THE GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF ORGANIC OPERATORS IN ROMANIA DURING 2012-2014. International Journal of Business and Management Invention (IJBMI). 2017, ISSN (Online): 2319 – 8028, Volume 6 Issue 3, pages 32-35 by Munteanu, A.R. and Nutu, I. V.
2016
  • A PANEL DATA ANALYSIS OF THE PERFORMANCE OF ORGANIC BUSINESSES IN ROMANIA DURING 2012-2014 – International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts, SGEM2016, Albena, Bulgaria 22 – 31 August, 2016, by Munteanu, A.R.
  • THE ORGANIC MARKET IN ROMANIA: DYNAMICS AND GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION OF THE ORGANIC OPERATORS DURING 2011-2014”, – International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts, SGEM2016, Albena, Bulgaria 22 – 31 August, 2016,  SGEM 2016 Conference Proceedings Book 2 vol. IV pp. 781-787, by Munteanu, A.R.
  • THE PRICE DYNAMICS ON THE ORGANIC MARKET IN ROMANIA BETWEEN 2010 AND 2015, SEA – Practical Application of Science, ISSN: 2360 – 255, 2016,  Issue 12, pages 485-491, by Munteanu, A.R & Nutu, V.I. 
  • IMPACT FACTORS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS IN ROMANIA,SEA – Practical Application of Science, Vol IV, Issue 3(12) pages 471-478, by Nutu, I.V and Munteanu, A.R. & Pîrlog, R.N. 
2015
  • REVIEWING THE PERFORMANCE OF ORGANIC E-SHOPS IN ROMANIA. The 9th International Management Conference Bucharest, Romania5th– 6th of November 2015, Publicat in: The 9th International Management Conference Proceedings, 2015. by Munteanu, A.R.
  • THE ETHICAL LAYER OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT- Intercultural Communications and the Future of Education, THE HUB- Fusion Between Social Sciences, Art, Theology, Engineering, and Management, Publicat în: Proceedings of „The 2015 HUB and the 8th International SEA Conference – Spirituality and Creativity, Brasov, Sambata de Sus, 23-26 October” 2015.  by Munteanu, A.R.
  • THE THIRD PARTY CERTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR ORGANIC PRODUCTS. Network Intelligence Studies, ISSN-L: 2344-1712; 2015, pp.145-151. by Munteanu, A.R.
  • THE DYNAMICS OF ORGANICALLY CERTIFIED OPERATORS IN ROMANIA BETWEEN 2012 AND 2014”. Ovidius University Annals, Series Economic Sciences. ISSN 2392-3127 (Online); 2015. Vol. 15 Issue 2, p306-311, by  Munteanu, A.R
2014
  • THE RISK MANAGEMENT OF ORGANIC PRODUCTS ALONG THE VALUE CHAIN, International Conference On Production Research Regional Conference Africa, Europe And The Middle East And 3rd International Conference On Quality And Innovation In Engineering And Management Publicat în: International Conference on Production Research – ICPR – QIEM 2014, 1-5 July, Cluj-Napoca , 2014 , by Munteanu, A.R.
  • THE PLACE OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE BUSINESS MODEL OF A SME. International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories, Vol 4 No 5, pp.845-855. by Munteanu, A.R.
  • AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVES FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ROMANIA”. SEA–Practical Application of Science, Vol.(03), Issue 1. pp.371-382. by Munteanu, A.R.
  • THE POTENTIAL IMPACT OF GROUP CERTIFICATION FOR ORGANIC AGRICULTURE IN ROMANIA”. SEA – Practical Application of Science,  Volume II, Issue 2 (4), by Munteanu, A.R.
  • INVESTIGATING POTENTIAL STRATEGIES FOR INCREASING TOURISM COMPETIVENESS AT THE BLACK SEA SHORE”. Amfiteatru Economic, 2247–9104, 2014,  Vol 16(8), p.1253. , by Munteanu, A.R., Rizea, R.D., Ilie, A.G. and Sarbu, R. ; link to paper
2013
  • DEFINING A COHERENT ORGANISATIONAL VISUAL IDENTITY–A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS”. Network Intelligence Studies, Vol (01), pp.102-117. by Rizea, R.D. and Munteanu, A.R.
  • ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTING (EMA) IMPLEMENTATION: MOTIVATION AND EXPECTED RESULTS FROM A BUSINESS PERSPECTIVE”. Romanian Journal of Economics, vol 37(2 (46), pp.164-173. by Munteanu, A.R.
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