Fostering Recovery Through Metaverse Business Modelling: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on an Emerging Paradigm Shift

Alina Mihaela Dima is Professor at the Faculty of Business Administration in foreign languages, The Bucharest University of Economic Studies (Romania). She is Vice-Rector for Scientific Research, Development and Innovation of the Bucharest University of Economic Studies, and previously, she was Director of the Department for Business Administration (UNESCO Chair). Her main research fields of interest are International Business, Competition Policy, European Integration, and Higher Education. She is the Chief Editor of the journal 'Management & Marketing': Challenges for Knowledge Society (Sciendo/De Gruyter) indexed in ESCI -Clarivate and Scopus She has edited several international books, coordinated national research projects, and authored various papers published by prestigious international journals.

Elena Rodica Danescu is a Research Scientist, PhD at the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, University of Luxembourg. She is an elected member of the University Council (2018-2023), the Board of the Fondation du Mérite européen and the Council of the Fondation Jean Monnet pour l'Europe (Lausanne, Switzerland), and she is an active member of several outstanding professional associations worldwide (EUSA, UACES, ESHET, AISPE). Her main fields of research are: contemporary European history, European integration history, Economic and Monetary Union, financial, banking and oral history. She has authored numerous publications in her areas of expertise, regularly participated in the peer review process of the Journal of the History of Economic Thought (Cambridge), and involved in the evaluation of interdisciplinary research projects submitted to COST Association and Italian Research Funding (MIUR).

Alina Mihaela Dima是羅馬尼亞布加勒斯特經濟研究大學商業管理外語學院的教授。她是布加勒斯特經濟研究大學科學研究、發展和創新的副校長，曾擔任商業管理系（聯合國教科文組織主席）主任。她的主要研究領域包括國際商業、競爭政策、歐洲一體化和高等教育。她是期刊《管理與行銷：知識社會的挑戰》（Sciendo/De Gruyter）的主編，該期刊在ESCI -Clarivate和Scopus中有索引。她編輯了多本國際書籍，協調了國家研究項目，並發表了多篇在知名國際期刊上發表的論文。

Elena Rodica Danescu是盧森堡大學當代和數字歷史中心的研究科學家，擁有博士學位。她是大學理事會（2018-2023年）、歐洲優秀貢獻基金會董事會和尚蒙內基金會理事會（瑞士洛桑）的選舉成員，並且是世界各地多個優秀專業協會（EUSA、UACES、ESHET、AISPE）的活躍成員。她的主要研究領域包括當代歐洲歷史、歐洲一體化歷史、經濟和貨幣聯盟、金融、銀行和口述歷史。她在專業領域內撰寫了許多出版物，定期參與《經濟思想史期刊》（劍橋）的同行評審過程，並參與了提交給COST協會和意大利研究資助（MIUR）的跨學科研究項目的評估。