ART ECO is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, under the aegis of the “ARTIFEX” University of Bucharest, dedicated to publishing the significant scientific results achieved by researchers and professionals, from the education-research and the economic-social fields. The main topics of ART ECO revolve around economic sciences, namely social and cooperative economics, business administration, finances, accounting, management, marketing, management information systems, statistics and econometrics, international economic relationships and not only. Apart from research papers, literature reviews and conceptual articles are welcomed. Two issues per year are published. Thus, ART ECO is focused on freely disseminating knowledge arising from research efforts of dedicated people.