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The ability of the global economy to compete and evolve in the 21st century increasingly depends on the innovative and efficient use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Over the last decade, digitalization has improved decision-making in the global business ecosystem in a variety of contexts, and recent advances in technology transformed the business models in a way that reshapes the economic actor's interaction with business activities. The emergent conversion of the traditional economy is changing as automation tools, process standardization, and reuse of goods along with cloud computing technology shape the global economy towards digitalization, arising the concern to ensure the development of ICT proficiency in all sectors of the economy in order to create economic balance, avoiding a potential crisis based on the innovation deficit. The speed of digital transformation in the business environment will directly affect the models of economic growth and social development in the future. The present technological revolution is a valid indicator of the civilization progress of the 21st century and the digital transformation requires an improved association of organizational e-leadership skills, innovation, and business development based on business intelligence concepts. Therefore, the reduction of e-leadership skills can be a competitive disadvantage for the industry and a constraint on potential growth. From these considerations, the aim of the paper is to examine the diffusion of business intelligence elements in the global economy, providing examples of business models that have emerged as a result of digitalization improvement, and contributes to an overview of the main features of the digital economy that have emerged in these business models. Using a methodology based on the systematic review of the literature and global analysis regarding the topic, the paper presents a framework of the role that digitalization performs in the global economy transition from analog to digital configuration.

In the current business environment, financial reporting has become insufficient in terms of information, which is caused by the increasing information needs of stakeholders. In this context, an integrated reporting modality has emerged thanks to the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), where the information presented is both financial and nonfinancial information, such reporting being called "Integrated Reporting". Thus, starting from this consideration, the main objective of the paper aims at the main aspects that lead to the presentation of the benefits of implementing integrated reporting in organizations, through the ability to understand, in a more complete way, the "real" performance of a sustainable organization. The essential elements contained in an integrated reporting concern the capital, the business model and the process of creating and maintaining value, this reporting must be integrated in the strategy and vision of the organization, allowing through the transparency of these integrated reports the observation of all aspects led to the results obtained by the organization, as well as providing information on the role of the organization in society and the context in which it operates, the image of the organization being complete. The purpose of this paper is to highlight the importance and role assigned to integrated reporting in measuring the performance of a sustainable organization, by making it easier to understand the cause and effect of the link between financial performance and sustainability by stakeholders.

Our life, by its biological nature, is in an indestructible dependence on energy. At the same time, energy is an important criterion on which we report the progress of humanity. Historically, progress divides our world into distinct stages, called Industrial Revolutions. Each stage has encompassed more fuels, new technologies, inventions, humans behavioural changes and much more worrying environmental issues. Energy techniques, new extractions and transportation improved in nineteenth and during twenty-century energy consumption, especially electricity, rise significantly with, on the one hand, a continuous influx of fossil fuels and, on the other hand, continuous increase of the quantities of toxic waste, visible or not, from the other industrial branches and human activities, consequences of the energetical progress. The purpose of this paper is to point out some aspects regarding ecological footprints of electrical industry and energy industries during their development and to establish connections between the distinct role of energy in each period of industrialization and its impact on the environment, education, science, arts and cultural dimensions of life.