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Applied economics is a term that refers to the application of economic theory and analysis.

Collaborative Research and the Semantic Web

This paper is a review of the literature on semantic web technologies and states their relevance in collaborative research. The semantic web is comprised of modern technologies that can allow academia in developing countries learn to adopt innovative and collaborative techniques of research. The objectives guiding this paper were, to examine the relevance of semantic […]

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Posted in Economics, Information Technology, Knowledge Management, Volume IX / 2019, Volume IX, Issue no. 1

Management, digital innovation and Industry 4.0. The case of family businesses in Italy

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on the relationships between external management in family firms and investments in digital innovations. The analysis is based on a survey carried out by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in early 2018 of 2,342 small and medium manufacturing family firms with at least five employees. We empirically tested […]

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Posted in Economics, Information Technology, Knowledge Management, Volume VIII, Issue no. 6

Promotion and Compensation of Women in Albanian Banking Sector

Participation of women in different kind of professions, even in those which were considered to be men’s domain, is not a strange phenomenon in lots of countries today. Women have fought and struggled a lot, to have opportunities for better education, careers, and salaries, even by competing with men. There have been important changes and […]

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Valuation of Patent under Uncertainty: A Real Option Perspective

Innovation has become a key to corporate success, so many information electronic companies apply patents to protect theirs new technology. The application of real option theory (ROT) is suitable for valuing patent, because of the higher degree of uncertainty and operational flexibility connected to the technology innovation and market volatility. The 214 listed firms in […]

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Evaluation of the Entrepreneurial University Dimensions in Albanian

In the last decade many universities have developed alongside with teaching and research traditional missions also their third mission that enables them to move towards the “entrepreneurial university” model. Such approach no doubts play a crucial role in the socio-economic development. The urgent need of Albanian universities to contribute to the social and economic local […]

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The Influence of Leadership Styles on Employees Engagement: a Case Study from Albanian Bank Sector

Employee engagement plays a crucial role in the work environment. It impacts on their behaviours, attitudes, performance, productivity, turnover, business outcomes etc. Based on this critical importance, the conducted study will provide insight on follower engagement and highlight the impact of leadership styles. It will examine the effects of transactional and transformational leadership on employees’ […]

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The impact of Social Relations on Job Satisfaction for the case of Kosovo

Job Satisfaction plays a crucial role in the daily life and in the well-being of individuals. Thus, the aim of this paper is to investigate the job satisfaction in small and medium enterprises in Kosovo and to assess the impact of social relations on this variable. In order to conduct this analysis, a database from […]

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Analyzing, Assessing and Determining Critical Functions and Relevant Credit Institutions within the Banking Resolution Regulatory Frame – Proposal for a Practical Approach

The 2014 framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms led by the Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council introduces the concept of critical functions and the requirement for resolution authorities to identify and ensure their continuance in case of resolution; however the guidelines on how to […]

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A Study on Online Shopping Sites from Perspective of Perceived Value and Perceived Customer Satisfaction

Perceived customer value may be describe as comparing with of performance and quality perceptions perceived for offers of competing products and services and own products and services, devoted to own products and services of the customers in the way of enterprises. The concept of perceived value is an inner comparison and evaluation condition appeared as […]

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Impact of Financial Literacy on Personal Savings: A Research on Usak University Staff

The factors such as capital stock, human capital, technological progress, financial development, institutional development, development level of infrastructure and trade openness are one of the major determinants of long run economic growth. Financial literacy has potential to affect the economic growth by making contribution to the savings and development of financial sector. In this study, […]

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Analysis of the internationalization process in an emerging market company: The case of BACHOCO

The agricultural sector in Mexico is a sub-study area. The objective of this work is to describe the internationalization process of Industrias BACHOCO (BACHOCO), a leading company in the Mexican poultry sector. In order to achieve this objective, a case study was carried out on the internationalization process that the company followed, using the classical […]

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The Effects of Oil Price Fluctuations on Foreign Trade Performance: Evidence from Turkey as an Emerging National Economy

Nowadays, while globalization has become a prominent phenomenon and gained great importance, foreign trade has started playing a critical role for economic success of countries with the extinction of closed economy concept and shrinking distances among countries as a result of the technological advancements and fascinating continuous growth of the national economies. Many academicians and […]

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Factors Affecting Contractors’ Performance in Construction Project Delivery in Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria

Most of the construction projects delivered in Akure, Ondo State for public use depict evidence that they were not successfully executed. These effects result in time and cost overruns, poor project execution and outright abandonment. These could be attributed to lack of technical know-how on specific project types and corruption tendencies amongst others. This study […]

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The Relationship between Petroleum Prices and Stock Exchange Istanbul: Hidden Cointegration Analysis

Petroleum is the life source of modern economies. As countries become urbanized and modernized, petroleum demand would increase dramatically. Predicting future demand for petroleum is quite difficult but it is closely related to industrial production. Therefore, the petroleum demand of countries exhibiting rapid economic growth would also increase rapidly, and the rapid increase in demand […]

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Assessing Knowledge Management Initiatives: A Framework Based On Stakeholder Approach

This paper discusses various methods and tools to assess knowledge management and makes an exploratory evaluation of these elements. Most of them show some weaknesses concerning, firstly the fact that different groups of interest must be taken into account, and secondly the fact that tacit knowledge that belongs to individuals is difficult to assess. Our […]

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Influence of Social Presence on Sense of Virtual Community

Virtual Internet communities have emerged that feature cross-platform, interactive, diversified, and personalized functions, enabling members to share ideas, interests, information, feelings, knowledge, and experiences with other members in a lifelike environment. In this study, we investigated how a sense of virtual community is formed in the online environments where users communicate and build interpersonal relationships. […]

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Binary Logistic Analysis: Empowerment of Rural Household Craft Industry in Bangli Regency, Bali, Indonesia

The aim of this study was to analyze the variables that may affect the application of the technology to produce handicrafts. The method used to determine the sample unit of craft businesses of rural households that will be interviewed are acidental sampling. This study uses a quantitative analytical approach. Quantitative analysis using descriptive statistics and […]

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Development of Accounting in Kosovo: A Historical Perspective and Future Implications

Qualitative and reliable financial information is a key element in the decision making process, and the availability of such information is particularly important for the business management and public interest in general. The road towards ensuring qualitative and reliable financial information is challenging and requires the use of multiple mechanisms to put in function the […]

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Analysis on the Impact of Public Debt on Economic Growth Case of Republic of Kosovo

Since the half of the last century the importance of public debt as an instrument of economic policy, is increasing more and more. Public debt as a form of financing for meeting the needs of state, besides being present in developed industrial countries, it is used a lot in developing countries or countries in transition. […]

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The impact of social media on consumer behavior – Case study Kosovo

Most studies show that the Internet and social media usage is changing consumer behav-ior,a modern trend also witnessed in developing countries such as Kosovo. This paper will offer an overview on how the consumers use social media in the stages of decision making process and the psychographic variables that influence their behavior. A survey of […]

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Entry marketing strategy of SAAB car manufacturer into the Indian market

As domestic markets have become saturated, multinational corporations (MNC) are turning their attention to international markets to increase their market share, revenues and their profits. MNCs activities have become increasingly global in scope, whereby going abroad is crucial if they are to succeed. This process is a challenge because the MNCs needs to overcome the […]

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Comparison of different sources of patent granted on economic effects

Nowadays, innovation and patents is a tool for enterprise to generate competency. Besides, most countries protect their patents with “Territorialism” and the annual-fee system. This study emphasis on the relationship between the patent from difference applied area and the generated benefits, which forms patent portfolio the best set of coherent strategy and combines with high […]

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Do Technology Transfer and IPR Spur Domestic Innovation? An International Panel Data Analysis

The study investigates whether raising technology transfer and strengthening the intellectual property rights (IPR) regime trigger domestic innovation by employing a panel data analysis for 58 developed and developing countries in the 1960-2010 period. Since theoretical and empirical literature has proved that innovation and technology were the prominent drivers of development process, analyzing the determinants […]

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Role of Knowledge Management in Achieving Organizational Performance: Proposed Framework through Literature Survey

Keeping in view the increasing demand of knowledge management, Researchers has recognized the need for structures for appraising the influence of knowledge management (KM) on organizational performance (OP). Despite of the wide performances of KM, at present there is no uniform structure for evaluating the OP. The basic intent of this study / research is […]

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Human Resources in SAP

Modern and advanced organizations in today’s world are influenced by various changes. One of these changes is impact of information technology applications and programs. This phenomenon is becoming increasingly popular and today’s big, medium and small companies have to deal with changes of the new era and modern technology. One important reason is achieving competitive […]

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Buying a Real State Property Based on Two Possible Scenarios: Cash Payment and Payment by Installments. What’s the Best Option?

The following document presents a mathematical evaluation model applying two possible scenarios for the supposed acquisition of a property through a personal credit, with the purpose of knowing which is more convenient for the buyer: making a cash payment with a discount for prompt payment or making the purchase deferred in equal payments while generating […]

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Determinants of Economic Value Added: An Empirical Study in the Companies of Aguascalientes State, México

The organizational and individual characteristics of the owners of SME’s, small and medium size companies, have an influence generating value for them. In this research, a scale is set out in order to identify which strategies are able to generate value for organizations. Later, a comparison is made between Mexico and the OECD members, according […]

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The Review of Individual Income Tax- Self-Undertaking in Farming, Fishing, Animal Husbandry, Forestry and Mining: A Perspective of Tax Equity

The principle of tax equity is the most important principle for taxation system design and revision. However, it has tax preference based on consideration of tax collection and social policy. According to Article 14, Category 6 of Individual Income Tax- Self-undertaking in Farming, Fishing, Animal Husbandry, Forestry and Mining, it regulates that the total income […]

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Preferences of Private Clients to the Banking Products – Case Study ProCredit Bank

The paper is aimed at researching customer preferences towards products and services, in particular researching preferences of private clients towards products and banking services. The research for preferences towards products and services is conducted based on data from the Central Bank reports on the banking sector, from ProCredit Bank reports that was taken as a […]

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Financing Sources of Firms – A Special View of the Municipality of Peja

The paper focuses on possibilities of business in providing financing resources during their business cycle. Businesses face a number of difficulties in case of providing financing resources especially for external financing source. With the purpose of identifying these difficulties, a survey was realized with businesses in the Municipality of Peja, respectively with owners or their […]

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Current Transfers as the Main Source for Covering Trade Deficit –The Case of Kosovo

The very high trade deficit is one of the main characteristics of the external sector of Kosovo’s economy, which is a similar characteristic that can be found in many developing countries and transition economies. This paper aims to examine the empirical data regarding the performance of the trade balance of the Republic of Kosovo for […]

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Stress Testing of Credit Risk: Case Based on Loan Portfolio, Capital Adequacy and Non-Performing Loans in Kosovo

Nowadays the financial stability of the banking sector is a very controversial topic especially the assessment of the right quantity of capital that banks must set aside to be protect against various types of risks with which has to do the banking sector, it presents a big challenge. One of techniques that help to bring […]

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Technological Innovation in Developing Countries: A Descriptive Analysis

Although most studies are interested with innovation in developed countries, we think that innovation is also vital for developing ones. The objective of this study is to describe it in developing countries. To quantify innovations, we use two types of indicators. The first type is associated with the inputs (R&D), the second is associated with […]

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Government, Globalization and Governance Impacts on Business Start-ups: Evidence from a Classified Panel Data Analysis

Using an unbalanced panel data set covering 98 countries and the period 2004-2012, this paper aims to ascertain the extent to which the governmental, globalization and governance factors affect the formal business start-ups. We represent government by formal constraints to starting a new business while KOF indices that measure the economic, social and political dimensions […]

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Differential Recessionary Impacts on U.S. Research Relative to Comprehensive University Efficiencies and Productivities: 2004-2014 Panel Data Estimates

Using data envelopment analysis and Malmquist index decompositions this paper focuses on the impacts of the Great Recession on the efficiency and productivity changes of U.S. publicly funded prestigious research universities in comparison to their lower level comprehensive university counterparts. Do elite research relative to comprehensive universities have more political clout and resources to better […]

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