Archive | Volume IV / 2014
Posted on 15 April 2014. Tags: air pollution, urban sustainability, waste management, water pollution
The urban environment is becoming the host for most of people around the world. Therefore, the concern regarding the environmental challenges is increasing and the range of solutions is widening. Various combinations of these solutions are proposed as models of urban sustainability and some of them are supported by governmental policies. Integrated urban development and […]
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Posted in Economics, Volume IV, Issue no. 2
Posted on 15 April 2014. Tags: Adjustment Costs, Factor Analysis, Heterogeneity of Capital Stocks, Investment, Investment Purchase and Sale, Tobin’s Q
This paper examines the heterogeneity of capital stocks using financial statement data of publicly listed Japanese firms. We conduct factor analysis on investment rates among various capital goods and estimate factor loadings of each as its reactions to common factors like total factor productivity (TFP) shocks. Then we estimate the uniqueness for each investment rate, […]
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Posted on 15 April 2014. Tags: adaptive management, biodiversity, Danube Delta, ecosystem services
Biodiversity is a heritage of life that could hold the information needed for the wellbeing of human kind. The challenge of biodiversity preservation was addressed by various management solutions, the newest being the adaptive management. The paper aims to give insights for the application of adaptive management and to reveal its potential for increasing the […]
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Posted in Economics, Knowledge Management, Volume IV, Issue no. 2
Posted on 15 April 2014. Tags: European Region, innovation, Production Function, social networks
This research analyses the relationship between the use of social networks and the generation of innovations in European regions through a production function of innovations using human capital, technological capital and virtual relational capital with the new theoretical approach. For this, it is estimated an econometric model of panel data for the period 2007-2011 and […]
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Posted in Information Technology, Knowledge Management, Volume IV, Issue no. 2
Posted on 15 April 2014. Tags: e-government, Front Office, ICT, Online Services
Electronic Government (e-Government) is a simple-identified phenomenon in globally. E-Government (front office) is the application of information technology through average person field companies to obtain to its people in the current and effective technique (Al-Taie, M. Z. and S. Kadry). In 2003, Iraq began the establishment of electronic government with the help of the Italian […]
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Posted on 15 April 2014. Tags: business environment, economic crisis, indicators, small and medium enterprises, taxation
The Small and Medium Enterprise sector in Romania has been significantly affected by the global recession in the years 2008-2009; currently it is making efforts to revive it, thanks to important role it occupies in the economy of any country. SMEs raise wide debates, especially on fiscal measures. In Romania, SMEs represent 99.7% of all […]
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Posted in Economics, Knowledge Management, Volume IV, Issue no. 2
Posted on 15 April 2014. Tags: competition forces, data collection strategies, information organization and use, managerial strategies, performance assessment, porter model, tourism, tourism activities
The unprecedented development of communication, transportation media and infrastructure, as well as the increase of the number and diversity of offers, within the context of growth of incomes of certain social categories, have facilitated during the last few years a significant increase of demand in the touring industry which therefore occupies a more and more […]
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Posted in Economics, Information Technology, Volume IV, Issue no. 2
Posted on 15 April 2014. Tags: accounting policies, accounting-tax relationship, business security, decision analysis, fiscal policies, management functions, managerial decisions, tax consultancy
Achieving the continuous business performance is also closely related to the quality and timeliness of business decisions made based on the information provided by accounting in close relation to tax. In this context, in Romania there is an increasing trend to generalize the professional management and, therefore, we think it is of great interest to […]
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Posted in Economics, Knowledge Management, Volume IV, Issue no. 2
Posted on 15 April 2014. Tags: C/I – Cost to Income, Performance, Profit, ROA – Return on Assets, ROE – Return on Equity
Through this paper we analyse the performance indicators of banks in Kosovo Banking System. According to the works of different authors worldwide, more accurate measurement of bank performance based on accounting data, in the application of coefficients leading financial banks are: Return on assets – ROA, return on equity – ROE and Cost Report to […]
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Posted in Economics, Volume IV, Issue no. 2
Posted on 15 February 2014. Tags: Nominal Exchange Rat, Real Exchange Rate, Trade Balance
Fluctuation of the exchange rate has a different unwanted implication towards the economic growth. The right choice of exchange rate regime will bring an economy back to the equilibrium and many economists claim that it is one of the factors for the positive economic development. In contrast, a long term fluctuation of the real exchange […]
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Posted in Economics, Volume IV, Issue no. 1
Posted on 15 February 2014. Tags: country, e-government, information, technology, women
E-government is a positive situation prevalent in most developed and developing countries in order to provide the best possible service to citizens and keep time and effort and reduce the waste of public money (Al-Dabbagh, 2011). Based on view of literature in some countries, problems faced in the establishment of e-government are located within the […]
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Posted in Information Technology, Volume IV, Issue no. 1
Posted on 15 February 2014. Tags: Digitalization, experience of consumption, point-of-sale, re-enchantment; immersion, technology
Henceforth, the retailers estimate that the digital transformation of their enterprises manipulates two levers of performance notably: the customer’s relations and the turnover. They use some digital technologies to personalize the consumer’s experiences and to offer to the customers the possibility to make the self-service and to dive in an exceptional experience. The demonstration of […]
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Posted on 15 February 2014. Tags: business ethics, communism, ethical decision making, Vietnam
Previous studies have shown that communism follows different patterns in different countries around the world. China and Vietnam, where officials have jettisoned or abandoned many of the original basic tenets of communism, have been the world’s two fastest growing economies over the past two decades. This paper focuses on the Communist Vietnam where in comparison […]
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Posted on 15 February 2014. Tags: Adoption of e-learning, Attitude toward using e-learning, Perceived usefulness of e-learning
This research explores the causal relationships among the attitude toward using e-learning, the perception on the usefulness of e-learning and the adoption of e-learning as well as the mediating role of the attitude toward using e-learning and the moderating role of the perceived usefulness of e- learning. We use an advanced method known as the […]
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Posted on 15 February 2014. Tags: agricultural holding, agriculture, climate change, strategies, sustainable development
Climate change suppression in agriculture is a priority objective of EU Member States strategic development activities. The interdisciplinary nature of these activities involves a comprehensive approach by identifying and linking development activities and intra and inter-sectorial implementation measures with the response to the effects of climate change. The complex effects of climate change on agriculture […]
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Posted on 15 February 2014. Tags: environment, governance, management, resource
Natural resource management regarding the economic development while respecting the imperatives of compliance with environmental quality is not an easy task. In this paper the authors highlight the role of good governance and investment management in finding the optimal decision regarding the valuation strategy of limited natural resources. Criteria used type of information that is […]
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Posted on 15 February 2014. Tags: consumers, SNS communication, social networking sites, tourism industry
Social networking has taken contemporary business experiences to a new level that cannot be compared with anything that happened so far. Tourism industry and travel booking activities have significantly benefited from such development. Potential travelers can communicate with tourist agencies and operators through social networking sites as well as with tourists who already have visited […]
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Posted on 15 February 2014. Tags: advertising, beer, brand, experiential marketing, strategy
This paper aims to discuss interesting experiential strategies of a specific European beer brand (Bergenbier) that maintained the balance between traditional and experiential marketing. My hypothesis is that the relationship between both types of marketing should be analysed from two angles: either commercials no longer focus on product features, but rather on events; or the […]
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Posted on 15 February 2014. Tags: economic growth, fiscal policy, public debt
According to Mankiw (2000), fiscal policy in major macroeconomic models adversely affects the behavior of private agents as consumers and firms and they affect economic growth through investment and savings decisions. Increasing government spending will increase the aggregate demand for goods and services and money demand in the money market leading to an increase of […]
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