Analysis on Immigration from EU10 States in Ireland between 2004 and 2010

Author(s): Arnold Weiszenbacher / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

Following the EU enlargement in 2004, Ireland decided to carry out an economic experiment by not imposing restrictions on the labour market. In this paper we investigate the economic and social impact of these measures, showcasing the difficulties encountered by immigrants, with disproportional earnings related to their qualifications, improper representation in the sectors of the economy and exploitation being preeminent. Negative impacts to the labour market such as displacement are also discussed. We conclude that immigration doesn’t pose a threat to the native workforce and can have a positive effect on the receiving country as long as the migrant population has the same rights as native workers.

COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WORK-LIFE BALANCE IN FYR MACEDONIA, MONTENEGRO AND SERBIA

Author(s): Nataša Golubović,Srđan Golubović / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2015

Reconciling work and family life is one of the key elements of the quality of work and employment. The concept of work-life balance refers to the creation and maintenance of such work environment that allows employees to achieve a balance between work and personal commitments, which create the basis for increase of employee loyalty and productivity growth. Exploring the ways in which an individual functions in the spheres of work and private life, as well as mechanisms of achieving balance between these two spheres, provides a fresh perspective on the interaction between work and private life, as well as opportunities to achieve synergy between these two spheres. The aim of this study is to investigate the quality of the actual balance between work and private life in selected countries of the Western Balkans and on this basis to identify the key problems employees in these countries are confronted with in balancing work and private life.

Rachunkowość kreatywna a rachunkowość agresywna

Author(s): Danuta Król / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2 (23)/2015

The beginning of the XXIst century witnessed a dozen spectacular cases which contributed to the loss of confidence in the clarity and reliability of information presented in financial statements of numerous economic entities. Those frauds started a heated debate on creative accounting, as in fact both in theory and in practice any instances of accounting operations contrary to the principles of accounting or with the actual state began to be named. In Polish literature there is disagreement not only about the very definition of “creative accounting”, but also as to whether it has a positive or negative meaning. The article tried to define, organise and differentiate both concepts. Various definitions of creative and aggressive accounting were quoted and views and addressed aspects of the issues discussed by the national authorities in the field of accounting were presented.

ORGANISATIONAL BLUEPRINTS FOR GROWTH IN SERVICE FIRMS

Author(s): Matthijs H.M. Hammer,Dominiek Post,Han Van der Meer / Language(s): English Issue: 16/2015

Start-ups and Smaller and Medium sized Enterprises are vital for national economies. The vast majority of these enterprises can be found in services industries. One of the parameters to measure performance of a company is growth. Only a very small percentage of these enterprises find ways to sustainable growth. Little is known on models for making a service firm grow. Based on our extensive literature study and in-depth analyses of 7 cases in the Dutch service industry we came to 5 distinct models or blueprints for growth and a framework on how to decide which model is best suited for the specific situation of a specific firm. Yet many research has to be done to give the final answer to the main question of our study “What kind of organisational blueprint is best suited for growing your company successfully?”

METODE ŞI TEHNICI UTILIZATE ÎN EVALUAREA PERFORMANȚELOR AUDITULUI PUBLIC INTERN

Author(s): Ioan-Daniel Drăgănescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 04/2019

In order to elucidate some essential aspects regarding the evaluation of the performances of the internal public audit, we had to highlight for the first time some defining issues in the area of internal management control activity.A second issue that we focused on relates to some fundamental aspects regarding the requirements of the missions of evaluation in the internal public audit activity, where we pointed out some relevant things such as: internal and external evaluations of the quality and performance of internal public audit.The final part was dedicated to highlighting the considerations regarding the evaluation of the performances of the entities of the Ministry of National Defence with the help of the internal public audit.

Economic growth at regional level and innovation: Is there any link?

Author(s): Georgeta Grigore Nae,Corina Grigore / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2014

The role of innovation on growth has been analysed to some extent and has been relying mostly on research findingsundertaken in developed countries. The aim of this paper is to analyse whether innovation has any role at regionallevel for potentially explaining the variations in growth among regions, particularly in developing countries. The paperdraws upon previous work and to undertake the research, data available from the Enterprise Survey was used to testthe potential impact of innovation on economic growth at regional level. The results showed that innovation affectsgrowth using a sample for Romania. This study can constitute the basis for understanding the concept of innovation inrelation to regional economic growth and further research in Romania and beyond

INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN WORK AND PRIVATE LIFE OF EMPLOYEES - CONFLICT OR BALANCE?

Author(s): Milica Mladenović,Bojan Krstić / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2021

Contemporary companies consider work-life balance a crucial topic. Higher work pressure, longer working hours and more families with both working parents have made balancing work and private life even more difficult. The paper addresses this interrelation and highlights two research questions regarding the type of relationship (positive or negative) that exists between work and private life of employees. These questions are answered based on the analysis of various previously conducted empirical research studies. Findings reveal both negative and positive interrelationship between employees' work and private life. The contributions and conclusions of this paper can be extremely relevant for a company to comprehend how important the creation of work-life balance initiatives is for increasing job satisfaction of its managers and other employees, as well as for developing the reputation of a desirable employer.

MIEJSCE ZJAWISKA WSPÓŁDZIELENIA W KONCEPCJI ZRÓWNOWAŻONEGO ROZWOJU

Author(s): Marek Hendel / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2020

The aim of the article is to identify the place of the sharing phenomenon in the concept of sustainable development. Thus far, attempts to address the sharing phenomenon are very rarely connected with the concept of sustainable development. According to the author, considerations in this area should be based on the theory of sustainable economic development. This would be the best starting point for juxtaposing the sharing phenomenon with the classic conception of the market and its key concepts, such as homo oeconomicus.

Punkty nasycenia

Author(s): Kamil Fejfer / Language(s): Polish Issue: 799/2021

Commodification in an Officially Decommodified Economy: Institutional Contradictions and Everyday Practices in Poland’s Real-Socialism

Author(s): Marek Ziółkowski,Rafał Drozdowski,Mariusz Baranowski,Gavin Rae / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2022

The processes of commodification and decommodification have been important dimensions through which social, economic, political and also cultural changes can be analysed. They turn out to be particularly useful for studying everyday practices, both overt and hidden. This article—concerning the period of realsocialism in Poland—has two goals: (a) explaining the paradox of commodification phenomena in a formally decommodified socialist economy and (b) exemplifying these practices in a dynamically changing political and economic situation. Such an approach has made it possible to reveal not only the internally inconsistent system of the plan-command-distribution economy, but most of all the rich set of social adaptation practices that enabled it to function during conditions of shortage.

Zrozumienie czasu konsekwencją rozwoju teorii kapitału ludzkiego

Author(s): Mieczysław Dobija / Language(s): Polish Issue: 71/2022

The natural and economic sciences share at least one paradigm, that is, the matter-energy dualism in physics and the asset-capital dualism in economics. In economic science, especially accounting theory, dualism is a fundamental principle that leads to the explanation of the abstract nature of capital and the identification of the thermodynamic basis of this scientific category. The realisation of these relations contributed to the development of the theory of capital, which thus entered new paths as the theory of human capital, especially its part on the measurement and behaviour of the employee’s personal capital. Consequently, the knowledge of the potential constant of economic growth has been solidified. More recently, thanks to a more precise understanding of the transformations that are the subject of thermodynamics, the conclusion has emerged that the aforementioned constant also determines the rate at which time runs. Analyses and empirical studies confirm this hypothesis, which has opened the way for the formulation of a definition of time.

Termodynamiczne ujęcie teorii godziwego wynagradzania

Author(s): Jurij Renkas / Language(s): Polish Issue: 71/2022

Limiting itself within the framework of this article only to the issues of the theory of fair remuneration, the key questions are: what is the criterion of fair remuneration, where does it come from, and where to look for it? The main purpose of this article is to present a model of a fair wage in terms of the fundamental principles of thermodynamics. In an economic interpretation, this is the principle of preservation of capital and the principle of its spontaneous and random dissipation, which is related to the second principle of thermodynamics. Based on thermodynamic knowledge of the functioning of the human body as an abstract heat engine, a thermodynamic model of a fair wage was presented, which consists in compensating the worker for the natural dissipation of their personal capital. It was confirmed that, as a result of the application of this principle of remuneration, the earnings of two working parents make it possible to bring two descendants to the level of human capital they have achieved: that is, this wage guarantees the preservation of human capital in the family.

Przedsiębiorczość jako fundament dynamicznej analizy gospodarczej

Author(s): Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2021

One of the more significant methodological errors in economic analysis consists in treating the concept of equilibrium — be it general or partial — as either a real state of affairs obtaining in the economy in a stable manner or a normative ideal that an optimally functioning economy should be able to reach. The purpose of the present article is to demonstrate that, in contrast to the above two views, a free economy is a process of incessant social self-development aimed at the attainment of ever more qualitatively advanced (and always temporary) states of equilibrium, whose main driving force are entrepreneurial prudence, alertness, and innovativeness. The successive sections of the present article describe several characteristic examples of supposed states of permanent stagnation or suboptimal equilibrium, which, on closer inspection, turn out to be strictly transitory, provided that a given situation is characterized by conditions conducive to the operation of entrepreneurial activities. In other words, the present article is an attempt at illustrating the thesis that entrepreneurship constitutes the foundation of dynamic economic analysis — i.e., the kind of analysis that fully incorporates the creative character of human action taking place in the context of large-scale social cooperation.

Policyjne determinanty w profilowaniu wolnych zawodów

Author(s): Tadeusz Kocowski,Witold Małecki / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4/2022

The possibility of taking up and practising liberal professions is generally dependent on the possession of professional qualifications, set out in law. The need to obtain certain qualifications often stems from the necessity to protect such goods as life, health and property. These might be referred to as ‘police goods’. They are existential for the functioning of the state, society and individuals, and are protected within the most important and most significant function of the state, which is the police. One of the areas of the police is the economic police, related to the protection of police goods against threats that may arise as a result of economic activity.Among the liberal professions there are those for which the requirements of obtaining certain qualifications result from the need to protect life and health. These are, in the first place, professions whose performance on the basis of appropriate qualifications guarantees a high level of protection of the life and health of the direct recipients of services provided by a person performing a liberal profession. This applies to the medical professions – doctors, dentists, nurses, midwifes, pharmacists and physiotherapists. Secondly, it is necessary to mention the professions the performance of which on the basis of appropriate qualifications guarantees a high level of protection of life and health of the undetermined group of persons. These professions include that of the architect and civil engineer.A disputable issue is whether professions whose representatives are to protect their clients against unfavourable or unlawful disposal of their own property can be considered liberal professions, where the requirement to obtain certain qualifications results from the need to protect police states and goods. These are legal professions, as well as the professions of investment advisor and property appraiser.

MAPIRANJE KULTURNIH I KREATIVNIH INDUSTRIJA U CRNOJ GORI

Author(s): Dragana Radević,Mihailo Zečević / Language(s): Montenegrine Issue: 2/2022

Cultural and creative industries (CCI) are among the fastest growing sectors worldwide and the main drivers of developed and developing economies; they are a source of significant income and generate jobs. In Europe alone, CCIs generate revenues of USD 709 billion, making up 3% of gross domestic product (GDP), and employ 7.7 million people. In addition to economic benefits, CCIs create non-monetary value that contributes to the achievement of human-centred, inclusive and sustainable development. CCIs are of great importance in encouraging cultural diversity, and have a positive impact on culture in general, on science, education and the development of the entire society. The Institute for Entrepreneurship and Economic Development (IPER) from Podgorica mapped CCIs in Montenegro and calculated their importance for the country’s economic development in the period immediately before the Covid 19 crisis. The analysis of the collected data shows that the effects of CCIs in Montenegro are significantly below their potential in terms of contribution to GDP and employment. As part of a project implemented with the support of the UNESCO International Fund for Cultural Diversity, the IPER organized a series of trainings for creative entrepreneurs and promoted examples of good practice.

KULTURNE I KREATIVNE INDUSTRIJE U CRNOJ GORI – AKTUELNA SITUACIJA I MOGUĆI PRAVCI RAZVOJA

Author(s): Nenad Vujadinović / Language(s): Montenegrine Issue: 2/2022

The paper examines the current state of cultural and creative industries in Montenegro, bearing in mind the importance of this dynamic sector, which includes a number of activities and occupies an increasing share in the world economy. It provides an overview of the definitions of cultural and creative industries, and then suggests guidelines regarding the direction of further development in the domestic context. The paper also emphasizes the need for greater intersectoral cooperation in the creation of a unique strategic framework, state branding, educational policies and their alignment with market needs, and other significant aspects, with an emphasis on the importance of qualitative and quantitative research in this area. A special attention is given to the issue of team networking of individuals and subjects from the creative sector, while maintaining a balance between the principles of competition and collegiality

Primena politike organizacione kulture i klime u savremenoj organizaciji

Author(s): Pero Petrović,Dobrica Vesić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1151/2013

The work aims to investigate how companies can effectively manage the organizational culture by implementing appropriate business policies. Organizational culture is considered one of the key segments of organizational success. Its influence on the behavior of the human factor in the work process is very important. Organizational culture directs and defines everyday behavior as well as activities of people in an organization. The paper considers the concept, elements and classification of organizational culture. Besides, ways of creating and keeping of organizational structure are also analyzed.

Work Identity and Career Perspectives in Flexible Labour Contexts

Author(s): Livia Dana Pogan / Language(s): English Issue: XXIV/2023

Work inclusion is among the main targets of any sustainable long-term strategy, implemented at European level through three main directions: a better inclusion of young people on the labour market, reintegration of the chronic ill persons and retention for longer periods of the elder ones by increasing the retirement age. The Covid-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, as other previous crisis also did, brought interruptions regarding the labour market and accelerated some already existing trends, sometimes increasing gaps. Both the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the European Union drew attention on the increasing risks the new generation is facing when struggling to enter the labour market in an insecure context.Considering this given framework, the present paper aims to shed light on the integration of the young people into work, resorting to concepts such as work identity, career construction, job insecurity and flexibility. Furthermore, the theoretical approach is enriched with the analysis of data issued by the statistical bureau of the European Union (Eurostat) regarding the participation of young people in education and on the labour market.

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A DISASTER RISK REDUCTION POLICY IN AZERBAIJAN

Author(s): Yusif Huseynov / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2023

Due to the accelerating likelihood of environmental catastrophes which have negative impacts on levels of investment and economic development, particularly along coastal regions and in agricultural sectors, the cost of living is expected to significantly rise throughout the coming decades. In order to make appropriate decisions and implement sensible policy, it is necessary to evaluate the expenses associated with potential natural disasters. The evaluation process will employ national development programs and models for estimating financial losses associated with disasters that have previously been established within the Sendai Framework 2030. Environmental disasters have disproportionate effects on wellbeing and economic opportunities for the people of Azerbaijan. Therefore, it is necessary to implement preemptive protocols to mitigate the negative effects of future disasters. A multidimensional approach is needed when managing potential consequences, especially during the post-conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation period in the country. Therefore, in this paper, Azerbaijan’s risk profile, procedures for creating a national disaster risk reduction program, and the realization of adaptive actions are discussed.

Unearthing the Influence of Work Environment on Innovative Work Behavior: Mediated by Organizational Learning and Employee Engagement

Author(s): Imad Al Zeer,Fahreta Fijuljanin / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2024

This study aims to investigate the influence of the work environment (WE) on innovative work behavior (IWB) in state higher education institutions while considering the mediating roles of organizational learning (OL) and employee engagement (EE). Academic and non-academic staff data were collected through a quantitative survey methodology and analysed using PLS-SEM. Results indicate that the WE significantly enhances OL and EE, with β values of 0.583 and 0.471, respectively. Additionally, OL and EE mediate the relationship between the WE and IWB with β values of 0.296 and 0.111, respectively, explaining 39.6% of its variance. The study suggests introducing novel mediators to understand this relationship more comprehensively within higher education institutions.