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Institutional Quality of Social Sector: The Essence and Measurements

Author(s): Tetyana Vasilyeva,Sergij Lyeonov,Izabela Adamičková,Kseniya Bagmet / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2018

The article provides theoretical underpinning for the need to assess institutional quality of the social sector. Basing on the critical analysis of the existing approaches to index construction, traditionally used to study economic development and quality of life, it is proposed to form the index of social sector quality, and also the principles of its calculation are justified. The presented methodology for calculating this index is built upon the principal component analysis. The calculation includes 20 indicators, which represent three groups (education, healthcare and social security). The index creation is based on the data for 25 countries divided into four groups. According to our evaluation findings, the quality of social institutions will be primarily determined by their ability to provide an extension of average life expectancy and to maintain an adequate level of health, as well as employment according to the results of education. The quality of social security institutions’ operations affects the index variability to the least extent.

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Koliko dece treba Srbiji?

Author(s): Branislav S. Đurđev / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1-4/2004

The work is an attempt to determine basic quantities for introducing a family planning program which will be aiming at a replacement level. In order to do that census year 2002 was taken as an example for calculation. Total fertility rate of 2.1 children per woman was considered as necessary level, and that means Serbia needs 105.000 newborns each year. In accordance with that level a set of five age specific fertility rates (ASFR) were established in order to find appropriate model of reproductive behavior for Serbia. The sets are established in the following manner: multiplying ASFR by quotient between necessary and real number of newborns, by the data from the last year when fertility was large enough to provide for replacement level (with mortality level from 2002), by linear interpolation between two ASFR models, and by Brass fertility polynomial. All five different models of age specific fertility rates suggest that there is no ideal distribution of ASFR. Also, parity progression from zero to first, from first to second, and from second to third child is determined. The main reason for below replacement level in Serbia is small parity progression from second to third child. So, rearing the third child should be the most stimulated in every family planning program, as long as every second women have them by the end of her reproductive life span.

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Level (Quality) of Corporate Governance in Adriatic Seaports

Author(s): Jelena Stjepčević / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Institutions and institutional structures always determine the development (social and economic), and therefore the level (quality) of microeconomic institutions, including that of corporate governance. The subject of this research is the level (quality) of corporate governance (as a dependent variable in the given model) in relatively undeveloped Adriatic seaports. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the importance of institutional framework in regulating corporate governance and to verify the hypothesis on a significant dependency of the dependent variable from the selectively chosen independent variables of a dominant institutional character. Field survey methods and multiple linear regression analysis are used in this paper. It is concluded that the offered research has verified the initial hypothesis.

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REZYLIENCJA EKONOMICZNA I HYBRYDYZACJA OŚRODKÓW METROPOLITALNYCH UNII EUROPEJSKIEJ

Author(s): Adam Drobniak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 517/2018

The surveyed problem refers to the issue of evaluation of cities’ economic resilience. Thus, the aim is to determine the level of economic resilience of metropolitan centers of the EU together with an attempt to organize the examined urban centers into groups with a similar level of resilience. Preliminary results of research indicate a significant diversification of the level of resilience, which makes it difficult to assess this category and provides a basis for explaining the observed trends in terms of hybridization. At the theoretical and methodological level, the article is based on a review of the achievements in the field of resilience and the use of quantitative analysis methods to assess the level of resilience, including: GDP dynamics, average GDP values. In terms of grouping methods, the Euclidean distance technique and the x-mean method were used. At empirical level the paper presents the results of research on the economic resilience of all EU metropolitan centers

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FRANCHISING: R&D ANALYSIS IN BRAZIL AND POLAND

Author(s): Debora Lacs Sichel,Joyce Natividade da Costa / Language(s): English Issue: 515/2018

The economic development is a consequence of the innovation procedure. This paper is about the innovation procedure in Brazil and in Poland. Both nations were redemocratized in the end of the 20th century. The similarities of both countries do not reflect the development of IP since Brazil has got difficulties as a consequence of its economic crisis. This crisis did not allow the establishment of R&D centres. The paper also analyses the Polish integration in the European Union and how it has enabled the establishment of R&D centres through the franchising.

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EWOLUCJA IDEI SPÓŁDZIELCZOŚCI W SEKTORZE BANKÓW SPÓŁDZIELCZYCH W POLSCE

Author(s): Mateusz Rolski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 509/2018

Credit cooperatives have been established in the Polish lands since the midnineteenth century. From the very beginning these specific enterprises were focused on a man and their physical and social needs. Therefore, co-operative banks were set up for economic and moral raising of poorer social strata – members of cooperatives. Over the years the idea of co-operation in Polish co-operative banking sector has evolved depending on current economic and political situation. In the period of the Polish People’s Republic the original model of co-operative banking sector was deformed by some kind of apropriation of the co-operation by socialism. After the Polish economic transformation co-operative banks lost their co-operative character and became similar to ordinary universal banks.

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Wpływ drogi S14 na rozwój terenów leżących w jej obszarze oddziaływania

Author(s): Remigiusz Kozłowski,Angelika Pietruszka / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4.3/2017

In recent years, several thousand kilometers of expressways and highways have been commissioned in Poland. In order for them to fulfill their functions, they must be included in the communication system through road nodes and other elements of the transport infrastructure. Only thanks to a good combination they can lead to specific benefits such as generating development impulses for the economy, fulfilling the function of city bypasses, increasing road safety in urban areas. This article tackles this issue in the Łódź agglomeration and the route that will be the cause of these potential benefits is the S14 expressway. The aim of the article is to conduct research on the impact of the S14 route on the possibility of an increase in the number of passengers at the Władysław Reymont Airport in Łódź and investors in the Łódź Special Economic Zone. The aim is also to examine the impact of S14 on the development of investments in the area of impact of the studied road and increase the number of inhabitants of selected cities of the Łódź agglomeration. The empirical research used in this work was financed from the Student Research Grants awarded by the Rector of the University of Lodz in 2017.

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Zarządzanie projektem w układach sieciowych – podejście ewolucyjne

Author(s): Aneta Pachura / Language(s): Polish Issue: 4.3/2017

The article presents the project management issues in networked environment. The organization in the network was the basis for analysis of the project management evolution. The theoretical considerations allowed to distinguish three stages of evolution: project management „inside” the organization, „interorganization” project management and „ephemeral” project management. Then, the stages were characterized by five cognitive categories (genesis, structure, resources, flows and knowledge management).

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Social innovation and competitiveness – a literature review of the theoretical work in the field

Author(s): Károly Balaton,Krisztina Varga / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Competitiveness has become a major topic of economic and business studies over the last 20 years. In the 1980s, the focus of the study on innovation and competitiveness was corporate-level analysis. Subsequently, the focus shifted towards examining the role of larger communities, as the innovation performance of the community is decisive. The identification and study of actors involved in the implementation of innovation is of utmost importance for successes, and creates the need for investigation at multiple levels. In addition to the company’s innovation capabilities, the innovation potential at regional and national level is also relevant. One of the features of successful companies is the complex interpretation of innovations (continuous and radical innovations simultaneously), which gives them a competitive advantage. Innovation is connected to the unique value, creating the competitive advantage that is decisive for competitiveness of an organization, region or even national economy. But there is the question: how can innovation be quantified in the development of competitiveness. In this paper we concentrate on social innovation and its connection to competitiveness at micro, mezo and macro level and the paper represents a literature review of the theoretical work in the field.

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From resilience to hybridization of development – Reflections on the Central European regions (CER)

Author(s): Adam Drobniak / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Linking businesses with new technologies leads to unbalanced growth due to the different types and usefulness of location advantages. Building, in such conditions, the ability to territorial resilience, is striving to achieve functional diversity, creating solutions that have flexibility in relation to changing needs. The increase in density of functions can be likened to hybrid or patchwork transformations in space. The attempts to develop such issues in the context of resilience were divided into the following problems: (I) What is the hybridization of development as a result of building resilience of regions? (II) How are economic development processes evolving, creating a hybrid character of change? (III) How does the hybridization, as an effect of regional resilience capacity building, manifest itself in the CER? Thus the main aim of the paper focuses on defining the concept of hybridization in the context of resilience capacity building in the CER.

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Territorial capital and regional development: An analysis of two Hungarian districts

Author(s): Gergely Kabai / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Lake Balaton is the second most popular tourist destination in Hungary, after the capital. This resort area has strong territorial capital, but there are regional differences in economic performance. This study examines the social and economic differences between two small districts (Keszthely and Fonyód) of this recreation area. The research is based on territorial statistical data and a questionnaire survey taken by the respective mayors and local entrepreneurs. The results of data analysis show Keszthely is a more developed and Fonyód is a less developed district in several respects, and the results of the survey reveal the social background of this as there are differences in three measurement dimensions of social capital (relationships, trust, territorial attachment).

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Unequal development in R&D field in CEE countries

Author(s): Stefana Varvari / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Research and development (R&D) is widely known as a key factor in promoting economic growth and competitiveness. In this context, the authors aim at exploring the differences and changes in the field of R&D in twenty countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). An overall image of these countries in what concerns their R&D indicators and competitiveness at international level and their participation in European Framework Programmes (FPs) is offered. The analysis shows that there are significant differences among the selected countries in CEE in all analysed aspects, with countries outside the EU registering lower performance than the EU members. Thus, the authors present the capacity of the CEE countries to innovate and underline the role of the policymakers in developing sustainable policies on research and development, encouraging investments in R&D field in order to strengthen the performance in research and innovation, and eventually stimulate economic growth.

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Editorial: Social Entrepreneurship in the Global Context

Author(s): Rossella Canestrino,Marek Ćwiklicki,Pierpaolo Magliocca / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

Editorial: Social Entrepreneurship in the Global Context

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Прилог о Зборнику могуће стратегије развоја Србије

Author(s): Časlav Ocić,Dragan Stanić,Dragan Škorić,Vladan Đorđević,Vera Dondur,Radivoje Mitrović,Slobodan Č. Antonić,Rajko Kuzmanović,Rajko Tomaš / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 32/2016

Будућност Србије: фундирање стратегологије Пледоаје за развој српске стратегологије: проблем језичке културе и енциклопедистике Прилог изради стратегије развоја села и пољопривреде Србије Будућност припада онима који се за њу припремају Залог за будућност Куда (и како) треба (и може) да иде Србија? Наука је рекла своје, на реду су политичари Ујединити интелектуалне снаге Могу ли мале земље имати властите стратегије развоја у условима глобализације?

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Ocena standardu komunalnego budownictwa mieszkaniowego w małym mieście na przykładzie Twardogóry i Chocianowa

Author(s): Milena Stetter / Language(s): Polish Issue: 3/2018

The condition of multi-family housing development depends on the town’s policy regarding the shaping of the communal resources. This is noticeable compared to the availability and technical standards of buildings. The author analyzes the directions of spatial development of the municipality and compares it with detailed evaluation of multi-family housing development in selected small towns up to 10.000 inhabitants: Chocianów and Twardogóra (located in the Lower Silesian Voivodship) – towns presenting the idea of maintaining large housing stock and thus controlling the development of housing. The article presents one of the stages of the research project – a detailed inventory of municipal property and analysis of planning documents in two small towns with a similar housing policy, population size, without the infl uence of the metropolitan city – which aims to create an optimal model of municipal housing development in the downtown of small towns up to 10,000 inhabitants in the Lower Silesian Voivodship.

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ACCOUNTING – SOCIAL SCIENCE

Author(s): Marian Zaroschi / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2016

Accounting as a mathematics-derived science appeared in Venice during the Renaissance, and permanently evolved and adapted to the economic development of society and addressed the increased information needs in the context of emerging economic entities and investors. The development of entities and increased economic complexity also increased the number of people interested in the information resulting from the informational subsystem of accounting. Today, when globalization has visible effects, and company holdings are active in multiple countries, and technical progress is on the rise, the information flows employed by accounting increased at the same pace with such entities. Selecting from the complexity of information travelling in the world economy requires an accounting normalization process, and the unitary understanding of the complexity of information flows generated by accounting required a harmonization of the summary documents, accounting methods and terminology. Romania, as part of the world system of information flows, subscribed to accounting normalization and accepted two accounting organization models. On one hand, the application of the accounting referential to a defined group of entities as established by international rules (IFRS – under Order no. 881/2012 of the Ministry of Public Finance) and the other entities applying the national rules established under Order no. 1802/2014 of the Minister of Public Finance, in force as of 01 January 2015. Considering the extent of the implementation of established principles, assessment bases and accounting-specific practices, and the large number of people interested in the information flows generated by accounting, and the influence exerted on large population groups, one can safely state that this is a social science.

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Проектирование продуктивного механизма управления миграционными образовательными потоками на основе экономико-математического моделирования

Author(s): Oleg Nikolaevich Luchko,Oleg Yurievich Patlasov,Svetlana Khamitanova Mukhametdinova / Language(s): Russian Issue: 6/2018

Introduction. The authors investigate the problem of migration flows management in the field of education, based on mathematical and economic modelling. The purpose of the article is to identify the techniques of efficient educational migration management as a part of migration balance. Materials and Methods. The authors utilized such research methods as questionnaires, expert evaluation, economic and mathematical modeling and tools of cognitive modeling in accordance with R. Axelrod’s methodology which is applied for the analysis of open systems containing hardly formalizable links between their components, taking into account the external influence. Results. The analysis of current trends in migration processes has been conducted in the context of globalization and educational migration as their integral part. The features of educational migration flows in the Omsk region and their impact on the migration balance have been revealed. The authors identify controlling factors having most significant influence on the migration balance as a resultant factor depending on the intensity of educational migration and the degree of their mutual influence, taking into account the impact of the external environment. A cognitive model of migration balance has been introduced. It became the basis for a series of simulation experiments with specialized software which allowed to predict the effect of changes in the influence of various controlling factors on the migration balance. Recommendations for an efficient mechanism of managing migration educational flows in the Omsk region have been proposed. Conclusions. In conclusion, the authors summarize the main techniques of efficient educational migration management as a part of migration balance. The study reveals the main control factors influencing the level of migration balance in the Omsk region. Among them are: better quality of higher education in Russia, geographic location, national discrimination and language barriers in the Republic of Kazakhstan, etc. A system of measures to manage educational migration flows as the most important components of the migration balance, taking into account the specifics of the Omsk Region, has been developed.

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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION IN URBAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Author(s): Mirela-Oana Pintea,Sorin Adrian Achim,Marius Dan Gavriletea / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The main objective of our paper is to develop a set of indicators to measure the performance of an urban public transportation system considering the important role of such a system in the economy of cities. Local passenger transport activity is an existing activity with a larger surface ensuring the moving of residents within the city while having implications for tourism by providing connections to all sights of the town. The performance of such a company should be evaluated through well selected indicators in coordination with the particularities of urban public transportation and the objectives of such a company. In this study we start by highlighting the importance of performance measurement, than we present the particularities of an urban transportation system and at the end we propose a set of indicators from key result indicators to key performance indicators specific for this domain of activity.

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Consideraţii geopolitice şi geostrategice ale zonei Mării Negre sau politica regională în devenire

Author(s): Ion DEACONESCU / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 26/2010

The relative decline of the United States in several regions of the world, as well as the more and more visible role of the European Union, have lately favoured new types of approaches to continental geopolitics, of adaptation to the differentiated growth of power among states and of real modification of the present international system. This article discusses the place occupied by Romania within the new regional politics in the context of the new opportunities of entering to the area energy mechanism, becoming a regional power, edifying and consolidating its position within the process of regional cooperation, and increasing economic competitiveness.

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On the causal links between the stock market and the economy of Hong Kong

Author(s): Sin-Yu Ho,Bernard Njindan Iyke / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

A bulk of literature has identified the major economic drivers of Hong Kong’s rapid and steady economic performance over the last three decades. Of the major economic drivers identified, the performance of the stock market has received less attention. This paper examines the causal links between the stock market performance and economic performance of Hong Kong in an augmented VAR setting. Using an extended quarterly dataset that covers the period of 1986Q2–2014Q4 and the Toda-Yamamoto causality test, we find that stock market performance as proxied by the market capitalization ratio and economic performance stimulate each other. In addition, stock market performance as proxied by the total value traded ratio and economic performance influence each other. However, the causal links between stock market performance and economic performance dissipate if stock market performance is proxied by the turnover ratio. This finding suggests that the causal links between stock market performance and economic performance are highly dependent on the proxy used for stock market performance in the case of Hong Kong.

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