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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Course of Change for Meeting the Global  Responsibility Challenges for Business]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[At present social, economic and political challenges are growing at a faster  pace and affecting businesses, especially in developing countries, more  than ever before. In the years to come, these challenges are expected to  increase further. To determine the shape of business in future, there must  be an identification of the forces that will shape the future. American  Society for Quality (ASQ) conducts future studies after every three years, in  which globalization and global responsibility have emerged as the top  ranking forces that will shape the future of business. Developing countries  exhibit a much lower understanding about both these forces, but they  have to recognize the importance of future requirements for the longer  term perspectives of business. This paper, taking into consideration the  ASQ future studies, aims at developing a strategic approach for turning  future challenges into opportunities and to meet the requirements of  future businesses. A model has been developed as charting the course of  change for developing countries by integrating the UN Global Compact  with the organizational system. The integration of UN Global Compact in  the proposed model finds its justification due to its initiative to spread the  benefits of economic development globally while sharing values and  principles for social responsibility. This model has been considered as the  most convenient route to meet the requirements of business in future.  Keywords: Future Studies, Globalization, Global Responsibility, Global  Responsibility Challenges, UN Global Compact.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1554]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Impacts of European Economic Crisis on European  Identity]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[European identity is a concept that is constructed on the framework of  European Union objective. This objective is an inevitable component of union  and requires process to achieve its goals. The construction of European  identity is considered as a crucial target in pursuing the establishment of a  politically, economically and culturally powerful united Europe in the world.  European Union is currently facing severe economic crisis. This crisis is not just  an economic crisis, it also reflects identity crisis. European values, such as  fundamental human rights, democracy, and rule of law, individual freedom  and spread of welfare are under threat of economic crisis and higher  uncertainty. Solution of economic crisis would be shield for these universal  values of European Union and identity. That’s why, it is very important to  construct new multi-dimensional paradigm. The construction of new multidimensional  paradigm depends on real analysis of economic crisis and its other  aspects. In addition, there must be long and short term problem solving  approaches. In the short term, economic and political cooperation of members  are very vital. Moreover, the end of debt crisis and weakness of  competitiveness are staminal. Therefore, member states of union are obliged  to leave the old habits of the nation - state. As is known, in the crisis times,  nations prefer nationalist tendency to overcome structural problems and  receive public support. Whereas, this classic reflex of states just deepen  existing instability in regional and global levels. However, in the long term,  economic structure of European Union depends on new market liberalization  and political reforms.  There are three main purpose of this study. First to analyze correlation  between economic crisis of European Union and Identity. Secondly, to examine  political reflections of EU’s economic crisis in the context of casual factors.  Finally, projection will be made about the future of European Union.  Keywords: European Union, Economic Crisis, European Identity, Identity Crisis.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1655]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Corporation Tax Rate-Revenue Paradox: Income Shifting  and Corporatization]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Governments have reduced the corporate tax rate to attract foreign capital  in the process of globalization especially after the 1980s. Additionally, they  have taken some measures supportively such as tax incentives and tax  exemption for this goal. These tax competition practices brought up some  questions and concerns about financing public spending issue. But  corporate tax revenue actual data shows relatively stable path over the  time while corporate tax rates are reducing among countries. Some  researches called this doubtful fact “corporate tax rate-revenue paradox”  and explaining it with corporatization and income shifting effects.  In this study we examine the development of corporate tax rates and  revenues in EU countries briefly. Then we are trying to analyses which  factors are dominant in this paradox using available annual panel data for  EU countries. In empirical part of the study we employ panel unit root tests  for determining the stationarity of data set. After this procedure we  perform alternative estimation techniques and provide estimation results.  According to these result threats and opportunities are evaluated at  national tax policy perspective and at union level.  Keywords: Corporate Tax, Corporate Tax Revenue, Corporate Tax-Revenue  Puzzle, Panel Estimation, European Union.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1457]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/1551">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[How Organizational Culture Affects the Motivational  Antecedents of Job Outcomes: a Conceptual Model]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This paper investigates into the relationship between motivation and job  outcomes in work environment. The motivational antecedents of  organizational outcomes are differentiated into extrinsic and intrinsic  motivations. The influences of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation on the job  outcome variables, that are job satisfaction and job performance, are  typified in our conceptual model. Therefore, this study looks into the  moderating effect of organizational culture on the relationship between  motivational variables and organizational outcomes. We identified four  organizational cultures from the extant literature to be included in our  conceptual model; competitive, bureaucratic, entrepreneurial, and  consensual. Propositions are given regarding the moderating effect of  organizational culture on the motivational antecedents of job outcomes.  Future research directions are discussed.  Keywords: Intrinsic Motivation, Extrinsic Motivation, Organizational  Culture, Job Outcomes, Job Performance, Job Satisfaction.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1494]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Institutional Reforms as Requirement for Efficiency and  Functionality in the Governance of Bosnia and  Herzegovina]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The aim of this paper is to emphasize the problems of state governance  regarding constitutional structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina and  economic inefficiencies as a consequence of an overloaded, jaded and  complex state structure.  In addition, the paper analyzed how the system can be accommodated to  provide more state powers, credibility and accountability in regards to  lower state levels to overcome and prevent bad business conditions, legal  and political particularism.  The institutional overlapping can be overcome with a strategy of providing  the state with more legitimate authority over other levels of governance  and by redefining the most basic interests of the current constitutional  system based on the Dayton agreement.  Thus, presenting valuable argument and solution for addressing  institutional reforms and/for economic development.  Keywords: State Governance, Institutional Reform, State Structure,  Political System, Economic Development, Legal Particularism.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1622]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 978-9958-834-23-3     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Corporate University: Beliefs and Misbeliefs]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[During the process of putting together the program for an American and two  European Corporate University Summits, we have gathered dozens of opinions  from industry practitioners. Based on our own research and on some industry  leading magazines (Chief Learning Officer Magazine, Harvard Business  Publishing Corporate Learning, Elearning! Magazine, Learning Solutions  Magazine) we are close to the problem definition. Post-experiential business  education, which is at the heart of a Corporate University, can make two  fundamental mistakes: the first is to attempt being a school, the second is not  to attempt being a school.  We may try building a bridge between ‘know how’ (University) and ‘know  when’ (Corporation), the problem is that we do not know how to get from  ‘know how’ to ‘know when’. A modern Corporate University helps those who  are hungry for new knowledge to understand the contexts and ideally, in  choosing the right professional path. The CU&#039;s task is to supplement the entrylevel  knowledge with the most important, solution-oriented “mainstream”  types of knowledge while helping practitioners to understand why exactly that  the learning content is, and not something else (and thus, where the world is  heading). The practitioner learns this way the most important part: to acquire  the necessary knowledge to complete his task. He learns how he can  supplement his own existing knowledge with the available knowledge: that of  the others or of the gurus – he learns how to search, share and validate. This  process is difficult for everyone in different ways. There are those whose  challenge is the difference between the levels of brought and acquired  knowledge while there are others whose challenges are the hurdles of their  own professional path related dilemma. A Corporate University enables the  practitioners to step out of their position&#039;s comfort zone and to return again  according to their areas of interest and to their own knowledge level. Everyone  can take from the content and use what he really needs and where his interest  is, the rest is optionally available – just like the different tools of a Swiss Army  Knife.  Keywords: University, Beliefs, Misbeliefs.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1682]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Maastricht Treaty in the Shaping and Development of the  Common Foreign and Security Policy]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[For the European Union, in whose framework still dominates the European  Community, it discusses how to deliver (great project) European  unification, which started on the ground ruined Europe after World War II,  in 50 years of the last century. Motivated by the idea that the association  of European countries is a far better alternative to the previous mutually  confronted Europe, a project called (European Union) in the following  decades led to the emergence of a new, unprecedented work on European  soil-European Union. European Union, in its present form is the product of  more than 50 years of evolution of European integration, which today  despite initial six Western European countries including the former main  rivals Germany and France includes 27 member countries of the Union, as  well as many other countries with candidate status for membership in the  European Union. Seen in the development context, the Union is not a  preconceived model of the association of European countries, but is the  product of a complex multiple decade-long process of integration in which  different actors are involved. Within this process, depending on the  achieved level of integration, the Union received a different shape. In its  present form and name as the European Union it occurs even in the early  nineties of the last century, long before it passed through small-scale  forms of integration. More decades of European integration is based on  the desire of European countries for the mutual integration, based on the  firmly expressed mutual interest. The motives for each integrating a variety  of security to purely economic and political, more or less pronounced in  each Member State of the European Union. Of the many factors that have  influenced the emergence and development of the European Communitiesand their transformation into today&#039;s Union to distinguish political and  security interests of Member States. Hardly any integration project has had  such a long initial period as foreign and security policy of the failure of the  European Defense Community, 1954, to the Treaties of Maastricht (1992),  Amsterdam (1999) and Nice (2000). Due to political constraints on the  sovereignty and political interests of the Union, by the end of the Cold War  efforts on building security and defense policy were unsuccessful.  Excessive force was Europe&#039;s dependence on NATO and U.S. nuclear  protection.  Keywords: Security, Integration, EU Policy, Countries, Agreements.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1625]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 978-9958-834-23-3     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Personal Expenditure Tax Proposal: In view of  Impact of the Economic Crises Prevention]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The world has undergone many economic crises in the last century of our  recent past. These economic crises (called inflation, deflation, or  stagflation) have always been considered to be one of the most critical  problems facing humanity. Crises change the lifestyles of individuals and  lower their living standards, whereby they are deemed to be social  problems. Since it is the duty of the state to regulate economic life,  politicians feel themselves under greater pressure (especially in democratic  countries) to moderate the impact of the economic crisis. However, our  historical experience has shown us that governments (and the political  measures they devise) are inadequate and unsuccessful in preventing the  economic crisis from occurring in the first place, even though the primary  goal of the state and politics should be the prevention of the crisis before  its onset.  This point precisely is the focus of this study. There have been attempts to  revive the discussion of personal expenditure tax in the finance literature,  an option which was proposed long ago as a method of preventing  economic crises. In this new tax proposal, the subject of the tax is the  portion of income that is not disposed. This “non-disposed” income  becomes either consumption expenditure or investment expenditure. In  this new tax proposal, the primary objective is to lay a mild progressive tax  on consumption expenditure via a three-tiered tariff.  The proposal for a personal expenditure tax has two versions, one radical  and one moderate. Both versions envisage a wide range of reforms, which  encompass the elimination of some fundamental taxes in current use. The  radical proposal supports a comprehensive tax exemption to investment  expenditure depending on time and conditions. The moderate proposal,  due to the ambiguity between investment and consumption expenditure,  supports that both kinds of expenditure must be subject to the tax thereby  proposed.  Scientists who support the personal expenditure tax do for a variety of  reasons such as tax justice, simplifying the tax system, further encouragement of savings and investment (as well as economic stability  and growth), the improvement of income distribution justice, increasing  the effectiveness of tax policy and the tax incentive system. The greatest  practical obstacle to the implementation of the new tax is the difficulty of  determining the income of the taxpayers. This is because in order to have  the tax assessment, it would be necessary to list all cash input (regardless  of the source), to calculate the cash sum, and to subtract from this sum all  expenditure exempt from taxation (along with any investment  expenditure). Those who are against the proposal generally do so because  of the sheer size of the informal economy. The proposal becomes  applicable and meaningful only when informal economy shrinks  considerably.  The primary hypothesis of this study is that in our digital age, this new tax  proposal has become much more applicable, thanks to the expansion of  formal economy and the increased role that the banking system plays in  daily life – which in turn were brought about by developments in  technology. A brand-new taxation infrastructure, which will encourage  savings and investment without penalizing workers and laborers, will be  one of the greatest hindrances to the onset of economic crisis.  The first part of the study presents the aforementioned proposal for a  personal expenditure tax in greater detail. The second part is on the  discussion of the reasons which begin economic crises, and on this new tax  proposal&#039;s expected role in the crisis prevention. The last part of the study  will evaluate the preconditions relevant to the implementation of the  personal expenditure tax proposal, as well as the applicability of the  proposal itself.  Keywords: Economic Crisis, Crisis Prevention, Personal Expenditure Tax,  Tax Policy.  JEL Classification : H12, G01, H20, H21, E64.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1569]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Impact of Training and Development on Employees  Performance in Bosnia and Herzegovina]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Companies today are forced to compete and to act professionally in those  harsh times, so it is very important to have right employees for better  company’s rating. It is crucial that staff needs to have better knowledge,  skills and competencies. More and more companies are acknowledging  Human Resources (training and development) as their main key for success  and bigger focus is on employee – customer relation. Main objective of this  study is to find out impact of training and development on employees  performance in BiH. This study will be back grounded by the questionnaire  and personal interviews which will be conducted in several companies  which will show did employees gained positive or negative impact on  employee’s performance.  Keywords: Training, Development, Human Resource Management.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1455]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Main Policies and Challenges of the European Union]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This paper documents the reality of the European Union focusing some  main policies and debates as challenges. It will set light to understand  better which terms or policies of the EU means what. It will be examined  what kinds of main problems there are in the EU mentioning Russia case,  and difficulties between public government and central structure of the  EU, based on division as religious and regional as well as linguistic, etc. The  paper has various approximations to define these main cases and plans  within the EU. The structure of the paper is as follows; 1. Policies mentions  about to become unique region in the world, competition and cohesion  policy, to divide the governance between central and subunits as National  and European Parliament, and to conduct the common values into the EU.  2. Challenges will give information about democratic and knowledge deficit  within EU, unexpected crises and its effects on the enlargement process of  the EU, opacity of the low and high politics, and relations with Russia.  Keywords: European Union, Policies, Challenges, Relations With Russia,  Governmental Structure.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2013-05-10]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1542]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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