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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[THE ROLE OF INSTITUTIONS IN TRANSITION ECONOMICS: A DEEPER LOOK AT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PRIVATIZATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The field of Institutional Economics is about the theoretical and empirical findings that have a major role in today’s understanding of institutions. The relationship between the institutions and Economic growth is confirmed by the literature. The objective of this study is to present the current situation of government institutions and economic situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. This paper begins with the principles and explanations of the theoretical aspects of old and new institutional economics, and its role in transition economics like in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In this case Multiple Linear Regression Method is used and analyzed according to the sets of  variables. Results show the positive relations of Large Scale Privatization and Small Scale Privatization and negative relations of Government Budget on Gross Domestic Product. The author expects that this research topic should help to the Government institutions and Private sectors in Bosnia and Herzegovina.    Keywords: Institutional Economics, Economic growth, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Multiple Linear Regression Method, Large Scale Privatization, Small Scale Privatization, Government Budget, Gross Domestic Product]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2872]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/702">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of Institutions in Transition Economics: a Deeper Look on the Relationship between Privatization and Economic Growth in Bosnia and Herzegovina]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The field of Institutional Economics is about the theoretical and empirical findings that have a major role in today’s understanding of institutions. The relationship between the institutions and Economic growth is confirmed by the literature. This paper begins with the principles and explanations of the theoretical aspects of old and new institutional economics, and its role in transition economics like in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Descriptive statistic is analyzed according to the sets of variables. The author expects a positive relationship between Institutions and Economic Growth.    Keywords: institutional economic, economic growth, new economy, new institutions, privatization, transition economics, Bosnia and Herzegovina.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04-24]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2513]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/454">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of Intercultural Communication Competence on Service Reliability and Customer Satisfaction]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Abstract: The article presents an inclusive framework on three major constructs namely intercultural communication competence, service reliability and customer satisfaction in the grocery retail settings in Malaysia. The constructs’ validity and reliability were examined based on structural equation modeling. Based on the proposed framework, a number of propositions were developed to facilitate empirical investigation on intercultural communication competences of the selected grocery retail outlets. This contributes to the development of a theory based path model that links the intercultural communication competence to service reliability and customer satisfaction. While numerous scholars have considered the extensive topics of service quality and customer satisfaction, however, none of those studies explored on the critical role of intercultural communication competence and incorporated the construct with perceived service quality and customer satisfaction. One of the most critical finding of the study is the dimension of perceived service quality and intercultural communication competence have positive relationship and it also progressive finding for further research on other dimensions of perceived service quality.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2015]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2830]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2323">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role Of Internal Auditing In Sustainable Development And Corporate Social  Reporting]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Sustainability means a lot more than just the economic, environmental, and social challenges  an organization faces in its everyday and future operations: it means the ethics in these  operations, touching on all the lives of those in the organization, its stakeholders, and the  planet. The objectives of all sustainable development programs must be measured, and the results are to be reported in and outside the organization. Stakeholders and society need to be  assured independently in that such measures are recorded accurately and in timely fashion  before being reported. There are opportunities for internal auditing to contribute to its  independent and objective assurance services as an auditor as well as a consultant and  teacher. Such a contribution can take best-practice internal auditing to a high level of added  value. The internal auditor is a vital conduit to the creation of trust.  The internal auditor contributes to a number of corporate social reporting (CSR) and  sustainability issues by keeping management updated on the aspects of operational and  compliance issues, which is part of their core function, as well as brand management audits  and through participation in the stakeholder dialogue process. Furthermore, the increasing  importance of CSR and sustainability and its impact on risk management bring additional  challenges involving the control environment, including the provision and installation of  effective management and reporting systems, which will provide clarity and transparency,  and therefore trust. The internal auditor has an integral role in determining the materiality of  the content of the CSR and sustainability report. This is a responsibility that can only increase  with the burgeoning of CSR and sustainability reports, both in volume and size of content.  Today, internal audit function that is the most important factor in creating sustainable value  to improve the value of the company and firm performance is important to correct  implementation and to be sustainable. Therefore, enterprises should assign enough  importance to internal auditing and should pay attention to create a sustainable audit system.  The aim of this study is to investigate the system of sustainable internal audit which is the  essential element for sustainable development and corporate social reporting.  Keywords: Corporate Social Reporting, Internal Auditing, Sustainable Development,  Corporate Social Responsibility, Sustainable Management Systems.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05-31]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[1135]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2754">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The role of language in the process of social integration:  from the ancient Cena Trimalchionis to the contemporary world.]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The Ancient World melting pot is not so different from the globalized  contemporary society, in which various people and languages are constantly meeting each  others. In particular, language still plays a leading part in the process of social  redemption, integration and cultural identity formation. This fact provides us a prominent  opportunity to compare these two backgrounds, noticing how the hic et nunc could help  explaining the past, which, in turn, could improve our analysis of the present. The  proposed contribution intends to apply some of the most known linguistic models on a  Latin literary text, the famous Cena Trimalchionis in Petronius‘ Satyricon, in order to  investigate its sociolinguistics implications. This system can frame a further  understanding of the passage, which gives back the possibility to outline some evergreen  rules about the relationship between the governing and the emerging class. As the Cena  shows, freedmen, who accorded a high prestige to Latin, aimed to imitate it; yet, they  were at the same time also bound to their mother tongue. Their linguistic choices reveal  both their wishes and their limits. According to this view, a good use of language, with  the consequent sense of being member of a group, granted – and still grants nowadays – a  privilege path towards emancipation to foreigners and lower classes. This presentation  aims to give some examples on the different levels of communication.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2011-05]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[117]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2501">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of Learner’s Culture in EFL Textbooks]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Language is used both as a means of communication as well as a carrier of culture. Language without culture is unthinkable, so is human culture without language (Wei, 2005). Moreover, linguistic competence alone is not enough for learners of a language to be competent in that language (Krasner, 1999). That is, learners need to be aware of the culturally appropriate ways to address people, disagree with someone, express gratitude or make requests (Peterson and Coltrane, 2003). Teaching a foreign language by means of culture has become increasingly widespread nowadays. As an English teacher, we should try to keep students interested in the classroom. Culture is one of the best ways of motivation and it also provides students with useful models of authentic use of the language in the classroom. Universally accepted cultural –moral values may more motivate the ELT classrooms while learning a foreign language.    Among the scholars of the field there are two widely spread and opposing views regarding the relationship between culture and English language teaching (ELT). One is that, since culture and language are inseparable, English cannot be taught without the culture (or rather, one of the cultures) in which it is embedded. The other one is that English language teaching should be carried out independently of its cultural context. But the researcher suggests that, instead of the context of the target culture, the content of ELT and ELT materials should be familiar to language learners. And the researcher hopes that culturally friendly ELT materials will motivate and accelerate the learning of English. Taking this argument as a starting point, this study reports on a research carried out at different educational institutions in Turkmenistan investigating students’ and teachers’ attitudes to the cultural content of the Turkmen EFL courses.    The findings of this study are hoped to have implications for teaching and learning culture and moral values in English as a Foreign Language classrooms in Turkmenistan.  ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012-05]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[929]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/2652">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of Learning Styles on the Performance of Learners in ICT embedded Language Teaching]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Information Communication Technologies (ICT) has generated a huge difference in last the few decades in industry, commerce, transportation and obviously everyday life. It is an undeniable fact that education was undergone a great change by the use of information communication technologies in class environment. Traditional teaching methods have far been replaced by tools provided by computers and it now became a wonder if the roles of teachers would ever stay the same in the following year as ICT embedded language teaching came to be widely used. Though information communication technologies provide students with the opportunity to visualize the content they have been exposed to, it is questionable if learners really have the equal chance to get the utmost benefit of this content as they are exposed to the same activities or the same materials paying the least attention to learners own learning styles.     This study aims to explore the extent to which the learners can take benefit from the content information communication technologies provide, whether the kinesthetic learners are left out of the circle of this opportunity as the content is more likely to support visual and audio learners. The study is conducted among eighty adult learners of English as a foreign language at a language course in Istanbul. The findings of the study have not only given the researchers the chance to evaluate the materials and the technologies used but also provided an insight on the process for the betterment of these materials as learning styles were found to play the key role on the performance of the students with the materials they were being exposed to.   ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2012]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[984]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/711">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of Local Authority in Tourism Development in Vlora]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Economic and social opening of Albania after 1991, gave a new momentum to the country&#039;s tourism development particularly the one to the coastal areas, using individual private investment, which structured small-scale tourism, coupled with cleavage to extreme local landscape. Governments after 1991, rightly considered tourism development as a big opportunity on developing the country in a short term.Local authorities have many direct and indirect mechanisms at their responsibility and disposal to influence the development of tourism as they are providers of public goods and services, supervisory bodies of economic activities, builders of public infrastructure, responsible for economic development and accountable for the natural environment. The local authorities have focused on the distinctive challenges of governance for sustainable developments.    This article discusses the development of the tourism industry in Albania and Vlora. It calls for both local and national agencies, and respective stakeholders to support the idea where tourism is an important sector in the process of economic development. The study is based on a structured survey which was developed in Vlora. The questionnaires were structured in such a way that it contains the information needed to answer a hypothesis: “The Local Authority play an important part on tourism development in Vlora”.For processing questionnaires, SPSS software (descriptive Statistics, Frequencies, Compare Means, and Independent Samples T-test) and Mega Stat (Hypothesis Test, Compare Two independents Groups) were used.In Vlora, tourism is one of the many driving forces promoting the directions and opportunities for local developments. The research question of this article is whether tourism can be sustainable. The true proof of “sustainable tourism” will be the sustainable development of local communities which are tourist destinations as the time is right for more focus on this challenge.    Keywords:Vlora, Albania, tourism, sustainable tourism, local authorities, local developments, policy making.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04-24]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2508]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/1026">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[THE ROLE OF MACROECONOMIC VARIABLES ON  THE YIELD CURVE MODEL:  CASE OF ALBANIA]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Albania is a country which has passed through a difficult transition period and surely this period has lead to  some inevitable effects on the Albanian economy. The high inflation and the rapid decline of the economy  contributed to the crisis which happened in 1997. After 1998 the economic progress and the inflation  reduction were enabled by the fiscal and monetary policy strengthening. Much progress is made and this is  seen in the continuous increase of gross domestic product growth rate.  This research paper will analyze the relationship between term structure of interest rate and the two key  variables which are inflation rate and GDP growth rate. The challenging correlation of these variables has  been discussed by many economists. Some of the authors could introduce their yield curve model without the  intervention of macroeconomic variables, while some others considered macroeconomic factors such as  inflation rate and GDP growth rate in explaining the model.  The focus of this paper is how the two key variables affected the interest rate. From the regression analysis, it  is found that the macroeconomic variables explain about 16.3 % of the variation in the interest rate which is  not a high percentage. These variables are not statistically significant and they can be drop out of the  regression line.  Keywords: interest rate, inflation rate, GDP growth rate.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[3567]]></dcterms:extent>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/706">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Role of Macroeconomic Variables on the Yield Curve Model: Case of Albania]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Albania is a country which has passed through a difficult transition period and surely this period has lead to some inevitable effects on the Albanian economy. The high inflation and the rapid decline of the economy contributed to the crisis which happened in 1997. After 1998 the economic progress and the inflation reduction were enabled by the fiscal and monetary policy strengthening. Much progress is made and this is seen in the continuous increase of gross domestic product growth rate.    This research paper will analyze the relationship between term structure of interest rate and the two key variables which are inflation rate and GDP growth rate. The challenging correlation of these variables has been discussed by many economists. Some of the authors could introduce their yield curve model without the intervention of macroeconomic variables, while some others considered macroeconomic factors such as inflation rate and GDP growth rate in explaining the model.    The focus of this paper is how the two key variables affected the interest rate. From the regression analysis, it is found that the macroeconomic variables explain about 16.3 % of the variation in the interest rate which is not a high percentage. These variables are not statistically significant and they can be drop out of the regression line.    Keywords: interest rate, inflation rate, GDP growth rate, level, slope, curvature.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04-24]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2520]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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