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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Analyzing Entrepreneurial Orientation of SMEs: Evidence from Albania ]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship and its role on the growth of the country was one of the main discussed topics during the first half 20th century. The discussion during the second half of the century shifted to the analysis of the entrepreneurial orientation and factors affecting entrepreneurial behavior of the firms. The research conducted on many developed countries revealed that there is a positive relationship between entrepreneurial orientation and firm performance.    Albania is a developing country which has only a twenty year period of open market economy. This paper analyses the role of entrepreneurial orientation and its components on the growth orientation of Albanian SMEs. The entrepreneurial orientation components included in this study are: innovation, risk-taking, proactiveness, and autonomy. The data used in the study are primary data collected during September-December 2013 through the questionnaire distributed to 60 Albanian SMEs operating in its capital city of Tirana.  The methodology used for the analysis of the data is multiple regression analysis.  The analysis revealed that higher level of entrepreneurial orientation resulted in higher level of SMEs growth orientation and performance. In further studies a new dimension of the entrepreneurial orientation proposed to be investigated whether it has or not a positive impact on SMEs performance is collaborative orientation between SMEs, research institutions and government.    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Orientation, SME-s, Growth Orientation, Albania, Regression Analysis.    The research is theoretical. We will do the comparison between definition of the IT Function and actual implementation in practice on International Burch University, also applied managerial models.    The results of the study can be the useful resource for future research and help better practical implementation of IT center support at International Burch University.      Keywords: higher educational institution, IT center, administrative and academic staff.  ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2629]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Comparison of Financial Performance of Intermediary Firms Traded On Istanbul Stock Exchange by Using Topsis Method]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Intermediary firms are authorized by the Board of Capital Markets to do capital market operations on the behalf of the investors in the capital markets. Brokerage firms provide services to the investors and are joint-stock companies. These institutions undertake the intermediary position between investors and capital market and also inform the investors about the capital market movements. The shifting of the boundaries of the capital markets, economic globalization and increasing institutionalization has increased the importance of these institutions. In this study by using the financial statements of the five intermediary firms which are traded on the Istanbul Stock Exchange and classified as &#039;Intermediaries Institutions&#039; under the Public Disclosure Platform, the financial performance of these companies will be analyzed with the TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) method. Firstly financial ratios will be determined and then ratio analysis will be used in the financial performance measurement. Financial ratios will be calculated separately for each firm. These calculated ratios will be converted to a single score which shows the overall company performance by using the TOPSIS method. Finally, according to the scores show company performance the performance of companies will be ranked. In the study, for the period of 2009 - 2012 financial performance which comprises the four period’s comparisons will be done between the results obtained.    Keywords: Brokerage Firms, Performance Analysis, Financial Ratios, TOPSIS Method.     ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2557]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Measures of Customer Satisfaction in the Usage of Accounting Software Programs]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Businesses can obtain their operational results more accurate and faster with the rapid changes and development in information technology. The Accounting Office Software Programs which are used by the accounting department of corporations and private accounting offices are also information technology products. Users’ access more accurate information more easily by the help of these computer assisted programs. Thus, obtained financial reports and other outputs will help business managers to take better decision.    The purpose of this study is to determine whether professional accountants are satisfied with the accounting software they use in regular basis. For this purpose, a questionnaire was applied to Accountants and Financial Advisors registered in Erzurum Chamber of Certified Public Accountants in the province of Erzurum. The data obtained from the questionnaire was analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Science for Windows (SPSS 20.0) program. In conclusion, professional accountants generally satisfied with the accounting software they use, except a few issues.    Keywords: Information, Information Technology, Accounting Package Programs, Customer Satisfaction, Accounting Information Systems.  ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2572]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Forced Tax Collection: Bank Accounts` Blockage and Its Impact on Taxpayers` Fiscal Behavior in Albania]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[One of the big reforms in Albania regarding Tax issues was the abrogation of Law no. 8560, of 22 December 22, 1999 “For Tax Procedure in the Republic of Albania&#039;&#039; and the approval of new Law no. 9920, of May 19, 2008 with the same name and the Instruction no.24, date 02.09.2008 on “Tax Procedure in the Republic of Albania&#039;&#039; which both have the purpose to reduce informal economy and to improve the business climate in the country.     By way of providing details on some issues, we will focus on the part of how this law determines the procedure of constringent precautions for a forced tax collection and mainly that of taxpayers` bank accounts blockage. The paper aims to shed light on if this procedure of constringent precautions help the purpose of this Law to reduce informal economy and to improve the business climate in the country or not. As a methodology we are going to give the evaluation of Albanian appication of the above mentioned Law and Instruction, being in incompliance with other parts of regulations and blocking orders themselves.    Keywords: tax procedures, bank accounts` blockage, constringent precautions.  ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2594]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/819">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Effects of War Crime Processing before Domestic Courts on the Reconciliation Process in Bosnia and Herzegovina    Efekti procesuiranja ratnih zločina pred domaćim sudovima na procese pomirenja u Bosni i Hercegovini]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[During the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), severe war crimes were committed, including even genocide. The war crimes, committed during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), have been processed at several different levels (from international to local). The paper focuses on the processing of war crimes committed in BiH before domestic, Bosnian courts and the contribution of these processes to the reconciliation process in BiH. We made an empirical research and collected data on the attitude of victims and, for the first time, of perpetrators of war crimes about three research domains: purpose and expectations from war crime processing, subjects’ perception of the judicial system in BiH that processes war crimes, and perception of the past results of war crime processing in BiH.  The following conclusions were made: the subjects express their negative opinion about the proceedings; most subjects expect processing to reveal the truth and contribute to their prevention in the future; all the subjects have a negative opinion about judicial institutions that process war crimes in BiH; subjects believe that the punishments for the crimes do not achieve the purpose of punishing; processing contributed to easing victims’ suffering but also helped convicts reject their psychological burden.    Sažetak: Tokom rata u BiH (1992-1995), počinjeni su teški zločini, pa čak i genocid.  Njihovo procesuiranje odvija se na više različitih nivoa. U ovom se radu analizira procesuiranje ratnih zločina pred domaćim, bosanskohercegovačkim sudovima i doprinos ovih suđenja pomirenju u BiH.  Provedeno je empirijsko istraživanje i prikupljeni su podaci o stavovima žrtava i, po prvi put, osuđenika za ratne zločine o tri grupe pitanja: svrha i očekivanja od procesuiranja ratnih zločina, percepcija ispitanika o pravosudnom sistemu u Bosni i Hercegovini koji sudi za ratne zločine i percepcija dosadašnjih rezultata rada na procesuiranju ratnih zločina u Bosni i Hercegovini.  Zaključeno je sljedeće: ispitanici izražavaju svoje negativno mišljenje o procesuiranju; većina ispitanika očekuje da će procesuiranje otkriti istinu, i doprinijeti njihovoj prevenciji u budućnosti; svi ispitanici imaju negativno mišljenje o pravosudnim institucijama koje procesuiraju ratne zločine u BiH; ispitanici smatraju da se kaznama za zločine ne postiže svrha kažnjavanja; procesuiranje doprinosi ublažavanju patnji žrtava, ali, također, pomaže osuđenicima da se oslobode psihološkog tereta.]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Social Sciences Research Center of International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2363]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-5706     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[The Microfinance Tale: Bright and Dark Side of the Narrative]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[In the years following the ‘Great Recession’ the microfinance institutions gained great attention and earned various attributes summed up as being a very “attractive” root of financing developing nations’ wide. According to the saying that arriving at an end forces as inevitably to think about the beginning, imposes also the rewind of the ‘Microfinance tale’. The story traces back to the deepest convictions of Muhammad Yunus, a Bangladeshi banker, that the right to get a loan should be classified as one of the basic human rights, and his contribution to the poverty reduction challenge through the establishment of Grameen bank (the bank for poor) in 1976. Today, when we all are witnesses that his idea was pretty sustainable and are tirelessly discussing about the greatest innovation of the last century, there is a necessity to draw a parallel in between the initial idea and its realization, and inspect to what extent are they consistent, and whether they match at all?     The microcredit as a modest but in comparison to bank loans relatively fast way of obtaining financial support in order to fill the “gaps in your budget” in short-terms, or to start your own small enterprise as a more permanent solution to ample unemployment, flourished in Bosnia and Herzegovina very fast. It seems that Bosnia and Herzegovina was a very fertile ground for implementation of the microfinance project, since it flourished relatively fast and MFIs in Bosnia and Herzegovina in relatively short period of time became quite financially sustainable. Relatively scarce is the list of fields that emphasize simultaneously economic and social performance intensively as the microfinance sector does (Tulchin, 2003); the social performance of a MFI is nothing else than the ‘truth in advertising’ (Hashemi, 2007). As things look nowadays, most of the MFIs ‘turned back’ from their original mission of providing financial support for small entrepreneurs, thus profit goals have overcame the social considerably. This article attempts to draw a parallel and define the reasons why the initial idea of fighting the poverty through providing microcredit brought dark reality of making the poor even poorer.  Keywords: MFIs/MCOs, microcredit, poverty-debt, developing, SMEs, Bosnia and Herzegovina  *This proceeding is part of an ongoing research supported by Fatih University, Istanbul, Turkey.  ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2597]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Impact of the Information Technology on Business Processes]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[This research project describes the impact of the information technology on business processes which are increasing rapidly during the last years. This is happening due to a high level of innovations in the field technology used in very efficient way toward economical development. So it is important to analyze its effects because it is directly related to the development and good organization of the financial markets.  The methods that are used while making this research are based on questionnaires conducted by many successful business firms, professionals at the field of business administration and /or at the field of information technology, books and magazines, resources from internet and also from the opinions of public society.  The final results obtained though these methods clarify that the impact of technology is directly influencing on the efficiency and well functioning of the business processes.  Keywords: Business firms, Technology, Researches    ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2610]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/822">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Supports and Critiques on Porter&#039;s Competitive Strategy and Competitive Advantage]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[The main purpose of this article is to qualitatively scrutinize work of Michael Porter from the ground of two main theories proposed by him; competitive advantage and competitive strategy. Therefore this article is written with the aim to question applicability and durability of Michael Porter’s strategies in modern business world. The main methodology used is literature review of secondary sources and data. Authors mainly relied on sources of high quality material such as books of Michael Porter, articles published in well-known journals as well as opinion of experts in the field such as Joan Magretta, Jack Welch and others. Furthermore books entitled in the same way as theories that are point of interest were used as main theoretical framework. Finally findings induced that Michael Porter’s model of five forces and his understanding of competitiveness still have merit in the modern business world, however one cannot solely rely on it when forming a business strategy and examining business environment.    Keywords: Michael Porter, Competitive Advantage, Competitive Strategy.     ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2646]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/823">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[E-Tutor: Creating, Deploying and Supporting e-Learning Environment]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Modern world relies heavily on technology to achieve necessary improvements in quality of life for all members of society. The rise of usage of technology can also be seen in all sectors of education systems and education processes. By utilizing the technology, education systems are able to accommodate growing number of participants of an education processes thereby expanding student capacity of a school or university. This expansion can be seen in form of electronic learning or e-learning where students are able to attend classes and obtain degrees over the internet. This form of distance learning allows education institutions to migrate from ordinary classroom teaching to computer-based environment where students’ and teachers’ geographical location is irrelevant, meaning students are able to attend classes from any part of the world over the Internet. This form of online environment supports typically supports learner-centralized and self-paced education.    Main component of any e-learning system is an online tutor, also known as e-tutor, an educator who will be able to create and manage e-learning environment while at the same time using that environment to teach classes and lectures to students who are attending them via the Internet. This e-tutoring system is created using only freeware components and services which are available over the Internet. Currently, researchers&#039; opinions on quality and advantages of this form of education are divided. Some believe technology-mediated learning environments will improve students’ attitude toward learning and their evaluation of learning experience, while others are warning that this form of education may lead to feeling of isolation and anxiety in student population. Objective of this study is to create simple and effective e-tutoring system to be used for online education and to examine the issue of its usage in context of high school education.  Knowledge Management framework was used as theoretical model to create e-learning space for high school students. The model was tested among students enrolled in Computer science classes. The participants were interviewed about their experiences. The results provided interesting insight into the potential and limitation of the e-tutoring system.    Keywords: online learning, e-tutor, knowledge management, interviews, paper.  ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2607]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-4564     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
</rdf:Description><rdf:Description rdf:about="https://omeka.ibu.edu.ba/items/show/824">
    <dcterms:title><![CDATA[Studentski zbor Sveučilišta u Mostaru u saradnji s AIESEC LC Mostar i Federalno ministarstvo pravde Sarajevo: Dani karijere – upute i savjeti za polaganje pravosudnog ispita]]></dcterms:title>
    <dcterms:abstract><![CDATA[Dana 22.05.2013. godine u okviru Projekta Dani Studentskog zbora 2013. Obrazovanje – dani karijere, a u organizaciji Studentskog zbora Sveučilišta u Mostaru i Federalnog ministarstva pravde Sarajevo, u amfiteatru Ekonomskog fakulteta Sveučilišta u Mostaru, pred brojnim auditorijem, održano je karijerno savjetovanje – upute i savjeti za polaganje pravosudnog ispita.  Materija pravosudnog ispita je zakonska materija, koja je u savremenoj Bosni i Hercegovini uređena jednim državnim i sa dva entitetska zakona. Postoje i odgovarajući programi pravosudnog ispita, doneseni u skladu sa zakonom i objavljeni u službenim glasilima, a u kojima se utvrđuje gradivo, pravni izvori i literatura po kojem se polaže pismeni i usmeni dio pravosudnog ispita pred komisijom za polaganje pravosudnog ispita. Tako imamo Program pravosudnog ispita („Službene novine Federacije BiH“, broj 47/2010). Prilikom ispitivanja kandidata na usmenom dijelu pravosudnog ispita ispitivači su dužni voditi računa da kandidata ispituju samo iz materije koja je utvrđena kao gradivo odnosno pravni izvori u Programu pravosudnog ispita.   ]]></dcterms:abstract>
    <dcterms:publisher><![CDATA[Social Sciences Research Center of International Burch University]]></dcterms:publisher>
    <dcterms:date><![CDATA[2014-04]]></dcterms:date>
    <dcterms:extent><![CDATA[2418]]></dcterms:extent>
    <dcterms:identifier><![CDATA[ISSN 2303-5706     ]]></dcterms:identifier>
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