Reviewers in 2017

A. Mohammed Abubakar, Aksaray University, Management Information Systems, Aksaray, TurkeyOlja Arsenijević, Faculty of Business Study and Law, Belgrade, SerbiaBenjamin Banai, University of Zadar, Department of Psychology, Zadar, CroatiaManuel Benazić, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Faculty of Economics and Tourism “Dr. Mijo Mirković”, Pula, CroatiaViktorija Bobinaite, Lithuanian Energy Institute, Laboratory of Energy Systems Research, Kaunas, LithuaniaAlenka Brezavšček, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, SloveniaLjiljana Lj. Bulatović, Singidunum University, Faculty of Media and Communication, Beograd, SerbiaDonatello Caruso, University of Foggia, Department of Economics, Foggia, ItalyDaria Chernayeva, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, RussiaVít Chlebovský, Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Business and Management, Brno, Czech RepublicAgnieszka Czajkowska, Kielce University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kielce, PolandSergio Da Silva, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Department of Economics, Florianopolis, BrazilVesna Damnjanović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade, SerbiaDunja Demirović, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Sciences, Novi Sad, SerbiaSarah Doumen, Hasselt University, Hasselt, Belgium Florin Duma, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of European Studies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Ines Dužević, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Zagreb, CroatiaJoanna Ejdys, Bialystok University of Technology, Faculty of Management, Kleosin, PolandZoltán Gál, Kaposvar University, Department of Regional Economics & Statistics, Kaposvár, HungaryBeata Gavurova, Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Economics, Košice, SlovakiaJyotiranjan Gochhayat, KIIT University, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Bhubaneswar, IndiaJolita Greblikaitė, Aleksandras Stulginskis University, Business and Rural Development Management Institute, Kaunas, LithuaniaTadeja Jere Jakulin, University of Primorska, Faculty of Tourism Studies – Turistica, Portorož, SloveniaEva Jereb, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, SloveniaJanja Jerebic, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, SloveniaRobertas Jucevicius, Kaunas University of Technology, School of Economics and Business Kaunas, LithuaniaLaura Južnik Rotar, Faculty of Business, Management and Informatics, Novo Mesto, SloveniaMarina Klačmer Čalopa, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Organization and Informatics, Varaždin, CroatiaDavorin Kofjač, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, SloveniaJure Kovač, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, SloveniaSafet Kozarević, University of Tuzla, Faculty of Economics, Tuzla, Bosnia and HerzegovinaTatjana Kozjek, University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Administration, Ljubljana, SloveniaBrigita Krsnik Horvat, University of Maribor, Research Support Services, Maribor, SloveniaAleksandra Laskowska-Rutkowska, Lazarski University, Logistics and Innovation Center, Warszawa, PolandGregor Lenart, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Science, Kranj, SloveniaRobert Leskovar, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, SloveniaNikolaj Lipič, Alma Mater Europaea - EC, Maribor, Slovenia Branko Lobnikar, University of Maribor, Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, Ljubljana, SloveniaPeter Madzik, Catholic University in Ruzomberok, Management Department, Ruzomberok, SlovakiaMatjaž Maletič, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, SloveniaDamjan Maletič, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, SloveniaMarjeta Marolt, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Science, Kranj, SloveniaMaja Meško, University of Primorska, Faculty of Management, Koper, SloveniaGozdana Miglič, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Science, Kranj, SloveniaMilan Milošević, Faculty of Business Study and Law, Belgrade, SerbiaMarian Niedźwiedziński, University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, Lodz, PolandVesna Novak, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, SloveniaRok Ovsenik, Institute of Management, Ljubljana, Slovenia Antonín Pavlíček, University of Economics, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, Prague, Czech RepublicUroš Pinterič, Faculty of Organization studies, Novo mesto, SloveniaAleksandra Pisnik, University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Maribor, SloveniaIztok Podbregar, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, SloveniaTanja Rajkovič, Inovema d.o.o, Ljubljana, Slovenia Sanda Renko, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Economics and Business, Zagreb, CroatiaBlaž Rodič, Faculty of Information Studies, Novo mesto, SloveniaMaciej Rostański, University of Dąbrowa Górnicza, Dąbrowa Górnicza, PolandErik Ružić, University of Pula, Faculty of Economics and Tourism “Dr. Mijo Mirković”, Pula, CroatiaZakiah Samori, MARA University of Technology, Academy of Contemporary Islamic Studies (ACIS), Shah Alam, MalaysiaSvenka Savić, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy, Novi Sad, SerbiaTijana Savić Tot, Faculty of Management, Sremski Karlovci, SerbiaMario Silić, University of St.Gallen, Institute of Information Management, St.Gallen, SwitzerlandAndrzej Skibiński, Czestochowa University of Technology, Faculty of Management, Czestohowa, PolandWłodzimierz Sroka, University of Dąbrowa Górnicza, Faculty of Management, Dąbrowa Górnicza, PolandVlasta Střížová, University of Economics, Faculty of Informatics and Statistics, Prague, Czech RepublicAndrea Sujová, Technical University in Zvolen, Faculty of Wood Sciences and Technology, Zvolen, SlovakiaKatarzyna Szczepańska-Woszczyna, University of Dabrowa Gornicza, Faculty of Management, Dabrowa Gornicza, PolandPolona Šprajc, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, SloveniaIvan Todorović, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Belgrade, SerbiaPolona Tominc, University of Maribor, Faculty of Economics and Business, Maribor, SloveniaBahrija Umihanić, University of Tuzla, Faculty of Economics, Tuzla, Bosnia and HerzegovinaBenjamin Urh, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, SloveniaJaromír Veber, University of Economics in Prague, Department of Management, Prague, Czech RepublicGoran Vukovič, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Science, Kranj, SloveniaMonika Wieczorek-Kosmala, University of Economics in Katowice, Department of Corporate Finance and Insurance, Katowice, PolandMonica Zaharie, Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaEglantina Zyka, University of Tirana, Faculty of Economics, Tirana, AlbaniaAnja Žnidaršič, University of Maribor, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, Kranj, Sloveni

Identifying Research Fields within Business and Management: A Journal Cross-Citation Analysis

A discipline such as business and management (B&M) is very broad and has many fields within it, ranging from fairly scientific ones such as management science or economics to softer ones such as information systems. There are at least three reasons why it is important to identify these sub-fields accurately. Firstly, to give insight into the structure of the subject area and identify perhaps unrecognised commonalities; second for the purpose of normalizing citation data as it is well known that citation rates vary significantly between different disciplines. And thirdly, because journal rankings and lists tend to split their classifications into different subjects – for example, the Association of Business Schools (ABS) list, which is a standard in the UK, has 22 different fields. Unfortunately, at the moment these are created in an ad hoc manner with no underlying rigour. The purpose of this paper is to identify possible sub-fields in B&M rigorously based on actual citation patterns. We have examined 450 journals in B&M which are included in the ISI Web of Science (WoS) and analysed the cross-citation rates between them enabling us to generate sets of coherent and consistent sub-fields that minimise the extent to which journals appear in several categories. Implications and limitations of the analysis are discussed

Does Private and Cost-Priced Higher Education Produce Poor Quality?

Since the beginning of the transition, Hungarian higher education has been undergoing continuous transformation. The number of students in higher education more than doubled, and this was accompanied by the appearance of newly founded church-run and private higher education institutions and newly established cost-priced places. The paper focuses on the potential negative effects private and cost-priced higher education might have on the quality of the education and students by making use of labour market success indicators (wages and labour market status) with the help of multivariate estimation techniques. A unique data set, the Second Fid‚v Survey, is used which provides information about the September 2000 labour market situation of persons graduated from higher education in 1999. The results suggest that education at cost-priced, state funded places and private higher education institutions provides essentially the same level of knowledge or produces the same educational quality as measured by wages. No negative effect has been detected as for the labour market status of exstudents. Students from cost-priced places and private institutions experience the same unemployment probability, whereas the overall employment probability of students graduated from cost-priced places is higher than that of persons studied at state-funded places. One can conclude that although the opportunity of establishing more and more cost-priced places might have been advantageous for higher education institutions so as to increase their revenues, they have shown some selfrestraint in this respect, and there is no sign that the increase in costpriced places has led to lower quality workers.

Profiling a decade of information systems frontiers’ research

This article analyses the first ten years of research published in the Information Systems Frontiers (ISF) from 1999 to 2008. The analysis of the published material includes examining variables such as most productive authors, citation analysis, universities associated with the most publications, geographic diversity, authors’ backgrounds and research methods. The keyword analysis suggests that ISF research has evolved from establishing concepts and domain of information systems (IS), technology and management to contemporary issues such as outsourcing, web services and security. The analysis presented in this paper has identified intellectually significant studies that have contributed to the development and accumulation of intellectual wealth of ISF. The analysis has also identified authors published in other journals whose work largely shaped and guided the researchers published in ISF. This research has implications for researchers, journal editors, and research institutions

Health information systems

Healthcare is an information intensive industry in which quality and timely information is a critical resource. There are a wide range of information systems in health that perform different functions but all are involved in the management of data and information. This chapter provides an overview of Health Information Systems and their use in supporting healthcare

Business information systems in Hungary

Nowadays the issue of information technology in business is moving into the centre of attention, which is also indicated by the fact that more and more companies, not accidentally, recognize its importance. Business information systems are not only fashionable – their application promotes more efficient operation of the company and also improves the supply of information to decisionmakers; applying such systems can also play an important role in helping companies to put greater emphasis on information technology in order to gain a competitive advantage. My aim was to present the circumstances of the decisions made about the introduction of business information systems and problems emerging during the introduction as well as to analyze the usage habits of companies applying these systems, and to explore the relation between the application of business information systems and the operational effectiveness of the business

Analysis of Economic Motives in the Individual Choice of Educational Paths

The authors consider the economic motivations when individuals choose an educational path. This line of research is relevant from both, the point of view of science — research of economic behavior of an individual, and the point of view of practice — allows to increase efficiency of investments in a human capital. The authors have developed the economic and mathematical model of choice of optimum educational paths by individuals. The model is realized in the software and approved on real data on more than 5,5 thousand students. For the analysis of the importance of rational economic expectations when an educational path has to be chosen, the paths chosen by students is compared and the educational paths optimum from the point of view of economic rationality are calculated. The analysis of the results has showed that mainly, the choice of educational paths happens according to the economic motivations. On the considered selection, 66 % of prospective students have chosen an optimum path from the point of view of economic preferences. The most significant factor providing development of optimum educational paths is an expectation of higher income upon completion of education — 22 % of all educational paths, and a possibility of cost-cutting of educating or state-subsidized education — 12 %. In our opinion, one of the most important practical results of the research of optimum educational path is the need to consider expectations of students and prospective student when developing a state policy of investment in human capital

The enterprise’ performance in the knowledge based society

As in the traditional enterprise, the performance of the enterprises in the knowledge based society is expressed through the same well-known financial indicators: return on equity, the profit margin, return on assets, gross margin, asset turnover, inventory turnover, the collection period, days’ sales in cash, payable period, fixed-asset turnover, balance sheet rations, coverage rations, market value leverage rations, liquidity ratios, return on invested capital and many others. But, the differences that appear are in the way of acquiring at this performance in the enterprises. The actual knowledge based society is promoting the methods and models of the rational management that will lead to performance acquiring by the enterprises. Although as a first step, the reference to financial character as income statement, balance sheet, schedules to a balance sheet started to include references to the brain capital that is considered the success key in the businesses. In this paper I intend to present the effects on enterprise’ financial performance of the main components of the brain capital: the human capital characterised through the employees’ competences and skills; organizational capital that defines the internal structures of the enterprises, inclusively the informatics structure and social capital, related to the enterprise relations with thirds (investors, banks, customers, suppliers etc.). The brain capital mustn’t be looked as a present vogue but as a necessity of its consideration and evaluation thus to the old economic-financial rules used in decision making to be added and the knowledge/information decision.enterprise’ performance, knowledge based society, ICTs, brain capital, social capital