ODNOS IZMEĐU INFORMACIJSKE TEHNOLOGIJE I INOVACIJSKOG PROCESA U SOFTVERSKOJ I NE-SOFTVERSKOJ INDUSTRIJI NA KOSOVU

Background and objective. This paper will focus on innovation process caused by information communication technology. The study in this paper discovers the relation of information technology in software and not software products service industry in innovation processes across their effect in the MBE-s in Kosovo. The main objective of the research study is to recognize the level of use of the new technology, respectively the new information technology in producing and service industry in Kosovo. Materials and Methods. The scientific methodology used in this work is the quantitative methodology with the deductive approach since it is intended to support the existing theory over the information technology and innovative processes. The quantitative data was used from empirical data of Statistical Agency Kosovo and authors own research. Results, the results of this study show, the influences of information technology in the innovation process with p=0. 23. Conclusion Public and Private organizations should take appropriate steps to develop and improve new technologies by creating long-term policies and strategies derived from market needs.Pozadina i cilj. Ovaj će se rad usredotočiti na inovacijske procese uzrokovane informacijsko-komunikacijskom tehnologijom. Studija u ovom radu otkriva odnos informacijske tehnologije u softverskim i ne softverskih proizvoda uslužne industrije u inovacijskim procesima preko njihovog učinka na MBE-e na Kosovu. Glavni cilj istraživanja je prepoznati razinu korištenja nove tehnologije, odnosno nove informacijske tehnologije u proizvodnoj i uslužnoj industriji na Kosovu. Materijali i metode. Znanstvena metodologija korištena u ovom radu je kvantitativna metodologija s deduktivnim pristupom budući da je namijenjena potpori postojećoj teoriji o informacijskoj tehnologiji i inovativnim procesima. Kvantitativni podaci korišteni su iz empirijskih podataka Agencije za statistiku Kosova i autora istraživanja. Rezultati ovog istraživanja pokazuju, utjecaje informacijske tehnologije u inovacijskom procesu s p = 0. 23. Zaključak. Javne i privatne organizacije trebale bi poduzeti odgovarajuće korake za razvoj i poboljšanje novih tehnologija stvaranjem dugoročnih politika i strategija koje proizlaze iz potreba tržišta

State, Law, and Revolution: Agrarian Power and the National State in Albania, 1850-1945.

Prevailing approaches in the comparative historical study of peasant mobilization assume the relationship between peasants and state institutions to be inherently antagonistic. By contrast, this dissertation argues that locally embedded legal cultures are crucial in mediating and delimiting the institutional role of the state in agrarian social life. Using the case of national state building in post-Ottoman Albania, the dissertation shows that establishing national control over regionally-based socio-legal institutions was a crucial challenge faced by Ottoman successor states. Relying on official Albanian state documents only recently made available to international scholars, the dissertation shows that efforts by national bureaucratic elites to transform traditional socio-legal arrangements were a contentious process with direct impact on local state capacities and peasant politics. The dissertation demonstrates the divergent impact of legal centralization on peasant politicization by comparing two agrarian regions: (1) the çiftlik agrarian class system in Albania’s fertile lowland regions and (2) the smallholding and self-governing communities of Albania’s rugged highlands. In the lowlands, the state successfully established national administration over local political and juridical authorities, but the consequence of this was the increasing politicization of agrarian class relations. The nationalization and reform of lowland socio-legal institutions resulted in the disintegration of Ottoman-era legal protections of peasant subsistence rights, leading to intensified social conflict between peasants and landowners. Peasants engaged in public acts of politicization of agrarian relations which involved the state both as an actor as well as a legal institutional arena. As a result, during the revolutionary mobilization in the 1940s, lowland peasants responded sympathetically to the radical agrarian platform of the Albanian communist movement. In the highlands, efforts to assert national authority over local communal organization and traditions of customary law resulted in a different type of peasant resistance. From once guaranteeing local communal autonomy, the state moved to delegitimize communal peasant law and socio-legal practices. Highland peasant communities responded by directly challenging the state’s administrative practices via acts of subversion and became more accepting of conservative politics. The dissertation underscores the link between legal cultures, peasant politics and the historical variability of state capacities.Ph.D.SociologyUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/84596/1/bpula_1.pdfhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/84596/2/bpula_2.pd

Convergent validity of two decision making style measures

Decision making research has witnessed a growing number of studies on individual differences and decision making styles, yet the lack of comprehensive frameworks and widely accepted measures has hindered research for a long time. There is an ongoing debate on whether individuals’ styles dynamically change across time and situations according to circumstances. Furthermore, it is an open question whether these styles are mutually exclusive. Decision style measures seek to determine one's dominant style as well as less used styles. To our knowledge this is the first study of the convergent validity of two widely used decision making style measures: The Decision Style Inventory (DSI) and the General Decision Making Style (GDMS). The direction and strength of correlation between directive, analytical, conceptual and behavioral styles as measured by DSI and rational, intuitive, dependent, avoidant and spontaneous styles as measured by GDMS have been tested. Results of the current study are compared with previous studies that have used one or both of the instruments. Correlations between styles are consistent with findings from other studies using one of the decision style measures, but the strength of correlations indicates that there is no convergent validity between DSI and GDMS

Can the government make us happier? Institutional quality and subjective well-being across Europe: a multilevel analysis using Eurobarometer Survey 2019

This paper examines whether the relationship between individuals’ socio-economic characteristics and subjective well-being differs across European countries with varying institutional contexts. Drawing on institutional theory and using the recent 2019 Eurobarometer survey, the multilevel econometric analysis of individuals in 28 European countries shows a strong association between well-being and the quality of institutions. The analysis demonstrates that people report higher subjective well-being when the quality of institutions and institutional trust in a country are conducive to their well-being. The paper then explores the implications for theory and tackling the issue of population’s well-being, suggesting how governments can impact people’s well-being

Does decision-making style predict managers' entrepreneurial intentions?

The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the way managers make decisions (their decision-making style-DMS) predicts their entrepreneurial intentions (EI), a research subject that has been largely ignored in the literature. Developing an understanding of entrepreneurial intention factors that attract managers to entrepreneurship is indispensable for organizations. A sample of 230 managers of companies based in Kosovo was asked to take the entrepreneurial intention questionnaire and the General Decision-Making Style (GDMS) questionnaire. Bridging two strands of literature on decision-making and entrepreneurial intention and using the Structural Equation Model (SEM), it is concluded that spontaneous and intuitive styles predict managers' entrepreneurial intentions. Considering the limitations of this single-country study, the implications for theory and policy are discussed