Learning organization: A fine example of a management fad

The management theories of no practical value are known as management fads. One of those management fads - which is the focus of this research - is learning organization. There is sufficient evidence in English literature to conclude that learning organization is a management fad. The aim of this paper is to present the ample evidence that learning organization is a management fad. The maximum number of the research paper with the subject of learning organization was made in the late 1995 and the typical bell-shaped curve of the management fad is evident. In contrast to the world trend, a content analysis of Serbian journals discovered that a typical pick of a bell-shaped curve of papers covering the topic of learning organization was 17 years later. It is argued in this paper that the learning organization phenomenon, as a normative or prescriptive theory, should be abandoned in the academic world altogether. The learning organization fad is a phenomenon with low practical applicability, a phenomenon of a little value for further development in the management research

REVIEW OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA IN TRANSITION CONDITIONS

The transition, or the process of transition from centrally-planned to a market economy in Serbia, started in the nineties of the twentieth century. Based on the concept of neoliberal economy, the system reform for the Republic of Serbia was extremely long and difficult. The decline in economic activity, rising unemployment, an increase in foreign trade deficit and balance of payment turbulence, among others, were the consequences of the implementation of neoliberal economic policy. The task of this paper is to show that Serbia, as one of the most developed countries of the Western Balkans must create and implement national economic and development policies in order to foster socioeconomic development. In line with this objective of this paper is to analyze the macroeconomic performances in Serbia in transition period or the last ten years, between 2004-2014.godine. The paper analyzes the basic macroeconomic performance as economic growth, unemployment, industrial production, import, export, and Balance of Payments. The paper consists of five parts, where in addition to the introduction analyzes the trend of economic growth, unemployment and industrial production, then analyzes the implementation of import and export policies, as well as the trend in the balance of payments. At the end, there were concluding observations and literatur

Drug Repurposing for Candidate SARS-CoV-2 Main Protease Inhibitors by a Novel in Silico Method

The SARS-CoV-2 outbreak caused an unprecedented global public health threat, having a high transmission rate with currently no drugs or vaccines approved. An alternative powerful additional approach to counteract COVID-19 is in silico drug repurposing. The SARS-CoV-2 main protease is essential for viral replication and an attractive drug target. In this study, we used the virtual screening (VS) protocol with both long-range and short-range interactions to select candidate SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors. First, the ISM applied for Small Molecules was used for searching the Drugbank database and further followed by molecular docking. After in silico screening of drug space, we identified 57 drugs as potential SARS-CoV-2 main protease inhibitors that we propose for further experimental testing.</p

Research and development of efficient, environmentally improved household gas appliances

An experimental research and analysis of performance of three domestic house hold gas appliances was carried out. The objective of this work, based on the conducted analysis of the research data, was to improve the appliances’ performance, prefer ably through relative simple modifications, in order to satisfy DIN 4702 emissions and efficiency standards when using different fuels, including natural gas, liquefied petroleum gases and lower quality natural gas. This report summarizes details of this work and how the objectives were achieved