INNOVATIVE CAPACITY OF THE WESTERN BALKAN COUNTRIES AS A LIMITING FACTOR OF THEIR ECONOMIC GROWTH
The ability of the national economy to create and valorize knowledge into innovation signifies its innovation capacity. Based on its own methodology, the aim of the paper is to: a) calculate the index of the Innovation capacity index of the European Union and the Western Balkans as an average of the value of the Research capacity index, Techn...
By Andrea Andrejević Panić, Aleksandar Kostić, Slobodan Cvetanović
HOW INNOVATIVE LEADERS COULD ENCOURAGE CREATION OF NEW VALUES IN THE ORGANIZATION
The leaders of the new generation include Generation Y (1980-1995) and Generation Z (1996 – 2010) as the biggest working force today. Methods: two qualitative and two ethnographic research were conducted (2015 and 2021) with a group of 30 leaders of Generation Y and 30 leaders of Generation Z. The leaders were representatives of compani...
By Tatjana Mamula Nikolić
THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNICATION SKILLS IN MODERN BUSINESS
Good communication is a precondition for successful management, ie its basic functions, leadership and coordination. It has long been known that quality, clear and focused communication is the basis of a successful business. Despite this, to the study of business communication is not given enough attention and space in formal education. It is...
By Ljubomir Zuber
THE CONCEPT OF REAL EXCHANGE RATE AND STRENGHTENING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE ENTERPRISE AND THE STATE AS A PRECONDITION FOR OVERCOMING THE CRISIS AND THE ELIMINATION OF IMBALANCE
Management of foreign exchange policy is complex activity for the leaders of economic policy and it cannot be autonomous, but has to be aligned with other measures of economic policy ( policy of managing demand, trend of monetary aggregates,export offer,etc.). Deficits from the trade balance, with constant overvaluing of local currency and in...
By Dejan Grujić
DIGITAL BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
The process of digital business transformation is present today in both, developed and less developed economies. This process is primarily reflected in the application of modern information and communication (ICT) achievements, in performance of business processes in all branches of the economy, and public administration. This has enabled the...
By Mihajlo Travar, Saša Ristić, Igor Dugonjić
COMPETITIVENESS IN MODERN BUSINESS PRESENTED THROUGH BASIC STRUCTURAL INDICATORS OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS OF ENTERPRISES AND ENTREPRENEURS: THE CASE OF THE REPUBLIC OF SRPSKA
In order to determine the competitiveness in the global market, for the purposes of this paper, secondary collected data of basic structural indicators of business of companies and entrepreneurs from the Republic of Srpska for the period from 2017 to 2019 were used. They were processed by descriptive statistics, and in order to determine the ...
By Mirjana Milovanović, Ružica Đervida, Branka Marković
WASTEWATER IN SABAC - CURRENT SITUATION AND FUTURE TREATMENT DIRECTIONS
Šabac is a city that has had a central wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) since 2017, which is very important from the aspect of protecting the health of the population and protecting the environment. The advantage of the plant is that it facilitates the business of economic entities in the city. They do not have to have their own waste...
By Suzana Knežević
THE BASIS OF A NEW CONCEPT OF SOCIAL ECONOMY
This paper points out the shifts in the issue of socio - economic relations based on the social economy. At the very end of the active process of globalization and all the conflicts that arose at the beginning of the 21st century due to connecting and increasing the number of big capital owners, poverty will spread to such an extent that many...
By Mirko Miličević, Milorad Đukić
INSTITUTIONAL CHANGES IN PORT FUNCTIONS, SERVICES AND ADMINISTRATIVE MODELS
Advanced and majority of large and medium-sized seaports today produce a combination of public and private goods. Public goods are those that are indivisible by nature and are not expendable, such as public safety, security, healthy environment, coastal protection works necessary for the creation of a port basin, etc. Private goods are both e...
By Nikša Grgurević, Gordana Radović
HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT IN AGRICULTURAL SOILS IN A CITY OF PLJEVLJA (MONTENEGRO)
Population exposure due to industrially contaminated sites (ICSs) is a global environmental health problem. Pljevlja municipality is one of the “black spots” in Montenegro and well known by pollution influence from several different sources. Agricultural soils in a city of Pljavlja are at the great ecological risk due to the impac...
By Nevena Cupara, Dijana Đurović, Ivana Milašević, Irena Nikolić