Conflicts are an integral part of doing business and companies cannot avoid them. In a globalized and dynamic environment, there is a need to manage conflicts that occur within the company, in a productive and effective way. Conflict management styles are influenced by a number of factors, including the national culture of employees, who will have ...

By Dijana Husaković, Anida Šabanović

Earnings management literature extensively explores tax regime and debt contracting as possible incentives in financial reporting. Firms engage with aggressive financial reporting to bias earnings in periods when the need for external financing increases. Contrary to this, the tax burden represents incentive for more conservative reporting. We argu...

By Nino Serdarević, Ajla Muratović-Dedić

In modern business conditions, human resources have become the most important resource of enterprises, and many authors point out that this is especially true for SMEs, in which, due to their specificity, human resources create a competitive advantage of the company and affect its survival and development. SMEs are faced with a strong, global compe...

By Iva Klepić, Mirela Mabić, Danijela Madžar

Economic growth is one of the most important concepts in the world economy. Although some authors critically believe that the level and rates of economic growth do not necessarily reflect the actual standard of living, it still remains the main way to measure a country's well-being. Different views on the topic of economic growth, as well as the fa...

By Faruk Hadžić

Due to the crucial role of credit in the economic activity of a country, there is agrowing empirical literature examining the determinants of domestic credit to theprivate sector, which may be demand-side or supply-side factors. It is commonlyheld that excessive domestic debt reduces private sector credit, raise bank lendingrates, and shrink output...

By Nina Mojsova-Kjoseva, Martin Noveski

From a long-term perspective, modern capitalism does not only require companiesto profit as much as possible, but is increasingly paying attention to the social andenvironmental problems of business. It refers to meeting the social and environmental needs of the wider community. Climate change affecting the extinction ofbiological species has a maj...

By Valentina Vinšalek-Stipić

The system of quality management in accordance to standards of ISO 9000 series intoday’s dynamic environment is rapidly becoming the business imperative for companies, especially for small and medium enterprises which strive to increase competitiveness and improve their business performances. The link between standards andbusiness performance...

By Dijana Husaković, Edis Mujčinović

Development of the world’s information technology and their influence on all aspects of human life and work is largely reflected in the areas of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This is the time when most of the companies switch to the electronic way of doingbusiness. Today, without Internet and electronic business, it is virtually unthinkableto reali...

By Faruk Unkić

We live in a rapidly changing global society, where no one can predict the outcome of the economic, social, and political structures of the world. Changes in science, technology, and economics are particularly noticeable and are closely linked to human life. These changes create new opportunities but also challenges in new areas of everyday activit...

By Zlatko Lagumdžija, Amra Kapo, Lejla Turulja

Structure of each economy, especially those in transition, is in constant change.Shift-share analysis is widely used for studying of regional economic change. Themodel in which the present analysis is conducted has three components: (i) the national growth component (in this paper the entity level of Federation of BH is usedas reference level), (ii...

By Jasmin Halebić, Alem Merdić