Implementation of organizational communication, and education on managing communication processes and their correlation to business success are central to sustainable business management. In this regards, negative messages as part of business communication may have poor outcomes and it is widely and wrongly considered that they should be avoided. However, negative messages are an...
The uptake of digital business models has been distinctly evident over recent years, causing profound changes across industries. Even though various scholarly papers attempt to investigate those developments, empirical studies of factors that influence digital business models' maturity are still scarce. This research article aims to address this literature gap, achieved by...
As the coronavirus pandemic has affected all walks of life, education has not been an exemption; in fact, it is one of the most severely hit sectors. The unknown crisis created unprecedented circumstances for all participants in the education process, and school leaders have had a double job: to navigate their institutions and look after their employees. The latter is a pretty...
Retailers strove to find a way to better communicate with consumers between 2020 and 2021. The pandemic raised some walls against their struggles because of people's fear, distrust, and new demands. In the first stage of this unusual lifestyle, buyers looked for new manners of living and even surviving. Then, they tried to adapt to unexpected opportunities to alleviate their...
Based on the literature review, the article presents the systematization of antecedents and effects of workplace incivility. Variables contributing to deviant workplace behaviour (antecedents) are placed within three categories: dispositional, behavioural, and contextual. Dispositional antecedents, which include characteristics of targets (certain demographic characteristics and...
The recent outbreak of coronavirus has caused the worst global economic crisis in the last few decades. A substantial number of companies have experienced severe economic difficulties and were tempted to adjust their financial figures in order to reach certain business thresholds. Maintaining an existing level of dividend payments is a powerful incentive to engage in such...
This article shares some unusual insights into the natural and financial operations of the Croatian hospital system. It reveals a puzzling observation: the financial indicators of costs and hospital spending are on the rise, while at the same time, natural indicators, e.g., the number of hospital days and discharged patients, are declining. Physician numbers are increasing while...
Extended Characteristic Surface Model is a theoretical tool of general application designed for computing coefficients in Monte Carlo stochastic simulations in particular in multi equation stochastic econometric models. Econometric models are most often used for economic analysis of large enterprises as well as national economies but rarely for analysis of small entities. The...
The digital age creates new concepts, methods, and rules that are affecting the accounting process which presents new challenges in accounting practice. One of the most significant changes and innovations within accounting processing and the financial industry is the emergence of cryptocurrencies that create a completely new financial business concept. Cryptocurrency is the...
Fridays for Future climate protests, which began as individual actions, soon morphed into a powerful global youth movement, with millions participating in Global Climate Strikes in 2019. In this study, we conducted 19 semi-structured interviews with the organizers and participants of the Fridays for Future Croatia movement and we aimed to examine the main characteristics of these...
Youth employment in Europe as well as in Croatia presents to be a substantial issue. Service learning fosters a strong relationship with community engagement offering hands-on experience. In this way, it may potentially prepare graduates from higher education institutions for an easier transition into the labor market. As to be able to address the question of whether service...
The problem of changes in educators' various health aspects in the context of transition to distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by changes in professional activities, is not sufficiently studied. This study aimed to identify and analyze physiological, psychological, and professional changes in scientific and pedagogical staff of Ukrainian higher education...
The most significant leadership theory, within the frame of contingency and situational approaches, is the path-goal theory. This theory is an extension of Vroom's expectancy theory and defines four styles of leadership: directive, supportive, participative, and achievement-oriented. The theory was first defined in the '70s, and since then, numerous studies have been conducted on...
In this article we critically examine Vargas's revisionistic theory about free will. Contrary to his claim that there is no empirical evidence for libertarian freedom of the will, we expose empirical results from Schultze-Kraft et al. experiment. We interpret these findings by invoking non-causal and agent-causal libertarianism. According to this, we conclude that Vargas's...
Association of entrepreneurial orientation with performance, viewed as both a unidimensional and multidimensional concept, has been widely researched, especially in the small and medium enterprises context. However, there is a gap in the literature related to how the components of entrepreneurial orientation are inter-related and how their intricacies drive small firm performance...
Traditional ways of distributing and verifying academic certificates are not efficient. Certificates are distributed as hard copy. Verifying the integrity of the certificate is a time and resource consuming process. As a result, forged certificates have become common. It is very difficult to differentiate between a real and a forged certificate. Through our system, we intend to...
As a result of the changes in lifestyles, consumption habits, and consumer expectations in recent years, individuals prefer to buy experiences instead of just purchasing products and services. The basics of the economy accept consumption as an experience process and experiential marketing is gradually increasing its importance in our lives. The focus of experiential marketing is...
In a post-industrial society, knowledge has replaced capital as the main source of economic development in developed and developing countries. Due to the fact that universities have traditionally been places of research and "knowledge production", it has become necessary to analyze higher education systems in order to rationalize them and stimulate their maximum efficiency...
Generally, for a machine learning model to perform well, the data instances on which the model is being trained have to be relevant to the use case. In the case of relevant samples not being available, Zero-shot learning can be used to perform classification tasks. Zero-shot learning is the process of solving a problem when there are no examples of that problem in the phase of...
This article proposes the Internet of Things-based self-sustaining modular grow room architecture for optimising the seed germination and seedling development process. The architecture is scalable and flexible as it can be adapted to particular environments, scopes, requirements and plant types; it is modular as the host room can contain one or more smaller-scale grow rooms, each...
Collaboration between researchers is seen as paramount in advancing science, be it because of its potential to offer novel ideas crossing scientific fields, because of its ability to boost productivity by having researchers who work well together, or by introducing and retaining new scientists to a wider network of peers, allowing them to access knowledge and information...
Mobile devices are well-known communication tools. People, especially young people, cannot go even one step without them. Technological advancements provide better features, but at the same time, such systems still face security risks. Protective layers do exist, but some systems are automated and engineered, while others rely on humans. This work begins with examining some...
Recovering people who have lost their way during a hike or disappeared during a disaster is a significant task for disaster management agencies. Nowadays, there are numerous technological devices at our disposal in such cases. Night-vision devices, thermal imagers, and drones are among such technologies. Time is a critical factor in a disaster situation, so by deploying drones, a...
One of the keystones of the smart city is the medical area. Health care centres and hospital building structures will change in smart cities, because of the increasing trend of in-day surgery procedures, smart bracelets, and additional wearable sensors, which give a better and more accurate possibility to make a diagnosis from a distance. It means that the functionality of...
In the era of expansion of smart sensing interconnected devices and their growing application in complex systems, the application of wireless communication technology becomes evident. Many wireless technologies are developed to facilitate the growth of systems such as the Internet of Things and Smart Cities. The application of a particular wireless technology in a particular...