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Cournot-Nash Family Decision and Economic Growth in an Extended Solowian Model

Wei Zhang · Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan
The purpose of this paper is to study economic growth with family-based microeconomic foundation. It develops a neoclassical growth model of endogenous wealth accumulation and consumption of two-person families. Growth mechanism and economic structures are based on a generalized Solowian growth mode…
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The Mediterranean Today. Stability, Instability, Orientations. A first rapid excursus

Maria Macioti · University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
A quick trip to some Mediterranean countries shows significant disparities, situations of inequality, different religious preferences, and struggling minority populations. The dream of a Mediterranean crossroads of cultures, which has taken up so much space in our past, seems today to retreat-- leav…
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The Functionality and Comparisons of BSC and Alternative Theories in Organisations: Business Perspective

Benneth Nwafor, Hosein Piranfar, John Aston · London School of Science and Technology, United Kingdom…
The purpose of this research is to show the comparison of Resource-based view, Human capital, stakeholder as alternative theories and Balanced Scorecards (BSCs). Resource-Based View (RBV) appears to be limited with narrow implications as the strategic roles. RBV is forced on the internal organisatio…
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Personality and Institution - Reflections on paradigmatic structures in Max Weber’s thinking

Karl Rehberg, Silvana Aliberti · Institute of Sociology, Technische Universität Dresden,…
The structure of scientific revolutions - if we follow Thomas Kuhn - is characterized by crises of knowledge and chances by changes of paradigm, a term that is mostly outside the natural sciences only used metaphorically. But also, in sociology, there are something like paradigmatic premises, questi…
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European Union Nation Branding through Humanitarian and Developmental Initiatives - Focus on EU Aid Volunteers

Biljana Popovska, Julie Darcq · Hochschule Furtwangen University, Germany. Ministry of…
Diverse from the Erasmus program, amongst other EU international interactions, Humanitarian and Developmental initiatives resulting in Nation Branding is a field that is hardly explored. This paper has tried to analyze the concept of supra-nation branding through the EU humanitarian and development …
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Weber’s Protestant Ethic Thesis in Five Steps

James Chriss · Cleveland State University, USA
As a result of many years of reading about and teaching Max Weber’s famous Protestant Ethic thesis, I have developed an approach to covering this material in both my undergraduate and graduate theory courses which has been beneficial to students and has helped them make sense of the rather complex a…
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The importance of online payment on Travel and Tourism incomes - A Cross-Country Panel Data Study

Laura Lorente, Aurora Ruiz · University of Nebrija, Madrid, Spain
Digital facilities are changing the way companies market to consumers. The use of smartphones and what we called Internet of Things (IoT) are changing the way citizens consume. In this article we perform a cross-country panel data study to analyze how the implementation of business Internet use for …
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Various perspectives of labor and human resources challenges and changes due to automation and artificial intelligence.

Jessica Bayón, Andrés Arenas · Nebrija University, Spain
The constant technological changes and its impact in the labor force are causing a domino effect that can change corporate culture, laws and workers in upcoming years. The importance of Artificial Intelligence for companies is also a mayor subject that may cause conflicts among cities around the wor…
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Academicus - In the name of Science

Arta Musaraj · ETC - Entrepreneturship Training Center, Albania
Every time we mention the word “Science”, an inner debate, which very soon breaks the borders of our mental schemas, comes out, and becomes the dispute topic. Why is science for and what is science for? The hermetical vision of science, which in different ages of human story testified on how easily,…
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The Land of the Dawning Sun - Italian gazes out to Albania from the beginning of 1900 to present day

AnnaMaria Calore · Head of the Social Activities Dep. at ANRP, Italian Nat…
Over the first forty years of the last century the Italian View of Albania has changed in different ways, but always maintaining strong interest. Both the surprised and sometimes the astonished gaze of travelers and the one of those attracted by possible trade exchanges or the gaze on the soldiers c…
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From the Natural Self-Orgnizaton of Religion to the Modern Magical Realism of the Religious Experience

Gerardo Abreu · Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK
Religion is a powerful phenomenon arising in and from society. Various efforts have been done to understand religion as a natural phenomenon, which could be framed in the language of science. In this paper, I forward a sui generis approach to the naturality of religion, where religion is explained a…
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10 Years of Academicus International Scientific Journal - The story of contribution in the research in 20 Issues.

Maria Macioti · University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
A delightful scientific journal which, since its birth in Albania, has quickly learned the ways of the world, bringing Balkan matters and issues abroad, to the East as well as to the West, but also conversely, making known in the Land of Eagles which were the main topics of reflection and study, suc…