{"title":"University-Industry Cooperation, from the Viewpoint of Top-Level Management in Albanian Companies","authors":"Ketrina Çabiri Mijo, Ermira Qosja","doi":"10.31410/itema.2022.299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/itema.2022.299","url":null,"abstract":"Economic development is conditioned upon many actors, where the cooperation of higher education institutions with industry and business plays an important role. Companies are highly interested in the “primary product” of higher education, in the sense of knowledge that benefits students, the absorption of talents, but also in the product of scientific research, patents, start-ups, etc. This paper aims to measure the perception of the top-level managers in Albanian companies regarding the challenges and barriers that appear in university-industry cooperation. Through a qualitative analysis, based on the questionnaire of the KALCEA3 project (Erasmus + CBHE) in a sample of 27 large and medium-sized companies, an attempt has been made to investigate the main factors that increase this cooperation as well as the factors that hinder it. An important role is also paid to the identification of factors that motivate companies and the challenges they will have to face. The findings of the paper are of interest to the industry, universities and politicians and focus mainly on the mentality and culture of cooperation.","PeriodicalId":389229,"journal":{"name":"Sixth International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127143323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anastasia Vlastaridou, Evdokia Nikou, Ioulia Kouroupaki, M. Glykas
{"title":"Human Resources Management in Quality 4.0 Maturity Assessment","authors":"Anastasia Vlastaridou, Evdokia Nikou, Ioulia Kouroupaki, M. Glykas","doi":"10.31410/itema.2022.277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/itema.2022.277","url":null,"abstract":"The paper analyzes critical success factors and enablers for the maturity assessment of Quality 4.0 implementations. The emphasis is on how digital transformation technologies have impacted human resource processes and how technology and quality are related. This study presents a literature review on Quality 4.0 and provides an overview of the key issues and future perspectives for quality management in the digital era. The research results contribute to the digitalization and quality literature and a holistic approach that should be composed of CSFs and Enablers. No previous studies have been identified that provide a holistic analysis.","PeriodicalId":389229,"journal":{"name":"Sixth International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133022276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digitalization as an Emergent Process: Evidence from Italian Museums","authors":"E. Cori, Costina Andreea Calota","doi":"10.31410/itema.s.p.2022.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/itema.s.p.2022.21","url":null,"abstract":"This paper aims to deepen some characteristics of the digitalization process in Italian museums. In particular, it aims at investigating the role of non-technical employees in such a process. Our research is qualitative and explorative. Three Italian museums, selected through convenient sampling, have been investigated through a longitudinal approach. The study points out the relevance of participatory, emergent, and mainly informal processes aimed at developing the museum’s digital skills. The findings shed new light on the role of non-technical employees in fostering digitalization, thanks to autonomously developed learning processes. These are combined with the willingness to enhance employees’ skills and ideas by museum managers. This approach can be viewed as an alternative or supplement to the development of digital skills through the inclusion of specialized roles (e.g.: digital manager). Some significant theoretical and managerial implications are highlighted, as well as some future lines of research.","PeriodicalId":389229,"journal":{"name":"Sixth International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130527255","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of Risk Management in an Organizational Context","authors":"J. Santos, Leonilde Reis, Manuel Landum","doi":"10.31410/itema.2022.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/itema.2022.117","url":null,"abstract":"In Portugal, the Council’s Minister Resolution 41/2018, presents a complement to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which, in order to comply with it, defines technical guidelines for the Public Administration concerning the security architecture of networks and information systems. The objective of the paper is to present risk management in an organizational context. The adopted methodology is focused on the presentation of the research and obligations that the organizations have to take into account before the law and the regulatory authorities. International standards and how they can be applied in the context of the organization under study were analyzed, and the main results reached, aim to raise awareness within the organizations assertively, for the existing vulnerabilities and threats. Risk management was based on asset management and professional experience acquired over the years, as well as knowledge of internal procedures.","PeriodicalId":389229,"journal":{"name":"Sixth International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128311930","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Economic Assessment of Sea Buckthorn Cultivation and Processing in Conditions of Intensive Production","authors":"Ľ. Gurčík, Zuzana Bajusová, Jana Ladvenicová","doi":"10.31410/itema.2022.401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/itema.2022.401","url":null,"abstract":"The cultivation of medicinal plants is a current topic of growing importance. In Europe, but also the world, the demand for high-quality food is constantly growing. Sea buckthorn can be considered a functional food, which is an intermediate step between classic foods and medicines. Sea buckthorn contains a high content of vitamin C, which makes it an ideal helper in the treatment of flu or angina; thanks to the high content of vitamin B, it heals burns, has antiseptic effects, consumption of products from this medicinal plant ensures prevention in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases and cancer, supports digestion, detoxifies the body, purifies and supports the activity of the kidneys and urinary system, reduces high cholesterol, improves memory, has anti-inflammatory effects. In the contribution, we focus on the economic assessment of the cultivation and processing of this superfood in an intensive cultivation method. We modeled two alternatives: “Alternative A” – frozen fruits, “Alternative B” – 100% sea buckthorn juice. Based on the performed analysis, the second alternative is more economically efficient, given that the payback period is before the seventh vegetation year, the internal rate of return is at the level of 35.67% and the net present value reaches the level of 1,379,316 €. In the contribution, we also evaluated the intensity of production based on the resulting indicators (revenues, costs, management result per hectare, average profitability of revenues and costs) with conventional crops grown in the corn production area (wheat, barley, corn). We found that the values of all indicators were more favorable for sea buckthorn.","PeriodicalId":389229,"journal":{"name":"Sixth International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture","volume":"128 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128477067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Payment Security Issues and User Data in Online Commerce","authors":"Nadezda Dimova","doi":"10.31410/itema.2022.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/itema.2022.113","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, there has been increased development of information and telecommunication technologies, which have a significant impact on the economic and social sphere on a global scale and, in particular, at the national level. In parallel, there are many challenges to the integration and use of digital technologies and the resulting issues of payment and data security in online commerce. This research is dedicated to revealing the nature of data privacy, the relationship between the regulator, consumers and retailers, and presenting the features of payment and data security in online commerce.","PeriodicalId":389229,"journal":{"name":"Sixth International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131288094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Healthcare Financing Models and the Expenditure Growth","authors":"N. Atanasov, Dimitar Semkov","doi":"10.31410/itema.2022.233","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/itema.2022.233","url":null,"abstract":"The present study includes the countries of the European Union, aiming to test the hypothesis that the funding models can be related to the size and growth of health expenditure, as a phenomenon from the second half of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century. The criterion for grouping the national health systems is the dominant public source of financing from the two with the largest weight in the aggregate expenditure – health insurers’ payments and payments on account of the state budget. Data from the health accounts of the countries of the EU for a period of the last 10 years are used. The observed indicator is the weight of total health expenditure of the current GDP, which allows international comparisons to be made. The methods of analysis used include descriptive statistics, verification of hypotheses for the type of empirical distributions, equality of means and variances, and graphical presentation of the detected dependencies. The results show that there is a significant variation in health expenditure between the individual countries in the EU. Within the formed two groups of countries – one with a dominant government budget and the other with a dominant health insurance financing, no statistically significant difference in the size of the health expenditure can be found. Such a dependence is found when grouping using other indicators related to geographical location and living standards.","PeriodicalId":389229,"journal":{"name":"Sixth International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129223422","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Information Security – SOC Potentialities","authors":"P. Vieira, Leonilde Reis","doi":"10.31410/itema.2022.91","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/itema.2022.91","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, information is an essential resource and a valuable asset. Like any other asset, information is potentially vulnerable and subject to various threats, whether deliberate or accidental. The methodology adopted for the study was exploratory and descriptive, focusing on document analysis of information in the field of the theme. The paper aims to focus on the operationalisation and management of the Security Operations Center (SOC), to foster and optimise the definition of policies and instruments for data loss prevention and recovery, as well as to carry out training actions for employees. The main results emphasise that cybersecurity involves a set of tools, policies, guides, risk management approaches, training actions, good practices and technologies that can be used to protect the assets of organisations and users in cyberspace, to preserve the guarantee the so-called information security triad.","PeriodicalId":389229,"journal":{"name":"Sixth International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133070161","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Holistic CSR Maturity Assessment Model","authors":"M. Belesioti, M. Glykas","doi":"10.31410/itema.2022.239","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/itema.2022.239","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, there has been an increasing interest in defining Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the factors that have the potential to influence it. CSR has become an essential strategic tool and its initiatives have increased in variety and scope, impacting communities and businesses in economic, environmental, and social terms as a means of raising the social profile and maximizing the corporation’s long-term economic and social value. This paper aims to introduce the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility and to investigate the key enabling factors and constraints that play a crucial role in the adoption and implementation of CSR initiatives. For this, a holistic framework, namely a Corporate Social Responsibility Maturity Model (CSRMM) for CSR assessment will be analyzed and presented.","PeriodicalId":389229,"journal":{"name":"Sixth International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129534497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Changing the Process of the Employee Recruitment in the Labour Market","authors":"M. Nedović, Ivona Bajić Sabljo","doi":"10.31410/itema.2022.263","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31410/itema.2022.263","url":null,"abstract":"Human resource management is an important managerial function. Finding quality and motivated people represents a challenge for any business. The ways to reach the best future employees have changed with the development of social networks and digitalization in general. To be competitive, every company needs a well-designed approach to human resource management. The company’s set goals can only be achieved based on the abilities of employees with certain skills. The reason for choosing this topic stemmed from the many problems faced by the human resources departments due to the transformation that is happening in the labour market. The purpose of this paper is to show a concrete example, of the recruitment of employees when using a modern method using the social network. All the stages that are used to acquire the best candidate who would complete the set tasks will be explained. The data were obtained using the telephone interview research method. This work will be able to serve the other companies or departments that manage human resources as one of the examples of the new concept of recruiting employees and accordingly, contribute to future research. The findings that are stemming from this research will certainly support further studies of human resource management using new technologies and tools that collect analytical data and skills of employees and consequently help companies to select the best candidates.","PeriodicalId":389229,"journal":{"name":"Sixth International Scientific Conference ITEMA Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123728638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}