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Tourism is one of the most developing economic sectors, one of its developing forms being pilgrimage tourism. Pilgrimages and visits to sacred monuments are among the oldest forms of travelling, which have been developing for over a thousand years. In this report we analyse the…

Observed global trends in behavioural changes in the contemporary tourism market indicate a tendency of tourists to seek new active forms of spending free time, based primarily on the need to explore the world combined with new and extreme experiences. On this basis, numerous new…

This paper targets the late stage of adolescence by observing decision-making styles among young adults-university students. The main research goal was to evaluate the late adolescent decision-making styles in terms of their academic achievement. The study comprises 77 final-year students on the Croatian Faculty of…

There are many barriers to using the Special Drawing Rights (SDR) as the leading means of settling international accounts within the global currency system. Despite that, SDRs are a universal and flexible accounting unit used in many areas of international and national legal order, including…

In the study, the development of voluntary pension insurance in Poland in the form of individual pension accounts was examined and assessed, using the legal-dogmatic and statistical approaches. The accounts are run by authorised financial institutions on the basis of agreements concluded with natural persons.…

This work presents a Scrum maturity practice model for banks. The model allows to assess how mature the current Scrum implementation is. This assessment is done in two dimensions (functional and technical) and on two different levels of organizational structure. The model is based on…

The terms diaspora and migration have obtained a broad semantic domain and encompass a diverse array of groups. A lot of people migrate to other geographical spheres in search of job and for better living. The paper probes into the linguistic effect of migration on…

This article aims to present a methodology to analyze how the image of an area is affected by different branding strategies at the level of entrepreneurs. The first methodology aims to stimulate a brand process in which there are sufficient opportunities for an open debate…

Mergers synergies are a powerful instrument to create value and to overcome crisis as well. Mergers allow a quick growth potentially without paying cash, yet through a special swap. The share exchange ratio (SER) is a conventional and complex measure to determine the number of…

The main research objective of the article is to answer the question whether there is a interrelation between determinants of the region's innovativeness and the effectiveness of innovative activities carried out by the SMEs operating in the examined region. The author formulated the following hypothesis:…