POTENTIALS OF SMALL AIRLINES IN SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES UNDER THE NEW ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES

South-Eastern Europe holds a key geopolitical position and has a promising economy and aviation market. Small airlines operating in the region can succeed by taking advantage of the region’s characteristics and selecting appropriate strategies. This study’s objective is to examine the potentials of the region’s small airlines, focusing on their key strategic choices regarding destinations to serve, aircraft types to use, airports to operate from, and whether to operate independently or partner with larger carriers. In-depth interviews were conducted with key aviation experts from across the region, and secondary data were used to provide further insight. The study’s main findings show that small airlines may benefit from initially partnering with larger carriers, feeding their networks from secondary airports via regional jets and turboprops. This study adds to the relevant literature and may help managers from the region’s smaller and bigger airlines and airports identify new opportunities and develop sustainable strategies.

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Realities and Challenges of the Social Enterprises in South-Eastern European Countries

Modernization and Accountability in the Social Economy Sector - Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8482-7.ch012 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 214-236

Author(s):

Ani Matei ◽

Corina-Georgiana Antonovici ◽

Carmen Săvulescu

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Social Inclusion ◽

Social Economy ◽

Social Enterprises ◽

Eastern European ◽

South Eastern ◽

The Social ◽

South Eastern Europe ◽

Eastern European Countries

The chapter objectives focus on mapping the sector of social economy in some states from South-Eastern Europe, presenting their role and impact due to the activities achieved in society. The theoretical part of the chapter comprises the evolution of social economy in Europe, in general, and in South-Eastern Europe, in particular, the identification of the types of organizations in this area. The case study identifies and presents the stages of development of the social enterprises in countries such as Romania, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Republic of Moldova, and explores, by comparative analysis the institutional frameworks, the regulations of social enterprises, the eligible judicial forms, presenting similarities and differences, as well as the contribution to social inclusion and impact on community in general. The chapter identifies and explains the influence of the European actors and presents the factors specific to each country which have influenced and supported the emergence of social enterprises as well as the challenges faced.

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Problematic Terminology in a Tentative Research Methodology for the Visual Culture of the Balkans

Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Historia ◽

10.24193/subbhist.2021.spiss.04 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽

pp. 67-78

Author(s):

Anita Paolicchi ◽

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Keyword(s):

Visual Culture ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Research Methodology ◽

Eastern European ◽

The Balkans ◽

South Eastern ◽

South Eastern Europe ◽

Methodological Problems ◽

Western European ◽

Interpretative Framework

"The aim of this paper is to highlight and briefly discuss some of the most problematic terms and concepts that recur in art historiography: for example, the words Byzantine, post-Byzantine, Eastern, Western and Local. These concepts are used in a misleading way not only by American and Western European authors, but also by Eastern and South-Eastern European ones: in fact, the “Balkan” art historiography based itself on the Western-European one, adopting its periodisation, terminology and interpretative framework, which led to a number of methodological problems that researchers are now trying to identify, discuss and, if possible, solve. Keywords: art historiography, South-Eastern Europe, silverwork, Byzantium. "

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Demography and Migration as Human Security Factors: the Case of South Eastern Europe

MIGRATION LETTERS ◽

10.33182/ml.v4i2.214 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

pp. 103-118 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Alexandra Tragaki

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Eastern Europe ◽

Relevant Literature ◽

Human Security ◽

The Political ◽

Population Movements ◽

South Eastern ◽

Demographic Dynamics ◽

South Eastern Europe ◽

And Migration

Demographic dynamics and population movements have important ramifications for human security and pose new challenges both for public policy and for international relations. The aim of this paper is to offer an overview of the possible linkages between migration and demography on one hand and human security on the other, focusing on the case of South Eastern Europe. Though the theoretical framework is not as yet fully elaborated, the growing volume of relevant literature reflects a fast-growing interest in the political and international implications of demographic phenomena.

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Morpho-Agronomic Characterisation of Runner Bean (Phaseolus coccineus L.) from South-Eastern Europe

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11216165 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (21) ◽

pp. 6165

Author(s):

Lovro Sinkovič ◽

Barbara Pipan ◽

Mirjana Vasić ◽

Marina Antić ◽

Vida Todorović ◽

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Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Agronomic Traits ◽

Phaseolus Coccineus ◽

South Eastern ◽

Runner Bean ◽

Bean Plants ◽

Geographic Origins ◽

South Eastern Europe ◽

Growing Conditions ◽

Eastern European Countries

In South-Eastern Europe, the majority of runner-bean (Phaseolus coccineus L.) production is based on local populations grown mainly in home gardens. The local runner-bean plants are well adapted to their specific growing conditions and microclimate agro-environments, and show great morpho-agronomic diversity. Here, 142 runner-bean accessions from the five South-Eastern European countries of Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, North Macedonia and Romania were sown and cultivated in their respective countries and characterised using 28 quantitative and qualitative morpho-agronomic descriptors for Phaseolus spp. based on inflorescences, leaves, plants, pods and seeds. For each of these morpho-agronomic descriptors, the accessions can be classified into two or three specific groups. The highest correlations were observed within the fluorescence, seed and pod traits. The highest variability, at 76.39%, was between the different countries, representing different geographic origins, while the variability within the countries was 23.61%. Cluster analysis based on these collected morpho-agronomic data also classified the accessions into three groups according to genetic origins. The data obtained serve as useful genetic information for plant breeders for the breeding of new bean varieties for further studies of the morpho-agronomic traits of the runner bean.

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The Invention of tradition: Vinča script

Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology ◽

10.21301/eap.v5i2.11 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 241-258

Author(s):

Aleksandar Palavestra

Keyword(s):

Eastern Europe ◽

Public Discourse ◽

Eastern European ◽

Paradigm Shifts ◽

Near Eastern ◽

South Eastern ◽

Invented Tradition ◽

South Eastern Europe ◽

The Media ◽

Neolithic Cultures

The problematic term the Vinča script denotes a number of incised ornaments and signs on the surface of the pottery of the Vinča culture – one of the most important "cultures" of the South Eastern European Neolithic. The modes of use and abuse of this phenomenon of and the very term the Vinča script have changed through time, elloquently testifying about the paradigm shifts in the European archaeology, at the same time indicating dangerous contaminations of archaeology by pseudo-archaeological ideas. During the 19th and first half of the 20th century, the idea of a script in the Neolithic cultures of South Eastern Europe surfaced occasionaly as an argument for the short "historical" chronology and Near Eastern influences. During the 1980s the idea of the Vinča script emerges again in Serbia, this time, as an invented tradition, from the pseudo-scholar circles, and is massively supported by the media. The Vinča script becomes the central motif of a much larger pseudoscholar movement: the invention of script is linked to praehistory of South Eastern Europe, allegedly from Palaeolithic, Mesolithic, Lepenski Vir, over the Etruscan, Lydian and other scripts, down to Cyrillic and Latin letters. Unfortunately, over the last years the term the Vinča script – falsely represented by the media as a new and equally valid interpretive paradigm – seeps into the general public discourse, and even into archaeology itself.

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