Wood processing and furniture manufacturing is one of the key industrial sectors in South-East European countries. Based on its share in GDP, this industrial sector should be part of the national ...strategy plans. However, media coverage of wood processing and furniture manufacturing in Croatia, as well as in other South-East European countries, is far behind the promotion of other industrial sectors. This paper presents the current situation in promotional activities of wood sector in some South-East European countries media and it shows the differences between individual countries. Also, it presents some ideas on improving this situation according to media share of other highly profi led industrial sectors in some South-East European countries.
Primary wood processing and secondary furniture production are strategic sectors in most western Balkan countries with regard to contribution to gross domestic product, exports, and employment. After ...abandoning a socialist business system in the post-Yugoslavia era, all countries in the region have developed transitional reforms to become free -market economies. Some of these reforms include changes in ownership structure, recapitalization and modernization, adapting to meet import standards of developed countries, and developing strategic linkages with supply-chain counterparts in developed countries. This article contains the results of research conducted on the current situation in primary wood processing and furniture industries in seven western Balkan countries. A common characteristic of these sectors across all countries is the century-long tradition of forestry and forest utilization. The development of these sectors will require sustainable management of the region's rich forest resources, political and economic systems that are transparent and market driven, as well as investments in production technology and employee training. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
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Chaos and complexity theory is a special, functionalist systems approach to dealing with complex, dynamic, nonlinear systems. Through treating organizations as complex, with their environments ...coevolving, nonlinear systems, complexity theory is aimed at creative research of their erratic nature. When an organization is in a state of bounded instability, at the edge of chaos, order and disorder are intertwined, its behavior is irregular and unpredictable but has some pattern. According to the complexity paradigm organizations have to strive to avoid the equilibrium states of stability and instability. They have instead to strive to remain in a state of bounded instability, at the edge of chaos, where they are able to display their full potential for creativity and innovation.
Teorija haosa i kompleksnosti predstavlja poseban, funkcionalisticki sistemski pristup bavljenju slozenim, dinamickim, nelinearnim sistemima. Tretirajuci organizacije kao kompleksne, sa okruzenjima koevoluirajuce nelinearne sisteme, Teorija kompleksnosti je usmerena na kreativno istrazivanje njihove hirovite prirode. Kada se organizacija nalazi u stanju ogranicene nestabilnosti, na odredjenom rubu haosa, u njoj se preplicu red i nered, njeno ponasanje je neregularno i nepredvidivo, ali u njemu postoji izvestan obrazac. Na rubu haosa se odvijaju spontani procesi samo-organizacije, a novi obrasci ponasanja se mogu pojaviti. Prema Paradigmi kompleksnosti, organizacije bi u svom funkcionisanju morale nastojati da izbegnu ravnotezna stanja stabilnosti i nestabilnost, i da, umesto toga, teze ostajanju u stanju ogranicene nestabilnosti, na rubu haosa, gde su sposobne da razviju svoj puni potencijal kreativnosti i inovativnosti.
The main research objective of this paper is to critically reassess the conceptual foundations, and methodological and methodical development of Critical Systems Heuristics (CSH) - as a relevant ...representative of the emancipatory paradigm - in order to determine the conditions, ways and achievements of its application in structuring the coercive management problems in organizations. The scientific instrumentarium corresponding to this research aim is critical systems thinking with its three key commitments to: a) critical awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of any research instrument - a theory, a methodology, a method, a technique, a model - for managing the problem situations, including CSH, as the emancipatory systems approach to management, b) improvement of structuring those coercive problems in organizations, in which the sources of coercion can be identified, and c) pluralism - respect the different perceptions and interpretations of problem situations in organizations, and enable the combined use of selected research instruments. The main research result is the knowledge that CSH - considering its conceptual foundations, and methodological and methodical development - enables to reveal the normative contents of the proposed designs of organizational systems, i.e. enables to identify the stakeholders who benefit from the proposed changes implementation. Based on this finding, it can be concluded that through the use of critically heuristic categories and dialectical debate between those involved and those affected by the designs, but who are not included in decision making, CSH endeavours to - in application - support the process of improving position of all stakeholders.
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