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Strategic Communication and Decision-Making Processes: Toward the Communication Oriented Organisation

Emanuele Invernizzi, Stefania Romenti · IULM University, Milan, Italy
Communication continues to be an increasingly strategic and pervasive component in the processes of governance and management at all levels of a company. This evolution has been made evident by the importance that the communication function has acquired, or is acquiring, inside the organisational st…
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Oracle Multimaster Replication Maintance Optimization

Hakik Paci, Aleksander Xhuvani · Polytechnic University of Tirana, Albania
This paper presents a new solution for adding a new database server on an existing Oracle Multimaster data replication system. In normal conditions adding a new database server on this system we cannot insert, delete and update data during this time. So during this time the system is down and we can…
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Armenians and 20th century genocide - Debates

Maria Macioti · University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
During the 1800’s – before the well-known genocide, planned in the twentieth century – there were massacres and persecution on Armenian villages. It is important to underline that many Christian Armenians lived in Ottoman Empire. At the beginning of 1800’s they paid many taxes and felt themselves an…
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Europe and the integration process

Arben Shehu · University of Tirana, Albania
People in different country, may find that globalization and transnationalization of the nation also offer opportunities. Globalization in its literal sense is the process of transformation of local or regional phenomen into global ones. It can be described as a process by which the people of the wo…
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A Teachers’ Perspective of Inclusive Education for Students With Special Needs in a Model Demonstration Project

Narbis Ballhysa, Marita Flagler · Albanian Disability Rights Foundation, Tirana, Albania
The goal of the study is to give the teachers’ perspective on challenges and rewards of inclusive education for students with special needs. Participants (N=50) were teachers of four mainstream schools involved in inclusive education through a model demonstration project. The data were collected thr…
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Organized Crime and Legislation against crime

Arben Shehu · University of Tirana, Albania
“Today, organized crime is affecting every segment of our society. It is a disease which infects everything that comes into contact with it. It is an insult added to every law-abiding citizen. It is high time our governments made a note and, moreover, took immediate action. Perhaps tomorrow will be …
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A global and cooperative professional/academic effort to advocate the value of public relations to organizations and society - How the global alliance is changing the future of the public relations profession

Toni Falconi · Methodos, Management Consulting Company, Italy
In the fall of 1964, aged 23, the author of this chapter found himself at a 3M Company HQ meeting in Saint Paul (Minnesota) with some ten other international relations professionals. An elderly and just retired William McKnight, legendary founder of what even today is an evergreen success story of a…
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San Francisco, California, August 3-31, 2010

Maria Macioti · University La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
What are my impressions of San Francisco, after a month’s stay? A city wrapped in a thick mist, in a fog obstructing the panorama. Cold. A city, less frequently, with a clear blue sky, silhouetting the hills and buildings. Low houses, of two or three stories, each with their own characteristics, wit…
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On the way to «Creative Empathy»: the concept of truth as a social community enterprise in G. B. Vico’s «New Science»

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
There is no need to have recourse to sociology and to psychology in order to refute many worthy philosophers, in arguing that philosophical ideas, the history of philosophy, and philosophy itself, cannot be reduced to a chaotic and impersonal flux of problems and ideas. As Nietzsche says: «Little by…
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Pattern of Engagement of People with Disabilities and Their Family Members in the Policy Making Process in Albania

Blerta Cani, Marita Flagler · Albanian Disability Rights Foundation, Tirana, Albania
Post-communist Albanian legislation (1995-2010) provides the preliminary context for the creation of enabling social niches for the engagement of people with disabilities and the family members representing them in the policy-making processes both at the national and local levels. The goal of this s…
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Local development and Local Partnerships: Universities applying pro-active PR in a local systems network logics

Arta Musaraj · ETC - Entrepreneturship Training Center, Albania
Facing turmoil and continuous stunning, local governing bodies, decision makers and local actors, in most of cases found the most stable solution has been the regional cooperation and particularly that of increasing and strengthening local human resources capacities at a regional level. Trying to in…