Challenges of strengthening the Albanian start-up ecosystem
Entrepreneurship Education, a Challenging Learning Process towards Entrepreneurial Competence in Education
Entrepreneurship education is a recent field in education. From a field mainly related to small business, it is extended towards enhancement of students’ entrepreneurial attitudes and skills. It can support students in developing an independent and versatile way by growing the spirit of entrepreneurship. Developing entrepreneurship competence among...
Parents' and caregivers' role toward childhood vaccination in Albania: assessment of predictors of vaccine hesitancy.
Published in Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunita
Vaccination has saved millions of lives through the protection of individuals and populations from communicable diseases. Vaccine hesitancy, defined as the delay in acceptance or refusal of vaccines despite the availability of vaccination services, has become a growing global concern. The objective of this study was to investigate parents'/caregive...
Patient satisfaction with quality of care in public hospitals in Albania
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Healthcare service quality and hospitalized patient satisfaction in Albania have never truly received the necessary attention. The aim of this study is the assessment of key elements of service quality and their relationship with patients' satisfaction with receiving healthcare at public health institutions in Albania. The study examines five key d...
Examining the Impact of COVID-19 on Entrepreneurial Intention through a Stimulus–Organism–Response Perspective
Among scholars, there is an interest in understanding how entrepreneurial behavior is influenced by the consequences of crises. The COVID-19 pandemic may negatively or positively affect individuals’ behavior, including entrepreneurial intention. Thus, this paper seeks to study whether or not the economic shock caused by the pandemic reinforces the ...
Cross-Border Territorial Development through Geographical Indications: Gargano (Italy) and Dibër (Albania)
In a globalized context, characterized by dominant trends towards the homogenization of food products and taste, local and niche productions play a vital role in creating effective strategies of territorial development. Albanian food heritage is definitely one of the most various of the Western Balkans. The Ottoman domination and the Mediterranean ...
Perspective of Critical Factors toward Successful Public–Private Partnerships for Emerging Economies
In the last decades, Albania has started the implementation of a new practice which is partnership with the private sector, named public–private partnership (PPP), due to the inabilities of the public sector to fulfill all its public needs. This represents a crucial ratio related to economic development and the struggle for a fair and transparent i...
Whose Home?: Hospitality and Homemaking Among Afghan Refugees in Albania
This master thesis analyses the structural position of Afghan refugees in the Albanian town of Shëngjin through the notions of hospitality and homemaking. It tracks various discourses, ideologies and practices of hospitality as enacted by different actors: The Albanian government, local authorities, international organizations involved in the evacu...
Border and Memory in the village of Koshovice
This article focuses on the village of Koshovice, Albania, where its residents are part of the officially recognized Greek minority. The local perceptions of the community are discussed as linked to the Albanian-Greek border and its presence in the collective memory. After the borderline creation in 1913, local residents were divided between the tw...
Following ties and traces of migration: From Gjirokastër to Italy
The Albanian town of Gjirokastër is located 30 kilometers from the Greek border. While this proximity has inevitably contributed to directing migration flows to Greece, the focus of this article is to understand the characteristics of migration from Gjirokastër to Italy – the second destination for Albanian migrants after Greece. Findings will show...
