Research and internationalization are the major difficulties confronting most higher education institutions (HEIs) in the region, putting research, innovation, internationalization, and economic and political strain on policymakers. This study is a qualitative and quantitative empirical research of two projects that examines their dominant perceptions and attitudes towards social mobility and internationalization of research strategies in HEIs as a basis of social and economic well-being. The research was conducted at the University of Gjakova “Fehmi Agani” (UFAGJ), through personal interviews and a structured questionnaire, which was carried out by management, academic staff, administrative staff, and students. The results demonstrated that the internationalization of research has a high impact on the increase of the economy and well-being in society. This research presents an analysis of the internationalization strategies employed by the HEIs through two selected projects involving different European and South East European universities. The study is based on a literature review (Almeida, Robson, Morosini, & Baranzeli, 2018; Dewey & Duff, 2009; Levatino, 2017) and the establishment of categories as points of reference and comparison. We look at and compare internationalization strategy focused on international staff and student mobility and internationalization at home (IaH) actions focused on the development of high-quality lectures and sensitive intercultural competencies in students as learning outcomes and strategic goals. Finally, in addition to an ex-post analysis of the ongoing implementation of the internationalization strategy at the UFAGJ, we draw conclusions and lessons learnt for the internationalization and quality of research within HEIs of an emerging economy.

The purpose of this paper is to determine whether and to what extent companies in Kosovo practice the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in their operations and what are their benefits from the application of this concept. This paper uses primary data obtained through a survey of managers of 40 companies in Kosovo. To prove that the practice of the concept of CSR is of great importance for all aspects of the operation of companies, a cross-tabular analysis of certain questions was performed, where the simple linear regression and the coefficient of correlation were calculated. Based on the obtained results it can be concluded that the largest percentage of the analyzed companies in Kosovo (87.50%) practice the concept of CSR in their operations. Managers in Kosovo introduce the concept of CSR for a variety of reasons. However, they agree with the fact that practicing this method leads to better long-term financial performance, greater market share, competitive advantage, better reputation of the company, increase of the working climate in the company, the productivity and motivation of employees, their loyalty, and contributes to retaining high-quality staff.

High unemployment is one of the major difficulties confronting most modern countries, putting social, economic, and political strain on policymakers. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is critical to a country’s economic development, particularly in transitional economies. FDI is a major source of capital inflows to developing countries. FDI affects the level of employment in the host country, in addition to its many other effects. The research is based on the studies of Johnny, Timipere, and Krokeme (2018) and Zeb, Qiang, and Sharif (2014) that have examined these variables in this paper. This study investigates the relationship between FDI, economic growth, and unemployment to quantify and assess the relationship in selected developing countries or Western Balkans countries according to these variables. Data for the developing countries of Western Balkan were collected in the observed period 2015–2019. Differences between countries were explored in terms of FDI, gross domestic product (GDP), and unemployment using the data produced from the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) test. According to regression analysis, FDI and GDP have a considerable impact on country unemployment. The results showed that FDI and GDP have an effect in decrease unemployment in the developing countries examined.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the causal relationship between export, import, and inflation for Kosovo which is a developing country. Pointedly, we examine empirically this relationship by deliberating that export and import influence the harmonized consumer price index, which is expressed as the inflation rate. This paper employs time series monthly data for the period 2010-Jan to 2020-Dec extracted from Kosovo’s Agency of Statistics. Since these variables were stationary at different levels, we have integrated the Toda-Yamamoto approach to Granger causality. The proposed model was free of autocorrelation and no root lied outside the unit circle indicating that the model is stable. The results of Granger causality revealed that export causes import and import causes export, export does not cause inflation, and inflation does not cause export. However, import caused inflation, and inflation caused import. Henceforth, we have performed the Impulse Response Function to analyze the interaction between variables in a vector autoregressive model and we have performed variance decomposition to check the variability in the dependent variable lagged by its variance. The study is spectacled that import is the main vehicle of economic development of Kosovo and for this reason, import causes inflation rate. The results of this study imply that the Kosovar government should take measures to control the effect of imports on increasing of consumer prices.   Received: 28 September 2021 / Accepted: 16 February 2022 / Published: 5 May 2022