ITEMA 2023 / 7 – Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture - SELECTED PAPERS
ITEMA 2023 / 7 – Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management and Agriculture - SELECTED PAPERS

Contributor(s): Vuk Bevanda (Editor), Paula Heliodoro (Editor)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Economy
ISSN: 2683-5991
Published by: Udruženje ekonomista i menadžera Balkana
Keywords: Information Technology; Tourism; Economics; Management; Agriculture
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the annual ITEMA conference is to support the power of scientific research and dissemination of the research results with the objective to enhance society by advancing knowledge; policy-making change, lives, and ultimately, the world. Our objective is to continue to be the foremost annual conference on cutting-edge theory and practice of information technology, tourism, economics, management, and agriculture, encouraging advancement via excellence, and interaction. ITEMA conference aims to bring together the international academic community (experts, scientists, engineers, researchers, students, and others) and enable interactive discussions and other forms of interpersonal exchange of experiences and popularization of science and personal and collective affirmation. The annual ITEMA conference is committed to the highest standards of publishing integrity and academic honesty as ensuring ethics in all its publications. Conformance to standards of ethical behavior is therefore expected of all parties involved: authors, editors, reviewers, and the publisher. The conference organizer follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines on how to deal with potential acts of misconduct. All received full papers prior peer review process are subject to plagiarism check with iThenticate by Turnitin software. Any identified plagiarism automatically disqualifies a paper. Afterward, all full papers are double-blind peer-reviewed by the reviewers drawn from the editorial committee or external reviewers depending on the topic, title, and the subject matter of the paper. Peer reviewers provide a critical assessment of the paper and may recommend improvements. Although the author may choose not to take this advice, we highly recommend that the author address any issues, explaining why their research process or conclusions are correct. The conference program of the 7th International Scientific Conference on Recent Advances in Information Technology, Tourism, Economics, Management, and Agriculture - ITEMA 2023 held on October 26, 2023, at the Faculty of Organization and Informatics Varaždin University of Zagreb, Croatia; combined presentations of the latest scientific developments in the field of the emerging trend of wine tourism in Albania and the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. housing market and ICT use in marketing in Montenegro. The studies also cover corporate governance in the energy sector, the influence of crises on Southeast Asian capital markets, and the efficiency of Croatia’s banking sector. Additionally, the papers discuss the role of project teams in sustainable economies, engagement incentives for IT professionals in Bulgaria, and consumer responses to sustainable consumption, with insights gained from eye-tracking experiments. Furthermore, the ITEMA 2023 conference covered the positive and negative effects of digital content consumption, the potential of cryptocurrencies in risk management, and the experiential dimensions driving local producers, the impact of digitalization on HR performance in Morocco, AI adoption in Slovenia, and large language models in text mining are explored, alongside the analysis of cryptocurrencies in tourism and corporate governance’s influence on financial performance in the energy sector, etc. ITEMA 2023 keynote speaker was Ilijana Petrovska, Program Leader of Digital Marketing MSc at Northumbria in Qatar and Full-Time Professor at University American College Skopje, North Macedonia with the topic Customer Empowerment in Digital Age. Within publications from the ITEMA 2023 conference: • 24 double peer-reviewed papers have been published in the ITEMA 2023 Selected Papers, • 44 double peer-reviewed papers have been published in the ITEMA 2023 Conference Proceedings, • 47 abstracts have been published in the ITEMA 2023 Book of Abstracts. Altogether ITEMA 2023 publications have more than 700 pages. All full papers have DOI numbers and ORCID iD integration. Participation in the conference took more than 200 researchers representing 25 different countries from different universities, eminent faculties, scientific institutes, colleges, various ministries, local governments, public and private enterprises, multinational companies, associations, etc.

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