Katarzyna Kubiszewska
Culture Management, Volume 19, Issue 4, 2018, pp. 393-414
https://doi.org/10.4467/20843976ZK.18.023.10517Due to the profound changes in the modern world, the role of a contemporary library is also not what it used to be. The paper presents new various roles fulfilled by libraries in the 21st century, showing that, in the current reality, measuring the effectiveness of a library only quantitatively oversimplifies the issue and does not do justice to the socially complex function of this cultural institution. Based on the quantitative and qualitative research, the author attempts to specify certain elements of the future role of a library, indicate how the library performance evaluation systems should be improved, and suggest his own original method of measuring the library total value and performance.
Katarzyna Kubiszewska
International Business and Global Economy, Volume 36, 2017, pp. 31-46
https://doi.org/10.4467/23539496IB.17.002.7450
This article aims to compare the situation in the banking sectors of two regions that have much in common due to their political and economic history: the Western Balkan states of Serbia, Croatia, and Macedonia and the Baltic Sea states of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. It presents three approaches to defining banking stability that can be found in literature and carries out a preliminary analysis of the financial performance of the discussed banking sectors using the CAMEL approach. Although in 2010 the banking sectors of the Baltic Sea states were in a worse shape than the banking sectors of the Western Balkan states, it has been proved that the banking sectors in countries in which the process of economic transformation has been completed could recover from a crisis faster than states that are still undergoing this process. Economic transformation is essential for the further development of the market economy and the sooner it is completed, the sooner the banking sector can develop and the easier it will be to recover from a crisis or an external shock.