TheEditor’sCorner
Thejournalhasachievedawider–globalreadershipin2008 .Additional
effortswillbemadetoextendandimproveourpresenceandrecognition
in the international academic arena in the future. I would like to extend
my special thanks to the journal reviewers and the operational editorial
team for their precious contributions tothedevelopment of thejournal.
Thejournalcontinuesfocusingonthetransitionresearchandempha-
sizing openness to different research areas, topics, and methods, as well
asinternationalandinterdisciplinaryresearchnatureofscholarlyarticles
published in the journal. The current issue covers topics of the conflict
inpublicandprivatesectororganizations,changingpreferencesofstates
and societies, democratic governance, partnerships, and Euro currency
adoption.
This issue (Vol. 6,No.4 ) begins with a paper written by James M.
Quirk, who presents a viewpoint on the changing preferences of states
and societies, which may present impediments to globalization. In the
second paper, Chrisvan Tonder, Werner Havenga and Jan Visagie inves-
tigate the causes of conflict in public and private sector organizations
using data from South Africa. In the third paper, Matevž Tomšiˇ c and
Mateja Rek study the role of civil society as a factor of European demo-
craticgovernance.Inthefourthpaper,Michał
˙
Zemłainvestigatesfailures
in building partnership for success in the competitive market by using
the case of ski resorts in Poland. In the last – fifth paper, Helena Nemec
Rudež and Štefan Bojnec examine the impacts of the Euro adoption on
tourisminSlovenia.
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