The Editor’s Corner
With the current Volume5 the journal has begun a new phase in its
development – the phase of bringing it to a much wider international
audience. In the past few years the journal has been listed in three inter-
national databases: the International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
(ibss ), the EconPapers database (the Research Papers in Economics
Database –r epe c), and the Directory of Open Access Journals (doaj ).
Startingapproximately atthetimeofprintingofthisissue(March2007 )
the journal is also being included in the EconLit database. Our efforts
to stillfurtherinternationalize the journalnecessitated reinforcement of
oureditorialboardwithnewmembers.Iwouldliketotakethisopportu-
nity to thank the members of the editorial team and all the contributors
fortheireffortsinraisingthisjournaltoevenhigherinternationallevels.
Thejournalcontinuesfocusingonthetransitionresearchandempha-
sizing openness to different research areas, topics, and methods, as well
asinternationalandinterdisciplinaryresearchnatureofscholarlyarticles
publishedinthejournal.Thecurrentissuecoverstopicsofthedynamics
of trade, the performance of banking industry, the relationship between
quality management and customer satisfaction, the economic cultural
influences on management, and the questions related to the workforce
adaptation ofminorities.
ThisissuestartswithapaperwrittenbyImreFert˝ o,whoexaminesthe
dynamicsoftradeinCentralandEasternEuropeancountries.Inthesec-
ond paper, Catarina Figueira, Joseph G. Nellis, and David Parker inves-
tigate the performance of banking industry in Poland and compare the
PolishbankingsectortothebankingsectorintheUnitedKingdom.The
third paper of Franka Piskar looks at the impact of the quality manage-
mentsystemiso9000 oncustomersatisfactioninSlovenia.Inthefourth
paper, Rune Gulev examines economic cultural influences on manage-
ment in the context of international headquarters-subsidiary relation-
ships in selected European countries. In the last – fifth paper, Waheeda
Lillevik investigates cultural diversity, competences and behaviour with
theemphasisonworkforceadaptation ofminoritiesinCanada.
BoštjanAntonˇ ciˇ c
Editor
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