Sevdie Alshiqi

Çalışmanın amacı, finansal gelişme, yeşil büyüme ve çevre vergilerinin en yüksek ekolojik ayak izine sahip dokuz ülkenin çevresel sürdürülebilirlik üzerindeki etkilerini incelemektedir. Çevresel sürdürülebilirlik, karbon emisyonları ve ekolojik ayak izi ile ölçülmüştür. Finansal gelişme IMF tarafından hesaplanan finansal gelişmişlik endeksi ile yeşil büyüme toplam enerji tüketimi içinde yenilenebilir enerjinin payı ile çevre vergileri GSYİH içindeki payı ile ve ekonomik büyüme kişi başına düşen GSYİH ile ölçülmüştür. Ampirik analizde Panel Düzeltilmiş Standart Hatalar yönteminin yanı sıra, eşbütünleşme ve nedensellik testleri uygulanmıştır. Bulgular, yeşil büyüme ve çevre vergilerinin karbon emisyonlarını ve ekolojik ayak izini azalttığını, buna karşılık finansal gelişmenin ve ekonomik büyümenin çevresel bozulmayı artırdığını göstermektedir. Nedensellik sonuçları, çevre vergileri, yeşil büyüme, ekonomik büyüme ve finansal gelişmeden çevresel sürdürülebilirlik göstergelerine doğru tek yönlü etkiler olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Çalışma, maliye politikalarının, yenilenebilir enerji stratejilerinin ve finansal düzenlemelerin sürdürülebilirlik hedefleriyle uyumlu hâle getirilmesinin önemini vurgulamakta ve yüksek ekolojik ayak izine sahip ekonomiler için politika odaklı çıkarımlar sunmaktadır.

Halal entrepreneurship is a business model rooted in Islamic principles, emphasizing ethical, socially responsible, and halal economic practices. Originating from the time of Prophet Muhammad (SAW), it is viewed as an honorable livelihood. The term “Halalpreneur” distinguishes entrepreneurs who offer shariah-compliant products and services from conventional counterparts. Despite its growth, the halal entrepreneurship ecosystem remains underexplored. This chapter conceptualizes halal entrepreneurship and investigates its key ecosystem components. Using a qualitative approach, it combines a structured literature review and global case studies to examine theoretical foundations, ecosystem actors, enabling factors, and sectoral implementation. The findings reveal challenges, research gaps, and offer policy suggestions to foster halal entrepreneurship. This study contributes by integrating theory and practice, offering a framework to guide scholars, practitioners, and policymakers in developing global halal entrepreneurial ecosystems.

This study investigates how geopolitical risks shape environmental sustainability by influencing carbon dioxide (CO ₂ ) and methane (CH ₄ ) emissions across the global economy. To provide a granular understanding of geopolitical–environmental interactions, the analysis separately examines the eight subdimensions of the Geopolitical Risk (GPR) index developed by Caldara and Iacoviello (2022), including war threats, terrorist acts, military tensions, political disputes, and nuclear risks. Using monthly data from November 2002 to March 2025, the study applies the Quantile‐on‐Quantile Connectedness (QQC) method to uncover the directional, asymmetric, and time‐varying dependencies between geopolitical risk categories and greenhouse gas emissions. The results reveal strong nonlinear connectedness patterns, indicating that CO ₂ and CH ₄ emissions respond differently across risk regimes and emission quantiles. Military escalations, economic tensions, and disruptions in trade‐related geopolitical channels intensify emissions particularly during high‐volatility periods, reflecting increased pressure on energy supply chains, fossil‐fuel dependency, and industrial activity. Conversely, terror‐related risks and diplomatic tensions behave predominantly as shock receivers, suggesting weaker transmission toward environmental indicators. This study provides an important analytical framework for energy and environmental policymakers, economic planners, and international institutions, helping them to anticipate environmental risks arising from geopolitical fluctuations and to design more sustainable policy strategies.

This study investigates the relationship between shipping connectivity, environmental quality, financial development, and economic growth among 14 countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) from 2006 to 2019. Using panel-corrected standard error, Dynamic Seemingly Unrelated Regression, and Driscoll–Kraay estimation methods, the analysis reveals that shipping connectivity significantly contributes to financial development and economic growth, while also exerting a negative impact on environmental quality. These findings suggest that the maritime sector can have significant impacts not only on economic growth and financial development but also on environmental sustainability. In countries where maritime shipping has increased, particularly with the growth of trade, positive outcomes are observed in terms of financial development and economic growth, while negative impacts on environmental quality are also evident. This study provides insights for policymakers to develop strategies that maximize economic benefits while reducing environmental harm in order to achieve sustainable development in the maritime sector.

This study investigates the relationship between shipping connectivity, environmental quality, financial development, and economic growth among 14 countries in the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) from 2006 to 2019. Using panel-corrected standard error, Dynamic Seemingly Unrelated Regression, and Driscoll-Kraay estimation methods, the analysis reveals that shipping connectivity significantly contributes to financial development and economic growth, while also exerting a negative impact on environmental quality. These findings underscore the dual role of shipping connectivity in fostering economic prosperity and increasing environmental challenges, highlighting the trade-offs between growth and sustainability. The study also emphasizes that as trade between RCEP countries grows, driven in part by the removal of customs tariffs, shipping activities—and consequently environmental pollution—will likely increase. To achieve sustainable development in the maritime sector, policymakers must devise strategies that maximize economic benefits while mitigating environmental harm. These strategies include promoting environmentally friendly green ports, adopting low-carbon and advanced technologies, and strengthening policies to control emissions and marine pollution. Collaboration among shipping companies, local governments, and environmental organizations is also essential.

Kosovo’s private sector business is led by small and medium enterprises and shows acrucial role in the economic development and promoting the growth of this sector. Dueto the lack of studies in Kosova, related to marketing strategy and export performance,the research aims to explore growth determinants of SMEs in Kosovo by emphasizingexports, revealing the importance of marketing strategy related to the performance ofSMEs. Since exporting is becoming more important, it is necessary to understand allthe factors that are involved in this booming trade. This research analyses explore theliterature dealing with small and medium enterprises' performance to inspect thetraditional and modern academic standpoints on estimating the impact of exportperformance, based on secondary data of five hundred small and medium enterprises,as trade, manufacturing, and services sectors in Kosovo. The data were analysed usingboth descriptive statistics and inferential techniques, such as logistic regressionanalysis, and probit model using the SPSS software. Results show a significant linkageof marketing strategy and export performance; managers and policymakers can takesome action to improve export performance. On the other hand, the results measure theimpact of price, production, promotion and place in export performance incorporateexpected future performance. It is argued that enterprises in Kosovo must pay moreattention to strategies, and attempt to design and implement better strategies that willbe beneficial for developing international trade, especially exports, as one way oftrading by SMEs.

Adequate and desirable connections between suppliers and customers necessitate an appropriate flow of information. Therefore, a promising and proper data collaboration in the supply chain is of tremendous significance. Thus, the study’s main objective is to provide multiple objective programming models under uncertain conditions to assess the performance of suppliers. To meet that aim, a case study for the reliability assessment of the presented model is carried out. That section is associated with supply chain visibility (SCV). Likewise, the likelihood of unpredicted and undesirable incidents involving supply chain risk (SCR) is taken into consideration. The intimate relation between visibility and risk of the supply chain is deemed efficient for the performance of the supply chain. Incoherence in maximization and minimization of SCR and SCV and other factors, including costs, capacity, or demand, necessitates multiple objective programming models to assess suppliers’ performance to accomplish the before-mentioned aims. The study’s results indicate the high reliability of the proposed model. Besides, the numeral results reveal that decision-makers in selecting suppliers mainly decrease SCR and then attempt to enhance SCV. In conclusion, the provided model in the study can be a desirable model for analyzing and estimating supplier performance with SCR and SCV simultaneously.

This study clarifies the student’s perspective in the disputed territory, to inculcate the influence of personality traits, moral obligation, entrepreneurial education, entrepreneurial intentions, and these relationships mediated by perceived advantage. A framework for the judgment of entrepreneurial mindset in the context of disputed territory and special administrative zones is presented. The data was collected from Eastern students at four universities. The current survey was conducted using purposive sampling, and the sample size was 344 students from four different universities. The study used CFA (Confirmatory Factor Analysis) and SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) for data analysis by using Smart PLS 3.2.9 and SPSS 26. The findings revealed the direct and indirect influence of personality traits entrepreneurial education and moral obligation on the intentions mediated by perceived advantage. Diversely, moral obligations do affect entrepreneurial intention in the presence of perceived advantage. The counterintuitive situation arises in the case of and helpful situation, where moral obligations are not playing role in the case of the disputed territory. The study contributes to enhancing the understanding of the entrepreneurial intention of university students in disputed territories. It brings into light the research agenda of entrepreneurship in disputed territories and special administrative areas. Specifically, the perceived advantage proved unique and verifiable intervening in the role between entrepreneurial education, personality traits, and the moral obligation with entrepreneurial intentions. This research supplies the basis for compatible academic and economic policy formulation. This study supplies a knowledge base for startups in special and disputed territories. It enhances innovation by making students fit their needs.

This study aims to carry out a bibliometric analysis on Islamic marketing using the VOSviewer program. This study uses a quantitative descriptive method. The data used in this study are search results based on the keyword "Islamic Marketing" sourced from Google Scholar using publish or perish software. From the search results, we found 1000 articles published in the 2018-2022 range. The results show that research on Islamic marketing increased in 2019 and 2020 but decreased significantly in 2022. In conclusion, this study is needed to demonstrate the significance of undertaking bibliometric analysis, particularly in the area of Islamic marketing. It is expected that this study will serve as a model for future research in terms of conducting and identifying research topics, particularly in the field of Islamic marketing.

With the globalization of markets and increasing competition in global markets, the attempts of organizations to survive in this market has increased and has resulted in the emergence of the philosophy of Supply Chain Management. There is uncertainty in the reliability of supply chain facilities for reasons such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, labor errors, and weather conditions. Therefore, when making strategic decisions, the system will continue to operate with minimal damage. Over the course of this study, the uncertainty of supplier layers in the supply chain has been modeled. To meet that aim, the issue of supply chain, including producers, warehouses, suppliers and consumers are considered. To calculate the cost of breakdowns due to the non-functioning of distributors, the scenario-building method has been utilized. Finally, the desired model is solved with Gomez software and the results are presented. The result of the study demonstrate the efficiency of this model in the facility location decision-making in supply chains.