Vol. 8 No. 1(22) (2017)

Articles

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    The Issue of Establishment of the Armenian School of Social Work

    Mira Antonyan
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    This article addresses the issues of establishment of Armenia’s own school of social work based on interconnected knowledge with sociology, and practical knowledge. The article also concentrates on the need to complete the discourse about social work scientification. Theorizing practitioner’s expertise, conducting research, and activating professional association of social workers are the essential preconditions of establishing social work’s own school.

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    Social Work and the System of Social Protection of Post-Soviet Armenian Society

    Artak Khachatryan
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    The article analyzes the influence of social work on the social protection system of the Armenian society of the post-Soviet period. The author justifies the view that introducing social work into the social protection system of the Armenian society will dramatically increase the effectiveness of the system by increasing the targeting of social services, transforming the process of providing social services with professional activities.

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    On Identification of Economic Systems

    Gagik Galstyan
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     Historical development of mankind is divided into certain periods. Yet in the economic science, there is no accepted and unified approach concerning the periodization of economic growth and development. In the present article, a comparison of the approaches to such divisions is presented with the aim of more exact diagnostics of the post-socialistic economic structures.

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    E-commerce Acceptance in RA

    Davit Abgaryan
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    E-commerce acceptance by consumers is critical for e-commerce development locally or globally. To predict consumer acceptance of e-commerce, this study aims to investigate the factors affecting the initial and repeat purchase intentions of online consumers. The proposed model integrates perceived price and past transactions with E-commerce Acceptance Model proposed by P. Pavlou in 2003. To our best knowledge, no previous research integrated above-mentioned two factors with any Technolgy Acceptance Model based e-commerce acceptance model. The data provides strong support for the proposed ecommerce acceptance model by validating the hypotheses. The results indicate that both the perceived price and the past transactions have a strong positive effect on the intention to transact online

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    The Assessment of Efficiency of Foreign Investments in Commercial Banks of RA.

    Taron Simonyan
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    In this article, there have been investigated the main indicators of efficiency of foreign investments in the authorized capital of commercial banks of the Republic of Armenia. Particularly, the author has calculated the coefficients of profitability of foreign investments, dividend payment, etc. Also, there has been explored the influence of the devaluation of Armenian currency on the efficiency of foreign investments

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