Scientific publications

The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of investment support on labour productivity in Lithuanian family farms. This issue is of particular importance when appraising whether the investment support has had the anticipated effects. Propensity score matching is employed to quantify the average treatment effect on the treated farms.

The development of an appropriate export promotion strategy in any country calls for consideration of such country-level determinants as macroeconomic indicators and cultural elements. Small economies, like Lithuania, must have a clear understanding of which macroeconomic factors most significantly contribute to the competitiveness of their exports.

The Corporate social responsibility (CSR) concept is linked to the company’s responsibility for its impact on the society. The CSR is important for sustainability, competitiveness and innovation of the economy of each country and is tightly linked to the success in approaching Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) by the world countries.

As biased policies lead to low efficiency of resource allocation and waste, this study compares the operating environment of state-and non-state-owned enterprises, and confirms the distortion of human capital distribution in these two types of enterprises caused by biased policies.

The knowledge age greatly shaped society’s understanding of what goes beyond the agribusiness and sharply raised the question of farmers’ responsibilities on the way they do farming in relation to the payments they receive as public support. Therefore the new rural prosperity drivers in knowledge age calls for the new principles of European Union support distribution for agriculture and rural development.

Jinsheng Wang, Chengdong Cao , Shouzhen Zeng , Tomas Balezentis Wang, J., Cao, Ch., Zeng, Sh., Balezentis, T. 2019. Weighted Induced Aggregation Euclidean Distance Operators for the Decision Making of Robot Selection. In Transformations in Business & Economics. Vol. 18, No 1 (46), p. 81-94; ISSN 1648-4460; [ISI Web of Science (& Master Journal List) by Thomson Services (2006, back-cited from 2005); Social Sciences Citation Index (2006); Social SciSearch (2006); Journal Citation Reports / Social Sciences Edition (2006); EBSCO (EconLit with Full Text) (2007); IBSS (2004); EconLit (2005); e-JEL (2005); JEL on CD (2005); SCOPUS (2007); Cabell’s Directory (2008)].

In this paper, we integrate technological, institutional, and financial approaches towards expansion of the smart grid technology. We turn to China as the major producer and consumer of energy with an increasing focus on renewables. China’s electricity market has experienced a number of reforms while trying to address the economic and environmental challenges.

This paper investigates the key paths for mitigating air pollution following the paths of the source control and end-of-pipe control. We conduct performance analysis in terms of energy consumption and pollution emission from the regional perspective, and identify the appropriate path for each region of China.

The main purpose herein, is to assess the popularity of the innovative funding mechanisms when acquiring land at the national level. The results of the research suggest that the innovative funding mechanisms are neither popular nor available when making the investment in land in Lithuania.

Audronė Minelgaitė, Genovaitė Liobikienė Minelgaitė, A., Liobikienė, G. 2019. Waste problem in EuropeanWaste generation is a critical problem globally and even in the European Union (EU). In EU countries, significant differences have been observed in terms of municipal waste generation. The level of waste generation significantly depended on economic development. The most effective tools for solving the waste problem should be the enhancement of reducing, reusing, and recycling behaviours. However, our results revealed that the level of reducing and reusing behaviours insignificantly influenced waste generation. Union and its influence on waste management behaviour. In Science of the Total Environment. Vol. 667, p. 86-93; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.02.313; [Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index].