item: #1 of 298 id: eis-1069 author: Briska, Iveta; Rungule, Ritma title: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: DISCOURSE ON ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES IN LATVIA date: 2011-12-28 words: 6345 flesch: 43 summary: Such concepts as environmental protection and quality of life were not quite popular among the public. From this period environmental protection in Latvia has been developing very rapidly after the creation of the Ministry of Environment and Regional Development in 1993 national legislation related to the protection of the environment has been normalised and investments into many specific environmental projects have been mobilised. keywords: activities; analysis; answer; article; attitudes; certain; changes; civil; consciousness; country; culture; development; discourse; dynamics; ecological; economic; environmental; environmental problems; environmental protection; environmental values; essential; european; formation; growth; history; important; industrial; integration; issues; latvia; latvian public; latvians; level; line; natural; nature; number; opinion; paper; participants; people; period; priority; problems; public; public opinion; question; readiness; relation; research; respondents; results; risk; risk society; role; skds; social; society; studies; survey; sustainable; sustainable development; today; topical; traditional; world cache: eis-1069.pdf plain text: eis-1069.txt item: #2 of 298 id: eis-1070 author: Cimdins, Rudolfs; Skinkis, Peteris title: DEVELOPMENT POLICY MONITORING ISSUES – REGIONAL AND LOCAL EXPERIENCES IN RIGA REGION date: 2011-12-28 words: 4358 flesch: 22 summary: Overall approach of development policy monitoring mostly is oriented on evaluation of planning documents. Development policy monitoring and evaluation Regional development monitoring exists on very different forms, depending on each country’s legal and functional organization and policy implementation mechanism (Cziraky, Sambt, Rovan, Puljiz 2006, Nared, Ravbar 2003, Khan 2001, Spencer, Gomez C. 2004, Toward country-led development: a multi-partner evaluation of the CDF, 2003). keywords: 2003; administrative; aims; analysis; approach; available; city; data; decision; development; different; documents; economic; elaboration; environmental; european; evaluation; functional; government; implementation; indicators; information; instruments; issues; latvia; law; level; local; main; making; measures; ministry; monitoring; municipalities; national; planning; policies; policy; priorities; process; processes; programmes; public; regional; regions; research; results; riga; role; specific; state; statistical; strategy; structure; studies; system; term; territorial; territory; thematic cache: eis-1070.pdf plain text: eis-1070.txt item: #3 of 298 id: eis-1071 author: Ezmale, Sandra; Litavniece, Lienite title: SPATIAL PLANNING AS A TOOL FOR IMPROVING ATTRACTIVENESS OF THE PLACES: CASE OF LATGALE REGION date: 2011-12-28 words: 5279 flesch: 32 summary: Research subject – business attractiveness factors and criteria in the planning documents of Latgale region cities and towns. Policy and city development planners have adopted diverse measures like spatial plans and strategies for city development to enhance it. keywords: access; activities; analysis; aspects; attractiveness; availability; business; business environment; cities; city; competitiveness; correlation; criteria; development; development planning; documents; economic; entrepreneurs; environment; estate; european; factors; human; infrastructure; kendall; latgale; life; living; local; market; new; particular; place; planning; planning documents; prices; probability; programs; provision; quality; real; regional; regional development; research; residents; satisfaction; significant; spatial; spatial planning; studies; technical; territorial; time; urban; urban development; value; visitors cache: eis-1071.pdf plain text: eis-1071.txt item: #4 of 298 id: eis-1072 author: Feifere, Santa; Zvidrins, Peteris title: LABOUR AND ECONOMIC GROWTH THROUGH EDUCATION AND RESEARCH IN LATVIA date: 2011-12-28 words: 4872 flesch: 40 summary: Low interest to prepare projects in relation to economic activity could be explained by lack of opportunity to provide co-finance (for projects not in relation to economic activities co-finance rate is 7.5% of total eligible costs including maximum 5% in-kind contribution as voluntary work, activities as professional nature, fixed assets and granted materials) and lack of collaboration with entrepreneurs (Mezeniece et.al. 2010). Keywords: Ageing society, economic growth, labour, education, EU structural fund research projects. keywords: ability; activities; age; ageing; agriculture; authors; bureau; capital; central; countries; country; data; demographic; development; economic; economy; education; employment; european; fertility; financial; funds; future; gdp; growth; higher; human; increase; innovation; integration; investment; knowledge; labour; latvia; level; line; market; new; number; population; products; projects; proportion; rate; research; resources; science; scientific; scoreboard; sectors; skills; social; society; statistical; structure; studies; technological; technologies; technology; total; university; value cache: eis-1072.pdf plain text: eis-1072.txt item: #5 of 298 id: eis-1073 author: Grinis, Vygintas; Valalyte, Ligita title: REGIONAL INNOVATION POLICY: FROM THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATION ACTIVITIES IN THE NON-METROPOLITAN REGIONS OF BALTIC SEA REGION TO THE INNOVATION POLICY MEMORANDUM date: 2011-12-28 words: 5581 flesch: 38 summary: The topic of regional innovation policy is analyzed by both, Lithuanian and foreign authors, widely. According to L. K. Williams (2001), when discussing the scope and impacts of regional innovation policy, it is necessary to raise the question about the level of “region” that defines the territorial responsibility of ‘regional’ policy makers. keywords: activities; actors; baltic; changes; characteristics; concept; cooperation; demand; development; different; dynamic; economic; economy; enterprises; etzkowitz; european; figure; firms; funding; future; governance; government; growth; http://; important; initiatives; innovation; innovation policy; innovation system; institutes; institutions; integration; international; issn; kaunas; knowledge; learning; level; leydesdorff; line; lundvall; makers; making; market; memorandum; metropolitan; national; new; non; opportunities; perspectives; policies; policy; processes; public; regional; regional innovation; regions; research; science; sea; sector; services; sme; social; studies; system; technological; technology; understanding; universities cache: eis-1073.pdf plain text: eis-1073.txt item: #6 of 298 id: eis-1074 author: Kaivo-oja, Jari; Stenvall, Jari title: THE CLOUD UNIVERSITY PLATFORM: NEW CHALLENGES OF THE CO-OPERATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY SYSTEM date: 2011-12-28 words: 4732 flesch: 43 summary: Keywords: Universities, co-operation, Europe, innovation systems, open innovation paradigm, ecosystems of innovation, cloud computing, innovation dynamics, life long learning. User-innovators and open innovation models will probably change the logic of innovation systems in the future. keywords: actors; approach; business; change; cloud; cloud university; competitiveness; computing; concept; context; council; customers; demand; development; different; e.g.; economic; economy; ecosystem; education; european; european universities; future; global; growth; idea; industrial; information; innovation; integration; international; internet; issn; key; kind; knowledge; learning; market; media; model; national; new; open; operation; paradigm; platform; policy; press; process; processes; production; public; research; resources; role; services; smart; social; society; studies; systems; technological; technologies; technology; today; ubiquitous; universities; university; use; value; web; work cache: eis-1074.pdf plain text: eis-1074.txt item: #7 of 298 id: eis-1075 author: Melnikas, Borisas title: EUROPE OF KNOWLEDGE: THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS date: 2011-12-28 words: 10456 flesch: 21 summary: The most important role and influence are of those transformations, which reflect the global spread of values and ideas of the knowledge based society and of the sustainability of new knowledge creation processes : namely the creation of knowledge based society and the spread of its values and ideas, as well as the spread of the ideas and values of sustainability of new knowledge creation processes in the global environment condition can activate and stimulate the new transformations in the modern society and its life, as well as help to understand the necessity to react to the needs of the creation of knowledge based society and knowledge economy and solve new problems in a new way. Problem is that the knowledge based society and knowledge economy creation processes and the processes of global transformations are usually analyzed separately: the factor of the complex interaction between different processes of global transformations and the processes of the creation of knowledge based society and knowledge economy is often ignored. keywords: areas; change processes; changes; complexity; conditions; context; countries; creation; creation processes; cultures; development; development processes; different; economic; economy creation; effects; european; expression; features; general; global changes; global transformations; globalization; globalization processes; groups; human; ideas; important; influence; innovations; integration; international; issn; knowledge creation; knowledge economy; life; management; melnikas; modern society; multiple; needs; new knowledge; organizations; place; political; political development; problems; processes; progress; regions; regularities; research; resources; role; science; social; society; society creation; society development; society life; spread; studies; subjects; systems; technological; tendencies; typical; union; values; variety; world cache: eis-1075.pdf plain text: eis-1075.txt item: #8 of 298 id: eis-1076 author: Mezeniece, Marta; Rivza, Baiba title: INFLUENTIAL FACTORS ON THE EU STRUCTURAL FUNDS FINANCING EFFICIENCY IN THE R&D FIELD IN LATVIA date: 2011-12-28 words: 4398 flesch: 41 summary: Determination of the scientific activity and innovation development factors The analysis of scientific literature, expert interviews, and previously conducted research (Meženiece et.al., 2010) provided the background for the factor determination. Firstly, accomplish revision and analysis of existing research and theoretical findings on factors of scientific activity and innovation development. keywords: activity; analysis; aspects; attitude; authors; commercialization; development; economic; education; efficiency; et.al; european; factors; field; financing; funds; group; implementers; infl; innovation; institutes; integration; inventions; issn; joint; latvia; legal; main; makers; method; national; order; paper; planners; policy; process; project; questionnaire; r&d; relief; research; research policy; respondents; results; science; scientific; scientists; skills; stakeholders; state; structural; studies; study; survey; system; tax; volume cache: eis-1076.pdf plain text: eis-1076.txt item: #9 of 298 id: eis-1077 author: Mistre, Baiba; Muska, Aina title: SYNERGY OF THE AMOUNT OF SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN LATVIA date: 2011-12-28 words: 7200 flesch: 47 summary: No 5 SYNERGY OF THE AMOUNT OF SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS AND ECONOMIC ACTIVITY IN LATVIA Baiba Mistre, Aina Muska Latvia University of Agriculture Abstract Research hypothesis: a synergy exists in Latvia between the average amounts of state social security benefits and the regions’ economic development. The research aim is to identify interaction between the average amount of state social security benefits and economic development in Latvia. keywords: amounts; analysis; average; average amounts; basic; benefits; budget; capital; care; child; city; cluster; contributions; country; development; differences; districts; economic; economic development; european; incapacity; increase; indicators; insurance; integration; latvia; law; level; line; lvl; maternity; national; number; parental; parental benefits; period; person; position; regions; research; residents; results; riga; riga district; security benefits; sickness; sickness benefits; significant; social; social insurance; social security; state social; statistical; studies; synergy; table; unemployment benefits; values; wage; year cache: eis-1077.pdf plain text: eis-1077.txt item: #10 of 298 id: eis-1078 author: Mistre, Zane; Rudusa, Ilva; Zvaigzne, Anda title: THE PROCEDURE OF FINANCING THE NATIONAL BLOOD SERVICE OF LATVIA date: 2011-12-28 words: 5096 flesch: 51 summary: No 5 THE PROCEDURE OF FINANCING THE NATIONAL BLOOD SERVICE OF LATVIA Zane Mistre, Ilva Rudusa, Anda Zvaigzne Latvia University of Agriculture Abstract The National Blood Service of Latvia is a set of regional medical institutions and their structural units in Latvia that produce blood components and supply them to medical institutions. The paper characterises the procedures and ways of financing the institutions preparing blood and blood components – the State Blood Donors Centre and the Blood Establishments – that are included in the National Blood Service of Latvia and analyses their cash flow and changes in it during the period 2005-2010. keywords: authors; balance; bes; blood; blood components; blood donor; blood service; budget; centre; components; cost; donor centre; expenditure; financing; funding; government; health; hospital; increase; information; institutions; latvia; lvl; maintenance; medical; ministry; national blood; nbsl; production; republic; rīga; salaries; sbdc; state blood; system; table; total; year cache: eis-1078.pdf plain text: eis-1078.txt item: #11 of 298 id: eis-1079 author: Neimanis, Janis title: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE UNDERSTANDING OF JUDGE INDEPENDENCE IN LATVIA date: 2011-12-28 words: 7547 flesch: 49 summary: The binding nature of the decisions of the general meeting of Supreme Court judges Up to 2003 the leading role in the field of uniform practices, including statutory interpretation, was awarded to the decisions of Plenum of Supreme Court of the Republic of Latvia. Judges have begun to recognize the other elements of judge independence principle. keywords: act; additional; administrative; article; author; binding; cases; constitutional court; council; court; court administration; court judgement; court judges; decisions; democratic; division; european; executive; february; financial; freedom; general; independence; independence principle; institutional; integration; issues; january; judge; judge independence; judicial; judiciary; june; justice; latvian; latvian constitutional; latvian independence; latvian legal; latvijas; latvijas vēstnesis; law; legal; legal act; legal state; legal system; legislature; ministry; opinion; payment; plenum; power; principle; reform; republic; rights; salary; security; soviet; staatsrecht; state; studies; subject; subordination; supreme court; system; time; understanding; vēstnesis; wage cache: eis-1079.pdf plain text: eis-1079.txt item: #12 of 298 id: eis-1081 author: Neimanis, Janis; Matjusina, Rada title: JUDGE IMPARTIALITY IN COMPREHENSIVE JUDICIAL DEVELOPMENT date: 2011-12-28 words: 4465 flesch: 44 summary: In 17 century the concept of judicial impartiality increases in the society but it is valued as the clearly understood concept that does not need any additional interpretations.11 However, that time, although the clear criteria of judicial impartiality and specific requirements for the court were not inquired, it can be seen the first modern interpretation of the concept of judicial impartiality, that is, the interpretation ISSN 1822–8402 EUROPEAN INTEGRATION STUDIES. Nowadays we often think about how it is possible to ensure judicial impartiality. keywords: article; basic; bias; case; century; concept; confidence; court; court impartiality; criteria; decision; definition; democratic; development; doubts; european; european court; example; fair; human; human rights; important; independent; integration; international; judge; judge impartiality; judgment; judicial impartiality; judicial system; justice; lack; law; legal; method; need; political; principle; public; research; rights; society; state; studies; system; thou; time; today; trial; trust; united; university cache: eis-1081.pdf plain text: eis-1081.txt item: #13 of 298 id: eis-1082 author: Nesterenko, Polina title: SOME ISSUES CONCERNING UNIFICATION AND HARMONIZATION OF EUROPEAN FOUNDATION LAW date: 2011-12-28 words: 4768 flesch: 50 summary: However, today a huge number of issues related to the development of unified rules of the European private law and European foundation law, had left unresolved. Even if common act - European Civil Code for Member States isn’t created, further unification of foundation law would be extremely important for all private spheres of the society. keywords: academic; activities; article; bar; barriers; case; charitable; christian; civil; civil code; civil law; code; codification; commission; common; company; comparative; contract; countries; creation; ecj; european; european civil; european foundation; european private; foundation; foundation law; foundation statute; frame; group; harmonization; institutions; integration; law; laws; legal; line; member; member states; non; organizations; paper; particular; private; private law; process; public; reference; rules; single; states; statute; stauffer; studies; study; tax; unification; unified; union; von cache: eis-1082.pdf plain text: eis-1082.txt item: #14 of 298 id: eis-1083 author: Puzulis, Armands; Skinkis, Peteris title: REPRESENTATIONS OF BOUNDARIES IN THE CONTEXT OF PRIVATE AND PUBLIC RELATIONSHIPS: LATVIAN EXAMPLE date: 2011-12-28 words: 4197 flesch: 48 summary: Key words: public private relation, planning, boundaries, land use. Here, the various developer projects were created with no regard for public space, utility connections or communications. keywords: access; analysis; areas; balancing; beach; boundaries; building; cases; city; civil; coastal; community; concept; context; development; environmental; european; forests; formal; individual; integration; interests; issn; land; landscape; large; latvian; law; management; municipal; national; natural; new; outskirts; ownership; people; places; planning; plans; policy; practice; private; process; property; protection; public; relations; representations; riga; rights; role; seashore; social; space; spatial; state; streets; studies; suburban; teritorijas; territories; territory; usage; use; values; villages; zone cache: eis-1083.pdf plain text: eis-1083.txt item: #15 of 298 id: eis-1084 author: Sile, Vija; Dzalbe, Ilze title: THE FINANCIAL CRISIS AND THE DISCOURSES OF LATVIA’S POLITICAL PARTIES date: 2011-12-28 words: 7480 flesch: 52 summary: Keywords: Financial crisis, political party discourses, knowledge. Introduction The social problem which prompted the study to be conducted in the low level of public trust in representatives of state authorities (in political parties, parliament and the government). keywords: analysis; articles; assumptions; avīze; beliefs; certain; change; concepts; content; crisis; critical; current; december; decisions; diena; discourse; economic; european; events; fairclough; financial; framework; governing; government; information; integration; intertextuality; intimidation; irony; issn; issue; january; language; latvia; latvijas; metaphors; moral; neatkarīgā; newspapers; november; opinions; opposition; opposition parties; parties; party; people; period; points; political; political parties; politicians; positions; possible; power; press; prior; problems; public; representatives; responsibility; rhetoric; russian; rīta; saeima; schwarz; segodnja; situation; social; society; space; stability; statements; structure; studies; study; system; time; trust; understanding; units; university; use; values; way cache: eis-1084.pdf plain text: eis-1084.txt item: #16 of 298 id: eis-1085 author: Buter, Clemens title: INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER PRICING AND THE EU CODE OF CONDUCT date: 2011-12-28 words: 3841 flesch: 45 summary: No country can allow its tax base to suffer because of international transfer pricing. This article describes economic implications of international transfer pricing. keywords: apportionment; approach; arm; associated; code; commission; common; conduct; country; documentation; enterprises; eu member; european; formulary; global; goods; guidelines; international; international transfer; length; length principle; market; member; methods; multinational; oecd; oecd transfer; order; price; pricing; pricing documentation; principle; profits; states; tax; tpd; transfer; transfer pricing cache: eis-1085.pdf plain text: eis-1085.txt item: #17 of 298 id: eis-1086 author: Daugeliene, Rasa title: HYPOTHETICAL CRISIS POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR THE RECOVERY OF LITHUANIA‘S ECONOMY: SEARCHING FOR IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION date: 2011-12-28 words: 6331 flesch: 50 summary: To achieve this aim five tasks are to be solved: • To present some providences of globalisation as the preconditions of global financial crisis; • To classify the lessons from the past economic crisis; • To highlight the main impact of global economic crisis on Lithuania’s economy; • To systemise the specific actions of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania in the presence of Global economic crisis; • To recommend hypothetical crisis policy framework for the recovery of Lithuania’s economy. To achieve this aim five tasks were solved: to present some providences of globalisation as the preconditions of global financial crisis; to classify the lessons from the past economic crisis; to highlight the main impact of global economic crisis on Lithuania’s economy; to systemise the specific actions of the Government of the Republic of Lithuania in the presence of Global economic crisis; to recommend hypothetical crisis policy framework for the recovery of Lithuania’s economy. keywords: actions; analysis; article; asset; burden; capital; change; countries; credit; crisis; crisis policy; current; daugėlienė; development; economic crisis; economy; economy growth; european; fig; financial; financial crisis; fiscal; framework; global; global crisis; global economic; global financial; globalisation; government; great; growth; hypothetical; hypothetical crisis; impact; important; index; integration; international; issn; key; knowledge; lessons; level; line; lithuania; main; market; measures; monetary; order; past; percent; points; policy; policy framework; preconditions; presence; present; prevention; prices; rate; real; recession; recovery; republic; research; situation; state; stress; studies; system; tax; theories; unemployment; world; year cache: eis-1086.pdf plain text: eis-1086.txt item: #18 of 298 id: eis-1087 author: Junevicius, Algis; Liutkus, Egidijus title: THE EU SOVEREIGN DEBT CRISIS AND „EUROPEAN BONDS“ OPTION date: 2011-12-28 words: 5156 flesch: 56 summary: EU sovereign debt crisis ride out: “European bonds” solution Recent decisions by European fi scal and monetary authorities, sovereign debt issues continue to destroy the weak economic recovery. Long recognized as a problem in corporate debt, dilution seems to have recently become a significant problem in sovereign debt markets. keywords: advanced; available; bonds; borrowing; budget; cits; claude; control; corporate; costs; countries; creditors; crisis; currencies; debt; debt crisis; decisions; default; defi; delors; development; dilution; economic; economies; european; european bonds; fig; finance; financial; future; germany; giulio; governments; higher; idea; integration; interest; international; issn; issue; jacques; jean; juncker; levels; long; market; member; minister; monetary; new; paper; present; problem; proposal; public; rates; seniority; sovereign; sovereign debt; spending; stage; states; structures; studies; systematic; term; times; tremonti; union; virtuous; zone cache: eis-1087.pdf plain text: eis-1087.txt item: #19 of 298 id: eis-1088 author: Lagzdins, Arnis; Sloka, Biruta title: COMPLIANCE AND THE RECOVERY OF FINANCIAL SERVICES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: NEW CHALLENGES FOR LATVIA’S BANKING SECTOR date: 2011-12-28 words: 7425 flesch: 45 summary: Basel Committee on banking supervision is leading international institution setting up high-level compliance principles on bank’s management of compliance risk. The key regulatory concepts that comprise Compliance are defined by Mills (2008) as: Compliance risk; Reputational risk; Regulatory sanctions; Compliance laws, rules and standards; Compliance function; Compliance universe; Compliance department; Compliance Officer; Compliance culture; keywords: adherence; administrative; areas; armour; assets; banking; banks; basel; business; commercial; commission; committee; compliance; conduct; cost; countries; crisis; development; drivers; enforcement; european; financial; financial regulation; financial services; fines; framework; fsap; function; general; global; impact; important; industry; institutions; integration; internal; international; issn; issues; journal; key; knowledge; latvia; laundering; laws; legal; legislation; level; line; main; management; market; measures; member; money; new; number; order; penalties; policy; principles; reform; regulation; regulatory; related; relevant; research; risk; role; rules; sanctions; sector; services; single; size; standards; states; strategy; studies; study; supervisory; system; terms; total; value; vol cache: eis-1088.pdf plain text: eis-1088.txt item: #20 of 298 id: eis-1089 author: Lukashina, Olga title: THE ISSUES OF TAX RISKS CALCULATION AND MANAGEMENT date: 2011-12-28 words: 3393 flesch: 60 summary: The article deals with three features and two major causes of tax risks, as well as several stages of calculating risks and choosing the best option of possible management solutions. Tax risks should be an important element of entrepreneurial risks (including financial risks) for the benefit of efficient administration. keywords: additional; administration; audit; budget; calculation; company; conditions; cost; decision; diagnostics; different; european; financial; important; integration; latvia; legal; legislation; losses; main; management; method; nature; necessity; occurrence; payer; payments; penalty; possibility; possible; private; probability; provisions; reasons; risks; sanctions; second; stage; statutory; studies; tax; tax risks; taxation; taxpayer; uncertainty; риски cache: eis-1089.pdf plain text: eis-1089.txt item: #21 of 298 id: eis-1090 author: Mlodkowski, Pawel title: FOREIGN EXCHANGE RESERVE MANAGEMENT IN THE EUROZONE AND THE GLOBAL INTEREST RATES date: 2011-12-28 words: 6001 flesch: 54 summary: Keywords: foreign exchange reserves, global interest rates, yield curve, monetary policy, ECB. Mercantilism perceived foreign exchange reserves as a value for itself, claiming that the higher the level of reserve assets (monetary gold) the better. keywords: assets; banks; case; central; central banks; changes; common; countries; currency; curve; demand; different; ecb; economic; emu; european; eurozone; exchange rate; exchange reserves; figure; financial; foreign; foreign assets; foreign exchange; global; global interest; gold; imf; instruments; integration; interest; interest rates; international; liquidity; longer; management; market; maturities; monetary; młodkowski; observed; paper; policy; pool; portfolios; rates; reserves; return; short; significant; situation; structure; studies; system; term; time; total; union; years; yield; yield curve cache: eis-1090.pdf plain text: eis-1090.txt item: #22 of 298 id: eis-1091 author: Sayım, Ferhat; Alakel, Murat title: THE PARTICIPATION BANKING AND ITS COMPARISON WITH DEPOSIT BANKING IN THE TURKISH FINANCE MARKET date: 2011-12-28 words: 11922 flesch: 59 summary: Participation banks collect funds from saving owners, use them in industrial and trade sectors according to the interest free financing principles and shares the profit or loss with saving owners. Participation banks serve as a means of transformation of saving to capital. keywords: 0,0; accordance; accounts; act; article; assets; asya; average; bank association; banking; banking system; banks; basis; bat; branches; brsa; capital; cash; collected; commercial; contract; country; currency; current; customer; data; dec; deposit; deposit banks; documents; end; equity; european; figures; finance; financial; finans; foreign; free; funding; funds; goods; group; growth; increase; institutions; integration; interest; islamic; issn; i̇y; june; k t; kuveyt; legal; loan; loss; march; market; methods; money; new; number; operations; order; participation banks; partnership; pbat; period; personnel; private; profit; r k; rate; regulation; related; risk; sale; sector; sep; share; similar; source; special; studies; system; t t; table; terms; total; trade; turkey; turkish; türk; türk participation; türkiye; utilization; world; year cache: eis-1091.pdf plain text: eis-1091.txt item: #23 of 298 id: eis-1092 author: Vaidere, Inese title: THE IMPACT OF REGIONAL AND COHESION POLICY ON THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE EU date: 2011-12-28 words: 6301 flesch: 49 summary: As defined in Article 174 of 1 It extends beyond economic and social cohesion, as it concentrates on de-It extends beyond economic and social cohesion, as it concentrates on de- velopment based on geographic and sectoral specificities, intends to strength- en the cooperation between territories and consistency in EU policies to make the most efficient use of territorial assets. The policy itself was eventually defined in the Single European Act in 1986, which provided guidelines to coordination of economic policies and the use of structural funds. keywords: allocation; analysis; approach; areas; average; barca; budget; capita; cohesion; cohesion policy; commission; common; competitiveness; convergence; council; crisis; development; disparities; economic; economic development; effects; employment; european; european commission; european economic; european union; financial; financing; funding; funds; gdp; global; goals; growth; high; infrastructure; integration; key; latvia; leading; levels; line; lisbon; lorand; member; national; net; objective; order; paper; parliament; policies; policy; political; priorities; projects; regional; regional policy; regions; regulation; report; results; set; social; states; structural; studies; support; system; territorial; treaty; union; world cache: eis-1092.pdf plain text: eis-1092.txt item: #24 of 298 id: eis-1093 author: Znotina, Daina; Jermolajeva, Elita title: LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY IN THE REGIONS OF LATVIA date: 2011-12-28 words: 5173 flesch: 47 summary: In Riga region labour productivity in all branches is larger than in other regions. In Pieriga region labour productivity the most significant fluctuations occurred in the field of financial services, real estate transactions, in the field of mining, manufacturing and related services. keywords: activities; authors; average; branches; capital; changes; communication; development; domestic; economic; economic activities; employees; estate; european; field; financial; goods; gross; high; hotels; human; indicator; issn; kinds; labour; labour productivity; latgale; latvia; line; manufacturing; mining; nace; period; person; production; productivity; real; region; related; research; respective; restaurants; riga; services; significant; social; statistical; time; total; trade; transactions; transport; union; value cache: eis-1093.pdf plain text: eis-1093.txt item: #25 of 298 id: eis-1094 author: Burinskienė, Aurelija; Burinskas, Arunas title: THE PERCEPTION OF MARKET AND E-COMMERCE date: 2011-12-28 words: 5059 flesch: 51 summary: These findings also show how international company selects export markets for selling commodities on-line. Limitations and further research The results show that for the comparisons of export market other directions can be used. Second, the new model, which can be used for the comparison of export markets, is presented. keywords: amazon.com; analysis; attractive; authors; characteristics; commerce; comparison; competition; consumers; criteria; data; demand; different; distance; economic; enterprises; european; evaluation; experts; export; export markets; geographic; goods; import; indicators; integration; international; level; line; literature; market; marketing; methods; model; multi; new; number; paper; perception; potential; product; research; results; review; segmentation; selection; set; studies; study; technologies; trade; union; value cache: eis-1094.pdf plain text: eis-1094.txt item: #26 of 298 id: eis-1095 author: Gineite, Meldra; Vilcina, Anastasija title: DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP AS A COMPONENT OF REGIONAL POLICY IN LATVIA date: 2011-12-28 words: 5238 flesch: 41 summary: The first document about regional development policy was established in 1995 – it was a framework for regional development policy. Fundamental principles of regional development planning, mentioned in the “Regional development Law”, are: concentration, programming, partnership, complementarities, publicity, principle of subsidiarity and sustainability. keywords: activities; activity; administrative; business; country; data; development; differences; different; document; economic; economy; enterprises; entrepreneurship; environment; european; governments; growth; important; infrastructure; inhabitants; integration; kind; kurzeme; latgale; latvia; law; level; line; local; main; national; necessary; new; number; planning; policy; problems; reform; regional; regional development; regional policy; regions; resources; rīga; significant; social; spatial; start; statistical; studies; support; table; territorial; territory; total; urban; vidzeme; vol; way; years; zemgale cache: eis-1095.pdf plain text: eis-1095.txt item: #27 of 298 id: eis-1096 author: Junevicius, Algis title: THE EUROPEAN UNIONS HEALTH AND SAFETY POLICY: ANALYSIS OF RISK ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT date: 2011-12-28 words: 5623 flesch: 51 summary: Equally, this article highlights the importance of risk assessment. Risk assessment enables employers to understand the action that they need to take, to eliminate or minimise the risks to their employees. keywords: accidents; agency; approach; article; aspects; assessment; basis; commission; community; companies; conditions; directive; eec; employers; equipment; european; european agency; european directives; european safety; european union; figure; framework; health; implementation; integration; legal; legislation; level; line; main; management; measures; member; minimum; national; occupational; occupational health; occupational safety; policy; prevention; process; protection; requirements; risk; risk assessment; role; safety; safety policy; social; states; strategy; studies; treaty; union; use; work; workers; working; workplace cache: eis-1096.pdf plain text: eis-1096.txt item: #28 of 298 id: eis-1097 author: Kirch, Aksel; Nezerenko, Olga; Mezentsev, Vladimir title: ESTONIA AND OTHER COUNTRIES OF THE BALTIC SEA REGION AS ACTORS OF DEVELOPMENT: СONCEPTUAL APPROACH date: 2011-12-28 words: 4464 flesch: 49 summary: In contrast to opposition to natural environment the bifurcation in social systems is not a one-moment state of transformation from one condition to another but a stretched in time process of system rebuilding (transformational process). In terms of the Balaton’s group accessing the sustainable development, there are three following allocated systems: 1) Humanity: Social system (population development, ethnic composition, income distribution and class structure, social groups and organizations), Individual development (individual autonomy and self-determination, right to work, social integration, qualification, specialization, education), Government ( government and administration, population and migration, international assistance, technology); 2) Economy: transportation, communication, facilities for education, science, research and development, labor and employ these; 3) Natural. keywords: area; attractor; baltic; baltic region; baltic states; cargo; conceptual; countries; country; development; economic; economy; education; energy; engineering; environment; estonia; eu27; european; examine; figure; flow; future; goods; growth; human; influence; innovation; integration; issn; knowledge; latvia; lithuania; migration; model; negative; new; open; political; possible; potential; processes; region; regional; research; resources; russia; sea; skilled; social; space; states; strategy; structures; studies; sustainable; sustainable development; system; time; transformation; transit; union; workers cache: eis-1097.pdf plain text: eis-1097.txt item: #29 of 298 id: eis-1098 author: Kocak, Orhan; Kavi, Ersin title: THE EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES OF DISABLED PEOPLE AT CALL CENTERS: SOME CASES FROM TURKEY date: 2011-12-28 words: 7209 flesch: 48 summary: Key words: Disabled people, call center, employment of disabled people. In this sense, the last decade, disabled people had many employment opportunities by using information and communication technologies either at workplace or at home. keywords: agency; barriers; benefits; blind; businesses; calls; centers; centre; communication; contribution; countries; customer; definition; development; different; disabilities; disability; disabled; disabled people; economic; education; employees; employment; employment opportunities; environment; equal; european; example; exclusion; government; groups; high; home; impairments; important; inclusion; increase; information; integration; investments; issn; job; jobs; labor; labor market; life; management; market; national; new; number; opportunities; opportunity; order; organization; people; physical; policies; policy; potential; problems; project; public; related; second; sector; service; skills; social; society; studies; study; technologies; terms; time; today; training; turkey; work; workers; working; world; young cache: eis-1098.pdf plain text: eis-1098.txt item: #30 of 298 id: eis-1099 author: Kotane, Inta; Kuzmina-Merlino, Irina title: NON-FINANCIAL INDICATORS FOR EVALUATION OF BUSINESS ACTIVITY date: 2011-12-28 words: 5150 flesch: 28 summary: In order to ensure long-term activity, increase competitiveness and attract investments it becomes topical for many companies in Latvia to create a system for evaluating non-financial performance indicators. Despite the great number of theoretical publication on the problems of evaluating company performance, basing on the system of financial and non-financial indicators (Hafeez, 2002; Philips, Louvieris 2005; Craig, Moores, 2005; Lau, Sholihin, 2005; Fernandes et.al., 2006; Prieto, Revila, 2006; Wier et.al., 2007; Chen et.al., 2009; Cardinaels, van Veen- Dirks, 2010) there are problems in practical application of this indicators’ system as there is no single approach to identification, classification, measurement and evaluation of non-financial performance indicators. keywords: accounting; activity; advantages; analysis; assessment; assets; authors; balanced; bsc; business; capital; causal; clients; companies; company; customer; employee; et.al; european; evaluation; example; family; financial; financial indicators; financial performance; growth; human; impact; improvement; indicators; information; intangible; intellectual; internal; ittner; journal; kaplan; larcker; learning; literature; loyalty; management; measurement; method; model; new; non; nonfinancial; number; paper; performance; performance indicators; perspective; processes; product; research; results; review; sales; satisfaction; scientific; scorecard; staff; strategy; system; term; time; training; value cache: eis-1099.pdf plain text: eis-1099.txt item: #31 of 298 id: eis-1100 author: Muska, Aina; Bite, Ligita title: EVALUATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURIST ACCOMMODATION IN THE REGIONS OF LATVIA date: 2011-12-28 words: 6661 flesch: 55 summary: No 5 EVALUATION OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF TOURIST ACCOMMODATION IN THE REGIONS OF LATVIA Aina Muska, Ligita Bite Latvia University of Agriculture Abstract Research hypothesis: The number of tourist accommodation in the regions of Latvia has gradually increased over the research period but their distribution is uneven. The research aim is to evaluate the changes in the placement of tourist accommodation in the statistical regions of Latvia. keywords: accommodation establishments; analysis; average; beds; chain; city; cluster; data; defert; development; distribution; districts; entire; european; foreign; function; guest; hotels; houses; increase; indicators; integration; issn; kurzeme; latgale; latvia; line; number; people; period; pieriga; pieriga regions; proportion; r st; rate; reduced; regions; report; research; riga; serviced; significant; small; statistical; studies; table; total; total number; tourism; tourist accommodation; tourists; value; vidzeme; zemgale; zemgale regions cache: eis-1100.pdf plain text: eis-1100.txt item: #32 of 298 id: eis-1101 author: Priede, Janis; Skapars, Roberts title: QUALITY COMPETITIVENESS OF LATVIA’S WOOD INDUSTRY date: 2011-12-28 words: 5728 flesch: 55 summary: Quality competitiveness of country and industry Theoretical and empirical research increasingly point to the importance of product quality in international trade and economic development (Hallak, Schott, 2008). Since product quality is not directly observed in trade data, most of these proxies are based on the assumption that price variations contain sufficient information about quality variations. keywords: aiginger; articles; authors; changes; competitiveness; countries; country; different; differentiation; economic; euro/100; european; example; export; figure; firms; germany; goods; hallak; high; higher; import; index; indicator; industries; industry; integration; kingdom; latvia; latvia‘s; level; low; lower; market; measure; new; paper; price; product; quality; quality competitiveness; relative; research; share; structure; studies; sweden; trade; unit; unit value; united; use; value; wood; world; year cache: eis-1101.pdf plain text: eis-1101.txt item: #33 of 298 id: eis-1102 author: Rijkure, Astrida; Skapars, Roberts title: DEVELOPMENT OF LATVIAN AUTO ROADS AND ADMINISTRATIVE SYSTEM IMPROVEMENT date: 2011-12-28 words: 4124 flesch: 55 summary: Keywords: auto roads, auto road funding, resource assignment methodology. It is necessary to justify how important is to maintain and develop auto roads and how much is dependent on the overall condition of roads. keywords: assignment; author; auto; auto road; budget; cargo; condition; construction; country; development; economic; economy; electronic; european; eurovignette; field; financing; funding; funds; highways; implementation; important; increase; infrastructure; insurance; integration; issn; jsc; latvia; law; lvl; maintenance; method; model; motor; national; necessary; network; new; order; partnership; planned; private; public; resource; riga; road; scheme; sector; situation; state; studies; system; tax; toll; traffic; transit; transport; union; vehicle; world; year cache: eis-1102.pdf plain text: eis-1102.txt item: #34 of 298 id: eis-1103 author: Krisciunas, Kestutis; Daugeliene, Rasa title: Editorial date: 2011-12-28 words: 244 flesch: 49 summary: These are social evolution of Europe, Economics of European Union as well as Managerial Aspects of European Integration. At the present the annual scientific journal European Integration Studies: Research and Topicalities (ISSN 1822-8402) is published once a year. keywords: european; integration; issn; journal; scientific; studies cache: eis-1103.pdf plain text: eis-1103.txt item: #35 of 298 id: eis-1104 author: test, test test title: Informacija apie autorius date: 2011-12-28 words: 1201 flesch: 32 summary: phone: +37129415644, e-mail: inta@ru.lv KUZMINA-MERLINO Irina, Dr. oec., professor, Riga International School of Economics and Business Administration, scientific research areas: accounting and finance techniques and methods, entrepreneurship development in Latvia, phone: +37129610918, e-mail: irina.kuzmina@riseba.lv LAGZDINS Arnis, PhD student of School of Business and Finance, Riga, Republic of Latvia, study program “Business Administration”, phone: + 371 26303310, e mail: Arnis.Lagzdins@gmail.com LITAVNIECE Lienite, Dr.oec., Assistant professor of Rezekne Higher Educational Institution, Doctoral degree in Regional Economics; Rezekne Higher Educational Institution, Atbrivošanas aleja 90, Rēzekne, Latvia, phone: 646 05302, e-mail: litavniece@inbox.lv LIUTKUS Egidijus, Master of social science. No 5 Information about the article’s authors ALAKEL Murat, Assistant Prof. Dr. Yalova University, Economics and Administration Sciences Faculty International Relations Department, phone: +90-505-241 3311, e-mail: muratalakel@hotmail.com BITE Ligita, Dr.oec., assist.prof., Faculty of Economics, Latvia University of Agriculture, Latvia, phone: +371 630 23773, e-mail: ligita.bite@llu.lv BRIŠKA Iveta, Mg.soc.sc, Riga Stradiņš University, phone: +371-29208924, e-mail: bri888@inbox.lv BURINSKAS Arūnas, Mg.Ec.sc., Mg.Law.sc., Ph.D. student at Vilnius University, Lithuania; e-mail: burinskas.arunas@gmail.com BURINSKIENĖ Aurelija, Dr.Soc.sc., lecturer at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania; e-mail: aurelija.burinskiene@vgtu.lt. keywords: +371; administration; agriculture; business; department; direction; dr.oec; economics; european; faculty; field; latvia; latvia university; law; mail; management; phd; phone; prof; professor; riga; science; student; studies; technology; university cache: eis-1104.pdf plain text: eis-1104.txt item: #36 of 298 id: eis-1105 author: test, test test title: Reikalavimai straipsnio parengimui date: 2011-12-28 words: 501 flesch: 63 summary: Straipsnis rašomas tik angliškai šia tvarka: Straipsnio pavadinimas; Pilnas autoriaus vardas, pavardė; Darbovietė ir jos adresas, el. paštas; Straipsnio anotacija originalo kalba (apie 3000 spaudos ženklų); Po anotacijos pateikti (ne mažiau 5) raktažodžius anglų kalba; Įvadas (nurodant straipsnio mokslinę problemą, naujumą, tikslą, objektą, tyrimo metodus); Tekstas; Išvados; Literatūra; Rekomenduojama sumaketuoti pagal žemiau nurodytus reikalavimus straipsnio apimtis – 6-7 psl. 6. Reikalavimai straipsnio maketavimui ISSN 1822 - 8402 (Times New Roman, 10 pt Bold, Italic) > 14 pt Straipsnio pavadinimas (Times New Roman, 14 pt, Bold) > 14 pt Vardas, Pavardė (Times New Roman, 12 pt, Bold) >12 pt Autoriaus universiteto pavadinimas (Times New Roman, 12 pt, Italic) Institucijos adresas, el. paštas (Times New Roman, 10 pt, Italic) > 14 pt Anotacija (Times New Roman, 10 pt, Italic) >12 pt Raktažodžiai: ne mažiau 5 (Times New Roman, 10 pt, Italic) > 12 pt Skyrelių pavadinimai (Times New Roman, 11 pt, Bold) > 6 pt Autoriai redakcinei kolegijai pateikia straipsnio rinkmeną diskelyje arba atsiunčia el. paštu. keywords: autoriaus; bold; italic; literatūros; mažiau; mokslinę; new; pavardė; problemą; reikalavimai; roman; straipsnio; tekstas; times; turi; vardas cache: eis-1105.pdf plain text: eis-1105.txt item: #37 of 298 id: eis-12792 author: Vitkus, Gediminas title: TOWARDS STRONGER NORMATIVE POWER: THE NATURE OF SHIFT IN EU FOREIGN POLICY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CRISIS IN UKRAINE date: 2015-11-04 words: 8208 flesch: 52 summary: That is why in this article the goal is to take a more in-depth look at how and why the mentioned configuration evolved from the earlier complete dissonance of EU state policies regarding Russia. i e s 2 0 1 5 / 9 article/commentary_note_from_berlin_the_fran- co_german_alliance_is_back_for_now3004 Kobzova J.(2015), “View from Bratislava: Slovakia changes course on Russia”, ECFR Commentary, 09th March, 2015, Retrieved May 29, 2015, from http://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_slova- kia_changes_course_on_russia311312 Liedekerke, A. de (2015), “Political Cacophony in the East: Višegrad Fraying at the Seams”, Yale Journal of International Affairs, Nov 10, 2014, Re- trieved May 23, 2015, from http://yalejournal. org/article_post/political-cacophony-in-the-east- visegrad-fraying-at-the-seams/. Leonard M, Popescu N. (2007), A Power Audit of EU – Russia Relations, European Council on For- eign Relation, Retrieved May 23, 2015, from http:// ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR-02_A_POWER_AUDIT_OF_ EU-RUSSIA_RELATIONS.pdf Marušiak J. (2013), “Slovakia’s Eastern policy – from the Trojan horse of Russia to ‘Eastern mul- tivectoralism,’” International Issues & Slovak For- eign Policy Affairs, Vol. keywords: affairs; analysis; annexation; article; attention; austria; baltic; bulgaria; case; change; commentary; common; conflict; countries; country; crimea; crisis; different; e s; e u; eastern; ecfr; economic; energy; estonia; eu foreign; eu member; eu sanctions; european; external; fact; finland; foreign; foreign policy; france; germany; government; group; horse; http://; hungary; important; international; italy; leadership; main; march; member; member states; minister; n s; n t; netherlands; new; november; opinion; policies; policy; political; position; power; president; public; putin; relations; response; role; russia; s t; sanctions; security; situation; slovakia; spain; states; support; sweden; t e; t u; terms; ties; time; trojan; u r; ukraine; unified; union; view; way cache: eis-12792.pdf plain text: eis-12792.txt item: #38 of 298 id: eis-12793 author: Tiltiņš, Alekss; Šavriņa, Baiba title: ALTERNATIVE MILITARY KEYNESIANISM AS A TOOL OF CIVIL-MILITARY COOPERATION IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE EU DEFENCE POLICY date: 2015-11-04 words: 10252 flesch: 47 summary: This situation leads to the dilemma when the high level of defence expenditure can hamper the financial support of other sectors of national economy. Therefore it is necessary to increase the efficiency of available financial resources that have been allocated for the defence without a significant increase in defence expenditure. keywords: alternative military; ammunition; analysis; authors; base; benefits; civil; civil sector; clusters; concept; cooperation concept; costs; creation; defence; defence agency; defence budget; defence equipment; defence expenditure; defence industrial; defence policy; defence sector; defence technological; deficiencies; development; domestic; e u; economic; economy; effects; equipment; eu defence; european defence; european union; financial; foreign; goods; government; hypothesis; hypothetical; impact; implementation; increase; industrial; keynesianism concept; latvia; main; market; member; military; military budget; military cooperation; military expenditure; military goods; military keynesianism; military sector; mobilization; n s; n t; national; negative; order; positive; producers; production; regional; relief; research; s t; standard; state; state defence; study; support; t e; t u; tax; territory; total; union; use; war cache: eis-12793.pdf plain text: eis-12793.txt item: #39 of 298 id: eis-12794 author: Pikšrytė, Aistė; Mažylis, Liudas title: INTERGOVERNMENTAL AND DOMESTIC FACTORS IN THE NEGOTIATION PROCESS ON RENEWABLE ENERGY SUPPORT SCHEMES date: 2015-11-04 words: 12566 flesch: 44 summary: i e s 2 0 1 5 / 9 Poland also showed concerns regarding the mechanism of Guarantees of Origin, suggesting that it could only operate as an additional instrument next to national renewable energy support schemes. Therefore, the intergovernmental negotiation on the Directive’s provisions on renewable energy support scheme which should allow Member States to achieve their national targets as well as the overall EU target shall be submitted as the object of this article, while the purpose is to analyze the case of negotiating the EU-level renewable energy support scheme and to investigate the intergovernmental factors such as asymmetrical bargaining power of Member States as well as specific domestic factors’ influence for the negotiation’s results, applying liberal intergovernmen- talist approach as the theoretical framework for analysis. keywords: add; analysis; article; assumptions; bargaining; case; climate energy; commission; common; contribution; council; debate; determined; directive; domestic; e s; e u; economic; electricity; energy legislative; energy policy; energy support; energy targets; eu member; eu renewable; european; feed; general; general secretariat; germany; green; guarantees; http://www.eumonitor; ibid; institutions; integration; interests; intergovernmental; international; issues; july; legislative package; level; liberal; main; market; mechanism; member states; n s; n t; national; national interests; national renewable; national support; negotiation; negotiation process; origin; package; particular; policies; policy; policy debate; position; power; powerful; powerful member; preferences; process; promotion; proposal; provisions; renewable energy; renewables; rev; s t; secretariat; sector; sources; spain; support; support schemes; supranational; t e; t u; targets; tariff; theoretical; theory; use; wide cache: eis-12794.pdf plain text: eis-12794.txt item: #40 of 298 id: eis-12795 author: Laitinen, Ilpo; Nyholm, Inga; Stenvall, Jari; Kaivo-oja, Jari title: THE COMPLEX RELATIONAL DYNAMICS IN PUBLIC SECTOR REFORMS date: 2015-11-04 words: 4287 flesch: 53 summary: Na- tionwide local government reform aiming to create a thriving municipal structure was launched in 2011 and gained a lot attention and criticism. Thus, complexity and diversity can be identified in the discourse on local government reform. keywords: actors; address; administration; aim; analysis; attention; basis; bouckaert; business; central; change; complexity; data; different; discourse; diverse; diversity; dominant; dynamics; e s; elias; figuration; finland; games; government; implementation; instance; local; management; material; means; municipalities; n t; need; opinions; parties; policy; power; process; processes; public; question; reform; research; review; s t; sector; services; social; stacey; state; structure; t e; theory; views; vol cache: eis-12795.pdf plain text: eis-12795.txt item: #41 of 298 id: eis-12796 author: Pukis, Maris title: LOCAL GOVERNMENT NETWORKS FOR SUSTAINABLE GROWTH OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL ECONOMY date: 2015-11-04 words: 7324 flesch: 32 summary: The overarching goal of the project is to stimulate the managers, politicians and administrative personnel of local municipalities, the employees of municipal institutions and enterprises to be- come more creative, to look for new approaches to solve existing problems, to ground on the ex- perience of the colleagues and LALRG support in acquisition and analysis of the facts describing operation of the municipalities within the process of introduction of the novelties. i e s 2 0 1 5 / 9 62 Bench-learning system is established and applied successfully in Norway (KS, 2015); within this system, the municipalities receive information from the benchmarking data base and establish networks in which they select appropriate solutions for their further development on the basis of the received information and analysis of the experience of other municipalities. keywords: activities; activity; administration; analysis; applied; approach; association; base; bench; benchmarking; better; budget; business; circumstances; cooperation; data; data base; development; different; e s; e u; economic; economy; entrepreneurship; experience; goals; governance; government; groups; human; impact; implementation; indicators; information; innovative; introduction; issues; latvian; learning; local; local government; main; management; model; municipalities; municipality; n s; n t; national; networks; opportunities; people; performance; policy; politicians; practice; primary; problems; process; project; public; regional; research; resources; s t; sector; social; solutions; state; strategic; system; t e; t u; term; territories; themes; time; u r; use cache: eis-12796.pdf plain text: eis-12796.txt item: #42 of 298 id: eis-12797 author: Greblikaitė, Jolita; Barynienė, Jurgita; Paužaitė, Živilė title: TOWARDS THE INTERNATIONALISATION PROCESS OF LITHUANIAN UNIVERSITIES date: 2015-11-04 words: 8215 flesch: 43 summary: Table 3 Possible strategies to improve the effectiveness of higher education internationalisation in small states (adapted according to Urbanovic, J., Wilkins, S., 2013) Establish clear goals and strategies at both national and institutional levels Develop and implement a carefully planned change management programme Measure and evaluate performance after internationalisation strategies are implemented Allocate adequate funds for investment and improvement Engage in benchmarking with the best higher education systems and institutions globally Invest • in staff development to improve understanding of internationalisation goals and • methods • in training to improve the foreign-language competence of staff (teaching and nonteaching) • and students Establish more international partnerships and collaborative agreements Achieve economies of scale through institutional mergers Attract the best international professors and students Knight, J. (2005, 2008) and Urbanovic, J., Wilkins, S. (2013) state that internationalisation revolves around two basic components: internationalisation at home - the actions undertaken in the institution’s home context (rather curriculum-oriented) and internationalisation abroad - offshore activities. However it is noticed that the fragmentation of internationalisation process makes a negative impact on universities activities and competitiveness. keywords: academic; activities; altbach; analysis; approach; bologna; challenges; changes; components; concept; countries; curriculum; development; different; documents; e s; e u; economic; education; education internationalisation; european; example; foreign; global; globalisation; goals; guidelines; higher; higher education; home; implementation; important; institutions; intercultural; internationalisation; internationalisation process; io n; kaunas; knight; knowledge; level; lithuanian; lithuanian universities; local; main; management; maringe; market; mobility; n s; n t; new; number; paper; peculiarities; political; process; programmes; quality; rationales; regional; research; s t; scientific; small; social; staff; states; strategic; strategy; students; study; systems; t e; t u; table; teaching; tio n; trends; u r; understanding; universities; university; urbanovic; wilkins; wit; world cache: eis-12797.pdf plain text: eis-12797.txt item: #43 of 298 id: eis-12798 author: Dundure, Inara; Pukis, Maris title: CRITERIA FOR SUSTAINABILITY OF OLD-AGE PENSION SYSTEM BASED ON THE NDC PRINCIPLES date: 2015-11-05 words: 17382 flesch: 51 summary: What level of pension contribution is needed to obtain an adequate retirement income? Define the primary objectives of pension systems and perform analysis of pension adequacy; _ keywords: age pension; authors; average; calculated pension; case; certain pensioner; certain year; consecutive year; contribution pension; contributions; contributor; decrease; earlier; economic; financial; following; forecasted; formula; general; income; index; index k; indexing; individual; insurance; ith pensioner; k k; k p; k s; k year; k+1th year; kth year; latvia; level; life; model; ndc; ndc pension; notations; number; old; particular pension; particular year; payer; payment; pension; pension adequacy; pension benefits; pension capital; pension changes; pension income; pension scheme; pension size; pension system; pensioner; pid; political; purpose; rate; relative; retirement; retirement year; sik; size; social; social tax; solidarity; stability; sum; sustainability; tax; taxable; time; universal; universal pension; value; wage; working; year cache: eis-12798.pdf plain text: eis-12798.txt item: #44 of 298 id: eis-12799 author: Jekabsone, Inga; Sloka, Biruta title: SUSTAINABLE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT FROM PERSPECTIVE OF CITIZENS: SALASPILS MUNICIPALITY (LATVIA) CASE date: 2015-11-05 words: 8077 flesch: 46 summary: Figure 1 shows that besides the three typ- ical elements – space, markets and re- Figure 1 The Star of Community Development (Moldovan et al., 2013) Sustainable local development is holistic in encouraging broader notions of inclusion, health, well-being and quality of life (Haughton and Counsell, 2004; Morgan, 2007) and incorporating understandings of the relations between the economic, social, ecological, political and cultural dimensions of development. For this reason recently the qualitative approach for measuring local sustainable development has been used. keywords: access; activities; addition; analysis; approach; areas; assessment; average; balance; cities; citizens; commission; culture; data; decision; development; development indicators; different; dimension; documents; e s; e u; ecological; economic; economic development; elaboration; engagement; environment; european; evaluation; good; groups; high; http://dx.doi; income; indicators; inhabitants; latvia; level; life; living; local; local development; long; main; making; management; march; methodology; municipalities; municipality; n s; n t; opportunity; order; planning; policy; practice; principles; process; project; public; qualitative; quality; regional; research; resources; responsibility; responsible; results; role; s t; salaspils; situation; social; society; spatial; spiral; state; strategy; studies; subjective; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; sustainable local; t e; t u; term; territory; urbact; urban; use; waste; way; work cache: eis-12799.pdf plain text: eis-12799.txt item: #45 of 298 id: eis-12800 author: Žitkus, Leonas title: NEW APPROACH TO REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS AS INSTRUMENT OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT date: 2015-11-05 words: 9884 flesch: 40 summary: The conclusion is that the paradigm of regional development focused on regional cohesion should be changed into the paradigm of developing regional competitiveness. To prove it, they performed the analysis of the relationship between the concepts of regional competitiveness and regional development and distinguished as many as seven versions of this relationship: _ competitiveness as a symptom of development, _ competitiveness as the index of development, _ competitivenessas a condition for development, keywords: ability; abstract; aim; approach; area; authors; better; business; capital; character; classical; cohesion; competition; competitiveness concept; concept; conception; conditions; countries; country; data; definitions; differences; disparities; e s; e u; economic; economic development; economy; factors; features; figure; gdp; growth; idea; information; kaunas; labor; landmarks; level; lithuania; main; market; n s; n t; new; number; objective; operational; paper; paradigm; people; phenomenon; planning; practical; process; regard; regional cohesion; regional competitiveness; regional development; regional policy; regions; research; results; s t; scientific; social; source; statistics; strategic; strategy; system; t e; table; territorial; theoretical; theories; theory; use; vilnius; works; world cache: eis-12800.pdf plain text: eis-12800.txt item: #46 of 298 id: eis-12801 author: Gostomski, Eugeniusz; Michałowski, Tomasz title: NEGOTIATIONS ON THE TRANSATLANTIC FREE TRADE AREA. EFFECTS OF THE PROPOSED AGREEMENT ON THE ECONOMIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA date: 2015-11-05 words: 9385 flesch: 65 summary: In 2013, the United States represented 14,2% of extra-EU trade while the share of the European Union in total US trade was at 16,9% (Table 4). In 2013, the United States represented 14,2% of extra-EU trade while the share of the European Union in total US trade was at 16,9% (Table 4). keywords: agreement; american; area; authors; barriers; basis; bric; canada; china; commission; countries; duties; e s; economic; economies; economy; eu exports; eu fdi; eu gdp; eu investment; eu merchandise; eu trade; european; european commission; european union; eurostat; exports; extra; fdi; february; flows; foreign; free trade; gdp; global; goods; growth; higher; important; imports; international; international trade; investment; issues; japan; main; merchandise; merchandise trade; mexico; n t; negotiations; partner; political; products; protection; relations; rest; result; role; russia; services; share; source; standards; states; switzerland; t e; table; tariff; terms; time; total; total eu; trade; trading; transatlantic; ttip; united; united states; world cache: eis-12801.pdf plain text: eis-12801.txt item: #47 of 298 id: eis-12802 author: Grottel, Monika title: THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE AS A DETERMINANT OF THE BUSINESS STRATEGY OF THE POLISH CUSTOMS SERVICE date: 2015-11-05 words: 9711 flesch: 45 summary: KEYWORDS: international trade, safety of the international trade, customs administration, strategy. From typical fiscal administration, it has evolved and focuses mainly on protecting the market and ensuring the safety and security of international trade. keywords: activities; activity; administration; aeo; aim; analysis; attacks; basis; benefits; border; business; case; celnej; chain; commission; companies; conditions; contemporary; control; cooperation; costs; council; countries; crime; criminal; customer; customs; customs administrations; customs service; development; documents; e s; e u; economic; electronic; entrepreneurs; environment; european; example; facilitation; february; financial; finansów; flow; framework; function; global; global trade; goods; goods trade; health; human; illegal; implementation; important; increase; individual; initiatives; innovative; internal; international; international trade; law; main; management; market; member; n s; n t; natural; new; objectives; operators; organization; paper; perspective; polish; polish customs; procedures; processes; programme; protection; risk; s t; safety; secure; security; service; social; special; standards; states; strategic; strategy; supply; system; t e; t u; tasks; terrorism; threats; time; tools; trade; trade operators; transport; u r; union; value; wco; world cache: eis-12802.pdf plain text: eis-12802.txt item: #48 of 298 id: eis-12803 author: Ruszel, Mariusz title: Types of Barriers to the Integration of the EU Gas Market date: 2015-11-05 words: 4172 flesch: 56 summary: For this reason, the process of integration of EU gas market is a big challenge for Europe. The study is concentrated on gas market. keywords: analysis; barriers; capacity; codes; common; contracts; countries; energy; energy market; eu countries; eu gas; european; gas; gas infrastructure; gas market; important; infrastructure; integration; interconnectors; interests; internal; lng; long; main; market; market integration; member; model; national; natural; natural gas; network; pipelines; policy; political; process; reason; regulation; role; ruszel; security; states; supply; terminals; types; union cache: eis-12803.pdf plain text: eis-12803.txt item: #49 of 298 id: eis-12804 author: Ludera-Ruszel, Agata title: FREE MOVEMENT OF WORKERS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF CREATION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET date: 2015-11-05 words: 6299 flesch: 58 summary: The principle of free movement of workers, as a part of free movement of persons, facilitates the mobility of workers within the EU, as any citizen of EU member states is allowed to go to another member state for work, having the same workplace rights as the nationals. These factors were the result of prejudices and discrimination against migrant workers on the basis of their nationality, considered to be one of the main obstacles to the development of free movement of workers. keywords: accession; beginning; case; citizenship; coal; commission; common; common market; community; countries; creation; crisis; development; discrimination; e s; ecj; economic; ecr; ecsc; european; european integration; free movement; freedom; fundamental; idea; integration; international; issue; labour; labour market; law; legal; market; member; member states; migrant; migrant workers; migration; mobility; n t; national; new; old; perception; period; persons; policy; principle; process; public; publishing; realisation; result; rights; social; states; steel; studies; t e; threat; time; transitional; treaty; union; workers; years cache: eis-12804.pdf plain text: eis-12804.txt item: #50 of 298 id: eis-12805 author: Starineca, Olga; Voronchuk, Inesa title: SUPPLY, DEMAND, FORECAST OF LATVIAN LABOUR MARKET AND TOOLS FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT date: 2015-11-05 words: 7335 flesch: 57 summary: 5, LV-1050, Riga, Latvia Many factors influence situation on Latvian labour market. Many factors influence situation on Latvian labour market. keywords: activities; age; areas; authors; biggest; career; centrālā; certain; construction; data; demand; development; e s; e u; economic; economy; education; employees; employment; entrepreneurs; european; field; forecasts; group; help; high; higher; information; inhabitants; institutions; job; jobs; labour; labour market; lack; latvian; latvian labour; latvijas; learning; level; lifelong; low; march; market; n s; n t; new; number; occupations; people; period; population; programs; public; republikas; risks; s t; sea; sector; seekers; services; situation; skills; social; specialists; students; study; supply; t e; t u; tertiary; tools; u r; unemployed; workers; workforce; years; young; youth cache: eis-12805.pdf plain text: eis-12805.txt item: #51 of 298 id: eis-12806 author: Sobol, Iwona title: ISLAMIC BANKING IN THE EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES date: 2015-11-05 words: 9148 flesch: 60 summary: With the share of around 80% in total assets of Islamic financial institutions, Islamic banks play a dominant role in the Islamic financial industry. The analysis should give an answer to the question whether Islamic banks can have more significant presence in the European financial market in the future, than they have today. keywords: accounts; article; assets; banking; banking services; banks; board; british; case; challenges; clients; contract; conventional; countries; crisis; current; customers; deposit; development; e s; e u; east; ethical; european; european islamic; finance; financial; financing; france; future; germany; gharar; global; high; industry; institutions; instruments; interest; international; investment; islamic; islamic banking; islamic financial; kingdom; lack; law; liquidity; london; losses; main; management; market; middle; money; mudaraba; muslim; n s; n t; need; number; operations; presence; principles; problems; products; prohibition; religious; retail; riba; risk; s t; scholars; services; share; sharia; system; t e; t u; trade; transaction; u r; union; united; university; venture; way; world cache: eis-12806.pdf plain text: eis-12806.txt item: #52 of 298 id: eis-12807 author: Mlodkowski, Pawel title: COINTEGRATION OF MONETARY POLICY IN GCC COUNTRIES AS MEASURE OF ECONOMIC INTEGRATION date: 2015-11-05 words: 5068 flesch: 61 summary: The efficiency of monetary policy in achieving its goals requires knowledge of variables influenc- ing private agents’ reaction to changes in monetary policy stance they perceive. There may be many country-specific factors, but persistence of asymmetry in monetary policy in this particular case allows for skeptical thoughts. keywords: approach; author; bank; bernanke; common; correlation; countries; country; credit; currency; demand; developments; e s; economic; economy; empirical; exchange; figure; financial; gcc; gcc countries; gdp; gertler; gulf; integration; international; journal; market; members; mlodkowski; monetary; monetary policy; money; mpsi; n s; n t; new; nominal; non; oca; oil; period; policy; policy stance; rate; region; review; s t; sector; shocks; similarity; situation; stance; studies; study; t e; t u; time; trade; union; variables; velocity; world cache: eis-12807.pdf plain text: eis-12807.txt item: #53 of 298 id: eis-12808 author: Kirch, Aksel; Tuisk, Tarmo title: COMPLEX PATTERNS IN CONSTRUCTION OF ENTREPRENEURIAL IDENTITY AMONG YOUTH IN ESTONIA date: 2015-11-05 words: 9518 flesch: 53 summary: 208-223 DOI 10.5755/j01.eis.0.9.12808 © Kaunas University of Technology Complex Patterns in Construction of Entrepreneurial Identity Among Youth in Estonia EIS 9/2015 Abstract Complex Patterns in Construction of Entrepreneurial Identity Among Youth in Estonia http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.9.12808 Aksel Kirch, Tarmo Tuisk Tallinn University of Technology, Akadeemia tee 3, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia Introduction The goal of the study was to assess entrepreneurial identity focusing on the beliefs and values such as individualism, risk-taking, innovativeness, opportunity recognition and tolerance. Entrepreneurial identity; identification patterns; values and beliefs; Identity Structure Analysis; Estonia. keywords: .52; .72; .73; analysis; aspiration; business; conflicted; constructs; core; cultural; current; development; different; dimensions; e s; e u; education; empathetic; endorsed; entities; entrepreneurial; entrepreneurial identity; entrepreneurship; estonia; estonians; ethno; evaluation; family; father; government; group; groupings; hand; high; highest; identification; identity; innovation; innovativeness; instrument; isa; journal; macnabb; management; n s; n t; negative; new; opportunity; parents; participants; peers; people; person; polarity; pole; processes; research; results; risk; role; russians; s t; scale; self; significant; society; socio; structure; students; studies; study; successful; sõõrumaa; t e; t u; table; taking; tallinn; time; tolerance; tuisk; u r; university; urmas; values; weinreich cache: eis-12808.pdf plain text: eis-12808.txt item: #54 of 298 id: eis-12809 author: Kantane, Inara; Sloka, Biruta; Buligina, Ilze; Tora, Ginta; Busevica, Regina; Buligina, Alise; Dzelme, Juris; Tora, Peteris title: EXPECTATIONS BY EMPLOYERS ON SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF EMPLOYEES date: 2015-11-05 words: 7418 flesch: 39 summary: The empirical research showed that professional skills, knowledge, caring for the agenda and organization of work, purposefulness, cooperation, ability to plan and control, honesty are significant part of employers needs for qualified employees. The empirical research showed that professional skills, knowledge, caring for the agenda and organization of work, purposefulness, cooperation, ability to plan and control, honesty are sig- nificant part of employers needs for qualified employees. keywords: ability; actions; addition; agenda; analysis; appropriate; arithmetic; attitudes; burdens; company; complex; control; development; different; education; employers; evaluation; factor; following; general; general knowledge; good; high; honesty; indicators; industry; initial; initiative; job; june; knowledge; language; language skills; latvia; learning; main; mean; median; mode; motivation; new; new employees; october; operation; organization; plan; professional knowledge; progress; purposefulness; qualification; research; results; scale; significant; skills; social; statistical; study; survey; table; test; university; work cache: eis-12809.pdf plain text: eis-12809.txt item: #55 of 298 id: eis-12810 author: Baryniene, Jurgita; Dauknyte, Berta title: CREATIVITY AS THE MAIN FACTOR FOR ORGANIZATIONS‘ SUCCESS: THEORETICAL APPROACH date: 2015-11-05 words: 7021 flesch: 50 summary: The scientific research shows the complexity and mul- tidimensity of creativity concept (Runco, M., 2014). The explanation of creativity concept was changing constantly. keywords: ability; activity; amabile; analysis; business; century; climate; concept; conception; creation; creative; creativity; creativity concept; development; different; economic; education; ekvall; elements; employees; encouragement; environment; evolution; factors; features; field; figure; group; human; ideas; important; individual; innovations; knowledge; leader; level; main; model; motivation; new; objectives; office; order; organizations; people; person; problems; research; scientific; scientists; structure; support; thinking; time; university; work cache: eis-12810.pdf plain text: eis-12810.txt item: #56 of 298 id: eis-12811 author: Cekuls, Andrejs title: LEADERSHIP VALUES IN TRANSFORMATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE TO IMPLEMENT COMPETITIVE INTELLIGENCE MANAGEMENT: THE TRUST BUILDING THROUGH ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE date: 2015-11-05 words: 8639 flesch: 42 summary: These steps are described by Cameron (2004), based on the work of several authors who have described successful change interventions aimed at organizational culture change (e.g., Hooijberg & Petrock, 1993; Denison, 1989; Trice &Beyer, 1993; Cameron & Quinn, 1999; Kotter, 1995). These steps initiate change in individual and organizational processes, conversations, language, symbols, and values, none of which by itself ensures that culture change will occur, but in combination they create a great deal of momentum toward fundamental culture change in organizations (Cameron, 2004). keywords: analysis; aspects; behavior; building; business; cameron; case; cekuls; changes; common; communication; companies; company; competitive; competitive intelligence; cultural; culture; culture change; current; development; difficult; e s; e u; employees; fairholm; fedor; framework; general; herold; http://dx.doi; implementation; important; individual; information; intelligence; intelligence management; journal; knowledge; latvia; leadership; levels; main; management; marketing; members; n s; n t; negative; new; order; organizational; organizational culture; people; performance; personal; process; processes; relationship; research; respondents; results; role; s t; schein; sharing; situation; social; stage; structure; study; successful; system; t e; t u; time; transformation; trust; understanding; values; view; way; work cache: eis-12811.pdf plain text: eis-12811.txt item: #57 of 298 id: eis-12812 author: Zvirgzdiņa, Rosita; Liniņa, Iveta; Vēvere, Velga title: EFFICIENT CONSUMER RESPONSE (ECR) PRINCIPLES AND THEIR APPLICATION IN RETAIL TRADE ENTERPRISES IN LATVIA date: 2015-11-05 words: 3947 flesch: 55 summary: ECR, retail trade, assortment, consumers’ needs, product category management. In the contemporary age of information consumer can easily obtain the information about the best offer, therefore retail trade enterprises should find possibilities to be leaders in the struggle for the client and to form long-term relationship with him. keywords: assortment; benefits; business; category management; consumer; cooperation; data; documents; e s; e u; ecr; efficient; enterprises; figure; following; formation; implementation; introduction; lack; latvia; latvia e; management; n s; n t; necessary; needs; new; order; possible; principles; processes; product; product category; research; response; results; retail; retail trade; s t; satisfaction; sector; supply; survey; t e; t u; trade; trade enterprises; traders; turnover; understanding; university cache: eis-12812.pdf plain text: eis-12812.txt item: #58 of 298 id: eis-13584 author: Daugėlienė, Rasa; Kriščiūnas, Kęstutis title: Editorial date: 2015-11-05 words: 275 flesch: 39 summary: At the present the annual scientific journal European Integration Studies: Research and Topicalities (ISSN 1822-8402) is published once a year (in September). These are Social Evolution of Europe, Economics of European Union as well as Managerial Aspects of European Integration. keywords: ebsco; economics; european; integration; journal; research; scientific cache: eis-13584.pdf plain text: eis-13584.txt item: #59 of 298 id: eis-13585 author: Degutienė, Sigita title: Notes for contributors date: 2015-11-05 words: 574 flesch: 66 summary: Journal article: Broner, F., Didier, T., Erce, A., & Schmukler, S. L. (2013). The structure of the article should correspond to the general requirements of research papers. keywords: article; author; book; general; illustrations; journal; papers; references; requirements; research; tables; text cache: eis-13585.pdf plain text: eis-13585.txt item: #60 of 298 id: eis-14445 author: Dubra, Elena title: SOCIAL DIMENSION AND INEQUALITY PROBLEMS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION date: 2016-09-23 words: 6494 flesch: 55 summary: It requires not only a change structure of national social models, but also a discussion on the strategic choice of countries social policy. 16–28 DOI 10.5755/j01.eis.0.10.14445 © Kaunas University of Technology Abstract The purpose of this paper is to introduce evaluation of social development convergence between EU–28 mem­ ber states in the context of the EU cohesion policy. keywords: analysis; annual; area; capita; catching; climate; cohesion; commission; convergence; countries; country; current; data; development; differences; different; disparities; e s; e u; economic; economic growth; economy; education; estonia; eu states; european; eu–28; exclusion; factors; forecasts; france; future; gdp; growth; ifo; income; increase; inequality; italy; labour; latvia; level; lithuania; living; long; main; member; member states; n s; n t; national; new; percent; policy; portugal; poverty; problems; process; progress; rate; real; results; s t; situation; social; social development; social policy; social situation; socio; spain; specific; standards; states; strategies; strategy; t e; t u; table; term; u r; unemployment; world; years cache: eis-14445.pdf plain text: eis-14445.txt item: #61 of 298 id: eis-14490 author: Gurvits, Natalja; Habakuk, Triinu title: ENIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT IN EUROPEAN UNION: SURVEY OF ISO 14001 CERTIFIED ESTONIAN COMPANIES date: 2016-09-23 words: 4092 flesch: 51 summary: More and more organizations both in Estonia and worldwide are initiating the ISO14001 certification process, which specifies requirements for environmental management systems, in order to develop and implement envi­ ronmental policy and objectives. ISO 14001 is also the world’s most recognized framework for environmental management systems (ISO Standards, 2016) and is “the world’s most successful EMS standard“ (Baumbach et al.,2013).Table 1 represents statistics of ISO 14001 certified com­ panies. keywords: area; authors; benefits; benito; business; certificate; certification; certified; companies; company; desire; development; doi; e s; e u; environmental; estonia; european; expenses; future; gonzález; impact; implementation; iso; laws; main; management; n s; n t; opinion; order; performance; present; process; reputation; research; s t; stakeholders; standards; studies; survey; sustainable; systems; t e; t u; table; tallinn; tools; union cache: eis-14490.pdf plain text: eis-14490.txt item: #62 of 298 id: eis-14534 author: Petkutė, Rūta title: THE EUROPEAN CONCEPTION OF THE UNIVERSITY KNOWLEDGE WITHIN THE BOLOGNA-INITIATED COMPETENCE-BASED CURRICULUM MODERNISATION: REPERCUSSIONS AT THE NATIONAL POLICY LEVEL IN ESTONIA AND LITHUANIA date: 2016-09-23 words: 6387 flesch: 43 summary: It has been argued that “higher education curricula are often slow to respond to changing needs in the wider economy, and fail to anticipate or help shape the careers of tomorrow” (European Commission on Quality and Relevance, n.d.a.). The input–based curriculum has been claimed to be a reason for higher education curriculum to fall short in providing the graduates with the right skills to enhance their employability and not being relevant to the realities of the the world of work (European Commission, 2012). keywords: analysis; assumptions; bologna; change; commission; competence; context; countries; current; curriculum; curriculum knowledge; curriculum modernisation; development; documents; e s; e u; economic; economy; education; education curriculum; education policy; estonia; estonian higher; european; european commission; european higher; european policy; framework; higher education; implementation; knowledge; knowledge economy; labour; learning; level; lithuania; market; ministry; n s; n t; national; national higher; national policy; nature; new; policies; policy; policy documents; present; purpose; qualifications; rationale; reforms; relevance; republic; research; re­; s t; skills; society; strategic; strategy; study; t e; t u; traditional; universities; university; university curriculum; university education; university knowledge; way; world cache: eis-14534.pdf plain text: eis-14534.txt item: #63 of 298 id: eis-14570 author: Sloka, Biruta; Kantāne, Ināra; Jermolajeva, Elita; Avotins, Valdis title: ANALYSIS OF BARRIERS FOR BUSINESS START date: 2016-09-23 words: 5004 flesch: 46 summary: The tasks of the current research: analysis of theoretical findings in scientific publi­ cations; analysis of new business starters views on barriers for business start; to perform statistical analysis of new business starters evaluations on business barriers. i e s 2 0 1 6 / 1 0 Table 2 Distribution of average values of evaluations on new business starters of business barriers by ages groups Business barriers Ages groups 20–29 (n=60) 30–39 (n=56) 40–49 (n=41) 50–59 (n=33) >=60 (n=15) keywords: analysis; aspects; availability; barriers; business; business barriers; business start; capital; competition; complex; confusing; countries; development; different; e s; e u; economy; employees; enterprise; entrepreneurship; environment; evaluations; experience; factor; financial; groups; important; indicators; journal; lack; latvia; management; marketing; median; mode; n s; n t; new; new business; research; researchers; results; s t; scale; skills; start; starters; statistical; survey; system; t e; t u; table; tax; term; training; university; unreliable; unsafe; weak cache: eis-14570.pdf plain text: eis-14570.txt item: #64 of 298 id: eis-14579 author: Dangerfield, Martin Victor title: DILEMMAS OF POST-ENLARGEMENT EUROPE: BUILDING AN ‘INSECURITY COMMUNITY’? date: 2016-09-23 words: 4573 flesch: 55 summary: EU–Russia relations; Ukrainian crisis; Eastern Partnership; EU enlargement; EU trade with Russia. As well as extending existing discussions about the expansion of the European Security Com­ munity and the application of the ‘Optimum Integration Area’ concept to the EaP countries, the article includes a focus on EU states’ economic relations with Russia which is a critical albeit underexplored constraint upon EU ‘eastern’ policy. keywords: accession; agreement; article; building; cee; communist; community; conflict; cooperation; countries; czech; dangerfield; deep; democracy; e s; e u; eap; eastern; economic; enlargement; enlargement europe; enp; eu enlargement; european; european integration; european security; expansion; exports; free; group; hungary; important; integration; key; market; membership; n s; n t; nato; neighbourhood; neighbours; new; perspective; policy; post; process; processes; reform; region; relations; russia; s t; security; security community; soviet; spread; states; t e; t u; trade; u r; ukraine; war; western; zone cache: eis-14579.pdf plain text: eis-14579.txt item: #65 of 298 id: eis-14605 author: Radionova, Elina; Praude, Valerijs title: THE OPPORTUNITIES OF RELATIONSHIP MARKETING: ASPECT OF THE EU DIGITAL MARKET date: 2016-09-23 words: 4526 flesch: 55 summary: The effect of website features in online relationship marketing: A case of online hotel booking. By using relationship marketing companies in the EU especially in the Baltic States and Latvia will improve the long–term relationship with customers in order to create and increase loyalty level and improve situations in local online stores. keywords: analysis; authors; best; communication; companies; company; components; consumer; crm; customer; delivery; different; digital; e s; e u; experts; factors; figure; important; increase; information; internet; journal; latvia; level; long; loyalty; marketing; model; n s; n t; necessary; online; opportunities; order; pages; possible; product; quality; reaction; relationship; relationship marketing; research; results; s t; satisfaction; services; stores; systems; t e; t u; term; time; trading; traditional; trust; use; work cache: eis-14605.pdf plain text: eis-14605.txt item: #66 of 298 id: eis-14614 author: Sunina, Linda; Azena, Ligita; Rivza, Baiba title: IMPACT OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT ON ENTERPRISE ENVIRONMENT date: 2016-09-23 words: 3896 flesch: 44 summary: Comparing city impact areal after their average demographic and socio–economic indicators, it can be seen they are characterized by conformity to average indicators of Latvia; Rezekne, Valmiera and Jekabpils are similar after number of residents, but Daugavpils, Jekabpils and Valmiera, in their turn, are similar after unemployment rate and density rate. Valmiera has preserved production functions and, unlike Jekabpils, has supplemented its service with possibilities of receiving higher education that establishes potential of city impact areal devel­ opment. keywords: activities; areal; authors; choice; cities; city; companies; company; consideration; county; daugavpils; development; e s; economic; enterprise; environment; impact; income; indicators; jekabpils; latvia; level; location; location place; marketing; mobility; n s; n t; national; number; optimal; orientation; particular; place; production; rate; regional; research; residents; rezekne; s t; significance; similar; space; structure; t e; t u; table; territories; territory; theories; theory; unemployment; university; valmiera cache: eis-14614.pdf plain text: eis-14614.txt item: #67 of 298 id: eis-14624 author: Aleksejeva, Inese title: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF LATVIAN CONSUMER’S ATTITUDES AND PERCEPTIONS TOWARDS GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS date: 2016-09-23 words: 6336 flesch: 53 summary: Latvian consumers’ attitude towards genetic modification and GMO have been characterized as negative using Eurobarometer data, but so far no specific investigation of Latvian consumers has been done in this field. al., 2006) but so far no specific investigation of Latvian consumers has been done in this field. keywords: acceptance; analysis; animal; arithmetic; attitudes; author; benefits; biotechnology; consumers; countries; data; decision; different; e m; e s; e u; environment; ethical; european; evaluation; feed; food; genes; genetic; genetic modification; gm food; gmo; health; human; indicators; knowledge; latvian; latvian consumers; main; mean; modification; modified; moral; n m; n r; n s; n t; new; perception; plants; products; questions; research; respondents; results; risk; s t; safe; scale; source; statistical; study; subjective; support; survey; t e; t u; table; trust; u d; u r; use; values; willingness; world cache: eis-14624.pdf plain text: eis-14624.txt item: #68 of 298 id: eis-14633 author: Keinis, Virginijs title: FREE MOVEMENT OF PERSONS AS THE CAUSE FOR PROBLEMS TO PREVENT THREATS TO NATIONAL SECURITY date: 2016-09-23 words: 5121 flesch: 46 summary: The principles of free movement and human rights, principles that have been at the heart of European integration and self–identity, are severely strained as some Member States put up razor fences, introduce temporary border checks in free movement zones, dissuade refugees from coming, or in other ways deny access to the EU. Experts are defining threats that arise specifically from this phenomena – free movement of persons. keywords: agreement; appropriate; area; aspects; author; border; citizens; classical; code; common; core; council; countries; crisis; current; e s; e u; european; example; experts; field; flows; free; free movement; hostile; immigration; institutions; instruments; intelligence; legal; main; member; method; modern; movement; n s; n t; national; national security; new; parliament; persons; policy; problems; refugee; regulation; research; right; s t; schengen; security; service; situation; states; studies; t e; t u; term; threats; u r; union; values cache: eis-14633.pdf plain text: eis-14633.txt item: #69 of 298 id: eis-14637 author: Feng, Haidong; Viksne, Kaspars title: EXPLORING THE OBSTACLES OF LATVIAN FOOD COMPANIES EXPORT TO CHINA date: 2016-09-23 words: 6135 flesch: 56 summary: Based on the research of Latvian food company export, the authors analyze the marketing strategy of China food market. First, the authors analyze the over­ view of China’s food market identifying market scale of China, market growth drivers in China, and forecasts of Chinese food market. keywords: agents; authors; average; baltic; barriers; beverage; certification; china; chinese; cities; companies; consumer; consumption; costs; countries; country; dairy; distribution; dnp; e s; e u; easy; economics; economy; entry; eur; european; example; export; f&b; figure; food; food market; food products; foreign; free; goods; growth; high; import; important; information; infrastructure; inspection; international; label; largest; latvia; latvian food; local; logistics; management; march; market; marketing; milk; ministry; n s; n t; need; new; obstacles; organic; process; producers; production; products; quality; regulations; requirements; research; s t; safety; second; smes; standards; step; t e; t u; time; trade; trading; u r; university; work; world; years cache: eis-14637.pdf plain text: eis-14637.txt item: #70 of 298 id: eis-14988 author: Pužulis, Armands; Kūle, Laila title: SHRINKING OF RURAL TERRITORIES IN LATVIA date: 2016-09-23 words: 9329 flesch: 46 summary: Population numbers published by the State Population Register for shrinking municipalities are larger than the numbers of population identified by the Central Statistical Bureau and consider­ ably larger than calculated at local level by local municipal offices. Whatever ‘local census’ can be used to collect a correct information on shrinking municipalities? keywords: actual; additional; administrative; agglomeration; aid; approach; areas; article; authors; better; capital; case; central; centre; change; cities; city; communities; concept; context; countryside; csp; current; data; decline; demographic; development; different; divisions; documents; e s; e u; e.g.; economic; european; fernandez; figure; financial; formal; future; general; governance; government; growth; housing; human; income; increase; infrastructure; inhabitants; international; interviews; jobs; knowledge; land; larger; latvia; level; local; local municipalities; localities; long; martinez; measures; municipalities; n s; n t; national; need; new; numbers; official; outcomes; pallagst; pattern; periphery; phenomenon; place; planning; policies; policy; population; processes; public; quality; real; regional; regions; relation; research; resident; result; riga; rural; rural areas; s t; scale; services; shrinkage; shrinking; situation; small; smart; social; spatial; state; statistical; strategies; studies; study; suburban; t e; t u; tax; term; territories; times; towns; u r; urban; use; wiechmann cache: eis-14988.pdf plain text: eis-14988.txt item: #71 of 298 id: eis-16104 author: Islam, Aminul title: Refugee Quota: Is Estonia Ready to Receive Refugees? A Review of the Literature on Migration and Ethnic Minorities in Estonia date: 2016-09-23 words: 4990 flesch: 50 summary: i e s 2 0 1 6 / 1 0 Refugee Quota: Is Estonia Ready to Receive Refugees? A Review of the Literature on Migration and Ethnic Minorities in Estonia http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.10.16104 Aminul Islam Institute of International and Social Studies, Tallinn University Narva MNT 25, 10120, Tallinn, Estonia Submitted 03/2016 Accepted for publication 09/2016 Refugee Quota: Is Estonia Ready to Receive Refugees? keywords: anniste; asylum; background; citizenship; countries; diaspora; different; doi; e s; estonia; estonians; ethnic; ethnic minorities; europe; generation; haukanomm; higher; immigrants; integration; kulu; literature; major; migration; minorities; n s; n t; non; number; people; percent; period; perspective; place; policy; population; quota; recent; refugees; research; return; russian; s t; second; seekers; share; significant; social; society; soviet; studies; study; t e; t u; tammaru; time; total; union; war; wave; world cache: eis-16104.pdf plain text: eis-16104.txt item: #72 of 298 id: eis-16191 author: Michelberger, Knut J. title: RISK AVERSION IN THE BOARD ROOM. AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH ON CORPORATE GOVERNANCE OF GERMAN STOCK-LISTED COMPANIES date: 2016-09-23 words: 5931 flesch: 52 summary: A broader study of the author of this paper examines a sample of German stock–listed companies whereas Germany can be seen as one of the most highly regulated countries concerning corporate governance. Today, corporate governance defines the regulatory framework for management and supervision of companies. keywords: analysis; annual; author; bivariate; board; bottom–30; business; characteristics; code; committees; companies; company; corporate; corporate governance; d&o; data; dcgk; deductible; differences; e s; economics; effect; empirical; exceptions; executive; financial; firm; firm performance; german; german corporate; good; governance; government; gover­; group; growth; impact; insurance; interests; international; journal; law; management; members; n s; n t; number; performance; period; positive; research; results; return; revenue; risk; s t; sample; shareholder; single; stock; structure; studies; supervisory; supervisory board; t e; t u; term; test; theory; top–30; total; transparency; tsr; variables; year cache: eis-16191.pdf plain text: eis-16191.txt item: #73 of 298 id: eis-16281 author: Greblikaite, Jolita; SROKA, Włodzimierz; DAUGĖLIENĖ, Rasa; KUROWSKA-PYSZ, Joanna title: Cultural integration and cross-cultural management challenges in the Central European Countries: Lithuania and Poland date: 2016-09-23 words: 7720 flesch: 47 summary: The research presents actuality of cultural integration and cross–cultural management in terms of society and business in Poland and Lithuania integrating different cultural groups and ethnic minorities in labour mar­ ket of both countries. Cross–cultural management takes into consideration cultural context. keywords: actions; activity; analysis; appropriate; attitude; awareness; business; central; challenges; changes; citizens; common; companies; company; conditions; corporation; countries; countries citizens; country; cross; cultural; cultural integration; cultural management; culture; development; differences; different; discussion; dąbrowa; e s; e u; economic; education; effective; environment; european; example; experience; field; foreign; foreigners; global; grandys; group; górnicza; hand; human; identity; important; improvement; influence; innovation; integration; intercultural; international; issues; journal; kaunas; knowledge; labour; lack; legal; level; lietuvoje; life; lithuania; lrs; main; management; market; migration; minorities; multiculturalism; n s; n t; national; new; old; particular; people; poland; policy; polish; political; problems; process; project; research; rights; s t; situation; skills; social; society; stage; strategy; t e; t u; table; tautinių; teisių; terms; training; u d; u r; university; variety; vol; work; world; years; žmogaus cache: eis-16281.pdf plain text: eis-16281.txt item: #74 of 298 id: eis-16282 author: Sloka, Biruta; Kantāne, Ināra; Vidruska, Renāte title: ROLE OF INTERNET MARKETING FOR EXPORTING AND NOT EXPORTING COMPANIES (RESULTS OF RECENT COMPANY SURVEY IN LATVIA) date: 2016-09-23 words: 3941 flesch: 38 summary: Internet marketing has bigger and bigger role as the information technologies development pushes to open new challenges and new options for mere efficient marketing applications, in­ cluding development of internet marketing. 44–51 DOI 10.5755/j01.eis.0.10.16282 © Kaunas University of Technology Abstract Introduction The aim of current paper is to analyse the role of internet marketing for exporting and non–exporting companies. keywords: analysis; arithmetic; aspects; authors; business; channel; commission; companies; company; countries; data; development; deviation; different; digital; efficiency; enterprises; european; evaluations; exporting; higher; impact; indicators; information; internet; internet marketing; journal; latvia; marketing; mean; median; mode; n t; non; performance; product; research; results; role; sales; services; significant; smes; standard; statistical; survey; t e; table; trade; university; usage; use cache: eis-16282.pdf plain text: eis-16282.txt item: #75 of 298 id: eis-17175 author: Daugėlienė, Rasa; Kriščiūnas, Kęstutis title: Editorial date: 2016-11-30 words: 318 flesch: 38 summary: At the present the annual scientific journal European Integration Studies: Research and Topicalities (ISSN 1822–8402) is published once a year (in September). These are Social Evolution of Europe, Economics of European Union as well as Managerial Aspects of European Integration. keywords: articles; economics; european; integration; journal; problems; processes; research; scientific cache: eis-17175.pdf plain text: eis-17175.txt item: #76 of 298 id: eis-17176 author: Blaudziunas, Robertas title: Notes for Contributors date: 2016-11-30 words: 540 flesch: 62 summary: Journal article: Broner, F., Didier, T., Erce, A., & Schmukler, S. L. (2013). The structure of the article should correspond to the general requirements of research papers. keywords: article; author; book; charts; general; illustrations; journal; papers; references; requirements; research; tables; text cache: eis-17176.pdf plain text: eis-17176.txt item: #77 of 298 id: eis-17982 author: Kivi, Krislin; Gurvitsh, Natalja title: ECO-MANAGEMENT AND AUDIT SCHEME (EMAS) IMPLEMENTATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: SURVEY OF ESTONIAN CERTIFIED ORGANISATIONS date: 2017-09-07 words: 4942 flesch: 44 summary: However, the number of EMAS registered companies in Estonia remains low, therefore the authors considered it useful to reveal the main reasons of this phenomenon and determine the main obstacles and benefits of EMAS implementation. Authors believe that more initiatives from the state side are strongly required to promote EMAS implementation and to increase the public awareness of the EMAS system, its main benefits and added values. keywords: aspects; audit; auditing; authors; benefits; certification; certified; companies; corporate; costs; doi:10.1002; e s; eco; effective; emas; emas implementation; employee; environmental; environmental management; estonia; european; external; findings; implementation; improved; involvement; iso14001; low; main; management; motivation; n s; n t; number; organisations; performance; policy; preparation; process; public; registration; regulation; related; reporting; research; results; s t; scheme; sector; social; stakeholders; system; t e; t u; transparency; union; value; voluntary cache: eis-17982.pdf plain text: eis-17982.txt item: #78 of 298 id: eis-18125 author: Qorraj, Gazmend title: BREXIT IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FUTURE ENLARGMEMENT OF THE WESTERN BALKANS date: 2017-09-05 words: 6902 flesch: 64 summary: The economic impact respectively trade could derive indirectly on the Western Balkans as these countries have trade relations with Germany, Italy and other EU countries which are affected from the Brexit. The emigration and refuge crises was seen as the most important issue from the 39% of respon- dents, about the current EU main challenges, followed by EU economic crises and convergence around 26% of respondents, Brexit 24%, and the enlargement process only 11%. keywords: balkans; bosnia; brexit; britain; challenges; countries; crises; ct o; current; difficult; e b; e e; e s; e u; easy; economic; economic impact; effects; enlargement; eu enlargement; eu integration; european; herzegovina; impact; important; integration; issues; kosovo; macedonia; main; member; montenegro; n e; n s; n t; negative; negotiations; o n; political; process; respondents; results; s t; states; t e; t o; t u; think; u n; u r; union; western; western balkans; xi t cache: eis-18125.pdf plain text: eis-18125.txt item: #79 of 298 id: eis-18129 author: Keinis, Virginijs title: THE THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL CHALLENGES OF EUROPEAN SECURITY COMMUNITY IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALISATION date: 2017-09-05 words: 5963 flesch: 53 summary: i e s 2 0 1 7 / 1 1 It is clear that Europe long before has comprehended the necessity for common security policy. KEYWORDS: national security, challenges of globalisation, common security and defence policy, un- conventional warfare, implementation of security policy. keywords: action; annual; author; challenges; clear; common; common security; community; concept; conclusions; context; council; country; crisis; current; defence; defence policy; e s; e u; economic; environment; european; european security; european union; external; foreign; globalisation; history; implementation; influence; information; interests; internal; international; issues; key; member; modern; n t; national; national security; new; policies; policy; political; president; process; report; russian; s t; security; security policy; security service; security strategy; service; situation; solidarity; space; states; strategy; swedish; t e; t u; terrorism; threats; today; treaty; u r; union; values; world cache: eis-18129.pdf plain text: eis-18129.txt item: #80 of 298 id: eis-18132 author: Papailias, Michail Th title: TIME USE. ECONOMIC, SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE ASPECTS OF GREEK AND EUROPEAN CITIZENS date: 2017-09-05 words: 4892 flesch: 64 summary: The book of Diamandopoulos (2004) “Pedagogical of leisure time” presents in the first section a partial similar approach to this paper as far as it concerns Greece. The book “Sociology of leisure time” of Koronaiou (1996) gives a very good insight for the socio- logical theories of leisure time, for the importance of game as a cultural phenomenon and its definition as an activity. keywords: activities; activity; approach; authority; book; care; childhood; children; creative; data; development; e s; economic; effects; elstat; european; expectancy; free; game; greece; greek; health; hellenic; illness; illustrated; importance; koronaiou; lead; leisure; leisure time; life; literature; mental; n s; n t; old; overweight; paper; people; presents; problems; research; review; s t; social; society; sports; statistical; survey; t e; t u; table; time; time use; total; trans; union; use; work; years cache: eis-18132.pdf plain text: eis-18132.txt item: #81 of 298 id: eis-18133 author: Krūkle, Zanda; Bendere, Rūta title: PROPOSALS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL NOISE MANAGEMENT BOOST AT A NATIONAL LEVEL IN THE EUROPEAN UNION MEMBER STATES date: 2017-09-05 words: 7064 flesch: 47 summary: Environmental noise management, therefore, is one of the most exigent tasks for environ- mental pollution management. In the scope of the study authors analyze legislation and the institutional system for environmental noise management, and provide conclusions from Latvian case studies regarding practical implemen- tation issues of environmental noise management. keywords: account; action; activities; analysis; annoyance; approach; areas; aspects; assessment; authors; board; case; community; consulting; control; countries; data; development; different; directive; e s; e u; economic; effects; environmental; environmental noise; estonia; european; example; factors; framework; guidelines; health; implementation; improvements; information; inhabitants; institutional; issues; lack; latvia; legislation; level; lithuania; low; main; management; mapping; measures; member; n s; n t; national; noise; noise control; noise levels; noise management; noise policy; order; planning; plans; policy; pollution; practice; problems; processes; public; requirements; research; s t; set; sleep; sources; states; studies; study; t e; t u; tools; urban cache: eis-18133.pdf plain text: eis-18133.txt item: #82 of 298 id: eis-18134 author: Kostrikova, Natalija title: OPPORTUNITIES AND BARRIERS FOR APPLICATIONOF DISTRIBUTED LEDGERS IN THE CONTEXT OF EU DIGITAL SINGLE MARKET STRATEGY date: 2017-09-05 words: 5336 flesch: 52 summary: i e s 2 0 1 7 / 1 1 160 Opportunities and Barriers for Application of Distributed Ledgers in the Context of EU Digital Single Market Strategy http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.11.18134 Natalija Kostrikova, Baiba Rivza Latvia University of Agriculture, 2 Liela Street, Jelgava, LV-3001, Latvia, kostrikova.natalia@gmail.com Submitted 04/2017 Accepted for publication 08/2017 Opportunities and Barriers for Application of Distributed Ledgers in the Context of EU The aim of the current research paper is to reveal opportunities and barriers for utilization of distributed ledgers in the context of EU digital single market strategy. keywords: analysis; applications; april; areas; authors; bank; barriers; bitcoin; blockchain; border; business; capital; central; commission; components; connectivity; content; cross; current; data; decentralization; development; digital; dlt; e s; e u; economic; economy; ethereum; european; exchange; financial; government; human; ict; information; innovation; integration; latvia; ledgers; market; n s; n t; network; online; paper; peer; platforms; priorities; projects; public; regression; regulatory; research; rules; s t; security; services; single; smart; source; strategy; t e; t t; t u; table; technology; transactions; u d; u r; union; university; use; utilization cache: eis-18134.pdf plain text: eis-18134.txt item: #83 of 298 id: eis-18147 author: Tocelovska, Natalja title: WAITING FOR THE CAPITAL MARKET UNION: THE POSITION OF LATVIAN CORPORATE BOND MARKET date: 2017-09-05 words: 6429 flesch: 54 summary: In the result, the groups and sub-indi- cators are: 1) size: ratio of private sector bonds to GDP, ratio of public sector bonds to GDP, ratio of international bonds to GDP, dummy variable: existence of bond market and dummy variable: existence of corporate bond market; 2) access: government bond yield (3 months and 10 years), ratio of domestic to total debt securities, ratio of private to total debt securities (domestic), ratio of new corporate bond issues to GDP and new corporate bond issues ($ billion); 3) efficiency: quoted bid-ask spreads (10-yr government bond yield), quote size, number of the counterparties providing bid/ask quote; 4) stability: volatility of sovereign bond index, skewness of sovereign bond index, ratio of short-term to total bonds (domestic), ratio of short-term bond to total bonds (international), correlation with German bond returns and correlation with US bond returns. KEYWORDS: corporate bond market, capital market union, bank-based economy, Latvia, development. keywords: academic; access; action; analysis; area; bank; banking; bond; bond market; capital; capital market; cluster; cmu; commission; corporate; corporate bond; countries; country; crisis; debt; developed; development; domestic; e s; economic; economy; efficiency; european; financial; financing; focus; framework; fsdi; gdp; growth; indicators; international; introduction; latvia; latvian corporate; level; levine; market; market development; n t; paper; peer; plan; private; public; ratio; research; role; sector; segment; short; size; sovereign; stability; studies; study; system; t e; term; tocelovska; total; union; working; world; world bank cache: eis-18147.pdf plain text: eis-18147.txt item: #84 of 298 id: eis-18245 author: Arefjevs, Ilja title: EFFICIENCY ASSESSMENT CONCEPT MODEL FOR FINANCIAL ALLIANCES: BALTIC PENSION FUND MANAGEMENT date: 2017-09-05 words: 6726 flesch: 51 summary: Capital efficiency model uses actual return (i.e. pre-tax profit) on shareholder equity as the only measure of efficiency. General research period is from 2008 till 2016 while efficiency assessment models are imple- mented based on financial data from 2009 till 2015. keywords: analysis; assessment; assets; author; average; baltic; bancassurance; bank; banking; business; capital; capital efficiency; cluster; companies; correlation; cost; crs; data; dea; diversification; e s; e u; efficiency; envelopment; equity; estonia; figure; financial; frontier; fund; fund management; https://doi; income; insurance; journal; latvia; lithuania; management; management companies; medium; methods; model; n s; n t; non; ownership; pension; pension fund; production; profit; quartile; range; regression; research; return; roe=15; s t; scale; scores; sfa; share; small; stochastic; t e; t u; table; vrs; vs. cache: eis-18245.pdf plain text: eis-18245.txt item: #85 of 298 id: eis-18247 author: Bogdanova, Olga; Arefjevs, Ilja; Spiridonovs, Juris title: PREFERRED OWNERS OF EUROPEAN GAS STORAGE AND TRANSMISSION COMPANIES date: 2017-09-05 words: 6387 flesch: 55 summary: France based TIG FR is also owned by non-EU investors to a bigger extent compared to state of establishment and EU state ownership. Ownership structures are categorized by using four types of possible owners of companies covered by the research: state of establish- ment, other EU state, non- EU state as well as private (i.e. non-state) ownership. keywords: actual; analysis; analytic; area; assessments; authors; based; bulgartransgaz; case; china; climate; cluster; commission; companies; company; competitiveness; country; decision; dimensions; e s; e u; economic; efficiency; energy; energy union; establishment; eu state; european; expert; extent; fluxys; gas; gas storage; gas transmission; gazprom; gmbh; grid; grtgaz; hierarchy; holdings; infrastructure; innovation; latvia; market; member; n s; n t; national; non; operator; outliers; owners; ownership; perspective; policy; preferred; private; process; ren; research; riga; rwe; s t; s.a; security; share; state; state ownership; storage; strategy; swedegas; system; t e; t u; table; total; transmission; transmission companies; union cache: eis-18247.pdf plain text: eis-18247.txt item: #86 of 298 id: eis-18410 author: Stryjek, Joanna title: STABILIZATION THROUGH INSTITUTIONALIZATION?: INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF EXTERNAL RELATIONS AS A SUCCESS FACTOR IN THE REFORM PROCESS date: 2017-09-07 words: 6729 flesch: 50 summary: Secondly, as it was previously explained, the most valued EU offer – i.e., the possibility of EU membership – was not on the table. According to his suggestions, democratization could be coherently promoted in the ENP countries in two ways: (1) by delimiting the policy to unilateral transfers conditional on democratization alone, or (2) by offering EU membership to the countries covered by the neighborhood policy. keywords: aforementioned; case; circles; common; cooperation; countries; decision; democracy; development; e s; e u; eastern; eastern enp; economic; enlargement; enp; enp countries; eu membership; european; europeanization; external; formal; function; https://doi; important; institutionalization; institutionalization process; institutions; integration; international; journal; kukułka; membership; model; n s; n t; neighborhood; neighboring; neighbors; new; partnership; perspective; policies; policy; political; potential; process; processes; reforms; region; relations; role; russia; s t; second; security; socio; stability; stabilization; states; strategy; studies; t e; t u; time; trade; ukraine; union cache: eis-18410.pdf plain text: eis-18410.txt item: #87 of 298 id: eis-18428 author: Zajaczkowski, Malgorzata title: REGIONAL COOPERATION WITHIN THE EASTERN PARTNERSHIP date: 2017-09-05 words: 6271 flesch: 48 summary: In the absence of regular form of cooperation between the partner countries the EU has offered four thematic platforms which covered: (1) democracy, good governance and stability, (2) eco- nomic integration and convergence with EU policies; (3) energy security and (4) contacts between people. European Union (EU), Eastern Partnership (EaP), European Neighborhood Policy (ENP), regional cooperation, Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Areas (DCFTA). keywords: aas; action; area; armenia; azerbaijan; belarus; bilateral; border; caucasus; civil; conflicts; cooperation; countries; development; dimension; e s; e u; eap; eastern; eastern europe; eastern partnership; economic; economic cooperation; energy; enp; environmental; european; external; framework; georgia; german; good; governance; government; initiative; integration; local; membership; military; moldova; n s; n t; neighbors; neighbourhood; paper; partner countries; partners; partnership; perspective; plan; policy; political; problem; programs; projects; reform; regional; regional cooperation; regions; relations; russia; s t; security; society; southern; states; support; t e; t u; transnistria; u r; ukraine; union cache: eis-18428.pdf plain text: eis-18428.txt item: #88 of 298 id: eis-18501 author: Simionov, Loredana Maria title: THE EU AND RUSSIA SHIFTING AWAY FROM THE ECONOMIC LOGIC OF INTERDEPENDENCE – AN EXPLANATION THROUGH THE COMPLEX INTERDEPENDENCE THEORY date: 2017-09-05 words: 9994 flesch: 50 summary: The intensity of economic interdependence in EU – Russia relations Despite the use of sophisticated methods of collecting and processing data, as well as a complex set of research tools, the perception and analysis of interdependent relations vary not only theo- retically, but also in empirical studies. ‘EU – Russia relations. keywords: actions; actors; agenda; analysis; approach; authors; available; capabilities; capital; channels; common; complex; complex interdependence; conflict; context; cooperation; crisis; current; data; democracy; dialogue; dominant; e s; e u; economic; economic interdependence; economic relations; economy; energy; european; european union; external; federation; flows; force; foreign; gas; global; hand; hierarchy; high; https://doi; iasi; important; influence; integration; intense; intensity; interdependence; interests; international; international relations; journal; literature; main; means; member; methods; military; multiple; mutual; n s; n t; nature; new; normative; objectives; order; overall; paradigm; peace; policy; political; politics; power; realism; regional; relations; relevant; research; results; role; russia; russia relations; s t; sanctions; security; source; specific; states; strategic; studies; t e; t u; table; theory; trade; u r; union; university; use; values; war; york cache: eis-18501.pdf plain text: eis-18501.txt item: #89 of 298 id: eis-18645 author: Vevere, Velga; Zvirgzdina, Rosita; Linina, Iveta title: INDEXES AS BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT CHARACTERIZING INSTRUMENTS date: 2017-09-07 words: 6518 flesch: 42 summary: One of the most operative approaches is to employ various country evaluation indexes that are available. i e s 2 0 1 7 / 1 1 220 Indexes as Business Environment Characterizing Instruments http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.11.18645 Velga Vevere The University College of Economics and Culture, Lomonosova 1/4, Riga LV-1019, Latvia e-mail: velga.vevere@gmail.com Rosita Zvirgzdina Turiba University, 68 Graudu st., Riga LV-1058, Latvia, e-mail: rosita@turiba.lv Iveta Linina Turiba University, 68 Graudu st., Riga LV-1058, Latvia, Iveta.linina@turiba.lv Submitted 04/2017 Accepted for publication 08/2017 Indexes as Business Environment Characterizing Instruments EIS 11/2017 Abstract European Integration Studies No. 11 / 2017 pp. 220-232 DOI 10.5755/j01.eis.0.11.18645 © Kaunas University of Technology Introduction Every year several world organizations evaluate countries according different criteria and determine their indexes, such as KOF Index of Globalization, Corruption Perception Index, Global Competitiveness Index, Global Innovation Index, and others. keywords: ability; analysis; article; assessment; authors; average; baltic; business; business environment; capital; close; comparative; competitiveness; competitiveness index; corruption; countries; country; criteria; current; data; development; different; e s; e u; economic; economy; environment; estonia; european; evaluation; factors; figure; gii; global competitiveness; globalization; higher; index; indexes; indicators; indices; information; innovation; innovation index; institutions; international; investment; issues; kof; kof index; latvia; level; lithuania; macroeconomic; management; market; measure; method; n s; n t; new; perception; performance; policy; political; public; ratio; report; research; results; s t; social; states; t e; t u; trade; u r; union; university; world cache: eis-18645.pdf plain text: eis-18645.txt item: #90 of 298 id: eis-18913 author: Feng, Haidong title: AN EXPLORATORY ANALYSIS OF LATVIAN BRANDS COMPETITIVENESS IN CHINA date: 2017-09-05 words: 6772 flesch: 63 summary: Thirties Talking about Latvian brands consumers in thirties, they usually like spending more on cloth- ing and some food, and go to buy their favorite food in shopping centers or internet. European products purchasers are different from the buyers of Chinese consumer products. keywords: age; alcohol; amber; analysis; balsam; behavior; beijing; black; branding; brands; brands competitiveness; building; business; buyers; buying; china; chinese; chinese consumers; christmas; cities; collection; companies; competitiveness; consumers; consumption; cosmetics; countries; different; e s; e u; european; example; foreign; generation; good; group; guangzhou; habits; high; hypermarkets; important; international; journal; laima; large; largest; latvian; latvian brands; latvian products; local; main; malls; management; marketing; markets; money; n s; n t; new; order; paper; people; products; purchasing; quality; questionnaire; research; retailers; riga; s t; shanghai; shopping; shops; small; social; stenders; stores; strategies; survey; t e; t u; thirties; time; turnover; u r; unique; western; years; young cache: eis-18913.pdf plain text: eis-18913.txt item: #91 of 298 id: eis-18916 author: Greblikaite, Jolita; Gerulaitiene, Neringa; Ziukaite, Zivile; Garcia-Machado, Juan J. title: SOCIAL ECONOMY: THE POTENTIAL AND CHALLENGES OF SOCIAL ENTERPRISES IN LITHUANIA date: 2017-09-05 words: 6255 flesch: 50 summary: Social economy enterprises and organisations are present in many different forms, at different levels, local, national and European. 53-64 DOI 10.5755/j01.eis.0.11.18916 © Kaunas University of Technology Social Economy: the Potential and Challenges of Social Enterprises in Lithuania EIS 11/2017 Abstract The paper analyses the peculiarieties of social economy, focusing the scientific attention to social enterprises and their environment in EU and, especially, Lithuania. keywords: activities; activity; actors; analysis; areas; arpinte; business; cace; capital; challenges; cojocaru; concept; conditions; countries; country; data; definition; development; develtere; different; e s; e u; economic; economy; employment; enterprises; entrepreneurship; environment; european; family; figure; important; interest; labour; lack; legal; level; lithuania; local; main; management; market; members; n s; n t; new; number; oecd; organisations; paper; people; potential; problems; production; products; profit; public; reasons; research; responsibility; role; rural; rural areas; s t; sector; services; situation; social; social business; social economy; social enterprises; social entrepreneurship; state; str; t e; t u; terms; u r; union; university; value cache: eis-18916.pdf plain text: eis-18916.txt item: #92 of 298 id: eis-18955 author: Umiński, Stanisław title: THE PROS AND CONS OF INTEGRATION VS. DISINTEGRATION SCENARIOS FOR EUROPE date: 2017-09-05 words: 7260 flesch: 62 summary: Membership in the EU does not automatically guarantee the improved quality of life for the next generations, and high unemployment among the young people in the EU MS indicates it. KEYWORDS: future of the EU, integration scenarios, sovereignty, globalisation. keywords: challenge; common; concept; consequences; cooperation; countries; country; crisis; currency; debate; different; discussion; disintegration; e s; e u; economic; etc; european; european integration; eurozone; fact; far; financial; flexibility; foreign; functioning; future; global; globalisation; important; instance; integrated; integration; integration process; issues; level; limited; main; market; monetary; multi; n s; n t; new; paper; policies; policy; political; possible; process; processes; pros; question; relations; s t; scenarios; second; situation; solidarity; sovereignty; speed; strong; t e; t u; time; trade; treaty; union; war; way; white; world cache: eis-18955.pdf plain text: eis-18955.txt item: #93 of 298 id: eis-18956 author: Emiliani, Tommaso title: E PLURIBUS UNUM? THE COMMUNITARIZATION OF EU MIGRATION, ASYLUM AND BORDER MANAGEMENT POLICIES IN TIMES OF CRISIS date: 2017-09-05 words: 8170 flesch: 46 summary: While the neo-functionalist logic explains the emergence of the external dimension of EU migration policies, it may also explain this development is currently limited to certain areas within the policy area. EU external engagement, EU migration policy, EU asylum policy, EU border manage- ment policy, External dimension, EU actorness. keywords: action; actorness; actors; agenda; agreements; approach; area; article; asylum; asylum policies; border; border management; brussels; challenges; citizens; commission; committee; common; conditions; cooperation; council; countries; country; crisis; development; dimension; directive; domains; e s; e u; economic; emergence; engagement; establishment; eu actorness; eu asylum; eu external; eu member; eu migration; european; european commission; european parliament; european union; external; external dimension; external engagement; framework; gamm; global; increased; institutional; integration; internal; international; legal; level; making; management; management policies; market; member; member states; migrants; migration; migration policies; minimum; mobility; n s; n t; nationals; parliament; policies; policy; political; presence; refugee; regulation; rules; s t; security; seekers; standards; states; studies; system; t e; t u; treaty; turkey; union cache: eis-18956.pdf plain text: eis-18956.txt item: #94 of 298 id: eis-18957 author: Varghese, Titty; Sarkute, Ligita title: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN IN GERMANY AND IMMIGRANTS: A MEDIATIZED POLITICAL COMMUNICATION? date: 2017-09-05 words: 7707 flesch: 59 summary: November 15, 2016 Dutch citizen who was an asylum home manager arrested over rape of refugee women 8. December 8, 2016 Syrian born political scientist says migrant see German women as ‘fair game’ to be raped 25. keywords: abuse; agency; analysis; applicants; assault; asylum; attack; background; cases; cologne; communication; countries; crimes; december; different; e s; e u; european; eurostat; february; federal; figure; form; germany; girl; immigrants; imprisonment; incidences; integration; international; issue; january; july; kaunas; life; mass; media; mediatization; mediatized; migration; months; n s; n t; news; non; number; old; partner; people; person; physical; police; political; politics; public; punishment; rape; refugee; reports; research; respective; rights; role; s t; sexual; social; society; statistics; suspects; t e; t u; table; total; u r; victim; violence; women; years cache: eis-18957.pdf plain text: eis-18957.txt item: #95 of 298 id: eis-18958 author: Borowicz, Aleksandra title: THE EUROPEAN MIGRATION CRISIS – ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL FACTORS AND CHALLENGES FOR THE FUTURE date: 2017-09-05 words: 5455 flesch: 63 summary: The discussion between EU Member States with respect to fulfilling the resettlement obligation is entirely unjustified, as the legal mandate of the European Commission stems directly from the Treaties. It was estimated that the average budgetary expenses for asylum seekers in EU Member States could increase by 0.05 and 0.1 percent of GDP in 2015 and 2016, respectively, compared to 2014 (see table below). keywords: article; aspects; asylum; budget; citizens; commission; competences; context; countries; debate; e s; e u; economic; eu member; european; european integration; european union; free; fund; fundamental; future; germany; global; integration; international; issue; labour; level; long; market; measures; member; member states; migrants; migration; migration crisis; migration process; movement; n s; n t; new; people; policy; political; problem; process; research; resettlement; respect; right; s t; seekers; solidarity; states; t e; t u; term; terrorist; tfeu; theories; threat; treaty; turkey; u r; union cache: eis-18958.pdf plain text: eis-18958.txt item: #96 of 298 id: eis-18959 author: Kaivo-oja, Jari; Haukioj, Teemu; Karppinen, Ari title: TWENTY YEARS OF “GROWTH, JOBS AND INVESTMENTS” STRATEGY IN THE EUROPEAN UNION–MACROECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS AFTER THE MAASTRICHT TREATY date: 2017-09-05 words: 5208 flesch: 67 summary: In Figure 10 we report minimum, median, and maximum levels of the GEI Index for EU-28 countries. Figure 3 raises some interesting questions concerning economic growth policy and the role of government in welfare generation processes. keywords: annual; area; average; capita; consumption; countries; crisis; current; development; e s; e u; economic; employment; eu ro; eu-28; european; eurostat; expenditure; figure; final; financial; gdp; gei; government; greece; growth; index; indicators; indices; investments; jobs; member; n s; n t; policy; pps; prices; region; s t; source; states; strategy; t e; t u; total; u d; u ni; union; years cache: eis-18959.pdf plain text: eis-18959.txt item: #97 of 298 id: eis-19350 author: Daugėlienė, Rasa title: Editorial date: 2017-10-24 words: 787 flesch: 39 summary: Prof. Dr. JURGITA BRUNECKIENĖ, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, jurgita.bruneckiene@ktu.lt Dr. RICHARD CADDELL, Utrecht University, Netherlands, j.r.caddell@uu.nl Prof. MARTIN DANGERFIELD, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, M.Dangerfield@wlv.ac.uk Assoc. Dr. HELENA TENDERA-WLASZCZUK, Cracow University of Economics, Poland, tendera@uek.krakow.pl Prof. Dr. STANISLAW UMINSKI, University of Gdansk, Research Centre on European Integration, Poland, uminski@univ.gda.pl Prof. Dr. Phil. keywords: assoc; economics; european; finland; integration; international; journal; kaunas; latvia; lithuania; poland; processes; prof; research; school; scientific; studies; technology; topicalities; university cache: eis-19350.pdf plain text: eis-19350.txt item: #98 of 298 id: eis-19351 author: Blaudziunas, Robertas title: Notes for Contributors date: 2017-10-24 words: 541 flesch: 62 summary: Journal article: Broner, F., Didier, T., Erce, A., & Schmukler, S. L. (2013). The structure of the article should correspond to the general requirements of research papers. keywords: article; author; book; general; illustrations; journal; papers; references; requirements; research; tables; text cache: eis-19351.pdf plain text: eis-19351.txt item: #99 of 298 id: eis-20735 author: Zafran, Muhammad title: EFFECTS OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ON CUSTOMER BRAND CHOICE IN BALTIC REGION: MEDIATING ROLE OF PRODUCT INVOLVEMENT LEVEL date: 2018-10-17 words: 6548 flesch: 54 summary: Fig 5 shows customer CSR perception of four difference industries- banks, pharma& health, superstore and higher education institutions. KEYWORDS: CSR and brand equity, CSR effects on consumer buying behavior, CSR and product in- volvement level; Customer perception of CSR; CSR in Baltic region. keywords: advantage; article; author; awareness; baltic; brand; brand choice; brand equity; business; carroll; case; categories; choice; company; competitive; consumer; corporate; corporate social; csr; csr effects; csr initiatives; customer; customer brand; decision; different; e s; e u; economic; effects; elements; environment; equity; ethics; firm; freeman; high; image; impact; importance; influence; initiatives; involvement; involvement products; items; journal; level; low; loyalty; management; managers; marketing; mean; n s; n t; organization; perception; philanthropy; positive; preference; product; protection; purchase; region; requirements; research; responsibility; results; s t; significant; social; social responsibility; society; stakeholder; study; t e; t u; test; text; theory; u r; use; value cache: eis-20735.pdf plain text: eis-20735.txt item: #100 of 298 id: eis-20846 author: Zeibote, Zane; Muravska, Tatjana title: PROMOTING THE REGIONAL COMPETITIVENESS THROUGH CLUSTERS‘ APPROACH: CASE OF THE LATVIAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CLUSTER date: 2018-10-16 words: 7000 flesch: 47 summary: Conversely, as a result of the development of regional clusters, their competitiveness increased proportionally. The results show that IT cluster companies are more active in process innovation and product innovation. keywords: 1–10; advantages; analysis; april; assessment; authors; average; business; calculations; cluster; cluster companies; cluster development; companies; competition; competitiveness; concept; cooperation; correlation; cycle; data; development; diamond; e s; e u; economic; environment; european; extent; factors; figure; global; great; impact; important; industries; industry; information; innovation; june; latvian; level; life; main; members; model; n s; n t; new; policy; porter; rankings; regional; regional competitiveness; regions; related; report; research; results; s t; scale; source; stage; support; survey; t e; t u; technology; u r; world cache: eis-20846.pdf plain text: eis-20846.txt item: #101 of 298 id: eis-20849 author: Nestra, Chrislin; Gurvits, Natalja title: MAIN MOTIVATORS OF SOCIAL AUDIT: CASE OF ESTONIA date: 2018-10-16 words: 4708 flesch: 51 summary: As clearly illustrated by table 6 among the positive benefits associated with possible future per- formance of social audit companies selected their desire to demonstrate the responsibility and values of the company as well as possibility to evaluate the impact of its activities on various groups of stakeholders 145 E u r o p e a n I n t e g r a t The growing concern from the stakeholders for the transparency and social respon- sibility has put more focus on social audit as an important tool of measurement of social and environ- mental performance of organizations. keywords: accounting; activities; associated; assurance; audit; authors; benefits; business; companies; company; corporate; csr; development; different; e s; environmental; estonia; financial; future; impact; information; interest; journal; lack; main; n s; n t; non; opinion; performance; performing; positive; procedure; reasons; reporting; reports; research; respondents; responsibility; results; s t; social; social audit; stakeholders; studies; survey; sustainability; sustainable; t e; table cache: eis-20849.pdf plain text: eis-20849.txt item: #102 of 298 id: eis-20858 author: Arefjevs, Ilja; Spiridonovs, Jurijs; Tocelovska, Natalja title: PRIVATE FINANCING ALTERNATIVES FOR INFRASTRUCTURE OF STATE OWNED ENTERPRISES date: 2018-10-16 words: 4833 flesch: 45 summary: Quite similar findings are pre- sented by European Investment Bank (European Investment Bank Papers, 2010), stating insti- tutional and private investors have become very active investments into public infrastructure in recent years. Governments around the globe used to be only investors in public infrastructure for centuries. keywords: alternatives; bank; bond; capital; communication; companies; corporate; decision; development; e s; e u; economic; enterprises; european; experts; finance; financial; financing; funding; grimseyand; hierarchy; https://doi; india; industry; infrastructure; infrastructure financing; international; investment; issues; journal; jsc; key; latvia; latvijas; lewis; loans; long; maintenance; management; market; n s; n t; papers; partnerships; physical; physical infrastructure; power; private; private financing; private partnerships; process; projects; public; research; s t; sector; services; social; state; strong; t e; t u; table; total; transportation; university cache: eis-20858.pdf plain text: eis-20858.txt item: #103 of 298 id: eis-20869 author: Oikonomou, Giorgio title: SUB-STATE MOBILIZATION IN ‘HIGH POLITICS’: THE ROLE OF REGIONAL AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE EUROPEAN NEIGHBOURHOOD POLICY date: 2018-10-16 words: 7631 flesch: 50 summary: This article focuses on the role of subnational institutions in the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), a relatively new policy area compared to other established EU policies. Moreover, the European Grouping of Territorial Cooperation (EGTC) serves as a distinct policy tool for enhancing territorial development and coop- eration, allowing for the engagement of subnational actors from different EU countries –and third countries as well. keywords: actors; areas; arlem; assembly; authorities; border; brussels; commission; committee; cooperation; cor; corleap; countries; cross; democracy; development; dialogue; e s; e u; eastern; economic; egtc; eni; enp; european; european neighbourhood; financial; foreign; governance; hooghe; ibid; implementation; institutional; instrument; integration; issues; journal; knowledge; level; local; marks; mediterranean; members; mobilization; multi; n s; n t; neighbourhood; neighbourhood policy; new; objectives; opportunities; partnership; platform; policy; political; programmes; public; regional; regions; role; s t; security; snas; southern; state; studies; subnational; t e; tatham; territorial; ufm; union cache: eis-20869.pdf plain text: eis-20869.txt item: #104 of 298 id: eis-21232 author: Vevere, Velga; Sannikova, Aija title: DEVELOPING INTERCULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS SKILLS TO MEET CURRENT CHALLENGES OF DIVERSE EU BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT AS PART OF UNIVERSITY SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY date: 2018-10-16 words: 5662 flesch: 48 summary: KEYWORDS: Negotiation strategy; negotiation tactics; intercultural negotiations; negotiator profile; university social responsibility, SINS scale. Analyses of scale ratings yielded results that students’ evaluation of negotiation tactics did not depend on cultural background (the research was conducted among international students) in statistically significant way, though there were differences in responses within evaluation of certain statements. keywords: agreement; authors; bargaining; business; certain; choice; community; cor; courses; current; data; development; different; e s; e u; education; environment; ethical; formal; global; group; higher; information; intercultural; international; journal; kruskal; management; mba; n s; n t; negotiation; negotiators; new; opponent; performance; press; process; relation; relationship; research; responsibility; results; s t; scale; significant; skills; social; source; statement; statistics; strategy; students; study; t e; t u; table; tactics; team; test; training; university; valuation; vevere; wallis; win cache: eis-21232.pdf plain text: eis-21232.txt item: #105 of 298 id: eis-21524 author: Laurila, Hannu title: Economic Integration and Corruption - EU Enlargement in Western Balkans date: 2018-10-16 words: 6319 flesch: 59 summary: Transparency International warns from the risks of acceleration and spreading of corruption in eco- nomic integration between states with different levels of integrity, and draws ambitious guidelines for optimal anticorruption policy. The method is, first, to compare the candidate states to the current 28 EU states in terms of corruption and the quality of governance. keywords: anticorruption; average; bad; balkans; belgium; best; bulgaria; business; candidate; candidate countries; close; convention; corruption; countries; country; cpi; croatia; current; distortions; e s; e u; economic; effects; enforcement; enlargement; eu countries; european; finland; formal; france; germany; governance; growth; hungary; integration; integrity; international; italy; macroeconomic; market; n s; n t; neighbors; netherlands; new; official; paper; policy; potential; process; public; quality; romania; s t; scores; spain; states; t e; t u; table; terms; time; trade; transparency; u r; western cache: eis-21524.pdf plain text: eis-21524.txt item: #106 of 298 id: eis-21731 author: Bruneckienė, Jurgita; Rapsikevičius, Jonas title: THE EVALUATION OF IMPACT OF MERGERS ON THE MARKET ECONOMIC ACTIVITY: THE CASE OF LITHUANIAN TELECOMMUNICATION SECTOR date: 2018-10-16 words: 7211 flesch: 53 summary: Plus, the sales revenue has been taken as an additional indicator in order to be able to identify if HHI or GINI have changed from merger impact or it was affected by competitors and merger had no relation with the changes of these indicators. For FCFF our main indicator we can see that the effect for the first two years in total is negative, however we have to look up into Investment in Working Capital line (which is marked by yellow) there the possible calculation error might occur due to use of external data (the authors were unable to eliminate merger investment from investment in Working Capital). keywords: acquisitions; activity; additional; analysis; benefit; bigger; business; case; change; companies; company; competition; competitors; customer; data; development; different; e s; e u; economic; effect; effective; entity; european; extension; fact; finance; financial; firm; forecast; growth; horizontal; impact; industry; innovations; investments; journal; lietuva; lithuania; losses; management; market; merged; mergers; model; n s; n t; negative; new; omnitel; point; position; positive; post; process; processes; product; profit; quality; research; retrieved; revenue; risk; s t; sector; service; source; statement; strategic; synergy; t e; t u; taxes; technological; telecommunication; telia; teo; u r; union; valuation; value; volume cache: eis-21731.pdf plain text: eis-21731.txt item: #107 of 298 id: eis-21869 author: Bzhalava, Levan; Kaivo-oja, Jari; Hassan, Sohaib S. title: Data-based Startup Profile Analysis in the European Smart Specialization Strategy: A Text Mining Approach date: 2018-10-16 words: 5735 flesch: 47 summary: Our analysis shows that Smart Specialization Strategy approach and start-up community can be integrated by using text mining approaches. The European Union (EU) has introduced Smart Specialization Strategy (S3) to increase the innovation and competitive potential of its member states by identifying promising economic areas for investment and specialization. keywords: activities; actors; analysis; approach; areas; argilés; baltic; business; companies; competitive; countries; custom; data; denmark; descriptions; design; development; discovery; e s; economic; entrepreneurs; et al; european; finland; foray; growth; industry; innovation; kaivo; knowledge; latvia; lithuania; local; management; market; mccann; mining; modeling; n s; n t; new; nordic; oja; opportunities; ortega; platform; policy; potential; process; product; regional; regions; research; s t; service; smart; smart specialization; specialization; specialization strategy; startup; strategy; studies; sweden; t e; t u; terms; text; topic; university; words cache: eis-21869.pdf plain text: eis-21869.txt item: #108 of 298 id: eis-21870 author: Kaivo-Oja, Jari; Lauraeus, Theresa title: The European Mind-set, European Opinion and Economic Developments in 2007-2017: Major Changes of Public Opinion and the European Mind-set in Years 2004-2018 date: 2018-10-16 words: 7134 flesch: 64 summary: Sources: European Commission 2018, Eurostat 2018 This empirical data based analysis reveals that European economic situation analysis in the Standard Eurobarometer data and GDP index has been interlinked in historical trend analysis. The second analysis linked the analysis of the six key barometer variables to economic growth analysis. keywords: analysis; attitudes; autumn; categories; changes; citizens; collaboration; commission; countries; data; development; e s; e u; economic; eu-28; eurobarometer; european; european commission; european mind; european union; evaluations; figure; future; gdp; global; growth; image; important; index; innovation; issues; kaivo; key; level; long; mind; mindset; n s; n t; national; negative; oja; opinion; positive; public; region; report; research; results; s t; second; set; sets; situation; source; standard; studies; study; survey; t e; t u; trend; trust; union; virtual; years cache: eis-21870.pdf plain text: eis-21870.txt item: #109 of 298 id: eis-21871 author: Jekabsone, Sandra; Skribane, Irina title: PRODUCTIVITY TRAP IN LATVIA date: 2018-10-16 words: 5876 flesch: 49 summary: Δlny=Δln GDP− Δln 𝐻=s̅K,itΔln kit+s̅K,nitΔln knit+s̅LΔlnLQ+ΔlnA (3) where Δln𝑦 denotes labour productivity growth, measured as the difference between 𝐺𝐷𝑃 growth and labour quantity growth, and 𝑘 is capital deepening, measured as the difference between capi- tal service growth for the relevant asset type (ICT or non-ICT) and labour quantity growth. The tasks of the research is to determine the main factors that influence labour productivity in Latvia in last 10 years, to compare productivity levels in Latvia and other EU country and to evaluate the current policy measures to in- crease labour productivity in Latvia. keywords: analysis; authors; available; average; base; business; capacity; capital; certain; challenges; change; competitiveness; costs; countries; country; current; development; dynamics; e s; e u; economic; economy; employee; enterprises; eurostat; example; factor; figure; future; gap; growth; high; important; increase; industry; investment; labour; labour productivity; latvia; level; low; medium; n s; n t; new; number; oecd; output; process; production; productivity; rate; research; resources; s t; sectors; structural; t e; t u; technological; technology; tfp; total; trap; value; welfare; working; world cache: eis-21871.pdf plain text: eis-21871.txt item: #110 of 298 id: eis-21872 author: Haukioja, Teemu; Kaivo-oja, Jari; Karppinen, Ari; Vähäsantanen, Saku title: Identification of Smart Regions with Resilience, Specialisation and Labour Intensity of globally Competitive Sector – The Examination of the LAU-1 Regions in Finland date: 2018-10-16 words: 7647 flesch: 52 summary: According to Table 1, the Kuopio sub-region is the most diversified (of the 70 sub-regions) but the economic significance of the industrial sector is minimal in its regional economy. In Finland, the sub-region of Salo with its earlier large indus- trial Nokia production had a similar economic position to the Imatra and Raahe sub-regions. keywords: 2014; 2015; advantage; analysis; approach; areas; available; classification; comparative; competitive; competitiveness; country; data; development; diversification; diversified; e s; economic; economy; employment; european; fig; figure; finland; finnish; growth; helsinki; herfindahl; hhi; high; hirschman; https://doi; index; indicators; industrial; industrial structure; industry; innovation; intensity; kaivo; knowledge; labour; labour intensity; limi; manufacturing; n s; n t; oja; pirkanmaa; policy; pori; potential; properties; region; regional; relative; research; resilience; respect; rrsi; s t; savo; school; sector; shocks; similar; smart; smart specialisation; smart sub; specialisation; statistics; strategies; strategy; strong; structure; sub; t e; t u; turku; university; value; weak cache: eis-21872.pdf plain text: eis-21872.txt item: #111 of 298 id: eis-21874 author: Linina, Iveta; Vevere, Velga; Zvirgzdina, Rosita title: ENHANCING EFFICIENCY OF BALTIC RETAIL CONTACT CENTERS date: 2018-10-16 words: 5253 flesch: 52 summary: Retail sales also play an important role in today’s society and in the national economy as it introduces and develops new technologies in customer service, provides jobs and increases the welfare of society. Adapting to customer needs and requirements gives the company, on the one hand, the opportunity for fur- ther development and increase of competitiveness, but, on the other hand, it necessitates organizing customer service and improving the use of existing resources for the management of the customer service process. keywords: account; application; authors; average; business; buyers; calls; centers; channels; communication; company; concept; contact; current; customer; data; database; drucker; e s; e u; economic; effectiveness; efficiency; enterprise; existing; factors; flow; following; incoming; increase; information; management; marketing; n s; n t; new; number; performance; principles; problems; productivity; quality; queueing; research; resources; results; retail; s t; sales; service; study; system; t e; t u; theoretical; theory; time; trade; u r; university; use; work cache: eis-21874.pdf plain text: eis-21874.txt item: #112 of 298 id: eis-21875 author: Tocelovska, Natalja; Sloka, Biruta; Arfejevs, Ilja title: DETERMINANTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CORPORATE BOND MARKET IN LATVIA date: 2018-10-16 words: 7668 flesch: 49 summary: KEYWORDS: corporate bonds, corporate bond market, development, factors, Latvia. 149 E u r o p e a n I n t e g r a t The goal of this article is to explore the corporate bond market development frameworks as elab- orated by the academic research and recognise corporate bond market development determinants, identify the determinants of the corporate bond market in Latvia by running the statistical analysis. keywords: academic; accounting; analysis; authors; baltic; bank; bond market; bonds; business; capita; corporate; corporate bond; country; credit; data; debt; determinants; development; domestic; e s; economy; eichengreen; elements; exchange; expositive; fabella; factors; financial; frameworks; gdp; government; group; growth; independent; influence; information; infrastructure; interest; international; latvia; law; legal; local; macroeconomic; madhur; market; market development; n s; n t; nasdaq; number; outstanding; paper; presence; present; qualitative; quality; regression; regulatory; research; s t; secondary; securities; segment; settlement; size; sovereign; stable; statements; stewart; stock; stock market; studies; t e; t u; total; trading; turnover; variables; world cache: eis-21875.pdf plain text: eis-21875.txt item: #113 of 298 id: eis-22248 author: Grušas, Vytautas title: Notes for Contributors date: 2018-12-10 words: 539 flesch: 62 summary: Journal article: Broner, F., Didier, T., Erce, A., & Schmukler, S. L. (2013). The structure of the article should correspond to the general requirements of research papers. keywords: article; author; book; general; illustrations; journal; papers; references; requirements; research; tables; text cache: eis-22248.pdf plain text: eis-22248.txt item: #114 of 298 id: eis-22249 author: Daugėlienė, Rasa title: Editorial date: 2018-12-10 words: 772 flesch: 40 summary: Prof. Dr. JURGITA BRUNECKIENĖ, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania, jurgita.bruneckiene@ktu.lt Dr. RICHARD CADDELL, Utrecht University, Netherlands, j.r.caddell@uu.nl Prof. MARTIN DANGERFIELD, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom, M.Dangerfield@wlv.ac.uk Assoc. Dr. HELENA TENDERA-WLASZCZUK, Cracow University of Economics, Poland, tendera@uek.krakow.pl Prof. Dr. STANISLAW UMINSKI, University of Gdansk, Research Centre on European Integration, Poland, uminski@univ.gda.pl Prof. Dr. Phil. keywords: assoc; economics; editorial; european; finland; integration; international; journal; kaunas; latvia; lithuania; poland; processes; prof; research; school; scientific; studies; technology; university cache: eis-22249.pdf plain text: eis-22249.txt item: #115 of 298 id: eis-22897 author: Lewandowski, Maciej; Mlodkowski, Pawel; Wróbel, Marek title: DIGITAL PLATFORMS FOR POSTAL SERVICES IN EU AND JAPAN date: 2019-10-31 words: 9419 flesch: 54 summary: KEYWORDS: modern postal services, digital postal services, public e-services, e-government, Japan, EU. Web-Express Mail is another postal service provided via Japan Post digital platform. keywords: access; additional; address; administration; available; average; boks; box; business; citizens; commission; committee; communication; companies; content; correspondence; costs; council; countries; customers; czech; data; delivery; development; digital; digital platforms; digitisation; documents; e s; e u; economic; economy; electronic; envelo; european; february; free; government; greetings; identity; important; increase; information; internet; japan; japan post; letter; mailbox; market; mckinsey; means; mobile; modern; n s; n t; national; neoletter; network; new; number; offers; office; online; operators; paper; parliament; place; platforms; point; poland; polish; polska; post; post office; postal; postal services; process; products; public; registered; s t; sender; sending; services; single; social; solutions; special; stamp; state; system; t e; t u; technology; time; traditional; transactions; trusted; u r; union; users; way; western; year cache: eis-22897.pdf plain text: eis-22897.txt item: #116 of 298 id: eis-23437 author: Brence, Ieva; Bogomazovs, Juris title: BRAND RECOGNITION OF THE TEX MEX PRODUCTS IN LATVIA date: 2019-10-31 words: 5178 flesch: 75 summary: Analyzing data by age groups, one can find the greatest popularity of Santa Maria brand products in the age group 25-34, accounting for 80% of 195 respondents. 48.9% of the respondents at age 15-24 mainly buy Santa Maria brand products, while Virtuosso brand products are mainly purchased by 12.6%. keywords: 2002; 2007; age; analysis; answers; brand; branding; business; company; consumers; data; development; different; e s; european; fakti; females; food; gender; group; guidelines; image; important; information; journal; latvia; latvijas; management; maria; market; marketing; mex; mex products; n t; new; october; paulig; people; popular; production; products; recognition; research; respondents; results; rīga; santa; santa maria; service; spice; strategy; survey; t e; table; tex; tex mex; total; value; www.santamariaworld.com; year cache: eis-23437.pdf plain text: eis-23437.txt item: #117 of 298 id: eis-23455 author: Glushkova, Irina; Gurvits-Suits , Natalie Aleksandra title: CSR and ownership interrelation: evidence from Estonia date: 2019-10-31 words: 4020 flesch: 47 summary: It is obvious that in case of individual ownership CSR disclosures are less frequent and less aspects are reported, while in case of corporate and institutional ownership, CSR report- ing is widely adopted, and the wide scope of aspects is reported. In the Table 2 there are presented ways of CSR related disclosures as well as the presence of most commonly used certificates and initiatives. keywords: accounting; authors; available; business; case; companies; company; corporate; csr; data; disclosures; environmental; evidence; financial; focus; governance; impact; individual; information; institutional; investors; iso; journal; level; main; management; n t; non; ownership; quality; related; reporting; research; responsibility; results; selected; social; stakeholders; t e; table; type; website cache: eis-23455.pdf plain text: eis-23455.txt item: #118 of 298 id: eis-23495 author: Casno, Kristīne; Šķiltere, Daina; Sloka, Biruta title: FACTORS THAT MOTIVATE LATVIAN CONSUMERS TO PURCHASE PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FROM SOCIAL ENTERPRISES IN LATVIA: THE CASE OF SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE CONSUMPTION date: 2019-10-31 words: 5122 flesch: 45 summary: 90-99 doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.13.23437 Abstract Factors that Motivate Latvian Consumers to Purchase Products and Services From Social Enterprises in Latvia: The Case of Socially Responsible Consumption http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.13.23495 Kristine Casno, University of Latvia Daina Šķiltere, University of Latvia The purpose of the study is to -determine the relative importance of various factors that motivate Lat- vian consumers to purchase products and services from social enterprises in order to provide practical suggestions and recommendations for Latvian social enterprises that would allow them to improve their performance. The results of the research indicate that Latvian consumers find the product / service quality aspects, as well as aspects of social responsibility and convenience of the shopping location, on average, as most motivating to purchase products / services of social enterprises. keywords: analysis; aspects; atmosphere; authors; behavior; case; casno; causes; consumers; consumption; convenient; correlation; e s; e u; economic; enterprises; entrepreneurship; factors; frequency; friendly; importance; journal; latvian; marketing; motivating; n s; n t; online; opportunity; pearson; pleasant; products; purchase; purchasing; quality; research; respondents; responsible; results; s t; scale; services; shopping; significant; social; social enterprises; support; survey; t e; t u; table; times; university; value cache: eis-23495.pdf plain text: eis-23495.txt item: #119 of 298 id: eis-23496 author: Sloka, Biruta; Čipāne, Kate; Volvenkins, Sergejs title: INTERNET USE FOR SHOPPING IN LATVIA: FINDINGS BY RECENT SURVEY date: 2019-10-31 words: 4521 flesch: 47 summary: Recent developments of internet applications and increase in application of various information technol- ogies have supported fast development of internet shopping worldwide and also important topics for ac- ademic researchers. Aim of the research: check findings of recent preferences by customers on internet shops and factors for internet shop choice, different aspects on internet shopping and comparisons with academic research results in other countries. keywords: academic; age; analysis; aspects; authors; consumers; correlation; countries; customers; data; differences; e s; evaluation; factors; gender; indicators; information; internet; internet shopping; internet use; journal; latvia; level; mail; making; marketing; mean; methods; n s; n t; online; region; research; researchers; respondents; results; s t; sample; scale; shopping; significance; statistical; study; survey; t e; t u; table; test; university; use; variance cache: eis-23496.pdf plain text: eis-23496.txt item: #120 of 298 id: eis-23500 author: Tocelovska, Natalja; Sloka, Biruta; Purmalis, Karlis title: Financial Companies in Latvia: Why are they Coming to the Bond Market? date: 2019-10-31 words: 6053 flesch: 52 summary: KEYWORDS: corporate bonds, corporate bond market, financial sector issuers, factors, Latvia Karlis Purmalis, University of Latvia Introduction Submitted 06/2019 Accepted for publication 10/2019 Financial Companies In Latvia: Why are They Coming to the Bond Market? FSI segment is the forming segment of Latvian corporate bond market. keywords: academic; alternative; analysed; analysis; baltic; bank; bond; bond issue; bond market; borrowing; capital; company; corporate; corporate bond; correlation; cost; data; debt; debt market; decision; depth; development; e s; efficient; factors; fees; financial; financing; fsi; fsi segment; fsis; funding; group; indicators; interviews; issuance; issue; issuers; issuing; latvia; level; long; main; market; motivating; n t; nasdaq; present; public; reputation; research; result; sector; segment; strategical; structure; survey; t e; term; tocelovska; years cache: eis-23500.pdf plain text: eis-23500.txt item: #121 of 298 id: eis-23529 author: Jekabsone, Inga title: PARTICIPATION OF KEY STAKEHOLDERS IN SCIENCE POLICY MAKING IN EU date: 2019-10-31 words: 4858 flesch: 39 summary: In order to achieve the purpose, the tasks are formulated as follows: 1 to review the theoretical background for involvement of stakeholders in science policy making in EU; 2 to analyse the best practice in ensuring the participation of key stakeholders in science policy making in EU, special focusing on case of Latvia; 3 to provide the recommendations for the ministries in EU responsible for science in ensuring the participation of key stakeholders in policy making. In order to achieve the purpose, the tasks are formulated as follows: 1 to review the theoretical background for involvement of stakeholders in science policy making in EU; 2 to analyse the best practice in ensuring the participation of key stakeholders in science policy making in EU, special focusing on case of Latvia; 3 to provide the recommendations for the ministries in EU responsible for science in ensuring the partic- ipation of key stakeholders in policy making. keywords: + +; actors; addition; case; citizens; civil; commission; communication; design; development; different; e s; economy; education; effective; european; experts; framework; government; groups; helix; implementation; industry; innovation; instruments; involvement; key; knowledge; latvia; making; management; ministries; ministry; model; monitoring; n s; n t; national; order; participation; participatory; policy; policy making; process; processes; public; research; ris3; s t; science; science policy; scientists; smart; society; specialization; stakeholders; strategies; strategy; t e; t u; triple cache: eis-23529.pdf plain text: eis-23529.txt item: #122 of 298 id: eis-23550 author: Sander, Tom; Sloka, Biruta title: Use of Social Network Sites Depending on the Country of Origin of the Social Network Site User date: 2019-10-31 words: 12349 flesch: 62 summary: The tasks are to investigate similarities or differences in use of SNS in different coun- tries and compare results of SNS use in Germany (GER), Latvia (LV), United Kingdom (UK) and Hungary (HU). The research methods applied are as follows: 1) theoretical studies in scientific publications and 2) analysis of survey data on SNS use in Germany, United Kingdom, Latvia and Hungary. keywords: advantage; analysed; analysis; behaviour; capital; coefficient; communication; contacts; correlation; countries; country; data; day; differences; different; different countries; duration; e u; evaluations; exchange; factors; forward; friends; german respondents; germany; hungarian; hungary; important; individuals; influence; information; investment; io n; item; journal; kingdom; latvia; latvian respondents; median; membership; minutes; mode; n =; n s; n t; network; network sites; new; number; origin; participants; present; private snss; private social; question; research; respondents; results; s t; sander; scale; share; significant; similar; sites; snss; social; social capital; social network; source; spearman; statements; survey; t e; t o; t u; table; tendency; time; tom; transfer; u r; united; use cache: eis-23550.pdf plain text: eis-23550.txt item: #123 of 298 id: eis-23562 author: Sloka, Biruta; Jekabsone, Inga; Cipane, Kate; Vasina, Sabine Anete title: INCOME DIFFERENCES IN REGIONS OF LATVIA – PROBLEMS AND CHALLENGES date: 2019-10-31 words: 4134 flesch: 56 summary: Purpose of the study is to analyse income differences in the regions of Latvia. The tasks of the study: 1 to review theoretical background of income differences in context of regional development; 2 to review existing research of income differences in the regions in EU; 3 to analyse problems of income indifferences in the regions of Latvia. keywords: analysis; annual; areas; authors; cities; coefficient; context; convergence; countries; country; csb; data; development; differences; different; disposable; e s; economic; education; eur; female; gap; gini; household; income; income differences; indicators; inequality; kuznets; latgale; latvia; level; lowest; n s; n t; regional; regions; research; results; rich; rural; rīga; s t; sig; silc; standard; statistics; study; survey; t e; t u; table; territories; university cache: eis-23562.pdf plain text: eis-23562.txt item: #124 of 298 id: eis-23709 author: Mlodkowski, Pawel title: ECONOMIC GROWTH PROJECTION FOR EUROPEAN UNION BY 2030 date: 2019-10-31 words: 4540 flesch: 61 summary: EU, economic growth, real output projection, common EU policy, production function, population. The complementary policy in regard to immigrant allocation among EU countries could be based on the projected growth rate. keywords: author; capital; century; changes; countries; country; current; different; e s; e u; economic; economy; eu-27; european; exercise; figure; force; framework; function; gdp; genocide; germany; group; growth; international; ireland; labor; level; line; members; młodkowski; n s; n t; negative; new; output; paper; parameters; period; policy; poorest; population; production; projections; rate; real; s t; scale; situation; states; studies; t e; t u; table; time; union; years cache: eis-23709.pdf plain text: eis-23709.txt item: #125 of 298 id: eis-24033 author: Oikonomou, Giorgio title: Variations in the quality of government within the European Union: A comparative approach of Northern and Southern public bureaucracies date: 2019-10-31 words: 8086 flesch: 45 summary: When focusing on the administrative field on the European arena and employing the analytical lenses of states administrative models, evidently, there are different administrative traditions that countries, and –most often– groups of countries have embedded in their politico-admin- istrative apparatus. Overall, Nordic administrative model is decentralized based on the extensive use of inde- pendent agencies, result-oriented and places emphasis on accountability and transparency through criteria such as openness, efficiency and effectiveness (output legitimacy9) . keywords: administrative; agencies; analysis; better; bureaucracies; charron; core; corruption; countries; country; data; decentralization; decentralized; degree; denmark; different; e s; e u; economic; effectiveness; efficiency; eqgi; european; features; fiscal; governance; government; greece; impartiality; independent; index; institutions; italy; journal; lapuente; law; level; low; management; member; model; n s; n t; new; nordic; northern; paper; pattern; performance; peters; policies; policy; political; pollitt; professionalism; public; quality; regard; regions; related; results; rothstein; rule; s t; scores; social; southern; states; subnational; sweden; t e; t u; tradition; union; university; weberian; wgi cache: eis-24033.pdf plain text: eis-24033.txt item: #126 of 298 id: eis-25287 author: Imamović-Čizmić, Kanita; Sabljica, Samir title: Legal and Politological Aspects of Competition in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a Paradigm of the European Integration Process date: 2020-10-22 words: 9145 flesch: 40 summary: In this context, one of highly important ones is the area of competition law. KEYWORDS: competition law, Competition Law of BiH, Council of Competition of BiH, European integration. keywords: acquis; activities; agreement; application; article; association; bih; body; bosnia; candidate; cases; certain; commission; community; competition; competition council; competition law; competition policy; competition protection; conditions; consumer; council; countries; country; decisions; determinism; development; different; dominant; e s; e u; economic; efficiency; enforcement; eu membership; european; european commission; european integration; european union; example; fact; field; framework; goal; harmonisation; herzegovina; institutions; integration; january; june; laws; legal; legislation; loc; market competition; meaning; membership; n s; n t; necessary; number; order; policy; political; position; process; progress; protection; regulations; related; reports; rules; s t; saa; single; stabilisation; state; system; t e; t u; terms; trade; transition; u r; undertakings; union; work cache: eis-25287.pdf plain text: eis-25287.txt item: #127 of 298 id: eis-25492 author: Ciaglia, Sarah; Fuest, Clemens; Heinemann, Friedrich title: Fostering European Identity date: 2020-10-22 words: 10356 flesch: 57 summary: Agirdag et al. (2012; 2016) investigate European identity formation among Belgian pupils and find that the socio-economic status, both of the child’s family as well as the overall school’s average, strongly affect European identity: children from working class families are less likely to identify as European. i e s 2 0 2 0 / 1 4 Abstract Fostering European Identity http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.1.14.25492 Sarah Ciaglia London School of Economics and Political Science Over recent years, the concept of ‘European identity’ has received increasing scholarly attention. keywords: address; adonnino; approaches; assembly; attention; broadcaster; bruter; ceka; ciaglia; citizens; civic; classification; cognitive; commission; common; communities; contact; cooperation; countries; crisis; cultural; current; day; different; dimension; e s; e u; economic; education; effect; empirical; erasmus; european; european identity; european integration; european union; example; exchange; experience; financial; focus; formation; foster; groups; high; holiday; hooghe; https://doi; identification; identity; impact; important; individual; insights; institutions; integration; issues; journal; kaina; language; level; link; lists; literature; measures; member; mitchell; n s; n t; national; national identity; new; parliament; particular; party; pensioners; people; perspective; policy; political; politics; population; potential; press; program; public; recent; regional; relevant; report; research; resources; s t; science; section; service; skills; social; socio; sojka; states; students; studies; study; support; t e; t u; target; transnational; trust; type; u r; union; university; verhaegen; waltz; westle; young cache: eis-25492.pdf plain text: eis-25492.txt item: #128 of 298 id: eis-25680 author: Author title: PROMOTION OF EMPLOYEES KNOWLEDGE BUILDING VIA FLEXIBLE WORKING TIME: THEORETICAL CONCEPTS AND EVIDENCE FROM LATVIA date: 2010-04-05 words: 5545 flesch: 45 summary: Disadvantages of flexible working time (view of employers) Higher employees productivity, since less time for providing relaxation is necessary Greater possibilities for using the employees strongest qualities Not necessary to provide plausible free time for solving problems during working time (e.g. visiting doctor or state institution) There are several possibilities for knowledge building via flexible working time, especially in case flexible working time is applied at current stage, until economic slowdown comes to an end: 1) employees who study in higher education institutions may use the reduced working times for devoting themselves more to studies, 2) promotion of knowledge building is supported by state institutions (State Employment Agency) allowing to participate in training courses for professional growth and life-long education of persons working part-time and being subject to unemployment threats for total value of 300 – 500 Ls (approximately 430 – 710 EUR), 3) in case person is interested in personal growth, adjustment of flexible (and especially reduced) working time may promote his own motivation for further knowledge building that may be used after economic development will start. keywords: additional; adjustment; analysis; authors; building; case; complex; courses; development; economic; education; employees; employment; entrepreneurs; european; experience; factor; flexibility; flexible; flexible working; free; higher; hours; increase; inhabitants; integration; issn; job; jobs; journal; knowledge; knowledge building; labour; latvia; learning; levels; life; line; long; low; management; market; necessary; necessity; number; oecd; organisations; persons; possibilities; possibility; productivity; research; resources; respondents; results; situation; skills; state; studies; survey; theoretical; time; time employment; wage; working; working time cache: eis-25680.pdf plain text: eis-25680.txt item: #129 of 298 id: eis-25682 author: Author title: COMPETITIVE IDENTITY FOR NATION OF LATVIA – LESSONS TO LEARN FROM NATIONAL HOCKEY TEAM ‘’DINAMO RIGA’’ date: 2010-04-05 words: 4813 flesch: 56 summary: Latvian ice Hockey fans help and promote not only • the game to be more successful, but over previous years they have played significant role in international recognition of Latvia. Latvian ice hockey fans are the most attractive, the loudest, most loyal - there are many names they are called in international media for ISSN 1822-8402 EUROPEAN INTEGRATION STUDIES. keywords: anholt; behaviour; best; brand; branding; championship; cities; city; club; communication; competitive; country; devoted; dinamo; elite; european; event; fan; fans; field; games; hockey; ice; ice hockey; identification; identity; important; integration; international; issn; journal; latvia; league; local; management; marketing; national; nations; new; object; people; performance; place; positioning; public; reputation; research; riga; russia; self; society; sports; stakeholders; studies; success; support; team; temporary; time; tourism; world; years cache: eis-25682.pdf plain text: eis-25682.txt item: #130 of 298 id: eis-25683 author: Author title: RISK SOCIETY IN LATVIA: CHARACTERISTICS OF ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS date: 2010-04-05 words: 5775 flesch: 34 summary: Keywords: Risk society, sustainable development, environmental risks, environmental risk assessment, environmental risk awareness. Therefore, the article provides a brief analysis of theoretical base of the concept of the risk society and the idea of sustainable development and reviews legal, institutional, and regulatory instruments applied for identification, assessment and management of environmental risks applied both globally and in Latvia. keywords: actions; active; activities; analysis; article; assessment; awareness; beck; conditions; consciousness; controls; development; document; ecological; economic; environment protection; environmental; environmental risks; european; global; government; high; impact; industrial; information; informed; institutional; integration; issn; issues; latvia; latvijas; level; local; management; national; natural; opinion; organization; planning; policy; population; possible; problems; process; protection; public; question; readiness; relation; report; research; resources; respondents; results; risk; risk society; social; society; solutions; sphere; states; studies; sustainable; sustainable development; time; use; world cache: eis-25683.pdf plain text: eis-25683.txt item: #131 of 298 id: eis-25684 author: Author title: EVALUATION AND COMPARISON OF SELLING TERMS IN INTERNATIONAL E-COMMERCE date: 2010-04-05 words: 6547 flesch: 54 summary: The survey of VeriSign (2009) proves that many purchasers request on- line sellers to use additional security technologies. Third, the economic evaluation of investments, which are made with the aim to improve selling terms, is presented. keywords: analyse; analysis; aspects; authors; border; commerce; comparison; complex; conditions; consumer; copras; costs; countries; country; criteria; cross; data; decisions; delivery; different; digital; economic; european; evaluation; ginevičius; goods; important; information; integration; international; investments; issn; legal; line; line sellers; main; management; method; multi; offers; price; process; products; purchasers; purchasing; related; research; results; right; sales; selection; sellers; selling; selling terms; services; stores; studies; study; supplier; survey; terms; time; vat; withdrawal cache: eis-25684.pdf plain text: eis-25684.txt item: #132 of 298 id: eis-25685 author: Author title: EUROPEAN UNION CITIZENSHIP WITHIN MULTICULTURAL SOCIETY date: 2010-04-05 words: 6417 flesch: 47 summary: The Treaty of Amsterdam signed in 1997, extended citizens rights by introducing a new anti-discrimination clause on the grounds of sex, racial or ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation to the Treaty (Treaty of Amsterdam, 1997). Task of this article: To identify the main principles of EU citizenship; • To systemize the legal basic of EU citizenship • To analyses the main reasons that prevent minorities • from integrating into European society. keywords: access; available; certain; charter; citizenship; commission; community; council; countries; country; crimes; data; directive; discrimination; economic; education; employment; equal; ethnic; european; european citizenship; european integration; european union; evidence; examples; free; fundamental; general; groups; housing; human; identity; incidents; individual; initiatives; integration; issn; journal; law; legal; legislation; main; majority; member; member states; migrant; minorities; minority; movement; multicultural; national; nationality; new; non; number; official; origin; parliament; particular; people; political; population; protection; racial; racist; range; religious; report; rights; roma; sector; set; states; studies; treatment; treaty; union; union citizenship; violence; work cache: eis-25685.pdf plain text: eis-25685.txt item: #133 of 298 id: eis-25686 author: Author title: PRESUMPTIVE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN AND EDUCATION & TRAINING: NECESSARY PRECONDITIONS FOR UNIVERSITIES’ ACTIONS date: 2010-04-05 words: 3287 flesch: 35 summary: Formulating the requirements for University rankings • enabling to enhance quality of university graduates; Uplift of the autonomy as the essential precondition • of universities for systematic improvement of the university’s activity; necessary shifts in the content of graduate’s skills As I already mentioned, spiritual values should have an important position among other learning outcomes of university graduates. keywords: actions; activity; article; autonomy; brussels; commission; community; concept; countries; current; downturn; economic; education; entrepreneurial; eua; european; financing; global; graduates; higher; important; improvement; industry; institutions; integration; issn; knowledge; kriščiūnas; learning; necessary; new; policymakers; preconditions; programmes; quality; research; skills; social; society; spiritual; studies; study; sustainable; technology; training; universities; university; values cache: eis-25686.pdf plain text: eis-25686.txt item: #134 of 298 id: eis-25687 author: Author title: THE ROLE OF R&D MANAGER FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE R&D PARTNERSHIP date: 2010-04-05 words: 5465 flesch: 40 summary: The research method includes comparative and systematic analysis of scientific references regarding R&D project management and interviewing researchers from public and private sector. Actually, team leaders of the smallest informal team assure that they tackle with R&D project management. keywords: activities; analysis; approach; communication; companies; competition; cooperation; day; demand; design; development; different; duality; duties; environment; european; funding; generation; groups; hand; high; informal; innovation; institutions; integration; intensive; investigation; issn; journal; knowledge; leaders; leadership; level; list; long; main; management; manager; managerial; nature; new; organisational; partnership; performance; policy; private; private partnership; project; public; public r&d; r&d; r&d management; r&d manager; r&d project; research; researchers; results; risk; role; scientific; sectors; stakeholders; structure; studies; support; task; team; technology; time; way cache: eis-25687.pdf plain text: eis-25687.txt item: #135 of 298 id: eis-25688 author: Author title: EUROPE OF KNOWLEDGE: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT date: 2010-04-05 words: 8374 flesch: 17 summary: The following general conclusions were made: the processes of creating knowledge based society and generating knowledge economy and its further - development should be understood as the undivided unity, the processes of creating knowledge based society and generating knowledge economy and its further - development should be perceived as relevant to all spheres of life – meaning social, economic and political life, culture, advancement of science and technologies, interaction with nature in general and environment in particular, the processes of creating knowledge based society and generating knowledge economy and its further - development should be comprehended as the ones providing economic preconditions for modernization of the society and refinement of its life in accordance with the standards, norms and values of knowledge based society, the processes of creating knowledge based society and knowledge economy and further development should - be interpreted as multi-dimensional and extremely complex and uninterrupted process which manifests itself in cyclical changes and leaps towards higher quality standards, the complex approach towards knowledge based society and knowledge economy creation and further - development should be implemented in all stages of scientific research, studies and practical activities, including the prioritizing various programmes on multi- and cross-disciplinary research and studies, as well as strategic solutions of the complex character in various stages of regional development, planning and designing of economic and technological leaps. The processes of the creating of knowledge based society and knowledge economy and modernization are analyzed in the general context of the processes of sustainable development. keywords: attitudes; certain; changes; conditions; creating; creation; creation processes; development; development processes; different; economic; economy creation; education; essence; european; general; generation; global; ideas; important; innovations; integration; international; issn; knowledge economy; knowledge society; life; management; modernization; nature; necessary; needs; new knowledge; new quality; oriented; phenomena; place; political; principle; problems; processes; progress; quality; quality creation; resources; science; social; society; spread; studies; sustainable development; systems; technological; technologies; typical; universal; use; values cache: eis-25688.pdf plain text: eis-25688.txt item: #136 of 298 id: eis-25689 author: Author title: EUROPEAN STRUCTURAL FUNDS ASSISTANCE FOR YOUNG RESEARCHERS IN LATVIA date: 2010-04-05 words: 3978 flesch: 42 summary: Directly impacting factors: Proportion of state-funded study places at doctoral − level is too low (only 1462 state-funded study places at doctoral level, 31 percent of students are covering study fee); High rates of study fee for private-funded study − places at doctoral level (from 1350 to 6000 euro); Low postgraduate scholarships for doctoral students − (114 euro and credit equalized grant 85 euro); Low motivation for doctoral studies, which is caused − by many indirect factors. The Eu structural funds assistance impact on number of students at doctoral level in Latvia, 2003-2009 No. Indicators Years 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 1 European Social fund’s support for doctoral studies and post-doctoral research -- 102645 1792238 2388695 4736132 2724690 7702569 2 chain increase rate,% -- 0.00 1 646.05 33.28 98.27 -42.47 182.70 3 base increase rate,% -- 0.00 1 646.05 2 227.14 4 514.09 2 554.48 7 404.09 4 number master’s degree gained 3183 3608 3382 3173 3237 2602 2578 5 chain increase rate,% -- 13.35 -6.26 -6.18 2.02 -19.62 -0.92 6 base increase rate,% -- 13.35 6.25 -0.31 1.70 -18.25 -19.01 7 number of matriculated doctoral students 418 420 530 484 464 619 618 8 chain increase rate,% -- 0.48 26.19 -8.68 -4.13 33.41 -0.16 9 base increase rate,% -- 0.48 26.79 15.79 11.00 48.09 47.85 10 number of doctoral students enrolled in the prior study areas in the universities, which implemented the ESf project 178 193 231 222 251 304 295 11 chain increase rate,% -- 8.43 19.69 -3.90 13.06 21.12 -2.96 12 base increase rate,% -- 8.43 29.78 24.72 41.01 70.79 65.73 13 number of doctoral students enrolled in the non prior study areas 240 227 299 262 213 315 323 14 chain increase rate,% -- -5.42 31.72 -12.37 -18.70 47.89 2.54 15 base increase rate,% -- -5.42 24.58 9.17 -11.25 31.25 34.58 Source: author’s calculation based on the Report on Higher Education in Latvia 2009 (figures, data, tendencies) keywords: academic; activities; age; areas; assistance; data; development; doctoral; doctoral students; education; european; fields; funds; higher; higher education; increase; innovation; institutes; institutions; latvia; level; low; main; mentoring; national; natural; new; number; period; programming; projects; quality; rate,%; regional; research; researchers; science; scientific; scientists; structural; structural funds; students; studies; study; system; technology; universities; young cache: eis-25689.pdf plain text: eis-25689.txt item: #137 of 298 id: eis-25690 author: Author title: CONSISTENT CHOICE AT THE BALLOT BOX: PERCEPTIONS THAT MATTER IN LATVIA AND ESTONIA date: 2010-04-05 words: 5105 flesch: 46 summary: Data on party placement was obtained from party top management (board members, secretaries-general and alike) opinion poll (N=7 for Latvia and N=6 for Estonia) where they placed their own party and other elected parties along 10 point left-right scale. nevertheless the determinants of self-placement are not very clear as only in Latvia education, personal income and position at work influence the self-placement of the respondents while no coherence of social economic status was observed in Estonia. keywords: analysis; behaviour; belonging; central; citizens; commission; comparative; continuum; conversation; correlation; data; democratic; development; dimension; eastern; economic; education; elections; electoral; estonia; ethnic; europe; european; factors; home; income; inequality; influence; integration; language; latvia; left; level; order; orientation; oxford; p=0.01; parties; party; placement; point; political; position; project; regression; research; respondents; results; right; right continuum; scale; self; social; socioeconomic; studies; survey; university; value; voters cache: eis-25690.pdf plain text: eis-25690.txt item: #138 of 298 id: eis-25691 author: Author title: VALUE - ADDED TAX (VAT) AFF ECTION TO THE LITHUANIAN ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS. IT’S APP LICATION IN THE FOOD SECTOR date: 2010-04-05 words: 3611 flesch: 57 summary: EU countries, VAT rates, the practice shows that two - thirds of the countries apply reduced rates of agricultural and food products. Since the beginning of 2009 changed the system of VAT rates had the greatest impact on Lithuanian food for consumers, which, compared to other EU countries are among the most family budget issuing food. keywords: 0,0; addition; advantage; agricultural; application; business; commission; competitive; competitiveness; countries; european; food; food products; fresh; increase; influence; integration; issn; level; lithuanian; lithuanian level; lower; market; meat; percent; percent lithuanian; poland; polish; price; producers; production; products; purchase; rate; reduced; sector; standard; studies; tax; union; value; vat; vat rate; zloty cache: eis-25691.pdf plain text: eis-25691.txt item: #139 of 298 id: eis-25692 author: Author title: THE ECONOMICS OF RURAL HERITAGE PARKS: WILLINGNESS TO PAY date: 2010-04-05 words: 4188 flesch: 58 summary: Socio-economic and other trip-related measurements by visitors of Maija park This section presents the summary statistics of the respondents’ socio-economic characteristics, and also respondents’ responses regarding their perceptions and attitudes. Characteristics of visits: the most popular type of transportation to Maija park was car (38.6%) followed by tour bus (7.1%), bus/aeroplane (11.8%) and walker (42.5%). keywords: analysis; author; available; average; carlsen; cheltenham; city; contingent; cultural; cēsis; data; economics; education; edward; elgar; environmental; european; expenses; gender; good; heritage; income; information; integration; issn; journal; latvia; local; maija; maija park; mistake; model; navrud; number; park; pay; possible; price; quality; questions; rate; recreation; research; respondents; rural; services; signorello; studies; study; sum; test; tourism; travel; valuation; value; variables; visitors; willingness; wtp cache: eis-25692.pdf plain text: eis-25692.txt item: #140 of 298 id: eis-25693 author: Author title: EU TAXATION POLICY DURING FINANCIAL CRISIS date: 2010-04-05 words: 3697 flesch: 50 summary: An orderly exit strategy from expansionary macroeconomic policies is also an essential part of crisis resolution.12 Tax policy during and after financial crisis The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has argued that the global financial crisis was exacerbated (though not caused) by tax policies which fuelled the credit boom that preceded the economic downturn. Abstract The paper deals with the problems of tax coordination and perspectives during and after financial crisis. keywords: authorities; banks; capital; central; challenges; corporate; countries; credit; crisis; debt; depression; economic; economy; european; financial; financial crisis; fiscal; future; gdp; global; governments; great; growth; harmonization; high; impact; income; institutions; integration; interest; issn; liquidity; long; lower; lowering; markets; measures; member; monetary; particular; policies; policy; problems; rates; real; recovery; response; risk; short; states; stimulus; stock; studies; support; system; tax; taxation; taxes; term; union; vat cache: eis-25693.pdf plain text: eis-25693.txt item: #141 of 298 id: eis-25694 author: Author title: THE ASSESSMENT OF FINDING IN PERFORMED FUNCTIONAL AUDITS – LATVIA’S EXPIERENCE date: 2010-04-05 words: 4257 flesch: 48 summary: As the best example, internal audit reports of the Ministry of Agriculture and State Treasury should be mentioned, in which a detailed analysis of the budget building process in the agency is given with its link to the strategies of institution as it is determined by good practice (Schick, 2003). Research restrictions – the author was not able to give direct references to specific institutions and audit reports because such were the conditions in order to receive the information. keywords: achievement; acts; administration; agency; analysis; article; audit; audit reports; auditing; auditors; authors; business; different; employees; european; evaluation; events; external; functional; functional audit; general; information; instance; institution; internal; intosai; journal; latvia; management; managers; ministries; number; organizational; performance; practice; process; public; quality; recommendations; regulatory; reports; scientific; sector; service; state; study; system; table; time; work cache: eis-25694.pdf plain text: eis-25694.txt item: #142 of 298 id: eis-25696 author: Author title: SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEMS OF LITHUANIA AND GERMANY: DIVERSITY OF APPROACHES date: 2010-04-05 words: 5239 flesch: 47 summary: Judging from the above regulations, we can assume that the question of health insurance is one of the most important health protection policy questions in the European union. In the article is described concept and types of health insurance, is made comparison of circle of insured persons of the analysed countries, their rights and responsibilities. keywords: ambulatory; associations; average; beds; busse; centras; countries; development; different; doctors; european; expenses; federal; federal republic; fees; financing; foundation; funds; gdp; general; germany; government; health; health insurance; health protection; health system; healthcare; hospitals; institutions; insurance; insurance system; integration; issn; legislation; lietuvos; lithuania; lsic; management; ministry; number; obligatory; obligatory health; organization; patient; personal; private; problems; profit; protection; providers; questions; republic; residents; riesberg; sector; services; studies; sveikatos; system; time; total; treatment; union; vilnius; voluntary; world; černiauskas cache: eis-25696.pdf plain text: eis-25696.txt item: #143 of 298 id: eis-25697 author: Author title: ACQUISITION OF EU STRUCTURAL FUNDS IN IRELAND AND LATVIA date: 2010-04-05 words: 8586 flesch: 49 summary: Studying EU funds’ impact in Latvia, in Table 1 the authors have analysed EU funds financing in Latvia in 2004 – 2008 from GDP (percentage) of the respective period. Ireland is one of the economically most developed, industrial and market-oriented countries which until now has most successfully used EU structural funds. keywords: acquisition; activity; agriculture; area; authors; average; better; budget; capital; countries; country; data; development; different; economic; economy; education; eiropas; eu funds; eu member; eu structural; european; example; experience; factor; financial; financing; funding; funds; gdp; good; government; great; growth; human; impact; important; indicators; infrastructure; integration; investment; ireland; issn; largest; latvia; latvijas; level; life; main; market; member; national; new; online; opportunity; people; period; peripheral; planning; policy; political; population; positive; possible; productivity; projects; public; quality; received; region; regional; republic; research; resources; riga; rīga; sectors; shows; similar; situation; social; spheres; state; structural; structural funds; studies; substantial; successful; support; time; total; union; use; vanags; work; years cache: eis-25697.pdf plain text: eis-25697.txt item: #144 of 298 id: eis-25698 author: Author title: DEVELOPMENT OF FARM STRUCTURE IMPACTED BY THE AGRICULTURAL REFORM IN LATGALE REGION date: 2010-04-05 words: 4070 flesch: 52 summary: Structure of Latgale farms forming production Capacity Capacity of agricultural production is formed by an aggregate of several factors and preconditions, it may be characterised by different indicators. Academician Oļģerts Krastiņš (2001) renders data, according to which in 1935, following the third land reform, there were more than 44 thousand very small farms in Latvia with the owned land area less than 1 hectare and the proportion of small farms of 1-20 hectares of land exceeding 56.7% of the total number. keywords: agrarian; agricultural; analysis; calculations; capacity; csb; data; development; economic; economies; emu; farms; group; labour; land; large; latgale; latvia; level; lvl; magnitude; medium; natural; number; period; production; products; proportion; reform; region; results; riga; scale; small; small farms; structure; table; total; value; years cache: eis-25698.pdf plain text: eis-25698.txt item: #145 of 298 id: eis-25700 author: Author title: THE EFFECT OF COMPETITION FORCES AND COMPETITION STRATEGY IN THE MARKET OF ORGANIC PRODUCTS date: 2010-04-05 words: 5638 flesch: 41 summary: Basing on the research factors, which affect the organic farming market environment, the competition forces and elements of the product value formation chain, the authors created a hierarchy analysis model to detect which of the factors, existing in the market environment, are the most important for the promotion of the organic product market development and the stimulation of exactly which value chain core activities element can cause the most considerable effect on the development of organic product market. Research methods applied in the research Monographic method – for the theoretical • substantiation and formation of the discussion; Method of analysis and synthesis – for researching • the market structure and processes, evaluation and interpreting of the research results; Statistical methods – illustrating the advancement of • the processes; Logically-constructive method – for interpreting • the research results, forming structural and hierarchy schemes, formulation of the findings and conclusions; Porter’s competition forces’ analysis for analyzing of • competition forces affecting organic product market and analyzing of product life cycle in order to define Latvia organic farming market development phase; Method of analytic hierarchy process – for taking • a decision about the most significant value chain component and priority regarding the implemented activities for the promotion of organic farming market development. keywords: activities; advantages; agriculture; analysis; areas; authors; chain; cluster; competition; competition forces; competitiveness; conventional; conventional products; criterions; development; economic; elements; enterprises; environment; european; experts; factors; farming market; farms; figure; forces; formation; group; growth; hierarchy; important; increase; integration; land; latvia; latvia organic; level; market; market development; market environment; marketing; method; necessary; necessity; opinion; organic agriculture; organic enterprises; organic farming; organic market; organic products; period; present; process; produce; producers; product market; production; promotion; research; sector; strategy; studies; suppliers; supply; support; value; value chain cache: eis-25700.pdf plain text: eis-25700.txt item: #146 of 298 id: eis-25701 author: Author title: TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT IN LITHUANIA date: 2010-04-05 words: 5201 flesch: 41 summary: LCA evaluates the potential impact on the environment of waste management systems throughout all life cycle, from “cradle to grave” (Coleman 2003). During the last decades all over the world, considerable work has been done in waste management and waste generation sectors trying to promote prevention and ISSN 1822-8402 EUROPEAN INTEGRATION STUDIES. keywords: activities; analysis; analytical; application; approach; aspects; assessment; collection; concept; cycle; data; decision; development; different; disposal; economic; efficient; engineering; environmental; european; fig; flows; generation; hazardous; hierarchy; human; hw management; impact; industrial; integrated; integration; issn; lca; legal; legislation; life; lithuania; management; model; municipal; new; optimization; problems; research; resources; scientific; social; solid; studies; sustainable; system; technical; time; tons; tools; treatment; waste; waste management cache: eis-25701.pdf plain text: eis-25701.txt item: #147 of 298 id: eis-25702 author: Author title: THE GROWING NEED OF CROSS-CULTURAL MANAGEMENT AND ETHICS IN BUSINESS date: 2010-04-05 words: 2918 flesch: 45 summary: Key words: Cross-cultural management, Cross-cultural management ethics, business. There are different cross-cultural problems such as standards, practice, laws, ethics, culture, customs, management system, and socioeconomic system. keywords: appropriate; barriers; business; complex; countries; cross; cultural; cultural management; culture; different; effective; employees; enterprises; environment; ethics; european; globalization; growing; human; important; international; isbn; knowledge; language; main; management; managers; multicultural; need; new; problems; process; research; resources; results; role; skills; social; solutions; standards; system; technologies; thomas; transfer; values; work cache: eis-25702.pdf plain text: eis-25702.txt item: #148 of 298 id: eis-25704 author: Author title: SUBURBAN SETTLEMENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF URBAN POLICY: LATVIAN EXAMPLE date: 2010-04-05 words: 4108 flesch: 47 summary: LATVIAn EXAMpLE Armands puzulis1, peteris Skinkis2 Riga planning region1, University of Latvia2 Abstract Conditions of land ownership, land development and land development control on the urban fringe of Latvia are similar to those prevailing in other Baltic countries. Quite often local governments were not aware of their role in local land policy and failed to take advantage of making land reserves for future development needs. keywords: administrative; american; area; boundaries; cities; city; construction; context; development; district; economic; european; functional; future; governments; implementation; integration; issn; issue; journal; land; large; latvia; local; metropolitan; national; new; past; pieriga; place; planned; planning; plans; policy; present; principles; processes; reform; regional; riga; role; rural; settlements; social; space; spatial; state; structure; studies; suburban; support; territories; territory; time; urban; use; villages; vol; years cache: eis-25704.pdf plain text: eis-25704.txt item: #149 of 298 id: eis-25705 author: Author title: STRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF GRAIN PRODUCTION IN THE WORLD’S REGIONS date: 2010-04-05 words: 3798 flesch: 63 summary: no 4 STRuCTuRAL DEVELOpMEnT Of GRAIn pRODuCTIOn In THE WORLD’S REGIOnS Kazimirs Spogis, Linda Silina, Dana Svedere Department of Entrepreneurship and Management Abstract The paper includes the research results on structural development processes in grain production in various regions of the world obtained by analysing the structural composition of output of grain crops and assessing the development trends both in Europe and the other regions of the world. A significant decrease in the areas planted for grain crops in North America can be impacted by two major factors: grain overproduction which exceeds the purchasing • power of consumers and grain processors in the world market; radical progress in the science of grain production • in the USA, which promotes a sharp increase in grain yields, creates favourable preconditions for an increase in the output of grains, while at the same time using smaller areas for grain crops. keywords: agricultural; areas; asian; changes; countries; crops; data; development; eastern; eastern europe; europe; european; grain; grain crops; increase; integration; largest; maize; market; output; production; regions; research; share; southern; southern europe; sown; structure; studies; table; total; western; wheat; world cache: eis-25705.pdf plain text: eis-25705.txt item: #150 of 298 id: eis-25706 author: Author title: Information about the article’s authors date: 2010-04-05 words: 884 flesch: 35 summary: professor; Riga Stradiņš University; +371 67 409 161; Ilga_kreituse@rsu.lv KRIšČIŪnAS Kęstutis, Prof. Habil Dr. of technical sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Institute of Europe; +370 37 30 01 37, e-mail kestutis.krisciunas@ktu.lt latviete Ilze, Professional Master’s degree in Economics and Business Management, Latvia University of Agriculture, Phone: +37126358706, email: Ilze.Latviete@lm.gov.lv MAGOnE Iveta, Mg. soc., PhD student, auditor; University of Latvia, Economic and Management Faculty, Aspazijas blv. 5, Riga, LV-1050; E-mail: imag@latnet.lv MELnIKAS Borisas, Professor, Habil. oec., regional economics and development, marketing, marketing research; Academician of Latvian Academy of Sciences, Latvia University of Agriculture, phone nr. +371 29254469, e-mail: baiba.rivza@llu.lv RunGuLE Ritma, Dr.soc.sc., Assoc. prof., Riga Stradiņš University, phone:+26446362, E-mail: ritma.rungule@ rsu.lv SILIŅA Linda, Dr.oec., assistant professor, Indicating science field is structural development of agriculture, Latvia University of Agriculture, Faculty of Economics Department of Entrepreneurship and Management, phone +37129462090, Linda.Silina@llu.lv šĶESTERS keywords: +371; agriculture; business; department; economics; faculty; institute; kaunas; latvia; latvia university; mail; management; marketing; phone; professor; riga; science; student; technical; technology; university cache: eis-25706.pdf plain text: eis-25706.txt item: #151 of 298 id: eis-25715 author: Author title: R&D PO LICY IMPACT ON RESEARCH EXCELLENCE date: 2009-05-05 words: 5028 flesch: 38 summary: Introduction Present policy discourse most frequently presupposes a notion of “excellence” in research as a synonym of high quality research, consequently to the perception of qualitative higher education. Nevertheless, rivalry for the highest evaluation of research performance has not yet provided with a single and fixed definition of “research excellence”. keywords: assessment; basic; centres; citation; competitive; concept; education; education institutions; european; evaluation; excellence; field; formal; funding; higher; higher education; impact; indicators; individual; institutions; instruments; integration; international; isi; issn; legal; level; lithuanian; management; methodology; methods; minimum; number; order; output; perception; performance; policy; production; public; publications; qualification; qualitative; quality; r&d; r&d policy; regard; report; requirements; research; research excellence; research funding; research performance; research quality; researchers; results; science; scientific; set; social; state; studies; time; universities; vol cache: eis-25715.pdf plain text: eis-25715.txt item: #152 of 298 id: eis-25716 author: Author title: BRAIN DRAIN PROBLEM IN LITHUANIA: PO SSIBLE ACTIONS FO R ITS’ SOLUTION VIA BRAIN GAIN date: 2009-05-05 words: 5243 flesch: 50 summary: Keywords: Brain drain, brain gain, knowledge workers migration, brain gain policies. That allowed systemising actions for suppression of brain drain phenomenon in Lithuania; Presented situation of brain drain in Lithuania and  recommended actions for the suppression of brain drain in Lithuania were suggested. keywords: actions; asian; attractive; better; brain; brain drain; career; conditions; countries; country; decision; development; economic; economy; emba; european; factors; foreign; gain; good; human; important; integration; international; internetą; issn; kmu; knowledge; life; lithuania; living; main; measures; migration; nsa; opportunities; people; perception; phenomenon; policies; policy; possibility; prieiga; professionals; qualified; respect; respondents; skilled; social; stress; studies; suppression; survey; table; tolerance; work; workers; world cache: eis-25716.pdf plain text: eis-25716.txt item: #153 of 298 id: eis-25717 author: Author title: ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE RELATIONSHIPS SCIENCE – BUSINESS THROUGH ESTABLISHMENT OF CENTERS FOR TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER IN BULGARIA (THE CASE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ROUSSE) date: 2009-05-05 words: 4722 flesch: 34 summary: Technology transfer possibilities by using TTo The success of technology transfer depends on proper development and effective use of networks, relationships and enhancement of trust between providers and adopters of technologies at regional level. The tasks placed for the solution of the article’s aim are: to elucidate the necessity of technology transfer enhancement between the science and the practice, to analyze the Bulgarian environment and the condition of technology transfer between higher education institutes and business, to estimate the possibilities for technology transfer through establishment of TTo with the use of Eu financial sources and to give an example of good practice by sharing the experience, gained during the implementation of Eu funded project and to estimate the multiplication possibilities. keywords: activities; analysis; article; bulgarian; business; cec; company; competitiveness; development; economic; economy; education; enterprises; establishment; european; experience; feasibility; financial; firms; grant; growth; heis; higher; improvement; industrial; industry; information; innovation; institutes; institutions; integration; introduction; issn; knowledge; level; main; management; manufacturing; market; needs; new; performance; possibilities; practice; problems; process; products; project; public; ready; regional; research; researchers; rousse; science; scientific; sector; social; structural; studies; support; system; technological; technologies; technology; technology transfer; transfer; tto; union; universities; university cache: eis-25717.pdf plain text: eis-25717.txt item: #154 of 298 id: eis-25718 author: Author title: INFORMATION SOCIETY AND QUALITY OF LIFE date: 2009-05-05 words: 4097 flesch: 57 summary: This paper aims at analysing of the indices that characterise the quality of life and the indices that characterise the development of information society – for Lithuania and separate countries of various development level. further development of information and communication technologies is unquestionably directly affecting the development of information society, and at the same time makes a considerable contribution to the development of the country’s or region’s economy, is directly making a strong impact on it. keywords: access; considerable; countries; country; development; digital; doi; economy; european; gdp; hdi; high; home; households; human; i2010; index; indices; information; information society; inhabitants; internet; ireland; level; lietuvos; life; line; lithuania; objective; percent; problems; quality; rank; social; society; solidarity; state; strategy; studies; table; technologies; time; union; world cache: eis-25718.pdf plain text: eis-25718.txt item: #155 of 298 id: eis-25719 author: Author title: ON THE PERSPECTIVES OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF KNOWLEDGE TRIANGLE BASED ON LISBON STRATEGY IN ESTONIA date: 2009-05-05 words: 3453 flesch: 45 summary: Institutions who are responsible for supporting Estonian innovation development are: Ministry of Economy and Communications, Ministry of Education and Research together with bigger universities. EDF creation initiated important changes: research projects of the Estonian Development Fund give meaning to Estonian economic Development. keywords: article; companies; competitiveness; countries; development; economic; economy; education; eesti; eis; enterprises; estonia; european; expenditure; growth; heinlo; high; higher; increase; indicators; information; innovation; innovativeness; innovators; institutions; integration; issn; knowledge; level; lisbon; manufacturing; member; new; performance; perspectives; public; r&d; research; sciences; scoreboard; sector; social; sphere; states; strategy; structure; students; studies; study; tallinn; triangle; years cache: eis-25719.pdf plain text: eis-25719.txt item: #156 of 298 id: eis-25720 author: Author title: POLICY INTERVENTION TO R&D BASED VALLEY CREATION IN LITHUANIA date: 2009-05-05 words: 3847 flesch: 36 summary: Ghosh M. (2007) R&D policies and endogenous growth: a dynamic general equilibrium analysis of the case for Canada. There are plenty of examples, when high technology research centers developed spontaneously over the years (Silicon Valley, Rout 128), on the other hand there are not less examples, when such kind of centers become prosperous after careful planning and coordination (Research triangle park, Austin, San Diego) (Smilor et al, 2007). keywords: 2006; 2008; activities; approach; business; case; centers; certain; change; clusters; commercialization; companies; concentration; concept; creation; crucial; development; economic; economy; european; excellence; factors; funding; geographical; government; high; industry; infrastructure; innovation; institutions; integration; intensive; intervention; issn; knowledge; leadership; lithuania; main; management; market; new; partnership; policy; public; r&d; regional; research; role; science; sector; smilor; social; spin; spontaneous; studies; study; success; successful; tacit; technology; transfer; universities; university; valley; woodward cache: eis-25720.pdf plain text: eis-25720.txt item: #157 of 298 id: eis-25721 author: Author title: Czech National Anti - Crisis Plan in a Europe of Knowledge context 1 date: 2009-05-05 words: 3357 flesch: 55 summary: Stabilization programs priorities in general, as they are recommended by the OECD and European Economic Recovery Plan (EERP), will be compared. No 3 49 sustainability of industries of knowledge economy is legitimate. keywords: anti; approach; basic; brussels; change; costs; council; crisis; czech; development; economic; economy; education; eerp; european; expenses; financial; financing; funds; gdp; government; growth; industries; integration; isbn; issn; jobs; knowledge; lisbon; long; measures; national; new; oecd; plan; praha; priorities; program; public; r&d; recent; recovery; social; society; stabilization; states; strategy; structural; studies; support; term; total; way cache: eis-25721.pdf plain text: eis-25721.txt item: #158 of 298 id: eis-25722 author: Author title: REALIZATION OF PROF ESSIONAL PEDAGOGICAL COMPETENCE DELIVERING ICT-BASED COU RSES date: 2009-05-05 words: 5693 flesch: 41 summary: Introduction Realization of professional pedagogical competence should be informed by the understanding of the overarching concept of competence. Research methods included literature review to describe the models of professional pedagogical competence at HE level. keywords: activities; adult; attention; competence; concept; conceptual; context; correlation; course; data; development; dewey; education; educator; european; event; experience; factors; formation; general; goals; higher; immediate; individual; integration; issn; issues; learners; learning; learning experience; level; line; long; methods; number; objectives; order; particular; pedagogical; pedagogical competence; performance; positive; process; professional; questions; research; respondent; self; significant; society; statistic; students; studies; study; teacher; teaching; term; theoretical; title cache: eis-25722.pdf plain text: eis-25722.txt item: #159 of 298 id: eis-25723 author: Author title: ACQUISITION OF RESOU RCES OF THE INSTRUMENT FO R REGIONAL DEVELOP MENT – THE COHESION FU ND – IN LATVIA UNDER CONDITIONS OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS date: 2009-05-05 words: 4241 flesch: 49 summary: To analyse the balance of CF project aims and  stabilization and growth recovery program implementation strategy of Latvian economy. Today there is a number of CF projects that have some irregularities in project implementation plan with high implementation risk (Ministry of Finance 2009a): 1. keywords: 2006; acquirement; acquisition; cohesion; cohesion fund; conditions; crisis; development; distribution; economic; environmental; european; finance; financial; financing; fund; goals; growth; implementation; integration; issn; latvia; line; millions; ministry; period; possible; problems; procurement; program; projects; renewal; resources; scientific; sector; services; stabilization; state; studies; support; system; table; technical; time; today; total; transport; union; water; year; āboliņa cache: eis-25723.pdf plain text: eis-25723.txt item: #160 of 298 id: eis-25724 author: Author title: TAX HARMONIZATION AND TAX COMPETITION IN EUROP EAN UNION date: 2009-05-05 words: 5128 flesch: 47 summary: Several attitudes to tax competition and tax harmonization are discussed, including the tax competition theories. The paper deals with the problems of tax harmonization and competition in the Eropean union (Eu). keywords: area; article; bases; capital; case; certain; common; competition; corporate; council; countries; decrease; different; directive; duty; economic; eec; effective; energy; european; european union; excise; fiscal; free; goods; harmonization; higher; indirect; integration; internal; issn; labour; law; level; low; main; market; member; member states; positive; process; public; rates; reason; regulating; result; services; set; situation; standard; states; studies; systems; tax; tax competition; tax harmonization; tax rates; taxation; taxes; theory; treaty; union; value; vat cache: eis-25724.pdf plain text: eis-25724.txt item: #161 of 298 id: eis-25725 author: Author title: EMPLOYEES HEALTH AND SAFETY REQUIREMENTS AND REGULATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION date: 2009-05-05 words: 5986 flesch: 45 summary: Risk assessment of possible risk-factors in the evaluation process, which can be found in the risk of potential impact on worker health and the decision of whether the risk is acceptable or unacceptable. Is not easy to evaluate laws and even infringements of constitution in juridical attitude, so, after the entrance to the European Union, business and systems of organizations, as well as higher requirements are raising for warrant of workers safety and health. keywords: accidents; action; article; assessment; brundza; commission; company; conditions; council; development; directive; diseases; economic; eec; elements; employees; employer; environment; equipment; european; european union; factors; framework; general; health; hours; ilo; implementation; important; improvement; information; integration; internetą; issn; legal; legislation; level; main; management; measures; member; national; necessary; new; occupational; occupational health; occupational risk; occupational safety; organization; osh; policy; prevention; prieiga; protection; public; requirements; risk; risk assessment; safety; saugos; social; states; strategy; studies; sveikatos; system; union; work; workers; working; žiūrėta cache: eis-25725.pdf plain text: eis-25725.txt item: #162 of 298 id: eis-25726 author: Author title: STIMULATING PENSION FUNDS INVESTMENTS TO VENTURE CAPITAL: OPPORTUNITIES IN EUROPEAN UNION COUNTRIES date: 2009-05-05 words: 4458 flesch: 37 summary: The higher level of venture capital investments can be achieved by stimulating investments of institutional investors into venture capital funds. The tasks of the research: to present the importance of venture capital investments; to explain the relation between venture capital funds and pension funds; to analyze the features of pension funds activities in EU countries and main problems; to provide main obstacles and stimulating instruments of venture capital investments development through pension funds. keywords: activities; assets; banks; capital; capital funds; capital investments; companies; countries; creation; developed; development; economic; economy; eu countries; european; evca; finance; financial; financing; funds; funds investments; governments; growth; higher; impact; important; individual; industry; institutional; instruments; insurance; integration; international; investments; investors; issn; long; main; market; oecd; online; paper; pension; pension funds; potential; private; private pension; public; research; risk; sources; studies; systems; term; usa; venture; venture capital cache: eis-25726.pdf plain text: eis-25726.txt item: #163 of 298 id: eis-25727 author: Author title: IMPROVEMENT OF VAT SYSTEM OF LATVIA date: 2009-05-05 words: 3956 flesch: 59 summary: The objects of the research are VAT revenues and VAT laws and regulations. urgency of the research is related with the high importance of VAT revenues on the State budget because they comprise more than 50 per cent of the Central government basic budget income. keywords: accounting; acquisition; activities; budget; business; cash; companies; costs; deductible; deduction; directive; economic; european; fuel; gdp; increase; industries; input; january; latvia; law; laws; lease; line; lvl; maintenance; motorcars; payments; period; person; principle; reduced; regulations; research; retail; revenues; sales; small; state; tax; taxable; turnover; use; value; vat; year cache: eis-25727.pdf plain text: eis-25727.txt item: #164 of 298 id: eis-25728 author: Author title: PART-TIME EMPLOYMENT AS A PROMOTIONAL FACTOR OF LABOUR MARKET date: 2009-05-05 words: 5055 flesch: 58 summary: Attractiveness is related to employment opportunities. They comprise employment, accounting work hours and unemployment data, emphasizing gender differences. keywords: agreement; authors; average; basic; children; conditions; country; darba; data; economic; educational; employee; employers; employment; establishments; european; example; factors; family; females; hours; integration; issn; job; labour; labour market; laiks; latvia; law; leave; legal; market; maternity; new; number; opportunities; people; pre; research; school; security; significant; small; social; studies; table; territories; time; time employment; time work; total; towns; union; week; work; work hours cache: eis-25728.pdf plain text: eis-25728.txt item: #165 of 298 id: eis-25729 author: Author title: BUILDING KNOWLEDGE ABOUT STRATEGY FOR GROWTH: SYSTEM DYNAMICS APPROACH 1 date: 2009-05-05 words: 3536 flesch: 51 summary: In the context of these necessities we will discuss how to solve specific problems in systems with dynamic complexity and possibilities for the implementation of system dynamics models as a useful tool for describing the problems of growth of the EU. We found system dynamics models to be an environment in which it is possible to think and invent new ways of solving complex problems. keywords: approaches; behavior; changes; cit; complex; complexity; decision; dostupné; dynamics; economic; environment; european; forrester; integration; isbn; issn; knowledge; learning; making; massachusetts; methodology; methods; mildeová; modeling; models; problems; process; real; simulation; social; soft; sterman; strategy; studies; system; system dynamics; thinking; time; understanding; world; www cache: eis-25729.pdf plain text: eis-25729.txt item: #166 of 298 id: eis-25730 author: Author title: KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY IN THE EUROP EAN UNION: CREATION PROCESS, THE MAIN TYPICALITIES AND PROBLEMS OF CLUSTERIZATION date: 2009-05-05 words: 5995 flesch: 39 summary: Key tasks of our completed research have been the following: demonstrate the fact that knowledge based society and knowledge based economy in the European union should be created according to the universal principle of „creation of a new quality; prove the necessity to create and apply the strategies oriented towards innovation, integration and synthesis; reveal the essence of the rational specialization of national and regional economies; show the necessity of creation and expansion of regional, cross-regional and international innovation networks of clusters and economic “oases” in the European union; demonstrate the fact that networking of science and technology parks and business centers is the first stage of the knowledge based economy creation process; show the necessity of the networking of science and technology parks and business centers in the context of knowledge based economy creation processes in Lithuania. The main result of the completed research is the concept of strategies oriented towards integration and synthesis, the basis for which is the universal principle of „creation of a new quality“: we should utilize this principle in elaborating and implementing the strategies for creation of knowledge based economy in the European union. keywords: activities; business; centers; clusters; competitive; conditions; countries; country; creation; developed; development; economic; economies; economy; economy creation; education; european; european union; firms; following; global; growth; higher; idea; implementation; important; increase; information; innovation; integration; international; issn; issue; journal; key; knowledge; knowledge economy; large; lithuania; long; main; management; markets; melnikas; networks; new; oases; opportunities; parks; particular; policy; political; possibilities; problems; products; regional; research; science; scientific; social; society; space; stage; strategies; studies; sunrise; system; technological; technologies; technology; term; trade; transition; union; valley; vilnius; world cache: eis-25730.pdf plain text: eis-25730.txt item: #167 of 298 id: eis-25731 author: Author title: MONETARY POLICY CONVERGENCE IN THE PRE- AND POSTINTEGRATION PERIOD. CASE OF BALTIC STATES AND POLAND date: 2009-05-05 words: 3218 flesch: 51 summary: Similarities and differences in monetary policy stance should be attributable to some global events and regional developments. Statistical methods cover simple correlation and co integration analysis of time series representing monetary policy stance in a form of the MpSI. keywords: accession; bank; common; convergence; correlation; countries; country; credit; criteria; developments; economic; ellp; emu; estonia; european; financial; integration; international; latvia; lithuania; methods; monetary; monetary policy; money; mpsi; młodkowski; new; nominal; paper; period; poland; policy; rates; real; restrictiveness; results; shocks; similarity; stance; states; studies; trade; union; velocity cache: eis-25731.pdf plain text: eis-25731.txt item: #168 of 298 id: eis-25732 author: Author title: THE NEW EU MEMBER STATES – THE PLACE IN THE INTEGRATION ROAD OF THE EU ECONOMY date: 2009-05-05 words: 6140 flesch: 50 summary: From here arises the purpose of the research - to analyse the functioning space of the economical system of the European Union and new member states and its singularity, to determine connections, to merge the problems and to suggest the decision for them. Three tasks were raised for the implementation of the purpose which will be consistently analysed: to estimate the economical weight and role of new  member states in the European Union, to measure the benefit of the structural support, its  importance and problematic, to analyse the measures of monetary and fiscal  politics and their influence in the context of enlarged European Union emerging influence towards new member states. keywords: bigger; budget; central; citizens; community; competitive; conditions; countries; development; different; direct; domestic; economical; economical development; economies; economy; eu budget; eu member; european; european union; expenses; financial; fiscal; gdp; growth; important; inflation; influence; integration; issn; level; line; lithuania; main; market; measures; member; member states; monetary; national; new; new member; old; paper; percent; period; policy; politics; rates; regions; resources; situation; states; structural; studies; support; taxes; time; union; united; university; vilnius cache: eis-25732.pdf plain text: eis-25732.txt item: #169 of 298 id: eis-25733 author: Author title: ECONOMICAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT - IRISH STATE DEVELOPMENT EXAMPLE FOR PERIPHERAL EUROPEAN UNION STATES date: 2009-05-05 words: 6539 flesch: 35 summary: The aim has certain subordinate objectives: To identify the economical potential of regions  and counties; To explore state of Ireland development example; To carry out comparison analysis of states of  Ireland – Latvia for increase options of economical potential of regions and local governments The research was created on base of Latvia’s Republic laws, government’s normative documentation, special literature, personal experience of the author in work of local governments, development of Ireland country and other materials. Thereby Ireland was not able to avoid the decline of economical development rate. keywords: ability; activities; analysis; attraction; baltic; budget; capital; care; century; city; common; companies; cooperation; core; councils; countries; country; developed; development; economical; economical development; economical potential; enterprises; entrepreneurship; environment; european; example; experience; export; factors; favourable; financial; force; foreign; funds; gdp; government; growth; health; high; important; increase; infrastructure; integration; interests; investments; ireland; irish; issn; labour; latvia; level; local; main; municipalities; municipality; national; new; policy; potential; regional; regional development; regions; research; resources; services; social; sphere; state; studies; tax; territory; time; trade; union; use; vanags; vilka; work; years cache: eis-25733.pdf plain text: eis-25733.txt item: #170 of 298 id: eis-25735 author: Author title: EFFICIENCY OF THE USE OF ASSETS IN THE FARMS OF KURZEME PENINSULA IN LATVIA date: 2009-05-05 words: 4420 flesch: 65 summary: To reflect the polarity of the results, data on groups of farms whose economic indicators differ sharply were used, namely those whose economic size is from 4 – 8 units of economic volume (uEV) for small farms and from 40 to 250 uEV for large farms. Based on the research results, it can be concluded that the group of small farms does not exhibit significant changes in the output volume over the analysed period, but the group of large farms shows development trends because both the output value and the total asset value have grown. keywords: agricultural; analysed; analysis; assets; changes; data; economic; efficiency; enterprises; estimates; farms; grains; higher; increase; large; latvian; lsaei; lvl; milk; net; output; output value; period; prices; purchase; results; riga; small; statistical; table; total; value; wheat; years cache: eis-25735.pdf plain text: eis-25735.txt item: #171 of 298 id: eis-25737 author: Author title: DEVELOPMENT OF CENTRAL BANKING IN THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM OF CENTRAL BANKS: CASE OF LATVIJAS BANKA date: 2009-05-05 words: 8806 flesch: 49 summary: To compare NCB performance on the basis of several indicators, weighted total of individual indicators is derived: ix k j ji j RWR , 1 ~ ⋅= ∑ = [2], where jW ( 1,0 => ∑ j jj WW ) are adequately selected weights of NCB individual performance indicators. However, the key items on NCB financial statements are similar, and the respective data can be used for comparison of development trends characteristic for NCB performance indicators. keywords: activities; analysis; annual; annual report; area; aspects; authors; baltic; baltic states; bank; bankas; banking; capital; central; central bank; changes; chart; cooperation; council; countries; country; danmarks; decision; development; ecb; economic; economy; eesti; efficiency; escb; eu countries; eu10; eu12; eu15; european; eurosystem; expenditure; financial; foreign; formation; income; increase; independence; indicators; integration; issn; january; largest; latvijas; latvijas banka; lietuvos; line; making; market; monetary; nationalbank; ncb performance; ncbs; new; number; operational; order; pank; paper; pce; performance; performance indicators; pilsuma; points; policy; position; process; rating; report; reserves; respective; results; risks; rrr0; rrr1; rrr2; rrr3; rrr4; share; similar; states; studies; system; times; total; transparency cache: eis-25737.pdf plain text: eis-25737.txt item: #172 of 298 id: eis-25738 author: Author title: SPECIFICS OF TERRITORIAL MARKETING STRATEGY PLANNING date: 2009-05-05 words: 4799 flesch: 41 summary: Territorial marketing strategies When territories begin to move towards the market, it is necessary to make some important strategic decisions. Territorial marketing strategies: Image marketing 1. keywords: analysis; approach; attention; attraction; certain; competitiveness; consideration; development; different; elaboration; entrepreneurs; etc; europe; european; example; factors; force; groups; image; important; indicators; infrastructure; inhabitants; labour; level; localities; locality; marketing; marketing strategy; measures; necessary; needs; new; opportunities; people; phase; plan; planning; possible; production; related; requirements; resources; situation; society; strategies; strategy; strong; studies; target; target market; territorial; territorial marketing; territory; tourists; use cache: eis-25738.pdf plain text: eis-25738.txt item: #173 of 298 id: eis-25739 author: Author title: TENDENCIES IN LITHUANIAN LABOUR MARKET UNDER THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC RECESSION date: 2009-05-05 words: 4028 flesch: 50 summary: In the end of 2008 the economic recession affected Lithuanian labour market. In this article the situation in Lithuanian labour market is analyzed. keywords: april; business; changes; competence; countries; crisis; current; data; demand; downturn; economic; economic recession; european; exchange; force; global; global economic; human; impact; increase; integration; issn; kaunas; labour; labour market; lithuanian; lithuanian labour; main; market; order; plan; problems; rate; recession; requirements; research; resources; sector; significant; situation; skills; social; statistical; studies; time; unemployment; union; universities; world cache: eis-25739.pdf plain text: eis-25739.txt item: #174 of 298 id: eis-25741 author: Author title: THEORETICAL POSSIBILITIES OF EXPRESSION OF INNOVATION IN TOURISM SECTOR: THE CASE OF SCOTLAND AND SLOVENIA date: 2009-05-05 words: 5639 flesch: 32 summary: The aim of the article is to highlight reflections of entrepreneurship characteristics in tourism sector, trying to determine level of innovation in tourism sectors of Slovenia and Scotland. 2. Entrepreneurship characteristics in tourism sector Reflection of innovation characteristics in tourism sectors of Scotland and Slovenia In the above presented chapter there were highlighted 4 innovative features, shaped for tourism sector. keywords: activities; activity; analysis; article; association; business; changes; characteristics; consumer; countries; creation; creativity; development; dynamism; economic; economy; effective; elements; entrepreneurship; environment; essential; european; features; global; goal; good; group; holden; ideas; implementation; important; information; innovation; integration; international; issn; kaunas; key; knowledge; main; market; marketing; methods; model; modern; national; new; organization; phenomenon; practice; principles; private; process; products; programmes; projects; public; purpose; quality; requirements; research; resources; responsibility; scotland; sector; services; slovenia; social; strategic; studies; system; tig; tourism; tourism sector; tourism services; tourism system; tourists; travel; use; ways cache: eis-25741.pdf plain text: eis-25741.txt item: #175 of 298 id: eis-25742 author: Author title: CLUSTER ANALYSIS OF EXPRESSION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP CHARACTERISTICS IN THE EU INNOVATIVE PROJECTS FOR SME’s AND KTU REGIONAL SCIENCE PARK date: 2009-05-05 words: 2640 flesch: 21 summary: The research problem of the article is expression of entrepreneurship characteristics and its peculiarities in the Eu (European union) innovative projects for small and medium size enterprises (SMEs) and KTu Regional Science park. The research is based on cluster analysis of entrepreneurship characteristics analysing projects’ content and interviewing enterprises of KTu Regional Science park. keywords: activity; analysis; appliance; business; characteristics; cluster; cohesion; competitive; creation; development; economic; enterprises; entrepreneurial; entrepreneurship; european; expression; innovative; ktu; management; managerial; new; orientation; park; production; projects; regional; research; resources; responsiveness; results; science; smes; social; society; table; technological; technologies; theoretical; usage cache: eis-25742.pdf plain text: eis-25742.txt item: #176 of 298 id: eis-25743 author: Author title: NETWORKING BASED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE EUROPEAN UNION : INNOVATION POTENTIAL AND STRATEGIC DECISIONS date: 2009-05-05 words: 7573 flesch: 12 summary: Awareness of the variety of cultures is the key factor in innovation development, different and differently identified cultural - achievements accumulate various opportunities to develop and effectively use innovation potential: to activate and promote innovations, the opportunities provided by the interaction and merging of different cultures should be effectively used (the latter condition is considered to be the priority in developing the innovation potential). To purposefully develop and effectively use the innovation potential in the European Union, the following questions should be answered: how to define the  concept of innovation potential and the influence of innovation potential on social and economic development of the European Union? what  challenges should the innovation potential be aimed to accept under globalization conditions, in particular? what are the  major innovation potential elements and how is it possible to develop this potential and increase the effectiveness of its use? It should be noted that a complex approach to the innovation potential as a system has not been developed yet. keywords: activation; activities; areas; changes; complex; conditions; creating; creation; cultural; cultures; development; economic; economic development; economy; education; effective; effects; european integration; european union; features; global; globalization; human; important; industrial; influence; information; innovation; innovation potential; integration; international; international economy; international networks; issn; issue; journal; knowledge; life; long; main; melnikas; nature; networks; new; organizations; possibilities; potential; practical; priority; problems; products; prospects; purposeful; research; resources; role; science; significant; social; society; spheres; state; studies; synergetic; systems; technological; technologies; transformation; use; world cache: eis-25743.pdf plain text: eis-25743.txt item: #177 of 298 id: eis-25745 author: Author title: QUALITY COMPETITIVENESS OF LATVIA AND STRATEGY TO IMPROVE IT date: 2009-05-05 words: 5033 flesch: 53 summary: Evaluation of quality competitiveness of Latvia and suggestions for necessary strategy to improve quality competitiveness is main novelty of this paper. Research object is quality competitiveness of Latvia. keywords: aiginger; authors; baltic; business; companies; competition; competitiveness; components; correlation; costs; countries; country; data; different; economic; economy; entrepreneurs; european; exports; fig; figure; global; goods; higher; important; innovation; integration; iso; labour; latvia; lithuania; main; market; pillar; porter; productivity; products; quality; region; report; schwab; sea; share; sophistication; states; strategy; studies; survey; unit; value; vol; world; year cache: eis-25745.pdf plain text: eis-25745.txt item: #178 of 298 id: eis-25746 author: Author title: THE MODEL OF MODERN INNOVATION INFLUENCE TO COMPETITIVENESS AT RECESSION date: 2009-05-05 words: 4738 flesch: 43 summary: Especially is not discovered the influence of segregated elements of innovation model for a segregated elements of competitiveness. Subject of research – Innovation models proposed in scientific literature, situation in implementation of innovations in world economy and Lithuania and results of activity of innovative enterprises in Lithuania. keywords: activity; advantages; analysis; attention; authors; business; change; companies; company; competition; competitiveness; concepts; creativity; criteria; data; development; diamond; different; economy; elements; employees; enterprises; european; factors; implementation; important; influence; information; innovation; interaction; issn; knowledge; line; literature; lithuania; main; management; market; model; new; organization; people; period; picture; policy; porter; press; process; processes; products; profit; recession; research; segregated; strategy; structure; studies; table; technologies; tools; uab; use; york cache: eis-25746.pdf plain text: eis-25746.txt item: #179 of 298 id: eis-25747 author: Author title: Personnel Training EFFICIENCY Evaluation System: Competitive Ability Aspect date: 2009-05-05 words: 7105 flesch: 31 summary: No 3 PersoNNel TraiNiNg eFFiCieNCY evaluaTioN sYsTem: ComPeTiTive abiliTY asPeCT Asta Stankevičienė Aušra Liučvaitienė Agnė Šimelytė Vilniaus Gedimino technikos universitetas abstract Theoretical premises of personnel training efficiency evaluation as one of the factors establishing competitive ability advantage, while emphasising changes of working productivity, are analysed in this article. After analysis of modern attitudes towards personnel training efficiency evaluation it was determined that there is no coherent personnel training efficiency evaluation system. keywords: ability; ability evaluation; activity; advantage; analysis; appropriate; behaviour; changes; companies; company; competitive; competitive ability; competitive advantage; competitive evaluation; competitiveness; country; development; economic; effects; efficiency evaluation; european; evaluation; evaluation system; export; factors; human; impact; indicators; information; inner; integrated; integration; international; investments; issn; knowledge; level; methodology; methods; objectives; organization; percent; period; personnel; personnel training; possibilities; process; production; reaction; research; resources; results; return; studies; subject; system; theoretical; trainees; training; training efficiency; training evaluation; validity; work; working cache: eis-25747.pdf plain text: eis-25747.txt item: #180 of 298 id: eis-25748 author: Author title: THE IMPACT OF THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS ON THE ELECTORAL BEHAVIOU R IN YOU NG EU MEMBER STATES: PROBLEM-PO SING AND METHODOLOGICAL APP ROACH. THE CASE OF LATVIA AND ESTONIA date: 2009-05-05 words: 4837 flesch: 43 summary: The economic voting theory stresses that successful work of political parties in the government results in increase of economic indicators and overall growth of the state increases the level of well-being of its people, by also leaving a positive impact upon the eventual re-election chances. The economic voting theory supplements the theory of rational choice, by stressing that successful work of political parties in the government results in the increase of economic indicators and overall growth of the state increases the level of well-being of its people, by also leaving a positive impact upon the eventual re-election chances. keywords: activity; analysis; behaviour; changes; choice; countries; country; data; democracies; economic; economic voting; education; elections; electoral; estonia; european; factors; gdp; government; higher; impact; importance; income; increase; indicators; individuals; inflation; information; integration; issn; journal; latvia; level; macroeconomic; means; model; number; parliament; participation; parties; party; political; quantitative; rate; research; results; salary; science; series; situation; social; socio; socioeconomic; state; statistical; status; studies; t t; theory; time; turnout; unemployment; vol; voter; voting; work; year cache: eis-25748.pdf plain text: eis-25748.txt item: #181 of 298 id: eis-25749 author: Author title: ENTREPRENEURSHIP ENVIRONMENT AND REGIONAL POLICY date: 2009-05-05 words: 4756 flesch: 58 summary: Changes in production in Latvia 1990-2006 (%, in comparable prices, 1990=100%) Branches 1995 2000 2001 2002 2003 2006 Industry 38.3 46.9 51.2 55.5 59.1 66.3 of which mining 38.8 58.8 68.6 84.8 89.3 107.7 food industry 37.8 42.8 45.7 48.0 50.9 59.2 Agriculture 46.8 37.3 39.4 41.0 42.1 45.1 of which crop production 65.4 60.2 58.8 64.7 60.4 74.8 livestock production 37.8 27.0 30.3 30.1 30.9 32.0 Source: Latvian Statistical Yearbook 1999., 2004., 2007. In 2007, the production in agriculture made 50.8% of the level of 1990, inter alia in crop production 87.9%, but in livestock production – 34.5%. keywords: agriculture; area; bureau; business; central; conditions; country; crops; development; economic; economy; elvi; entrepreneurship; environment; european; forms; franchise; gdp; integration; investments; issn; kurzeme; land; latgale; latvia; level; lower; lpp; lvl; market; mentoring; number; period; pierīga; population; process; production; proportion; regional; regions; riga; rīga; statistical; studies; support; table; times; total; transition; vidzeme; yield; zemgale cache: eis-25749.pdf plain text: eis-25749.txt item: #182 of 298 id: eis-25750 author: Author title: Information about the article’s authors date: 2009-05-05 words: 1182 flesch: 32 summary: no 3 Information about the article’s authors ĀBoLIŅA Ilze, Ph.D. student; Regional Economics Programme, Faculty of Economics, Latvia University of Agriculture,; Working place: Ministry of Finance Republic of Latvia – EU Funds Managing Authority ĀZENA Ligita, Mg.sc.soc., Higher School of Business and Culture, E-mail: ligita.azena@eka.edu.lv BABELYTE Kristina, Master of public administration; Mykolas Romeris University, 8 610 08139, kristinabab@ yahoo.com BARYNIENĖ Jurgita, PhD student of social sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Institute of Europe, +370 37 300140, jurgita.kersyte@ktu.lt BARZEV Kiril, Professor, ScD, Internal-combustion engines, University of Ruse; E-mail: barzev@ru.acad.bg BAVRINA Ludmila, Mg.phil., PhD stud, senior lecturer, Baltic International Academy (Latvia); ICT use and design in educational practice, pedagogical professional competence, ESP curriculum design; Phone: +371-2-26585834; E-mail: lbavrin@inbox.lv BRATANoV Daniel, PhD; Robotics and crisis management; University of Ruse; E-mail: dany@manuf.ru.acad.bg BRuNZA Andrius, Master degree in social sciences (European Studies, management and business administration), Kaunas University of Technology, Institute of Europe. E. mail: andrius.brundza@gmail.com ČINGuLE Sanda, Professional Master’s degree in Economics and Business Management, Latvia University of Agriculture, Phone: +3530862546899, email: sanda.cingule@gmail.com DAuGĖLIENĖ keywords: administration; agriculture; assoc; business; department; economics; europe; european; faculty; field; gediminas; institute; kaunas; latvia; mail; management; master; phd; phone; professor; science; social; student; technical; technology; university; vilnius cache: eis-25750.pdf plain text: eis-25750.txt item: #183 of 298 id: eis-25786 author: Author title: EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN AND MEN IN LABOUR MARKET AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION date: 2008-08-08 words: 6091 flesch: 54 summary: The equality of work salary in the labour market between working women and men is shown in the point E, which shows the balance between both genders in economical activity. The analysis of the results of research showed that 81.3 percent of day time women students think that men have more opportunities in labour market. keywords: absolute; activity; analysis; aspects; bigger; carrier; countries; country; creation; data; day; demand; development; different; discrimination; earnings; economical; economy; education; eld; elds; employment; enlargement; equal; equal opportunities; equality; european; evening; family; gap; gender; growth; important; infl; integration; issn; labour; labour market; learning; level; lietuvos; life; line; literature; lithuania; long; main; market; occupancy; occupation; offi; opinion; opportunities; p.p; pay; percent; policy; problem; product; professional; publications; purpose; rates; research; respondents; results; rights; science; shows; smaller; social; society; stereotypes; strategy; students; studies; study; table; time; union; university; vilnius; women; work; working; year cache: eis-25786.pdf plain text: eis-25786.txt item: #184 of 298 id: eis-25787 author: Author title: EUROPEAN SOCIAL SECURITY POLICY: CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES date: 2008-08-08 words: 5112 flesch: 49 summary: Through a brief review of EU social policy development and role in European integration theory, this article will argue that, despite its expansion, EU social policy lacks vital fi nancial and political muscle to signifi cantly affect national welfare regimes and create a European welfare state. Keywords: European Union, social security policy. keywords: approach; areas; article; benefi; certain; challenges; commission; common; community; conditions; contributions; coordination; countries; development; dimension; economic; european; european integration; european social; european union; exclusion; expenditure; funding; gdp; general; germany; harmonization; income; integration; internet; issn; key; law; level; lithuania; major; market; measures; member; method; model; nancial; national; new; omc; open; pension; persons; picture; policy; poverty; prieiga; protection; receipts; regulation; retirement; rights; role; schemes; security; social; social policy; social protection; social security; solidarity; states; studies; system; treaty; unemployment; union; welfare; workers cache: eis-25787.pdf plain text: eis-25787.txt item: #185 of 298 id: eis-25788 author: Author title: IMPROVEMENT OF THE UNIVERSITY PROGRAMME ON THE BASE OF MODULARITY date: 2008-08-08 words: 3810 flesch: 48 summary: Despite of the current positive state RTU Institute of Applied Computer Systems (IACS) taking advantages provided by European Social Fund in Latvia is implementing a set of projects directed towards improvement of the educational curriculum “Computer Systems” and the quality of studies. The full list of institutions of higher education of European Union was obtained by using information from the following sources: Web sites of institutions responsible for higher • education in each country; a portal on learning opportunities throughout • the European Space (Portal, 2007); an international education directory of colleges • and universities (International Education, 2007); a Web site of higher education in Europe from • Graduateshotline.com (Higher Education, 2007); a directory Colleges.com (College, 2007).• The following criteria were used when • selecting curricula: information about a curriculum is in English • on the Web site of a corresponding institution of higher education; information about a curriculum includes • titles of study subjects, credit points for each subject, as well as semesters, when the subject is taught (only for the identifi cation of mobility opportunities); the level of a curriculum is the academic master • study (the same as the level of the curriculum “Computer Systems”); the title of a curriculum contains some of the • following possible words: Computer Science, Computer Systems, Software Engineering, Software Development, Information Systems, Information Technology, Computing; the offered curriculum is not a distance • learning programme; the degree that students obtain after the • completion of a curriculum is Master of Science. keywords: academic; bachelor; changes; computer; computer systems; computing; courses; curriculum; development; different; education; european; following; grundspenkis; higher; identifi; improvement; information; institutions; integration; international; knowledge; latvia; learning; level; master; model; modularity; module; new; online; process; professional; programme; project; research; science; software; space; students; studies; study; subjects; systems; teaching; technology; universities; university; work; year cache: eis-25788.pdf plain text: eis-25788.txt item: #186 of 298 id: eis-25789 author: Author title: ICT USE IN CREATING ENVIRONMENT SUPPORTING STUDY PROCESS AT UNIVERSITY LEVEL date: 2008-08-08 words: 4733 flesch: 45 summary: The groups of students were considered from a structuration perspective developed in social studies by A. Giddens because it helps to look into the processes of adjustment to a new environment in group interaction with the environment, makes clearer than other perspectives how to achieve consistent transformations in attitudes and behavior, suggests possibilities of intervention to facilitate the target transformations in attitudes and conduct. Abstract The paper gives an account of a piece of research on ICT-based designs supporting study process at higher education level. keywords: activities; adult; andragogy; assumptions; attitudes; behavior; blondy; consciousness; context; course; cross; defi; desantis; design; education; environment; european; experience; forum; groups; higher; ict; individual; information; integration; interactions; issn; issues; knowles; learners; learning; level; line; online; outcomes; participation; pedagogical; pedagogy; practical; process; questions; relevant; requirements; research; rules; self; social; specifi; structuration; structures; students; studies; study; study process; target; teacher; teaching; theory; time; transformations; university cache: eis-25789.pdf plain text: eis-25789.txt item: #187 of 298 id: eis-25790 author: Author title: INTEGRATION OF EUROPE AS THE FIELD OF INTEREST OF JEAN MONNET PROJECT date: 2008-08-08 words: 5014 flesch: 44 summary: During the year of 2002-2008 there were launched all teaching activities of Jean Monnet Action in KTU EI: Jean Monnet Chair, Jean Monnet courses and modules which were mostly linked to legal, political or economic aspects of European Integration, while Jean Monnet European centre of excellence (JMECE) launched in Kaunas University of Technology Institute of Europe in 2003 with its activity appears as multidisciplinary action. Jean Monnet European centre of excellence promoted the partnership of universities, students, teachers, academic and non-academic community in the fi eld of European Integration studies. keywords: academic; action; activities; activity; aspects; brussels; community; conference; development; economic; education; eld; european; european integration; european union; excellence; factors; global; historical; important; institute; integrated; integration; integration process; integration studies; international; issn; jean; jean monnet; kaunas; learning; legal; lithuania; main; monnet; monnet action; monnet european; monnet project; new; policy; political; process; programme; project; refl; research; rst; social; studies; support; teaching; technology; treaty; union; universities; university; values; world cache: eis-25790.pdf plain text: eis-25790.txt item: #188 of 298 id: eis-25795 author: Author title: DEVELOPMENT OF INFORMATION SOCIETY IN THE CONTEXT OF GROWING GDP date: 2008-08-08 words: 4200 flesch: 46 summary: Creating Long-Term Development Strategy of the State of Lithuania, the Lisbon Strategy was taken into account, whereas creating the Strategy for Information Society Development in addition to other documents related with information society development in Lithuania, the mentioned European documents as intended for the information society development were taken into account. It is interesting to analyse what results in developing information society according to DOI index were achieved by the countries that had gained different results according to HDI index. keywords: computer; countries; country; decade; developed; development; digital; documents; doi; economy; eeurope; estonia; european; future; gdp; hdi; households; index; information society; inhabitants; integration; internet; issn; level; lietuvos; life; line; lisbon; lithuania; main; mobile; networks; number; percent; place; progress; quality; rank; results; society development; strategy; studies; table; technologies; vilnius; world cache: eis-25795.pdf plain text: eis-25795.txt item: #189 of 298 id: eis-25797 author: Author title: CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN REGIONAL MANAGEMENT date: 2008-08-08 words: 6094 flesch: 33 summary: “Old democracy” states try to consolidate values of democracy and at the same time to adjust effective methods of new public management, new public administration or new civil service into the management of public organisations. Furthermore, in the publications of recent years some authors as L. Terry (1998), R. Denhardt and L. DeLeon (2000), B. G. Peters (2003) express concern that new public management is especially problematic in respect of democratic values in public administration. keywords: administration; citizen; citizen participation; civil; community; dalton; decentralization; decisions; democracy; democratic; denhardt; development; effective; european; forms; government; groups; ideas; impact; implementation; important; information; institutions; instruments; integration; issn; issue; level; lithuania; local; main; making; management; methods; naujoji; new; new public; organisations; participation; partnership; policy; political; position; possibilities; practice; principles; problems; process; processes; projects; public; public administration; public management; public participation; question; raipa; regional; regional management; regional policy; regions; respect; results; self; services; social; society; state; structures; studies; subsidiarity; support; tendencies; traditional; values cache: eis-25797.pdf plain text: eis-25797.txt item: #190 of 298 id: eis-25798 author: Author title: E-CITIZEN’S CONCEPT AND INITIATIVES IN KAUNAS REGION date: 2008-08-08 words: 5827 flesch: 50 summary: Novelty of the problem is revealed through the development of e-Services initiatives, which determine structural changes, competitive advantage and economic growth in Kaunas region. Analyzing the e-Citizen’s subject, it is essential to examine the issue of e-service, because the e-Citizen’s vision is shaped by using e-service concept, which aims to involve every citizen, family, school, enterprise and administration in the digital era. keywords: access; administration; aforementioned; aim; business; card; citizen; city; communication; concept; content; creation; data; development; documents; education; eeurope; electronic; european; good; government; health; i2010; ict; impact; implementation; implemented; information; information society; infrastructure; initiatives; institutions; integration; internet; issn; ius; kaunas; kaunas e; kaunas region; learning; lithuania; main; means; municipality; new; online; perspectives; phase; plan; prieiga; problems; processes; project; public; public e; public services; quality; region; research; science; sector; services; signifi; skills; social; society; spatial; studies; system; transport; university; usage; vision; vol; year cache: eis-25798.pdf plain text: eis-25798.txt item: #191 of 298 id: eis-25799 author: Author title: PERSPECTIVES OF LITHUANIA IN KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY: ASPECT OF NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM ANALYSIS date: 2008-08-08 words: 6378 flesch: 41 summary: The rise of knowledge expression was observed during the transitional period from industrial (1830 – the early 20th c.) to postmodernistic (late 20th c.) society when during the effi ciency revolution new knowledge was utilized for the improvement of products (Taylor and Ford, 1896). Processes of knowledge creation, acquisition, dissemination and application create economic value. keywords: analysis; application; article; assessment; average; basic; business; ciency; competitiveness; conception; countries; country; creation; criteria; daug; development; dissemination; economic; economy; education; effi; european; expression; factors; fig; functions; gci; government; growth; human; ict; implementation; important; index; indexes; information; infrastructure; innovation; integration; internet; isbn; issn; kbe; kei; key; knowledge; kriš; lagging; level; lien; lithuania; lundvall; macroeconomic; management; market; measure; nas; national; new; nis; order; paper; performance; perspectives; policy; potential; problem; processes; quality; r&d; research; resources; scientifi; services; sii; social; society; sophistication; state; studies; summary; system; technologies; technology; use; value; works; world cache: eis-25799.pdf plain text: eis-25799.txt item: #192 of 298 id: eis-25800 author: Author title: AN INTEGRATED FINANCIAL MARKET SOLUTION: TARGET2-LATVIA date: 2008-08-08 words: 4669 flesch: 55 summary: The research is based on a number of views regarding the signifi cance of payment systems for the implementation of the central bank’s monetary policy and improvement of the fi nancial market development process. Regarding TARGET2- Latvija, the authors have evaluated its objectives, tasks, legal framework and launching within the fi rst wave of migration to TARGET2, and have conducted the analysis of indicators determining the operation of payment systems. keywords: area; average; banks; central; central banks; chart; council; countries; country; development; ecb; effi; euro; european; eurosystem; gross; important; infrastructure; integration; issn; january; latvija; legal; line; main; market; migration; monetary; money; nancial; new; november; number; operation; payment; payment systems; policy; principles; rst; rtgs; services; settlement; single; stability; states; studies; systems; target2; time; transactions; transfer; value; volume; xii cache: eis-25800.pdf plain text: eis-25800.txt item: #193 of 298 id: eis-25801 author: Author title: STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE ECONOMY OF POLISH REGIONS date: 2008-08-08 words: 6798 flesch: 55 summary: No 2 STRUCTURAL CHANGES IN THE ECONOMY OF POLISH REGIONS Krystyna Gawlikowska-Hueckel Stanis aw Umi ski University of Gda sk Abstract The paper refers to structural changes and growth dynamics in Polish regions (voivodships). Then there are development differences among Polish regions presented. keywords: agriculture; analysis; capita; changes; contribution; countries; developed; development; disparities; dynamics; economic; economy; employment; european; faster; gdp; growth; head; important; industry; innovation; integration; issn; ls k; lubelskie; lubuskie; manufacturing; mazowieckie; national; o ls; opolskie; p o; pace; percentage; podkarpackie; points; poland; polish; polish regions; pomorskie; poorer; primary; process; production; progress; r&d; rate; regional; regions; sector; services; share; structural; studies; technological; terms; tertiary; time; tokrzyskie; value; voivodships cache: eis-25801.pdf plain text: eis-25801.txt item: #194 of 298 id: eis-25802 author: Author title: HIGH-TECH SECTOR IN LITHUANIA: PRESENT SITUATION AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES date: 2008-08-08 words: 6369 flesch: 47 summary: This index is applied in regard of the sector or product (service); therefore, it is relevant to discuss high technologies sector (sectoral approach) or product (product approach). In Japan there exists another understanding of high technologies, where their defi nition is considerably closer to the horizontal, rather than to sectoral or product approach. keywords: activity; approach; areas; assessment; branches; changes; competitiveness; core; countries; country; demand; development; different; economic; economy; effect; elements; enterprises; equipment; essential; european; expenditure; export; funding; general; growth; high; human; importance; index; individual; industry; innovations; integration; issn; line; lithuania; low; machinery; main; medium; modern; new; number; oecd; paper; policy; preconditions; production; products; quality; r&d; research; resources; results; scientifi; sector; sector development; sectoral; services; situation; socio; statistics; structure; studies; system; table; tech; tech development; tech sector; technologies; technology; turowski; university; usa; value; year cache: eis-25802.pdf plain text: eis-25802.txt item: #195 of 298 id: eis-25803 author: Author title: THE THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE COMMON CURRENCY ADOPTION IN LITHUANIA date: 2008-08-08 words: 4635 flesch: 52 summary: Academic and political interest in monetary integration has existed ever since Mundell’s (1961) famous study pointed to a serious omission in existing exchange rate theory that was the basis of Friedman’s (1953) infl uential “Case for Flexible Exchange Rates”. As a result, asymmetric shocks are more likely to occur in the future (since the output is less diversifi ed) and bring extra costs to monetary union. keywords: adoption; analysis; area; asymmetric; benefi; business; case; common; common currency; convergence; costs; countries; country; criteria; currency; currency area; data; defi; demand; economic; european; exchange; higher; horvath; index; infl; integration; komarek; lithuania; model; monetary; monetary integration; monetary union; mundell; oca; oca theory; optimum; optimum currency; parts; policy; rate; real; research; shocks; structural; studies; theil; theoretical; theory; trade; union; variability; zone cache: eis-25803.pdf plain text: eis-25803.txt item: #196 of 298 id: eis-25804 author: Author title: ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP INCUBATORS NETWORK IN POLAND date: 2008-08-08 words: 3071 flesch: 34 summary: Although fi rst academic incubator was set up in 1998, only in 2006 “Act on higher education” regulated rules of support of entrepreneurship initiatives by academic organizations25. Exceptional role in academic entrepreneurship plays PARP – Polish Agency for Enterprise Development17. keywords: academic; activities; aei; biorczo; business; centers; companies; company; development; economy; education; entrepreneurship; european; focus; foundation; ideas; important; incubators; infl; innovation; integration; issn; knowledge; market; network; new; parp; poland; polish; polsce; poz; process; program; przedsi; research; science; services; society; students; studies; support; technologies; technology; transfer; universities; university; warszawa cache: eis-25804.pdf plain text: eis-25804.txt item: #197 of 298 id: eis-25805 author: Author title: MANAGERS’ PERCEPTION OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP CONCEPT IN REGIONAL SCIENCE PARK OF KTU date: 2008-08-08 words: 3086 flesch: 20 summary: The second part is appointed to research the meaning of entrepreneurship characteristics for overall business success. The third part of questionnaire is devoted for meaning of entrepreneurship characteristics in selected enterprises. keywords: activity; appliance; business; characteristics; concept; creation; development; economic; enterprises; entrepreneurial; entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship concept; factors; figure; groups; important; information; interview; investments; investors; kbe; ktu; management; managers; meaning; new; park; perception; production; regional; research; resources; responsiveness; results; science; social; society; technological; technologies; theoretical; usage cache: eis-25805.pdf plain text: eis-25805.txt item: #198 of 298 id: eis-25806 author: Author title: BUSINESS’S VISION ON COMPETENCE OF RESEARCHERS IN KNOWLEDGE – BASED ECONOMY date: 2008-08-08 words: 3981 flesch: 47 summary: The tasks of the research were set as follows: to present the content of competency of • human resources acting under the conditions of knowledge based economy; to highlight the researchers importance for • business organizations in contemporary economy and analyse the business’s sector requirements for researchers; to emphasize the universities role in the • preparation process of researchers for knowledge based business. However nowadays situation shows that Europe has a shortage of researchers, especially in business sector. keywords: abilities; able; activity; business; business sector; challenges; changes; communication; competence; conditions; contemporary; content; countries; developing; development; different; economy; education; enterprises; european; human; important; integration; issn; keršyt; knowledge; kriš; learning; lifelong; main; market; nas; need; new; organizations; products; requirements; researchers; resources; scientifi; sector; signifi; skilled; skills; society; specialists; studies; universities; work cache: eis-25806.pdf plain text: eis-25806.txt item: #199 of 298 id: eis-25807 author: Author title: 50 YEARS OF EUROPEAN UNION DEVELOPMENT: QUANTUM LEAPS AND SMALL STEPS? date: 2008-08-08 words: 3709 flesch: 52 summary: Following formal decisions in Treaties given the European Parliament budgetary and co-decision powers, these powers increased automatically with the change in the budget structure of the EU and with the expansion in the number of areas where majority voting was implemented at Council. Alexandre Berlin Honorary Director, European Commission Associate, Institute for European Studies, University of British Columbia, Canada Based on the Presentation at ThEU@50 Symposium of the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome (Vilnius, 30 March 2007) keywords: 50th; anniversary; budget; coal; commission; common; community; countries; economic; eu member; european; european commission; european integration; european parliament; european union; expansion; france; germany; health; issn; leaps; major; market; member; member states; national; new; original; peace; policy; political; powers; quantum; schuman; small; sovereignty; states; steel; steps; studies; time; treaties; treaty; war; years cache: eis-25807.pdf plain text: eis-25807.txt item: #200 of 298 id: eis-25817 author: Lilić, Stevan title: THE AARHUS CONVENTION AND ACCESS TO ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IN THE EU AND SERBIA date: 2007-04-16 words: 5551 flesch: 34 summary: Not only can the citizens directly take part in deciding environmental law issues, but also take respective action and initiate procedure in protecting environmental fundamental rights. [Note: For one example, R.J. Lazarus, Pursuant Environmental Justice: the Distributional Effects of Environmental Protection, 87 Northwest University Law Review (1993) 787, identifies five means of pursuing environmental justice in the U.S.A., which include both rethinking the substance of environmental laws and litigating civil rights associated with environmental protection.] keywords: aarhus; aarhus convention; access; action; activities; alia; case; community; convention; court; crisis; decision; declaration; development; ebbeson; environmental; environmental information; environmental issues; environmental justice; environmental law; environmental matters; environmental policy; environmental protection; european; framework; general; health; human; independent; information; integration; international; issn; issues; justice; law; legal; legislation; making; matters; member; new; participation; party; policy; procedure; protection; provisions; public; regard; regulation; request; review; rights; serbia; source; states; studies; treaty; world cache: eis-25817.pdf plain text: eis-25817.txt item: #201 of 298 id: eis-25818 author: Author title: LEGAL COMPONENT IN PROBLEMATIC STRUCTURE OF PROGRAMMES OF SCIENTIFIC-TECHNICAL ECONOMIC PROGRESS date: 2007-04-16 words: 4586 flesch: 43 summary: Nevertheless, the most important thing is that the key priority work directions including information society development have been chosen in a right way and, undoubtedly, have been justified. However, implementation of scientific technical economic programmes precondition not only crucially important results for society but also stipulates activity of certain criminal tendencies, for example, frequency of computer crimes rose due to widely accessible internet. keywords: attention; attitude; automatization; basis; communication; complex; computer; computerization; countries; crimes; criminal; data; development; disturbances; documents; economic; european; globalization; implementation; important; information; information society; integration; internet; issn; issues; keras; knowledge; law; legal; legislation; lietuvos; life; lithuania; means; measures; modern; negative; new; order; particular; people; prepared; production; programmes; progress; rapid; respublikos; science; scientific; social; society; strategy; studies; substantial; systems; tasks; technical; technologies; time; vilnius; way; work cache: eis-25818.pdf plain text: eis-25818.txt item: #202 of 298 id: eis-25819 author: Author title: DIRECTIVE ON SERVICES: THE IMPACT ON LITHUANIAN MARKET date: 2007-04-16 words: 3287 flesch: 52 summary: So we can state, that the Directive on Services will have a positive impact to Lithuanian service market by creating possibilities not only for transport services and travel but for other kind of services exports as well. The Directive on Services 2006/123/EC Not applicable for: • Financial services; • Telecommunications; • Transport services. keywords: administrative; bank; barriers; development; diagram; directive; dnb; economic; european; export; free; freedom; gdp; growth; impact; import; integration; internal; legal; line; litas; lithuanian; market; member; movement; nord; providers; services; states; trade; transport; year cache: eis-25819.pdf plain text: eis-25819.txt item: #203 of 298 id: eis-25820 author: Author title: EUROPEANIZATION OF PRIVATE LAW- IMPACT TO ECONOMICAL GROWTH date: 2007-04-16 words: 4581 flesch: 42 summary: Those initiatives for systematization of European private law have similar pattern with systematization of private law in national private law systems. So European private law rather is unsystematic and pointillist, and didn't change national private law systems; especially European private law is defined in core areas such as contract, torts, property and family law. keywords: agenda; capital; ceecs; civil; code; common; community; company; competition; convergence; corporations; council; countries; creation; culture; development; economic; economy; enterprises; entrepreneurship; european; european private; europeanization; fdi; functional; growth; harmonization; initiatives; institutions; integration; international; issn; law; law systems; legal; lisbon; main; market; member; methods; multinational; new; order; outcome; paper; parliament; policies; private; private law; process; regulatory; rules; small; standards; states; studies; systematization; systems; transnational cache: eis-25820.pdf plain text: eis-25820.txt item: #204 of 298 id: eis-25821 author: Author title: THE ROLE OF INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE FOR EFECTIVE PUBLIC MANAGEMENT: EUROPEAN UNION AND LITHUANIAN CASE STUDIES date: 2007-04-16 words: 3659 flesch: 40 summary: In contrary, implementing performance appraisal into public personnel management makes job more attractive regarding to career perspectives (clear and secure promotion) and extra payments for outstanding performance. This article concentrates on following goals in order to understand performance assessment managing public personnel: • to describe appropriate concepts and tools of HRM for performance management orientation, to identify the main methods of performance assessment, • to analyze 2 types of rewards related to performance: performance related pay and performance related to promotion, • to verify how performance appraisal is being applied in Lithuanian civil service personnel management • to clarify European Union performance-based career structure. keywords: ability; appraisal; assessment; career; civil; class; countries; effective; employees; european; factors; goals; good; individual; insufficient; integration; issn; key; level; lithuanian; main; management; merit; negative; new; obligatory; oecd; officer; officials; orientation; outstanding; pay; performance; personnel; points; policies; positive; procedure; promotion; prp; public; qualification; rating; related; rewards; salary; sector; servant; studies; supervisor; system; tools; union; work cache: eis-25821.pdf plain text: eis-25821.txt item: #205 of 298 id: eis-25822 author: Author title: ECONOMICS DISCONNECTED FROM ITS SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES – THE NEOLIBERALISATION OF ESTONIA date: 2007-04-16 words: 6076 flesch: 44 summary: The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse neoliberal economic policies and to demonstrate their adverse socio-economic effects in Estonia. The implementation of neoliberal economic policies has had adverse effects over the welfare of Estonian society. keywords: 1970s; aggregate; allocation; bank; best; business; capital; country; currency; decision; demand; development; economic; economic growth; economic policies; economy; effects; estonia; european; financial; fiscal; foreign; free; goods; government; great; growth; harvey; high; history; hoover; income; individual; ingham; institutions; integration; interest; international; intervention; investment; issn; keynesian; labour; levels; limited; living; makers; market; monetary; money; neoclassical; neoliberal; neoliberal economic; neoliberalism; new; order; past; percent; policies; policy; political; price; principles; production; public; rates; resources; role; smith; social; society; soviet; state; studies; supply; system; tax; theory; thinking; thought; trade; transformation; union; university; view; wages; welfare; world; years cache: eis-25822.pdf plain text: eis-25822.txt item: #206 of 298 id: eis-25823 author: Author title: THE CONCEPTS OF INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE SOCIETIES: AFFINITIES AND DISTINCTIONS date: 2007-04-16 words: 4708 flesch: 37 summary: Keywords: Information society, Knowledge society, development of society. Under the influence of these changes the creation of Information society started. keywords: access; affinities; analysis; appearance; cec; changes; commission; communication; competitiveness; concepts; countries; cultural; data; development; distinctions; economic; economy; education; employment; european; features; global; growth; high; hleg; human; ict; important; industrial; information; information society; initiatives; integration; issn; japan; knowledge; knowledge society; late; line; national; new; opportunities; policy; process; public; reference; report; research; scientific; social; societies; society; stage; studies; technological; technologies; technology; u.s; unesco; world cache: eis-25823.pdf plain text: eis-25823.txt item: #207 of 298 id: eis-25824 author: Author title: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK PROPOSAL date: 2007-04-16 words: 1750 flesch: 28 summary: (Bodea, 2004) Conceptual Model of Knowledge Management Framework Gravin (1993) defines the learning organization as one that is “skilled at creating, acquiring and transferring knowledge, and at modifying its behavior to reflect new knowledge and insights” (p. 80) and the members of a learning organization are continually creating knowledge and increasing their capacity to produce results and take effective action (Huber, 1991). In the production engine, stored knowledge are using to produce and codify knowledge as part of knowledge generation and knowledge storage. keywords: academic; ahmad; demands; development; different; education; engine; environment; european; faculties; faculty; feedback; graduate; higher; indirect; information; knowledge; learning; management; model; nonaka; organization; process; production; programs; research; results; role; students; undergraduate; universities; university; virtual cache: eis-25824.pdf plain text: eis-25824.txt item: #208 of 298 id: eis-25825 author: Author title: TRENDS OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT FOR KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY: TOWARDS COMPETENCE AS THE SYNERGY OF KNOWLEDGE, ABILITIES AND SKILLS date: 2007-04-16 words: 3951 flesch: 47 summary: Therefore, in knowledge based economy it is necessary to analyze the highly – skilled workers, because this category of workers plays a key role in the generation of new knowledge. Under the conditions of knowledge based economy there is important not only the making of research, but also commercialization of research results. keywords: abilities; activity; analysis; best; business; capital; communication; competence; contemporary; content; critical; development; economy; education; european; human; human resources; important; individual; integration; isbn; issn; kaunas; knowledge; kriščiūnas; learning; lifelong; main; management; modules; new; personal; processes; quality; research; resources; role; scientific; skilled; skilled human; skills; society; specific; studies; thinking; universities; university; ways; workers cache: eis-25825.pdf plain text: eis-25825.txt item: #209 of 298 id: eis-25826 author: Author title: COMPETENCE CENTRES AND THEIR POSSIBLE IMPACT ON LITHUANIA’S KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY DEVELOPMENT date: 2007-04-16 words: 4670 flesch: 45 summary: And it is described as system which involves science, business and government sectors one of the innovation intermediates, including, science and technology parks, business incubators, technology transfer institutions and innovation centres. This article deals with the features Lithuania’s knowledge-based economy, also with the situation of competence centres and their possible impact on the development of Lithuanian knowledge-based economy. keywords: article; business; centres; collaboration; committee; communication; companies; competence; competence centres; competitiveness; council; development; economic; economy; education; estonia; european; evaluation; excellence; expenditure; experience; features; financing; high; human; ict; impact; important; industrial; industry; innovation; institutions; integration; international; issn; key; knowledge; level; line; lisbon; lithuania; main; new; policy; possible; programme; r&d; report; research; resources; role; science; scientific; sector; social; society; strategy; studies; technology; term cache: eis-25826.pdf plain text: eis-25826.txt item: #210 of 298 id: eis-25827 author: Author title: INNOVATION IN STUDY METHODOLOGY FOR ENHANCEMENT OF COMPETITIVENESS OF THE GRADUATES OF ELECTRONICS STUDY PROGRAM date: 2007-04-16 words: 3436 flesch: 40 summary: Taking into account the EC FP5 project Career Space recommendations and the project team opinions, there should be implemented new study methodologies in all the subjects. This article gives an estimated impact of new study curricula to the competence and professionalism of the graduates. keywords: academic; active; activities; analysis; approaches; change; competitive; competitiveness; constructive; course; curricula; development; economy; education; electronics; european; experience; future; graduates; implementation; industry; innovation; integration; knowledge; labour; learning; management; market; methodologies; methodology; methods; new; new study; order; paradigm; problem; process; professional; program; project; requirements; research; rīga; skills; staff; students; studies; study; study program; university cache: eis-25827.pdf plain text: eis-25827.txt item: #211 of 298 id: eis-25828 author: Author title: POLISH UNIVERSITIES CONTRIBUTION TO ACADEMIC ENTREPRENEURSHIP DEVELOPMENT* date: 2007-04-16 words: 4320 flesch: 36 summary: Types of support granted by 16 chosen Polish incubators Type of support 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Consulting, information, courses training: Entrepreneurship, company establishment X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Business plan creation X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Technology and patents X X X X X X Cooperation mediation X X X X X X X Finances, taxes X X X X X X X X Bookkeeping, accounting X X X X X X X X X X Legal issues X X X X X X X X X X X X X Market analysis and marketing X X X X X X X Informatics and computers X X X X X X X X X HR management X X X X X Access to EU funds X X X X X X X X X X International trade and cooperation X X Implementation of new services and products X X X X Business management X X X X X Quality management X X X Technical and service infrastructure: Reception, secretariat X X X X X X X Telephone exchange X X X X X X X X X X Copying machine, fax X X X X X X X X X X X Computer network X X X X X X X X X X X X X X Workshops / laboratories X X X X X Access to databases X X X X X X X Conference room X X X X X X X X X X Financial support: Lending and guarantee funds X Loans and loan mediation X X Cooperation with „business angels” X X X Subsidies, grants, subventions X X X X X X X X Venture capital X Microsoft Word - izanga.doc ISSN 1822-8402 EUROPEAN INTEGRATION STUDIES. keywords: academic; academic entrepreneurship; access; activities; activity; business; centres; companies; company; cooperation; creation; development; economic; entrepreneurship; entrepreneurship incubators; european; facilities; foundation; funds; higher; incubators; integration; knowledge; market; matusiak; means; new; offer; personnel; poland; process; regional; regulations; research; role; scientific; scope; services; society; students; studies; support; technology; time; training; transfer; universities; university; warszawa; young; zasiadły cache: eis-25828.pdf plain text: eis-25828.txt item: #212 of 298 id: eis-25829 author: Author title: E-EDUCATION TOOLS AS A WAY TO ESF POSSIBILITIES DEVELOPING IN LATVIAN RURAL AREAS date: 2007-04-16 words: 3508 flesch: 38 summary: As the result of the project qualified performer level of employment must rise, namely, demand for ESF project applications’ potential writers and executors, int. al. participation in ESF projects to achieve both direct project aim, and prepare conditions for further ESF projects execution developing universal learning-communication environment on the Web. Facilities developed during mentioned projects, together with supporting infrastructure will be used as a base for further ESF supported activities’ realization in Latvian provinces. keywords: activities; activity; aim; application; concrete; courses; development; drawing; education; environment; esf; european; fund; informational; inhabitants; integration; issn; knowledge; latvian; lavendels; learning; level; management; measures; necessary; opportunities; organizations; particular; people; points; potential; programme; programs; project; province; regional; riga; set; sitikovs; society; studies; teaching; technologies; training; web; work cache: eis-25829.pdf plain text: eis-25829.txt item: #213 of 298 id: eis-25830 author: Author title: ENLARGEMENT OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE LONG TERM TRANSFORMATIONS TOWARDS EUROPE OF KNOWLEDGE date: 2007-04-16 words: 6947 flesch: 28 summary: Some new non-traditional ideas and models of possible economic development in the future are discussed. Keywords: Transformation, European Union, knowledge, economic development Introduction The 21st century is the age of increasingly developing transformations in the whole world and all spheres of life. keywords: baltic; central; central europe; certain; changes; character; characteristic; common; complex; countries; cultural; development; different; eastern; eastern europe; economic; economic development; economy; enlargement; entire; entire european; european countries; european integration; european union; factors; features; following; general; growth; hand; important; integral; integral economic; integration; international; issn; issues; kind; layers; life; local; major; modern; new; particular; period; place; political; problems; processes; qualitative; regions; research; situation; social; social space; societal; society; space; specific; spheres; standards; states; studies; system; transformations; transitions; trends; typicalities; typicality; values; western; world cache: eis-25830.pdf plain text: eis-25830.txt item: #214 of 298 id: eis-25831 author: Author title: THE POSITION OF KNOWLEDGE WORKERS IN KNOWLEDGE-BASED ECONOMY: MIGRATION ASPECT date: 2007-04-16 words: 6286 flesch: 45 summary: In order to suggest the concrete actions how to suspend and attract knowledge workers to Lithuania the tendencies of knowledge workers migration in EU and the world were presented in the article. Considering mentioned above the research problem being solved in this article should be constructed: how to systemize and construct the definition of knowledge workers in order to highlight the specificity of knowledge workers migration in Europe and World and to suggest the actions making possible to reduce the negative “brain drain” effect and to retrieve “the brain”? keywords: actions; analysis; brain; brain drain; capital; circulation; classification; competence; conditions; consequences; countries; country; data; decision; development; different; drucker; economic; economies; economy; education; effect; european; exchange; factors; gain; governmental; growth; high; human; important; individual; integration; international; internetą; issn; kbe; kingdom; knowledge; knowledge workers; kriščiūnas; legislation; level; lithuania; mahroum; migrants; migration; mobility; modern; negative; new; non; occupations; oecd; order; people; persons; policies; policy; positive; prieiga; problem; pull; push; qualified; research; scientific; scientists; service; skilled; social; source; states; studies; table; total; united; workers; workers migration; world cache: eis-25831.pdf plain text: eis-25831.txt item: #215 of 298 id: eis-25832 author: Author title: PROBLEMS AND DILEMMAS OF EU REGIONAL POLICY date: 2007-04-16 words: 3859 flesch: 50 summary: At first, it is essential to refer to theory that focuses on regional economic growth, regional competition enhancement and regional policy. A different shape of regional policy could, however, mean a return to the idea of two-speed Europe, which would not be advantageous to the new Member States. keywords: accession; aim; budget; capital; character; cohesion; community; competitiveness; countries; current; debate; developed; development; different; economic; economy; effectiveness; european; financial; framework; fund; growth; human; innovation; integration; intervention; investment; issn; market; member; monetary; new; objective; period; perspective; policy; processes; r&d; regional; regional policy; regions; resources; social; spain; stage; states; strategy; structural; studies; support; theories; transfers; treaty cache: eis-25832.pdf plain text: eis-25832.txt item: #216 of 298 id: eis-25833 author: Author title: FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENTS CONTRIBUTION TO KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY IN POLAND date: 2007-04-16 words: 2969 flesch: 55 summary: The aims of the paper are as follows: • to depict why Poland shall attract FDI, • to show why technology oriented FDI are important for the Polish economy, • to describe the changing pattern of FDI in Poland and consequences of these changes for Poland’s economy move towards the knowledge based economy. The 2006 constitutes a year with the highest value of FDI inflow ever registered in Poland. keywords: activity; assets; capital; changes; direct; domestic; economic; economy; enterprises; european; fact; fdi; foes; foreign; good; greenfields; high; incoming; inflow; innovation; integration; investments; investors; kbe; knowledge; new; poland; polish; productivity; r&d; research; share; technology; time; transfer; umiński; usd; value; year cache: eis-25833.pdf plain text: eis-25833.txt item: #217 of 298 id: eis-25834 author: Author title: EFFICIENCY OF CENTRAL BANKING: MEASUREMENT, CASES AND POLICY DEVELOPMENTS date: 2007-04-16 words: 4313 flesch: 50 summary: The ESCB should strive for a uniform financial statement submission procedure and cost price calculation of central bank basic functions; this would lead to a greater transparency and a more accurate comparison of central bank efficiency resulting in a more enhanced accountability of central banks. The study of central bank efficiency indicators should continue, with the focus not only on the central banks in the EU25 countries but also in Bulgaria and Romania; the studies should also include the comparison of the NCB efficiency indicators with the respective indicators of the EU candidate countries. keywords: analysis; annual; annual report; area; assets; bank; central; central bank; chart; comparison; costs; countries; country; ecb; efficiency; end; england; escb; eu10; eu15; european; expense; financial; imf; income; indicators; integration; integrity; interest; issn; line; losses; lowest; management; market; monetary; ncbs; net; number; operating; operational; perscb; pnrp; policy; population; positive; profit; provisions; report; respective; result; staff; studies; system; tasks; total; washington; worth; year cache: eis-25834.pdf plain text: eis-25834.txt item: #218 of 298 id: eis-25835 author: Author title: THE ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE PROVINCE OF WARMIA AND MAZURY (POLAND) date: 2007-04-16 words: 3789 flesch: 43 summary: Among the objectives which have an influence on business activity, the following are most often included in regional development strategies: development of entrepreneurship, multifunctional development of rural areas, a decrease in unemployment, an increase in employment in the agricultural and food industries, development of local tourism, an increase in the income from activities outside agriculture, promotion of entrepreneurship in the local community. Those goals assume that, in Elbląg, Olsztyn and Ełk, which are considered urban centres playing a significant role in the development of the Province, there are some areas (development areas) which require restructuring and modernization, or new investment in order to create conditions for the development of new kinds of economic activity. keywords: access; analysis; areas; authorities; business; capital; companies; conditions; development; development strategy; economic; economy; entrepreneurship; environment; european; factors; gminas; goals; increase; influence; information; infrastructure; integration; lack; local; management; mazury; network; new; number; olsztyn; poland; province; region; regional; role; rural; sector; smes; strategic; strategy; system; technical; towns; warmia cache: eis-25835.pdf plain text: eis-25835.txt item: #219 of 298 id: eis-25836 author: Author title: ENTREPRENEURSHIP SUPPORT POLICY OF LOCAL AUTHORITIES – RESULTS OF RESEARCH IN SELECTED REGIONS OF BELARUS, FINLAND, LATVIA AND POLAND* date: 2007-04-16 words: 4248 flesch: 44 summary: According to the law there are 17 permanent functions of local governments and only 4 of regional (Local and Regional Governments of Latvia, 2004). A multitude of connections of equal partners between local governments is a characteristic feature of the model of the functioning local government in Finland (called regional advice particularly in frames of self-government associations) and between these self-government bodies and institutions of surrounding the business. keywords: authorities; belarus; business; countries; country; development; economic; economy; enterprises; entrepreneurs; european; experts; finland; finnish; government; graph; help; high; important; improvement; integration; issn; lapland; latgale; latvia; law; level; local; local authorities; medium; member; need; new; participation; poland; policy; possibilities; possible; public; realization; regional; regional authorities; regions; research; respondents; results; sector; self; small; smes; state; studies; support; system; technologies; territorial; unemployment; vitebsk cache: eis-25836.pdf plain text: eis-25836.txt item: #220 of 298 id: eis-25837 author: Author title: THE ROLE OF PUBLIC AID IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES date: 2007-04-16 words: 3026 flesch: 53 summary: The directions from European Union countries are based on the conviction that public aid should be realized horizontally or regional because this kind of aid will allow better stability of development (SURDEJ 2000, p. 23). STEP I. Table 1.Public aid appropriating on development small and medium-sized enterprises in Poland in 2005 Supporting institution Worth of aid (mln PLN) Dominated category of support Chairman of PARP 260,1 subsidies Marshals 22,1 subsidies Financial Regional Institutions 12,1 subsidies Minister of the Treasury 6,2 selling of public property City presidents, Towns Lords, Chiefs officer of a group of villages 3,2 remission of tax arrears fiscal offices and customs 0,8 remission of tax arrears Chairman of National Fund for Environment Protection and Water System 0,1 preferential loans Suma 304,6 Source: Report on State Aid in Poland Granted to Entrepreneurs in 2005, Office for Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), Warsaw 2006, p. 24–25. keywords: aid; article; companies; development; economic; enterprises; european; financial; funds; horizontal; important; influence; kind; medium; medium enterprises; mln; pln; poland; polish; profitability; programme; public; public aid; regional; role; sized; sized enterprises; small; specific; state; support; total; union; value; year cache: eis-25837.pdf plain text: eis-25837.txt item: #221 of 298 id: eis-25838 author: Author title: FOOTBALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN COMMON MARKET INTEGRATION date: 2007-04-16 words: 3516 flesch: 47 summary: The development of football business structure is based on changing financial flows, which become more and more various. The development of football business structure in the context of European common market integration is based on changing financial flows, which become more and more various. keywords: advertising; analysis; associations; bigger; business; case; changes; club; companies; conditions; countries; curve; development; economical; european; factors; financial; financing; flows; football; football business; globalization; government; impact; important; income; integration; international; local; main; manager; market; match; new; performance; playing; professional; profit; profitability; reason; role; sources; sport; structure; success; system; translation cache: eis-25838.pdf plain text: eis-25838.txt item: #222 of 298 id: eis-26143 author: Gavrilova, Valeria; Gurvitsh-Suits, Natalie Aleksandra title: Contemporary Innovation Challenges – Future of Adoption Artificial Intelligence: Case of Estonia date: 2020-10-22 words: 4774 flesch: 48 summary: Table 2 Main reasons, associated benefits and areas related to implementation of artificial intelligence in the field of financial accounting (in % of respondents) Main reasons and associated benefits Strongly agree or rather agree Main areas Strongly agree or rather agree i e s 2 0 2 0 / 1 4 Table 3 Main tasks, which could be automated by the implementation of artificial intelligence in the field of accounting (in % of respondents) Automated tasks Strongly agree or rather agree Issuance and acceptance of invoices keywords: 2019; accountants; accounting; adoption; areas; artificial; artificial intelligence; audit; authors; benefits; business; case; challenges; cham; companies; creative; data; digital; e s; e u; estonia; et.al; ethical; field; financial; future; https://doi; human; impact; implementation; industry; information; intelligence; main; managerial; n s; n t; new; non; org/10.1007/978; possible; process; professionals; question; related; reporting; research; respondents; results; s t; skills; springer; survey; t e; t u; table; tasks; time; total; usage cache: eis-26143.pdf plain text: eis-26143.txt item: #223 of 298 id: eis-26318 author: Bogdanova, Olga; Arefjevs, Ilja title: International Finance Trilemma as a Tool for Balanced Development of an Economy date: 2020-10-22 words: 6359 flesch: 43 summary: Financial trilemma index is expressed by the following equation: FTI = 0,3 * Howev- er, in a developing country, by entering the market FinTech services would rise the total score of Financial trilemma index, by substantially improving availability of financing without harming much to already shaky financial stability and foggy financial transparency. 135 E u r o p e a n I n t e g r a t keywords: account; adults; authors; availability; available; balance; bank; banking; business; capital; case; cash; concept; context; country; criteria; data; development; dimensions; disruption; e s; e u; economic; economy; elements; energy; european; example; external; factors; finance; financial; financial inclusion; financial services; financial stability; financial trilemma; fintech; flows; gdp; global; growth; impact; important; inclusion; index; information; innovation; institutions; international; investments; key; markets; model; monetary; money; n s; n t; online; paper; policy; rate; relevant; research; risk; s t; savings; schneider; sector; services; shadow; stability; system; t e; t u; table; technologies; transparency; trilemma; trilemma index; use; value; world cache: eis-26318.pdf plain text: eis-26318.txt item: #224 of 298 id: eis-26367 author: Mlodkowski, Pawel title: Estimating Production Function Before Covid-19 Pandemic in Europe date: 2020-10-22 words: 6850 flesch: 61 summary: Other findings and observations that open new areas for economic growth studies, are as fol- lows. The final conclusion is that economic growth studies in the EU face the issue of inconsistent and idiosyncratic transformation mechanisms over time. keywords: analysis; asymmetric; capital; century; changes; characteristics; composition; consequences; countries; country; covid-19; different; diseases; doi; douglas; e s; e u; economic; economic growth; effects; empirical; european; events; factors; force; framework; function; future; gdp; genocide; growth; historical; international; labor; level; mechanism; member; młodkowski; n s; n t; nature; negative; new; output; pandemic; paper; parameters; period; plague; population; positive; post; production; production function; rate; results; s t; series; significant; society; source; states; structural; studies; t e; t u; table; time; transformation; u r; underlying; union; working cache: eis-26367.pdf plain text: eis-26367.txt item: #225 of 298 id: eis-26371 author: Muraleedharan, Vishnu title: Immigrant Integration: the Role of NGO’s in Lithuania for Upholding Immigrant Assimilation date: 2020-10-22 words: 9478 flesch: 49 summary: These circumstances led to a challenging situation for NGO measures, especially for the advocacy and grassroots move- ments. The article aims to analyze immigrant integration measures, focusing on the NGO advocacy pri- marily through advocacy for immigrant assimilation through the advocacy measures of lobbying, media management, cultural awareness, and acquiring national and European funds. keywords: able; access; activities; actors; advocacy; advocacy measures; analysis; article; aspect; assimilation; awareness; bukim; case; civil; communication; communities; context; coordinator; countries; country; cultural; cultural integration; diversity; e s; e u; economic; european; europos; events; facebook; fear; funds; global; governmental; group; https://doi; human; immigrant; immigrant integration; immigration; impact; influence; institutions; integration; integration activities; integration measures; international; lack; lithuania; lobbying; local; management; measures; mechanisms; media; n s; n t; namai; national; nations; nature; network; ngo; ngos; non; organizations; orientation; pazistami; pažįstami; people; phenomenon; policy; political; politics; population; press; private; public; research; resources; role; s t; sector; significant; social; society; socio; stereotypes; study; t e; t u; testimonies; theory; u r; western cache: eis-26371.pdf plain text: eis-26371.txt item: #226 of 298 id: eis-26373 author: Casno, Kristīne; Šķiltere, Daina ; Sloka, Biruta title: Marketing Communications of Latvian Social Enterprises from a Consumer Perspective: Practical Suggestions for Improvement: Practical Suggestions for Improvement date: 2020-10-22 words: 6927 flesch: 45 summary: The purpose of this study is twofold - to contribute to the further understanding of social enterprises’ marketing by providing a consumers’ perspective on the content that social enterprises generate in order for them to be able to better understand their strengths and weaknesses and to establish a reference point with regards the current situation in social enterprise marketing which will allow to compare and measure improvement in the future and, if needed, provide fact-based evidence to assist social enterprises in their call for support from public authorities. Thus the purpose of this study is twofold - to contribute to the further understanding of social enterprises’ marketing by providing a consumers’ perspective on the content that social enterprises generate in order for them to be able to better understand their strengths and weaknesses and to establish a reference point with regards the current situation in social enterprise marketing which will allow to compare and measure improvement in the future and, if needed, provide fact-based evidence to assist social enterprises in their call for support from public authorities. keywords: aesthetic; age; analysis; aspects; audience; authors; bandyopadhyay; casno; characteristics; communications; consumers; content; development; deviation; e s; e u; economic; economy; enterprise marketing; enterprises; entrepreneurship; european; evaluations; financial; groups; improvement; indicators; interesting; international; journal; lack; latvia; latvian social; līcīte; male; marketing; marketing content; mean; n s; n t; potential; products; public; ray; regards; regularity; research; respondents; results; riga; role; s t; services; significant; social; social economy; social enterprises; social entrepreneurship; standard; statistical; support; survey; t e; t u; table; university; ūlande cache: eis-26373.pdf plain text: eis-26373.txt item: #227 of 298 id: eis-26375 author: Rolle, Kristīne; Lūse, Agita title: Between the State and the Kin in Latvia: One-Person Household Social Security from Social Antropological Perspective date: 2020-10-22 words: 8429 flesch: 62 summary: The focus of state social policies on the economically independent individual, as well as conditions of market economy have changed the way people in Latvia understand their relationships, both to their kin and the state. Drawing on our ethnographic data, we explore instances when the state welfare system failed to provide an individual with social security and inquire into the degree the family and kinship ties in such circumstances are likely to be re-established. keywords: age; assistance; average; beckmann; bela; benda; bureau; care; cent; central; century; children; contemporary; countries; csb; data; decades; e s; e u; economic; elderly; ethnographic; europe; european; family; group; hajnal; health; household; ibid; income; individual; insurance; intergenerational; katrīna; kinship; labour; latvia; latvijas; latvijā; life; lives; living; market; members; mother; n s; n t; needs; number; parents; patterns; pension; people; person; policies; policy; political; population; poverty; questions; regimes; relationships; relatives; research; retrieved; riga; risk; role; rīga; s t; security; services; social; social security; soviet; state; statistical; strong; studies; support; system; t e; t u; ties; time; type; u r; university; vulnerable; welfare; women; years cache: eis-26375.pdf plain text: eis-26375.txt item: #228 of 298 id: eis-26379 author: Dundure, Evija; Sloka, Biruta title: Tax Incentives as a Part of Governments’ Applied Mechanisms for the Third Pension Pillar in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania date: 2020-10-22 words: 5192 flesch: 50 summary: Aggregated balance sheet of third pillar pension funds. How- ever, there is no clear evidence that pension fund contributions are generated by diverting other household assets or pre-planned savings therefore tax incentives might stimulate increase of household savings. keywords: age; analysis; annual; baltic; contributions; countries; country; development; e s; e u; effectiveness; employers; estonia; eur; exempt; figure; financial; funds; governments; gross; incentives; income; increase; investment; journal; latvia; level; limit; lithuania; mechanisms; n s; n t; oecd; pension; pension funds; pension pillar; personal; pillar; pit; plans; population; private; private pension; public; rates; reliefs; replacement; republic; research; retirement; s t; savings; social; states; system; t e; t u; tax; tax incentives; voluntary cache: eis-26379.pdf plain text: eis-26379.txt item: #229 of 298 id: eis-26381 author: Mikelsone, Elina; Spilbergs, Aivars; Volkova, Tatjana; Liela, Elita; Frisfelds, Janis title: Idea Management System Application Type Impact on Idea Quantity date: 2020-10-22 words: 16468 flesch: 59 summary: i e s 2 0 2 0 / 1 4 0 50 100 150 200 1-10 11-100 101-1000 1001-5000 5001-10000 >10000 Active IMS Pasive IMS Internal IMS External IMS Mixed IMS 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 Active IMS Pasive IMS 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Internal IMS External IMS 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Internal IMS Mixed IMS 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 External IMS Mixed IMS Figure 8 Respondents frequency distribution for idea quantity based on sample data 0 0 50 100 150 200 1-10 11-100 101-1000 1001-5000 5001-10000 >10000 Active IMS Pasive IMS Internal IMS External IMS Mixed IMS 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 Active IMS Pasive IMS 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Internal IMS External IMS 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 160 180 Internal IMS Mixed IMS 0 20 40 60 80 100 120 140 External IMS Mixed IMS Source: created by author’s Figure 3 Respondents frequency distribution for idea quantity based on sample data 199 E u r o p e a n I n keywords: 0,0001; active ims; aggregated; analysis; arithmetic; author; calculated; class; coefficient; conclusions; confidence; confidence interval; data; degrees; deviation; different; different ims; distribution; estimates; estimation; everitt; evidence; external ims; figure; following; freedom; frequency; group; higher idea; hypothesis; idea management; idea quantity; ideas; impact; ims; ims application; ims results; ims types; innovation; internal ims; international; interval; journal; lcl; level; limit; lower; main; management; mean; median; mixed ims; number; observations; paper; parameter; pasive; passive ims; point; population; probability; process; quantity ims; research; respondents; results; sample; set; significance; size; skrondal; source; spread; standard; statistics; survey; system; table; test; true; ucl; value; variation; web; � ith; � ̅; 𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; 𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀; 𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀 margin; 𝑚𝑚 �; 𝑥 �; 𝑥𝑥 � cache: eis-26381.pdf plain text: eis-26381.txt item: #230 of 298 id: eis-26384 author: Kruze, Elina; Priede, Janis title: Cost-effectiveness of Prison System Development - Comparison of the European Countries date: 2020-10-22 words: 6486 flesch: 52 summary: One of the main reasons for high prison population rates is the practice of sentencing a significant number of convicts to serve long imprisonment terms for property-related offences; this kind of practice leads to high prison density, often resulting in various human rights violations due to overcrowded detention facilities. The possibility to achieve successful resocialization of former prisoners back into society is an ongoing public debate, making it challenging for policymakers to implement prisoner rehabilitation programs capable of maintaining the public safety while allocating public funds in the most efficient way. keywords: annual; capita; cluster; conditions; convicts; correlation; costs; countries; country; crime; decrease; different; e s; e u; education; effective; european; european countries; facilities; gdp; high; imprisonment; incarceration; latvia; long; march; money; n s; n t; netherlands; norway; offenders; order; people; population; practice; prison; prisoners; programs; proper; rates; recidivism; rehabilitation; release; reoffending; research; rules; s t; society; system; t e; t u; term; time; work; year cache: eis-26384.pdf plain text: eis-26384.txt item: #231 of 298 id: eis-26385 author: Gudele, Ina; Jekabsone, Inga title: Factors Contributing to the Development of E-Commerce by the Degree of use in Latvia date: 2020-10-22 words: 5525 flesch: 45 summary: At the same time, when analysing the importance of different groups of e-commerce factors depending on how intensively entrepreneurs use e-commerce opportunities, there are signif- icant differences in the assessment of factor groups “Social factors” and “Regulatory factors” between entrepreneurs who make full use of e-commerce opportunities and those who do not use them at all. Further analysis is on assessment of the importance of groups of e-commerce factors between enterprises that do not use e-commerce at all and those that take full advantage of e-commerce (see Fig. 3). keywords: activities; advantage; analysis; authors; business; commerce; commerce opportunities; company; country; degree; development; digital; e s; e u; economic; employee; enterprises; entrepreneurs; environment; factors; governmental; groups; knowledge; latvia; leader; level; n t; network; non; opportunities; organisations; policy; positive; regulatory; research; results; samples; significant; skills; social; survey; t e; technological; use; value; world cache: eis-26385.pdf plain text: eis-26385.txt item: #232 of 298 id: eis-26567 author: Beizitere, Ilona; Sloka, Biruta; Brence, Ieva title: Restrictive Factors for Micro-Company Growth in Latvia date: 2020-10-22 words: 5548 flesch: 52 summary: KEYWORDS: company growth; micro-company; experienced managers; qualified employees; restrictive factors in company development. In this paper, the empirical research is based on the survey of companies in Latvia on their limiting factors for company development. keywords: analysis; anova; authors; business; capital; commission; companies; company; costs; data; development; deviation; different; e s; e u; employees; enterprises; entrepreneurship; european; evaluations; expenses; experienced; factors; growth; https://doi; important; increase; indicators; journal; labour; latvia; limiting; main; management; managers; market; mean; median; micro; n s; n t; number; problem; production; qualified; regions; research; researchers; results; s t; small; smes; source; std; survey; t e; t u; table; total; unavailability cache: eis-26567.pdf plain text: eis-26567.txt item: #233 of 298 id: eis-26569 author: Beizitere, Ilona; Brence, Ieva; Sloka, Biruta title: Public Financing Support Options to Micro-Enterprises for Innovation date: 2020-10-22 words: 7891 flesch: 54 summary: Since newly established companies are predominantly very small and do not exceed the size of micro-enterprises conclusions on start-ups have also been includ- ed. An important conclusion of the study was that smaller companies have significantly greater problems with access to finance than larger companies. keywords: access; additional; altum; analysis; angels; authors; availability; bank; business; capital; central; commission; companies; company; data; development; e s; e u; economics; eif; enterprises; entrepreneurship; essential; european; external; finance; financial; financing; form; funding; funds; growth; guarantee; high; important; innovation; instruments; internal; investments; journal; lack; latvia; line; loan; main; market; medium; micro; mind; ministry; n s; n t; need; new; number; oecd; owner; paper; period; policy; products; programs; public; question; republic; research; results; risk; s t; services; set; size; small; smes; sources; start; state; study; support; survey; t e; t u; table; term; ups; venture; years cache: eis-26569.pdf plain text: eis-26569.txt item: #234 of 298 id: eis-26774 author: Miežanskienė, Ramunė title: Exploring Tendencies in Migrants’ Legal Consciousness Research and Uncovering Factors for Socio-Legal Integration date: 2020-10-22 words: 7508 flesch: 51 summary: Alongside the response to migration-related challenges in society, the attention to migrant‘s legal consciousness research had been also a part of this field of interest. In this way, the following research will present a constituent step forward in scientific knowledge in this sub-field of legal consciousness research. keywords: abrego; address; attention; chua; claims; consciousness; consciousness research; context; countries; country; cultural; current; different; e s; e u; engel; exclusion; factors; field; figure; following; framework; geographical; host; https://doi; identity; immigrant; integration; interest; investigation; journal; justice; l.j; law; legal; legal consciousness; leisy; literature; main; making; migrants; migration; n s; n t; particular; publications; range; records; relation; research; review; rights; role; s t; sample; scholars; scientific; scope; second; social; society; socio; status; students; studies; system; t e; t u; tendencies; theoretical; time; topic; tungohan; undocumented; workers cache: eis-26774.pdf plain text: eis-26774.txt item: #235 of 298 id: eis-26829 author: Linina, Iveta; Vevere, Velga title: Enhancement of Retail Consumer Loyalty in Latvia by Means of Social Media Communication date: 2020-10-22 words: 5415 flesch: 47 summary: KEYWORDS: consumer loyalty, retailing, social media communication, consumer engagement, eWOM. Moving to the second are of our conceptual framework, i.e., the employment of social networks in building retail consumer loyalty, we have to admit that literature in the field covers quite broad spectrum of issues – from the role of consumer references and the rewarding engagement strategies, from the electronic word of mouth (e-WOM) and creation of online communities to the online communication strategies (Ali, 2016; Leonardi et al., 2013; Poturak & Softić, 2019; Pütter, 2017; Schivinski & Dabrowski, 2014). keywords: account; audience; authors; brand; building; business; chains; characteristics; communication; companies; consumer; consumer loyalty; current; customers; dimensional; e s; engagement; evaluation; factors; figure; following; high; important; information; international; journal; latvia; linina; loyalty; management; marketing; means; media; model; n s; n t; networks; new; number; online; order; point; price; product; purchase; questionnaire; questions; relationships; research; respondents; retail; retailers; retailing; role; s t; service; social; social media; store; survey; t e; t u; target; value cache: eis-26829.pdf plain text: eis-26829.txt item: #236 of 298 id: eis-27556 author: Borowicz, Aleksandra title: The Shift of the Policy Towards FDI in European Union: Determinants and Challenges date: 2020-10-22 words: 4840 flesch: 57 summary: Global foreign foreign investment has fallen to $ 1.4 billion in 2018. i e s 2 0 2 0 / 1 4 Abstract The Shift of the Policy Towards FDI in European Union: Determinants and Challenges http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.1.14.27556 Since 2016, a change in the policy on foreign direct investment (FDI) can be observed in the European Union. keywords: 2019; area; article; capital; change; chinese; commission; companies; context; countries; direct; direct investment; e s; e u; economic; economies; economy; employment; enterprises; european; european union; fdi; foreign; foreign direct; foreign investment; form; framework; germany; global; globalization; inflow; investment; investors; market; mechanism; member; monitoring; n s; n t; new; order; pandemic; particular; policy; process; public; recent; regulation; research; role; s t; screening; states; strategic; t e; t u; unctad; union; world; years cache: eis-27556.pdf plain text: eis-27556.txt item: #237 of 298 id: eis-27557 author: Gorniak, Agata Maria title: The Impact of Inward FDI on the Growth of Advanced Ex-Ports in Central-Eastern European Region date: 2020-10-22 words: 4678 flesch: 55 summary: The results indicate positive correlation of high technology exports with trade openness and hu- man capital (Tebaldi, 2011). However, in the case of making investments in a host country that has high investments in research and development the transfer is noticeable (van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie, Lichtenberg, 2001). keywords: advanced; advancement; capital; countries; country; data; development; direct; domestic; e s; european; export; factors; fdi; foreign; formation; gdp; gross; high; impact; inflows; intensive; investment; level; literature; medium; model; n t; openness; products; r&d; research; results; s t; savings; sectors; significant; structure; studies; t e; technology; time; trade; variables; world cache: eis-27557.pdf plain text: eis-27557.txt item: #238 of 298 id: eis-27558 author: Zvirgzdina, Rosita; Skadina, Helena; Vane, Alida title: Requirements for CFO Within The Business Model date: 2020-10-22 words: 3446 flesch: 54 summary: “By changing the metrics and finding new business models to transform the company” (OC) and making it profitable “he must also be an engineer” (RS): By modelling new business, the goal can be achieved by using business modelling by process- es allowing for costing deliverables, controlling operations and designing information systems aligned with business procedures and organization (Briffaut et al 2002). keywords: authors; business; business model; cfo; cfos; characteristics; companies; company; data; development; digital; e s; employees; enterprise; experts; finance; financial; hand; ifac; important; information; market; model; modelling; n t; new; new business; organization; performance; processes; requirements; research; role; s t; skills; t e; technological; technology; time; transformation; turiba; university cache: eis-27558.pdf plain text: eis-27558.txt item: #239 of 298 id: eis-27825 author: Krisciunas, Kestutis title: Review on the second edition of the Attilio Stajano book RESEARCH, QUALITY, COMPETITIVENESS: European Union Technology Policy for the Knowledge Society date: 2008-08-08 words: 475 flesch: 54 summary: No 2 REVIEW on the second edition of the Attilio Stajano book RESEARCH, QUALITY, COMPETITIVENESS: European Union Technology Policy for the Knowledge Society Springer, 2008 The vision of European Institute of technology is described. keywords: book; competitiveness; european; integration; knowledge; research; studies; union cache: eis-27825.pdf plain text: eis-27825.txt item: #240 of 298 id: eis-27826 author: Daugėlienė, Rasa title: Information about the article’s authors date: 2008-08-08 words: 964 flesch: 42 summary: Prof., Kaunas University of Technology, Institute of Europe; Kęstučio str. 8, Kaunas; E-mail: algis.junevicius@ktu.lt; Phone: (+370) 37-225216 KERAS Antanas, Dr., assoc. +370 37 300 476 KERŠYTĖ Jurgita, PhD student of social sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Institute of Europe, +370 37 300140, jurgita.kersyte@ktu.lt KRIŠČIŪNAS Kęstutis Prof. Habil Dr. of technical sciences, Kaunas University of Technology, Institute of Europe; +370 37 30 01 37, e-mail kestutis.krisciunas@ktu.lt KVEDARAVIČIŪTĖ Inga, Master degree student; Kaunas University of Technology, Institute of Europe; E-mail: ingkved@super.lt 142 ISSN 1822-8402 EUROPEAN INTEGRATION STUDIES. keywords: +371; assoc; computer; european; institute; kaunas; kaunas university; mail; management; phone; prof; projects; science; social; student; systems; technical; technology; tel; university cache: eis-27826.pdf plain text: eis-27826.txt item: #241 of 298 id: eis-27828 author: Daugėlienė, Rasa title: Requirements’ for the preparation of the article date: 2008-08-08 words: 646 flesch: 66 summary: Keywords • Introduction, indicating the • article’s scientifi c problem, novelty, aim, tasks, object, research methods Text of the article • Conclusions • List of references • Presenting an article, the following data about the author has to be added separately: 5. Name, fi rst name, working place and it’s address • Academic degree and name, indicating science fi eld and direction, phone, E-mail • Spheres and subjects of academic interests • Other supplementary information added as a free choice of the author.• Requirements for the preparation of an electronic form of an article to European Integration Studies ISSN 1822-8402 EUROPEAN INTEGRATION STUDIES (Times New Roman, 12 pt, Bold) >14 pt TITLE (Times New Roman, 14 pt, Bold) >14 pt Name Surname (Times New Roman, 14 pt, Bold) >12 pt Name of author’s university (Times New Roman, 14 pt, Italic) >14 pt Abstract (Times New Roman, 11 pt, Bold) 6 pt The author presents a 5-6 pages long article (e-version) to the editors-in-chief. keywords: article; author; bold; european; integration; new; roman; studies; times cache: eis-27828.pdf plain text: eis-27828.txt item: #242 of 298 id: eis-28296 author: Cifuentes-Faura, Javier title: Digital Agenda, New Technologies and Education for the Integration of Europe: an Economic Study date: 2021-09-16 words: 4304 flesch: 54 summary: We highlight the importance of applying new technologies in the field of edu- cation, since teaching and learning through these means will contribute to increasing creativity and reasoning capacity, allowing for more interactive and participative learning. Furthermore, in order to analyse the influence of the use of the Internet and new technologies on other socio-economic variables, a regression analysis has been carried out. keywords: access; advanced; agenda; analysis; artificial; chen; citizens; coefficients; countries; data; development; digital; economic; economy; education; europe; european; gdp; greater; hdi; horizon; human; ict; index; information; integration; intelligence; international; internet; learning; market; mixed; mobile; n t; new; new technologies; reality; regression; report; services; single; socio; students; study; systems; t e; t u; table; teaching; technological; technologies; technology; unemployment; use; variables; virtual cache: eis-28296.pdf plain text: eis-28296.txt item: #243 of 298 id: eis-28779 author: Gurvitš-Suits, Natalie Aleksandra; Lvova, Anna-Liiza title: Importance of Integrating SDGs Into Business Process by Telecommunication Operators: Opinion of Estonian Customers date: 2021-09-16 words: 5154 flesch: 50 summary: Numerous studies have investigated the interactions between sustainable development goals (Kunčič, 2019, Ramos&Laurenti, 2020; Scharlemann, 2020; Breu et.al., 2021) aiming to contribute to their successful achievement. Exploring the applicability of sustainable development goals in Costa Rica: Case examples from mastatal and con- chal. keywords: achievement; action; agenda; authors; business; clean; companies; consumption; countries; customers; data; development; development goals; e u; education; embedding; energy; estonia; et.al; everyday; findings; goals; good; health; implementation; importance; life; main; n s; n t; nations; opinion; production; quality; research; respondents; responsible; results; s t; sdgs; social; society; stakeholders; study; successful; survey; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; t e; t u; table; telecommunication; united; water cache: eis-28779.pdf plain text: eis-28779.txt item: #244 of 298 id: eis-28787 author: Mlodkowski, Pawel title: Assessment of Feldstein’s ‘Global Imbalance' date: 2021-09-16 words: 6825 flesch: 59 summary: U.S. economy enjoys win-win situation, while the global imbalance has been gradually resolved. The decline of the dollar relative to the euro, the yen, and other currencies (although not witnessed so far) does not seem to be sufficient for other countries to increase consumption of U.S. products. keywords: account; arguments; assets; author; capital; china; chinese; consumption; countries; crisis; currency; current; data; debt; decade; decline; deficit; dollar; domestic; e s; e u; economy; estate; exchange; external; feldstein; figure; financial; foreign; gdp; global; government; holdings; imbalance; international; investment; investors; long; market; n s; n t; national; net; period; portfolio; private; products; rate; real; recent; relative; reserves; rest; s t; savings; situation; substantial; surplus; t e; t u; table; term; trade; u.s; usd; value; world; years cache: eis-28787.pdf plain text: eis-28787.txt item: #245 of 298 id: eis-28803 author: Singh, Kamaldeep title: Influencer Marketing from a Consumer Perspective: How Attitude, Trust, and Word of Mouth Affect Buying Behavior date: 2021-09-16 words: 7304 flesch: 60 summary: Hence this study will investigate influencer marketing from a consumer perspective through a qualitative method with the help of semi-structured interviews. This is called for influencer marketing and is about companies using SMIs to promote consumers' brand awareness and influence their pur- chasing decisions via social media. keywords: advertising; attitudes; behavior; brand; buying; companies; company; consumers; content; credibility; credible; different; e u; experience; expertise; factors; followers; impact; influencer; influencer marketing; information; interested; internet; interviews; journal; marketing; markets; media; n t; negative; new; opinions; people; person; phenomenon; positive; product; purchase; question; research; respondents; role; smi; smis; social; social media; study; t e; t u; trust; users; way; wom cache: eis-28803.pdf plain text: eis-28803.txt item: #246 of 298 id: eis-28804 author: Tocelovska, Natalja; Eglite, Agne title: Analysis of the Legal and Regulatory Situation of Uncovered Corporate Bond Issuance in the Baltic States: is there a Common Framework Possible? date: 2021-09-16 words: 7958 flesch: 45 summary: The remaining challenge for the legal and regulatory framework of corporate bond issuance in the European Union is to become more efficient while benefiting from improvements in bond markets throughout the le- gal sources in the legal hierarchy. The latter (if applied to the corporate sector) would correspond to the establishment of a framework for pan-Baltic corporate bond issuance. » keywords: analysis; area; article; baltic; baltic corporate; baltic insolvency; baltic legal; baltic states; bankruptcy; bond issuance; bond issues; bond legal; bond market; bonds; capital; claims; commission; corporate bond; creditors; debt; default; development; directive; disclosure; domestic; e u; enterprise; eurobond; european; experts; finance; financial; firms; framework; harmonisation; information; insolvency; insolvency law; international; interviews; investors; issuance framework; issuer; journal; latvia; law; laws; legal; legal framework; legislation; level; lithuania; main; market; member; n t; nasdaq; nasdaq baltic; national; new; pan; potential; present; process; prospectus; prospectus regulation; regime; regulation; regulatory; regulatory framework; republic; requirements; research; s t; satisfaction; securities; situation; states; t e; t u; uncovered; uncovered corporate; union cache: eis-28804.pdf plain text: eis-28804.txt item: #247 of 298 id: eis-28805 author: Oikonomou, Giorgio title: The European Administration as a Facilitator of the European Integration Process: Organizational and Ethical Implications from the Proliferation of European Union Agencies date: 2021-09-16 words: 10465 flesch: 46 summary: The purpose of this study is to explore the evolution of EU administration by focusing and critically examining the role of EU agencies in advancing the European integration project. The research question deals with iden- tifying the factors that account for the formulation of EU agencies and the reasons behind their sharp increase in numbers since the 2000s. keywords: accountability; addition; administrative; agencies; agencification; agency; areas; arm; auditors; authority; autonomy; bodies; budget; capacity; cfsp; commission; council; court; creation; data; decentralised; different; e s; e u; egeberg; establishment; eu agencies; eu institutions; euratom; european; european agencies; european commission; european court; european integration; european public; european union; executive; executive agencies; expansion; fact; financial; governance; graph; https://doi; ibid; information; institutional; integration; issues; joint; journal; length; level; main; majone; member; n s; n t; national; new; number; office; organisations; organizational; parliament; permanent; policy; political; politics; power; process; proliferation; public; regulatory; research; resources; rittberger; role; s t; staff; states; structures; t e; t u; tasks; temporary; time; transparency; trondal; type; u r; union; wonka; working cache: eis-28805.pdf plain text: eis-28805.txt item: #248 of 298 id: eis-28829 author: Veinbergs, Vilnis; Kisnica, Ivita title: Possibilities and Restrictions on the Use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Security Work in Latvia date: 2021-09-16 words: 7367 flesch: 56 summary: Empirical research proves that a Latvian security company does not use UA and UAS security services at all, although an insignificant part of respondents admitted that they have tried or thought about using such technical support to protect objects and maintain security of public events. Despite the fact that not all research is directly aimed at investigating UA-specific flights, UA equipment, that has been deployed on a flying de- vice, can be valuable for security work. keywords: able; addition; aerial; aircraft; area; article; authors; bee; cameras; commission; companies; conditions; control; criminal; data; devices; different; difficult; doi; drones; e u; empirical; environment; equipment; european; evidence; experience; fire; flights; framework; ground; high; https://doi; human; important; industry; january; latvia; life; method; military; n s; n t; new; noise; object; order; person; pilot; point; possible; processing; protection; provision; public; queen; regulation; remote; rescue; research; researchers; respondents; results; s t; schulzke; scientific; security; security work; service; society; solutions; state; studies; study; support; surveillance; survey; systems; t e; t u; technical; technologies; technology; time; types; u r; uas; unmanned; use; vehicle; video; vol; water; work cache: eis-28829.pdf plain text: eis-28829.txt item: #249 of 298 id: eis-28840 author: Knudsen, Mikkel Stein; Ferreira-Aulu, Marianna Birmoser; Kaivo-oja, Jari ; Luukkanen, Jyrki title: Energy Research Infrastructures in Europe and Beyond: Mapping an Unmapped Landscape date: 2021-09-16 words: 8196 flesch: 51 summary: Some international RIs have very broad research portfolios, and they are therefore difficult to compare with European RIs with a more focus. Summarizing, we identified a great deal of interest in collaborating with European RIs, but con- ditional on the terms and interests of the surveyed organizations. keywords: academic; access; article; available; benefits; big; case; centre; collaboration; commercial; community; costs; cramer; data; development; diplomacy; domain; e u; economics; eds; energy; energy research; energy ris; eric; esfri; european; european research; example; external; facilities; field; figure; finland; funding; futures; global; hallonsten; high; horizon; https://doi; impact; important; information; infrastructures; innovation; institutions; integration; interest; international; interviews; landscape; large; limited; literature; long; mapping; moskovko; n s; n t; new; non; nuclear; organizations; outside; particular; policies; policy; political; politics; potential; process; project; public; research; research infrastructures; ris; riscape; roadmap; s t; scale; school; science; scientific; similar; social; studies; study; t e; t u; technological; technology; terms; time; turku; union; university cache: eis-28840.pdf plain text: eis-28840.txt item: #250 of 298 id: eis-28886 author: Vikmane, Elina; Laķe, Anda title: Critical Review of Sustainability Priorities in the Heritage Sector: Evidence from Latvia’s Most Visited Museums date: 2021-09-16 words: 9235 flesch: 38 summary: The paper aims to propose the first-ever critical review of sustainable development priorities in Latvia’s most popular museums with a view to finding out their strategic priorities and using these findings to identify to- day’s specific thematic development lines relevant to the museum sector within the sustainable development framework and to apply this bottom-up principle to propose potential ways to improve the general goal of Latvia’s museum accreditation system – that of promoting sustainable museum practices – with specific pointers and thematic building blocks for the broad umbrella concept of sustainable development. On this note, the paper aims to propose the first-ever critical review of sustainable development priorities in Latvia’s most popular museums with a view to finding out their strategic priorities and using these findings to identify today’s specific thematic development lines relevant to the museum sector within the sustainable development framework and to apply this bottom-up principle to propose potential ways to improve the general goal of Latvia’s museum accreditation system – that of promoting sustainable museum practices – with specific pointers and thematic building blocks for the broad umbrella concept of sustainable development. keywords: academy; access; accreditation; activities; analysis; approach; april; aspects; authors; awareness; bcm; birkeland; collection; communication; concept; content; cooperation; council; country; critical; cultural; cultural heritage; cultural sustainability; culture; debate; development; diversity; documents; e s; e u; ecological; economic; economy; efforts; environmental; environmental sustainability; etc; field; foundation; framework; general; goals; groups; growth; heritage; https://doi; human; information; institutions; issues; latvia; lem; lnma; local; lwm; management; ministry; mrhn; museum; museum accreditation; muzeju; n s; n t; national; nations; needs; new; participation; people; pillar; popular; potential; practices; present; priorities; priority; process; progress; protection; public; qualitative; relevant; research; resources; review; rmm; role; rpm; s t; sector; set; social; social sustainability; society; soini; specific; strategic; strengthening; study; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; sustainable museum; system; t e; t u; terms; themes; theoretical; time; tourism; u r; world cache: eis-28886.pdf plain text: eis-28886.txt item: #251 of 298 id: eis-28902 author: Dundure, Evija; Sloka, Biruta title: Financial Literacy Self-Evaluation of Young People in Latvia date: 2021-09-16 words: 5194 flesch: 52 summary: Financial literacy is a very deep researched aspect world-wide especially after the global finan- cial crisis in 2009 with special attention to financial literacy of inhabitants in different parts of the globe – in Europe (Magistro 2017; Romanova & Kudinska, 2017; Angelini, Bertoni, Stella. & Weiss, 2019). The aim of this study is survey financial literacy level in the issues of the pension system in Lat- via. keywords: activities; age; analysis; authors; bad; behaviour; calculations; correlation; different; e u; economic; european; evaluations; financial; financial literacy; gender; good; group; important; income; indicators; international; journal; knowledge; latvia; level; literacy; main; mean; n t; pension; pension system; people; professional; research; researchers; respondents; results; retirement; savings; scale; significant; social; source; standard; statistical; study; survey; system; t e; t u; table; total; voluntary; young; young people; youth cache: eis-28902.pdf plain text: eis-28902.txt item: #252 of 298 id: eis-28930 author: Hantsiuk, Tetiana; Vintoniv, Khrystyna ; Opar, Nataliia; Hryvnak, Bohdan title: Developing Intercultural Competence Through Design Thinking date: 2021-09-16 words: 7291 flesch: 49 summary: The tasks of the research are: a to review the main contributions to the field of design thinking by analysing multidisciplinary studies on how design thinking fosters development of variety competences including intercultural com- petence; b to design the framework to reveal the correlation between the components of intercultural compe- tence and the stages of design thinking process; c to observe the changes in the students’ intercultural competence level by analysing learners’ re- sponses to the case of intercultural misunderstanding at the beginning of studying the cross-cul- tural communication classes and after finishing the course. The article sets the following tasks: a to review the main contributions to the field of design thinking by analysing multidisciplinary studies on how design thinking fosters development of variety competences including inter- cultural competence; b to design the framework to reveal the correlation between the components of intercultural competence and the stages of design thinking process; c to observe the changes in the students’ intercultural competence level by analysing learners’ responses to the case of intercultural misunderstanding at the beginning of studying the In- tercultural Communication classes and after finishing the course. keywords: approach; awareness; beginning; behaviour; case; classes; communication; competence; correlation; course; critical; cross; design; design thinking; development; different; e u; education; empathy; figure; framework; frankivsk; gas; group; incident; influence; interactions; intercultural; intercultural communication; intercultural competence; international; ivano; knowledge; learning; level; mahle; method; model; n s; national; oil; people; problem; process; question; research; responses; review; s t; self; situation; skills; stages; students; studies; t e; t u; teaching; technical; thinking; ukraine; understanding; university; verbal; way; woman; worldview cache: eis-28930.pdf plain text: eis-28930.txt item: #253 of 298 id: eis-29017 author: Simanovska, Jana; Pelsa , Inese title: The Market’s Maturity for Public Procurement of Circular Furniture: A Study from Latvia date: 2021-09-16 words: 5769 flesch: 43 summary: With this research, the authors investigate the market’s maturity, i.e. the readiness of suppliers to offer circular furniture and services, as well as the readiness of municipalities to uptake it. With this research, the authors wanted to broaden the knowl- edge on the market maturity in Latvia for circular services and products i.e., the readiness of sup- pliers to offer circular furniture and services, as well as the readiness of municipalities to uptake it. keywords: application; applied; approach; authors; better; business; circular; circular economy; circular furniture; commission; companies; criteria; development; economy; environmental; european; furniture; furniture furniture; furniture production; green; help; high; important; latvia; leasing; maintenance; management; market; material; municipalities; n t; new; new furniture; obsolete; offer; outdated; packaging; parts; plan; policies; policy; procurement; production; products; public; public procurement; reach; readiness; recycled; recycling; repair; research; resource; reuse; services; spare; substances; sustainability; sustainable; t e; use; warranty; waste; years cache: eis-29017.pdf plain text: eis-29017.txt item: #254 of 298 id: eis-29047 author: Balevičienė, Dovilė; Huber, Loreta title: General Aspects and Perspectives of Immigrant Diversity in Organizations date: 2021-09-16 words: 6914 flesch: 40 summary: Lithuania cultural context Stereotypes n=7 Discrimination n=5 Preconceived notions n=4 Social exclusion n=6 Diversity dimensions Age n=10 Gender n=11 Education n=10 Work experience n=7 Social status n=6 Disability n=8 Sexual orientation and identity n=6 Immigrant diversity level in Lithuania Low level of cultural diversity in the country n=9 Average level of cultural diversity in the country n=1 High level of cultural diversity in the country n=2 Immigrant diversity dimensions Nationality n=9 Religion n=9 Language n=9 Citizenship n=8 Race n=7 Country of origin n=8 Ethnicity n=8 Diversity management First steps: A growing focus on diversity and the need to manage immigrant diversity n=10 First steps: Understanding the benefits of diversity management (awareness) Immigrant diversity can also be divided into different dimensions that are intertwined (e.g., ethnic, racial, linguistic, religious, and other types of diversity): “I would include culture, nationality, race, citizenship, and language in immigrant diversity. keywords: access; aspects; assimilation; authors; behavior; benefits; business; companies; context; countries; country; cox; cross; cultural; cultural diversity; culture; differences; different; dimensions; discrimination; diversity; diversity management; diversity perspectives; e u; economic; education; efforts; employees; europe; experts; fairness; focus; foreign; gender; group; high; identity; immigrant; immigrant diversity; immigration; influence; integration; international; interviews; journal; language; learning; legitimacy; level; lithuania; low; management; members; migrants; monolithic; multicultural; n s; n t; new; organizations; paradigm; perspectives; political; practices; related; religion; report; research; resistance; s t; segregation; separation; social; status; strategies; t e; t u; table; term; topic; types; work cache: eis-29047.pdf plain text: eis-29047.txt item: #255 of 298 id: eis-29062 author: Zykiene, Ineta; Laučienė, Rūta; Daugėlienė, Rasa; Leskauskienė, Aistė title: Strengthening Lithuanian - Latvian Cross - Border Cooperation in the Context of International Trade date: 2021-09-16 words: 10870 flesch: 45 summary: This is the starting point for cross-border cooperation planning, as priority industrial sectors have been identified where cross-border cooperation is appropriate. This is particularly relevant for border regions, as their uniqueness allows them to exploit cross-border region cooperation, which can generate added value by utilising the potential of cooperating regions to complement each other and become a competitive hub for economic growth. keywords: activities; advantage; analysis; areas; article; author; average; benefits; beverages; border; border cooperation; border region; business; calculated; castanho; cbc; common; comparative; comparative advantage; competitive; competitiveness; cooperation; countries; country; cross; development; different; e s; e s2; e u; economic; european; export; figure; fki; food; foreign; foreign trade; fuels; global; goods; groups; import; index; indicator; international; international trade; involvement; joint; journal; kurowska; lafay; latvia; level; literature; lithuania; lubricants; management; manufactured; market; materials; measures; mineral; n s; n t; period; policy; product; pysz; raw; rca; regional; regions; relative; resources; results; review; s t; sectors; similarity; social; source; strategic; strategy; strengthening; structure; study; subject; t e; t u; table; technology; tobacco; total; trade; u r; value cache: eis-29062.pdf plain text: eis-29062.txt item: #256 of 298 id: eis-29080 author: Koçak, Orhan; Arslan, Hüseyin ; Erdoğan, Abdullah title: Social Media use Across Generations: from Addiction to Engagement date: 2021-09-16 words: 9011 flesch: 57 summary: The level of social media addiction among middle-aged individuals turned out to be below average, but social media addiction levels were considerably high. Studies relat- ed to social media addiction are generally done on youth. keywords: addiction level; addition; age; age groups; aged; analysis; anova; average; bağımlılığı; communication; daily; data; degree; differences; different; digital; e s; e u; education; education level; effect; elderly; face; figure; friends; generation; graduate; groups; health; high; hypotheses; impact; increases; individuals; information; international; internet; issue; i̇stanbul; koçak; level; life; literature; marital; media addiction; middle; middle age; moderation; n s; n t; negative; new; older; pages; participants; people; primary; problems; relationship; research; result; s t; scale; school; school graduate; secondary; significant; smartphone; social media; society; sosyal; spread; status; studies; study; substance; t e; t u; table; technologies; technology; terms; test; time; tolerance; türkiye; u r; university; usage; use; users; variables; virtual; volume; years; young cache: eis-29080.pdf plain text: eis-29080.txt item: #257 of 298 id: eis-29111 author: Vevere, Velga; Cerkovskis, Edgars; Sannikova, Aija title: Social Entrepreneurship Intentions Among Business Students in Latvia date: 2021-09-16 words: 4858 flesch: 52 summary: The survey contained questions regarding students’ socio-demographic profile (age, education and work experience), general attitude towards social business, intention to engage in social entrepreneurship, atti- tude to possible engagement in social entrepreneurship, characteristics of a social entrepreneur, challenges faced by the social entrepreneur. The results of the non-parametric Kruskal-Wallis Test show that the education level of the respondents influences the assessment of social entrepreneurship social goals and business goal priorities; » keywords: answers; applied; attitude; authors; business; career; criterion; desire; development; economic; education; enterprises; entrepreneurship; european; experience; factor; future; goals; important; intention; journal; kruskal; latvia; level; likert; n t; point; possible; problems; questionnaire; questions; research; respondents; results; scale; sciences; set; social; social entrepreneurship; society; source; students; study; support; t e; t u; table; test; university; wallis; work; years cache: eis-29111.pdf plain text: eis-29111.txt item: #258 of 298 id: eis-29114 author: Orliv, Mariana; Janiūnaitė, Brigita; Goshovska, Valentyna; Daugėlienė, Rasa title: Assessment and Development of Public Servants Using the Design Thinking Methodology for the Reforms and Innovations Introduction date: 2021-09-16 words: 7547 flesch: 41 summary: Therefore, in 2016 OECD started to unpack the complex topic of skills and capabilities for public sector innovation. Skills, attitudes and behaviours that fuel public innovation: A guide to getting the most from Nesta's Competency Framework for Exper- imenting and Public Problem Solving. keywords: 4,4; ability; account; activities; analysis; assessment; authorities; behavioral; bureaucracy; change; characteristics; control; design; design thinking; development; diamond; different; dzvinchuk; e u; european; expert; features; following; group; impact; indicators; innovation; introduction; leadership; learning; level; management; methodology; mindset; model; n s; n t; organizational; orientation; orliv; outcomes; peculiarities; performance; personal; petrenko; political; problem; process; public; public authorities; public sector; public servants; qualities; reforms; research; respondents; results; s t; sector; self; servants; skills; social; system; t e; t u; thinking; tools; training; use cache: eis-29114.pdf plain text: eis-29114.txt item: #259 of 298 id: eis-29134 author: Malynovska, Galyna ; Mosora, Larysa ; Kis, Sviatoslav ; Topolnytska, Tetiana ; Kalambet, Yaryna title: Design Thinking Method Implementation in Personnel Certification Procedures date: 2021-09-16 words: 6957 flesch: 41 summary: The research goal is achieved by setting and solving the following tasks: - to investigate the theoretical and methodological basis of design thinking procedure, to establish the pos- sibilities and ways of its practical application in the processes of human resource development of the orga- nization; » to improve the implementation of international certification processes for professional drillers with the help of the prototyping tool; » to develop recommendations and evaluate the influence on the certification procedures according to the international standards. Based on the results of the study, it is planned to obtain: » design thinking procedure integrated into the process of international personnel certification of oil and gas enterprises, which will increase the efficiency of human resources development; » improved approach to the organization of international certification procedures for professional drillers, which is based on the use of prototyping tools; » a list of influences on the certification procedures according to international standards and an approach to their evaluation. keywords: analysis; approach; business; certification; characteristics; design; design thinking; development; drilling; e u; educational; employees; enterprises; exam; experience; factors; following; formal; frankivsk; gas; https://doi; human; ifntuog; implementation; important; increase; individuals; instructors; international; international certification; ivano; iwcf; journal; kis; knowledge; learning; level; main; management; material; new; non; number; oil; opinion; organization; people; personnel; personnel certification; possible; practical; problem; procedures; processes; professional; prototyping; qualification; research; resources; results; s t; services; skills; specialists; standards; state; studies; study; t e; t u; teachers; technical; theoretical; thinking; time; tools; training; university; use cache: eis-29134.pdf plain text: eis-29134.txt item: #260 of 298 id: eis-29160 author: Kéïta, Kouramoudou ; Laurila, Hannu title: Do Business Booms Trigger Corruption? date: 2021-09-16 words: 7319 flesch: 61 summary: Dependent variables: Permanent income Transitory income Understanding political corruption in low income countries, in: T. Schultz and J. Strauss (Eds.), Handbook of development economics, 4, Elsevier. keywords: average; booms; business; capita; changes; coefficients; column; correlation; corruption; countries; country; cycles; data; developed; development; deviations; e u; economic; effects; equation; estimates; estimations; findings; galbraith; gdp; gokcekus; growth; high; hypothesis; income; index; instruments; iv-2sls; journal; law; level; low; n s; n t; negative; new; ols; paper; percent; period; permanent; republic; residuals; results; robustness; rule; s t; sample; sargan; short; significance; squares; stage; statistical; strong; study; suzuki; t e; t u; table; term; test; time; transitory; transitory income; value; variables; weak; world cache: eis-29160.pdf plain text: eis-29160.txt item: #261 of 298 id: eis-29248 author: Linina, Iveta; Vevere, Velga title: Critical Thinking Competence and its Impact on Acquisition of Basic Principles of Enterpreneurship Among Business Students in Latvia date: 2021-09-16 words: 4388 flesch: 50 summary: Critical thinking skills, perhaps more than any other business skill set, can make the difference between success and failure. 2 1 / 1 5 48 plays a special role in developing critical thinking skills. keywords: ability; analysis; arithmetic; assessment; authors; business; case; correlation; critical; critical thinking; decision; education; evaluation; false; following; good; higher; information; journal; latvia; leaders; level; making; management; marketing; mean; method; n t; new; order; organization; palgrave; problem; process; questionnaire; questions; research; respondents; self; skills; solving; source; students; study; survey; t e; thinking; university; use; york cache: eis-29248.pdf plain text: eis-29248.txt item: #262 of 298 id: eis-31043 author: Petrov, Kamen ; Tsonkov, Nikolay title: Regional Aspects and Development Opportunities in Bulgaria in the Context of the European Green Deal date: 2022-09-06 words: 7147 flesch: 48 summary: Thus, a high degree of auton- omy of production in terms of the technological process will be achieved, and the installation of photovoltaic systems on the roof structures of buildings will achieve energy efficiency and electricity autonomy (Sustainable energy strategy development of the Republic of Bulgaria until 2030 with horizon until 2050, 2021). Sustainable energy strategy development of the Republic of Bulgaria until 2030 with horizon until 2050, 2021. keywords: access; addition; analysis; approach; authors; border; bulgaria; business; change; cities; coal; construction; consumption; context; countries; country; data; deal; development; different; digital; e s; e u; economic; economy; electricity; energy; european; future; gas; green; green transition; high; implementation; important; information; innovation; international; internet; introduction; journal; key; level; local; main; management; means; models; n s; n t; national; need; network; new; nuclear; planning; plants; policy; power; problems; processes; production; regional; regional development; regions; renewable; republic; research; s t; scientific; security; smart; social; socio; solutions; sources; spatial; state; strategy; sustainable; systems; t e; t u; technologies; territorial; time; transformation; transition; transport; u r; use; vol; volume; wind cache: eis-31043.pdf plain text: eis-31043.txt item: #263 of 298 id: eis-31135 author: Linina, Iveta; Zvirgzdina, Rosita; Tišlerova, Kamila title: Involvement of Employees in Increasing the Efficiency of Production Processes for SMEs in the Baltic States date: 2022-09-06 words: 5049 flesch: 57 summary: The monographic or descriptive method was used to analyze the theoretical basis, but a survey was used to increase the efficiency of employee involvement processes. In the framework of this study, in order to directly and indirectly find out the involvement of production company employees in the assessment of the involvement of company processes in the Baltic States, a traditional method was used - a survey with the help of a questionnaire (Rust et al., 2004). keywords: analysis; assessment; authors; baltic; besterfield; business; companies; company; competitiveness; customer; development; driņķe; e u; efficiency; employees; factors; following; goals; important; improvement; increase; indicators; involvement; isbn; latvia; lean; management; marketing; method; n s; n t; order; process; processes; production; quality; questions; research; resources; respondents; right; s t; service; sigma; skills; smes; study; survey; system; t e; t u; theoretical; things; time; tools; university; use; value; work cache: eis-31135.pdf plain text: eis-31135.txt item: #264 of 298 id: eis-31152 author: Kawecka-Wyrzykowska, Elżbieta title: Financing Energy Transition in Poland: Possible Contribution of EU Funds date: 2022-09-06 words: 9040 flesch: 59 summary: i e s 2 0 2 2 / 1 6 Abstract Financing Energy Transition in Poland: Possible Contribution of EU Funds http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.1.16.31152 Elżbieta Kawecka-Wyrzykowska Warsaw School of Economics, Poland European Integration Studies No. 16 / 2022, pp. 65-77 doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.16.31152 Submitted 05/2022 Accepted for publication 06/2022 Financing Energy Transition in Poland: Possible Contribution of EU Funds keywords: analysis; approx; author; available; budget; carbon; cjeu; climate; coal; commission; costs; council; countries; country; court; deal; e s; e u; economy; electricity; emissions; energy; energy transformation; energy transition; estimate; ets; eu funds; european; european commission; february; final; financial; financing; funding; funds; gas; generation; ghg; goals; government; grants; green; greenhouse; huge; investment; january; law; loans; low; main; mechanism; member; money; n s; n t; national; new; ngeu; order; parliament; plan; poland; policy; polish; prices; protection; public; recovery; reduction; regulation; renewable; rule; s t; sector; share; situation; social; states; strategy; support; system; t e; t u; target; total; transformation; transition; transport; use; years cache: eis-31152.pdf plain text: eis-31152.txt item: #265 of 298 id: eis-31164 author: Blumberga, Solveiga; Vilcane, Mara title: Integration of Latvian Immigrants in Germany Throuch Psychological Well-being and Engagement with the Cultural Community date: 2022-09-06 words: 6945 flesch: 53 summary: Research questions are the following: What is an assessment of the psychological well-being of Latvian immigrants; What are the key factors attracting immigrants to the cultural communi- ty; Are there statistically significant correlations between immigrants’ psychological well-being and attraction factors? However, a problematic aspect exists business wise, and it is related to finding factors which may help to attract immigrants to Latvian diaspora organizations as to the place, where success stories of other immigrants living in Germany for longer time can be found, that can be source of inspiration and support to newcomers who have just arrived and still looking for their ways to settle down. keywords: activities; articles; association; attraction; authors; autonomy; coefficient; community; correlation; cultural; cultural association; culture; diaspora; distance; doi; e u; education; emotions; engagement; environmental; european; factors; far; germany; goals; growth; high; higher; home; https://doi; identity; immigrants; important; integration; language; latvian; latvian immigrants; latvianness; level; life; lives; low; lowest; mastery; meaning; migration; n s; n t; new; people; personal; positive; psychological; purpose; quality; relationships; research; respondents; results; s t; satisfaction; scale; self; significance; social; studies; study; survey; t e; t u; tailed; traditions; values; visitors; work cache: eis-31164.pdf plain text: eis-31164.txt item: #266 of 298 id: eis-31225 author: Imamović-Čizmić, Kanita title: The Artificial Intelligence and Competition Law - Challenges for Bosnia and Herzegovina date: 2022-09-06 words: 7349 flesch: 48 summary: Competition law prohibits business practices which violate, restrict or prevent market competition. Many questions also arise in competition law, which aims to protect the competition process in the market by banning certain business practices. keywords: agreements; algorithmic cartels; algorithms; article; artificial; bih; bodies; body; bosnia; business; cartels; cases; challenges; collusion; companies; competition; competition law; competition protection; computer; consumers; council; countries; country; data; decisions; development; digitalisation; e u; economic; economy; efficiency; enterprises; european; extent; goal; herzegovina; human; intelligence; laws; legal; level; loc; market; market competition; modern; n s; n t; new; number; operation; order; policy; practice; prices; pricing; process; protection; question; s t; segment; services; situation; small; space; study; t e; t u; terms; trade; u r; use cache: eis-31225.pdf plain text: eis-31225.txt item: #267 of 298 id: eis-31241 author: Gurvitš-Suits, Natalie Aleksandra; Sidorova, Inna title: Decade of Sustainability Reporting in EU: Main Changes and Trends. Case of Companies Listed on NASDAQ OMX Baltic Main List date: 2022-09-06 words: 5034 flesch: 46 summary: The results of this research are completely in line with latest developments within the IASB, confirming that there is a definitive need for international sustainability reporting standards which will add to the transpar- ency, credibility and comparability of non-financial reporting. After the linkage of the sustainability report- ing topic to current literature, we provide a practical insight into non-financial reporting and its linkage with integrated reporting. keywords: accounting; annual; authors; baltic; business; changes; common; companies; corporate; countries; development; directive; disclosures; doi; environmental; european; financial; financial reporting; information; international; iso; italian; journal; list; main; management; mandatory; n t; nasdaq; non; number; omx; production; quality; reporting; reports; research; results; sdgs; social; standalone; standards; studies; study; survey; sustainability; sustainability reporting; sustainable; t e; table; trends; year cache: eis-31241.pdf plain text: eis-31241.txt item: #268 of 298 id: eis-31325 author: Vevere, Velga; Shina, Inga; Ganina, Samanta title: Corporate Social Responsibility as a Factor Promoting Customer Loyalty in the Latvian Retail Sector date: 2022-09-06 words: 9458 flesch: 47 summary: The aim of the section C of the questionnaire is to find out which CSR activities are the most important and topical in the opinion of the respondents, assuming that they would have a great- er opportunity to promote consumer loyalty. It is important to understand how important corporate responsibility is to consumers and what corporate social responsibility activities are now important to consumers to draw conclusions about their impact on customer loyalty. keywords: activities; analysis; attitude; authors; availability; brand; business; companies; company; competitors; consumer; corporate; corporate social; csr; csr activities; customer; customer loyalty; data; decision; development; e u; economic; environment; ethical; euros; evaluation; factors; following; food; framework; general; impact; important; influence; information; journal; latvia; legal; loyalty; main; management; marketing; means; n s; n t; negative; neutral; number; operations; opinion; order; positive; price; product; proportion; public; purchase; quality; questionnaire; research; respondents; responsibility; responsibility activities; responsible; results; retail; retailer; s t; satisfaction; scale; section; sector; services; social; social activities; social responsibility; society; stakeholders; statements; study; sustainable; t e; t u; time; today; trust; turn; turnover; u r; value; years cache: eis-31325.pdf plain text: eis-31325.txt item: #269 of 298 id: eis-31331 author: Pelsa, Inese; Balina, Signe title: Main Priorities for a Green Deal Towards a Climate - Neutral Europe date: 2022-09-06 words: 6368 flesch: 56 summary: Over the last 15 years, green economies have become increasingly important and have been given an increasing role by policy makers. Initially, a literature re- view was performed, evaluating the scientific literature - scientific articles, books on sustainable development, green growth, green economy. keywords: activities; agenda; agreement; aims; aspects; biodiversity; buildings; challenges; change; circular; clean; climate; commission; concept; countries; deal; development; e u; economic; economy; egd; emissions; energy; environmental; european; european green; food; ghg; global; goals; green; green growth; growth; important; increase; industrial; latvia; mobility; n s; n t; national; nations; necessary; neutral; neutrality; new; paris; parliament; policy; pollution; problems; production; renewable; resources; s t; sectors; set; significant; social; society; solutions; strategy; sustainability; sustainable; sustainable development; t e; t u; transformation; transport; union; united; url; use; world cache: eis-31331.pdf plain text: eis-31331.txt item: #270 of 298 id: eis-31353 author: Kaivo-oja, Jari Roy Lee; Stenvall, Jari title: A Critical Reassessment: The European Cloud University Platform and New Challenges of the Quartet Helix Collaboration in the European University System date: 2022-09-06 words: 8287 flesch: 56 summary: European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) | European Commission (europa.eu) (read 1.4.2022). Today a new European Open Science Cloud (EOSC) will offer Europe’s 1.7 million researchers and 70 million science and technology professionals a virtual environment to store, share and re-use the large vol- umes of information generated by the big data revolution. keywords: analysis; approach; assessment; attention; big; challenges; cloud; commission; conditions; context; countries; critical; data; declaration; development; digital; e s; e u; economy; education; environment; eosc; era; european; european cloud; european commission; european data; european open; european union; fair; fig; figure; finland; framework; future; global; gothenburg; governance; government; implementation; inclusion; industry; infrastructure; innovation; integration; international; journal; kaivo; key; large; links; management; market; member; models; n t; needs; new; note; oja; open; open science; operational; planning; platform; policy; principle; private; process; public; research; right; s t; science; science cloud; sector; services; social; stenvall; strategic; strategy; studies; summit; systems; t e; t u; things; tiwana; today; u r; union; universities; university; use; vol; web; working cache: eis-31353.pdf plain text: eis-31353.txt item: #271 of 298 id: eis-31492 author: Titova, Nellija; Sloka, Biruta title: Impact of Intellectual Capital Efficiency on Growth Rate and Profitability of a Company: NASDAQ Baltic Case date: 2022-09-06 words: 12102 flesch: 60 summary: Intellectual capital as serious research item was recognised only in the beginning of eighties last century as in the most recognised database SCOPUS there started to be indexed scientific papers on intellectual capital: in 1981 – 1 paper; in 1984 – 3 papers. Intellectual capital performance in the case of Romanian public companies. keywords: = 𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; = 𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡; = 𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; adjusted; analysis; assets; baltic; board; business; capital; companies; company; components; control; current; data; efficiency; equity; expenditures; figure; financial; growth; https://doi; human; impact; indicators; intellectual; intellectual capital; journal; list; main; management; nasdaq; number; performance; period; previous; ratios; research; results; return; roa; roe; sales; significant; strategic; success; systems; t e; value; variables; 𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇; 𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; 𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃; 𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻; 𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼; 𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑚𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼 𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡; 𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵 𝐵𝐵𝐵𝐵𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇; 𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷; 𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; 𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇1; 𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼; 𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼 𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙; 𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃; 𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; 𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇; 𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡; 𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸; 𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼; 𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿; 𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡; 𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑀𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃; 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷 =; 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 =; 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝑇𝑇𝑇𝑇1; 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐸𝐸𝐸𝐸; 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼 𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼; 𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅&𝐷𝐷𝐷𝐷 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃; 𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 =; 𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃; 𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃; 𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃; 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶 𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃; 𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑆𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑅𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃; 𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑡𝑡𝑡𝑡; 𝛽𝛽𝛽𝛽0; 𝛽𝛽𝛽𝛽2 𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; 𝛽𝛽𝛽𝛽4𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐻𝐻𝐻𝐻𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; 𝛽𝛽𝛽𝛽5𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; 𝛽𝛽𝛽𝛽6𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝐼𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑙𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶; 𝛽𝛽𝛽𝛽7𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝑃𝑃𝑃𝑃𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐿𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶𝐶 cache: eis-31492.pdf plain text: eis-31492.txt item: #272 of 298 id: eis-31609 author: Barynienė, Jurgita; Paužaitė, Živilė; Daugėlienė, Rasa title: Nordic-Baltic Cooperation: Old-new Trends or Possible Balance for Challenged European Integration Processes? date: 2022-09-06 words: 4650 flesch: 47 summary: Interact launched in early 2016 a study called ‘Added value of macro-regional cooperation: collecting practice exam- ples’. The focus of the study was on projects implemented in the Baltic Sea and Danube regions as well as on their funding instruments, analysing where these projects and funding sources see the added value of macro-regional cooperation (European Regional Development Fund, 2017 ). keywords: added; baltic; baltic countries; baltic region; challenges; common; context; cooperation; council; countries; development; different; doi; e u; economic; economy; effective; european; figure; global; growth; idea; initiatives; integration; interact; interest; international; issues; kaunas; light; line; lithuania; macro; main; ministers; n s; n t; new; nordic; policy; political; process; processes; public; reference; regional; regional cooperation; regional strategies; regions; research; s t; sea; security; social; states; strategies; strategy; stronger; t e; t u; technology; territorial; union; university; value; world cache: eis-31609.pdf plain text: eis-31609.txt item: #273 of 298 id: eis-31632 author: Huber, Loreta; Martinaitytė, Monika title: Relationships in the Digital Age: Self-disclosure and Communication in Social Networking Sites date: 2022-09-06 words: 9455 flesch: 51 summary: Entries regarding benefits were “I established a lot of friendships through social networking sites”, “I maintain a lot of friendships through social networking sites” and “I believe that overall social networking sites help me to expand my social circle”. EIS 16/2022 With the development of new technologies and rise of social media, the desire to communicate and share information is seen as a primary driver of social networking sites, where the aspect of self-disclosure becomes one of the key characteristics for interpersonal attraction. keywords: age; analysis; behaviour; benefits; communication; correlates; correlations; country; data; dating; development; differences; different; digital; disclosure; disclosure negative; disclosure practices; e u; facebook; factors; females; gender; groups; honest; hypothesis; information; intentions; items; life; lithuania; living; lower; media; n s; n t; negative; negative rewards; networking sites; online; overall; participants; pearson; penetration; people; positive; positive rewards; practices; privacy; relationship; research; respondents; results; rewards; s t; satisfaction; satisfied; scale; self; significant; sites self; social; social networking; source; status; study; survey; t e; t u; table; terms; theory; united; use; users; women cache: eis-31632.pdf plain text: eis-31632.txt item: #274 of 298 id: eis-31635 author: Cirule, Iveta; Uvarova, Inga ; Caune, Ginta title: European Trends in Business Incubation Through open Innovation Approach date: 2022-09-06 words: 7017 flesch: 41 summary: Business incubators ensure networking and facilitate OI collaborations both inside the incubator among entrepreneurs and outside with external stakeholders. KEYWORDS: open innovation, open innovation strategies, business incubator, business incubation trends, value co-creation. keywords: activities; analysis; approach; authors; business; business incubation; collaboration; companies; competences; cooperation; creation; development; e u; empirical; et.al; european; external; findings; https://doi; ideas; important; incubation; incubation trends; incubators; innovation; innovation approach; inside; interview; journal; knowledge; labs; latvia; literature; living; main; management; managers; model; motivation; n s; n t; national; networking; networks; new; novelty; open; open innovation; order; outside; partners; perspective; policy; publications; research; resources; results; review; role; s t; services; social; stakeholders; strategies; strategy; sustainability; sustainable; t e; t u; table; technology; tenants; total; trends; university; value cache: eis-31635.pdf plain text: eis-31635.txt item: #275 of 298 id: eis-32691 author: Daugėlienė, Rasa title: Editorial date: 2022-11-08 words: 519 flesch: 38 summary: Old-new trends or possible balance for challenged European Integration processes in Nordic-Baltic cooperation are presented. These are Social Evolution of Europe (e. g. social equality, migration, cross-cultural aspects, education management, etc.), Economics of the European Union (e. g. economic growth, competi- tiveness, financial aspects, comparative analysis of economic situation of countries, etc.) as well as Managerial Aspects of European Integration (business management, innovations, human capital de- velopment aspects, intellectual capital, etc.). keywords: analysis; aspects; baltic; european; integration; journal; main; management; new; processes; scientific; social; university; wide cache: eis-32691.pdf plain text: eis-32691.txt item: #276 of 298 id: eis-5241 author: Buligina, Ilze; Sloka, Biruta title: INVESTING IN SKILLS AND INNOVATION – NEW STRATEGIC TASKS FOR PUBLIC ADMINISTRATIONS date: 2014-06-10 words: 6850 flesch: 39 summary: These factors are especially important for the present research, since it concentrates on new forms of approaches and stakeholder alliances in public administration to facilitate VET innovation in the context of labour force training. Relevant policy discussion has been devoted also to the issue of ‘demand- side’ and ‘supply side’ in innovation policies. keywords: academic; administrators; analysis; approaches; closer; competent; context; current; development; discourse; economic; economy; education; empirical; european; evaluations; experts; force; higher; higher education; implementation; important; indicators; innovation; institutional; integration; issn; labour; labour force; latvia; level; location; lower; makers; market; mean; mechanisms; medium; national; need; new; operation; opinions; overall; policy; present; public; questionnaire; relevant; research; results; social; specialists; stakeholders; statement; studies; study; survey; systems; technology; tendency; time; training; vet; vocational; vocational education cache: eis-5241.pdf plain text: eis-5241.txt item: #277 of 298 id: eis-6745 author: Vitkute, Evelina Agota title: EU INITIATIVE OF BETTER REGULATION AND ITS STATUS IN LITHUANIA date: 2014-06-10 words: 8401 flesch: 40 summary: Better regulation measures applied in the EU (Source: the author) Implementation of better regulation at the EU level The White Paper European Governance adopted by the European Commission in 2001 is considered as the start of formal establishment of better regulation policy in the EU. The following research vectors in connection of better regulation in Lithuania could be proposed: (1) proper transposition of better regulation initiative applied at the EU level and application of its individual measures in Lithuania; (2) proper definition of better regulation measures and their establishment in relevant legal acts or other documents; (3) institutions that should participate in implementation of better regulation, their interrelations, functions and responsibilities; (4) necessary changes in the currently effective legislation procedures; (5) processes of implementation of individual better regulation measures; (6) possible impact of better regulation measures on drafting of Lithuanian legal acts, practices of persons issuing acts of administrative law and on rights of persons dealing with public administration entities and acts of administrative law, etc. References Allio, L. (2007). keywords: 1392–6195; 1752–1467; 1822–8402; actions; acts; administrative; administrative burden; adoption; application; assessment; available; better regulation; burden; business; certain; commission; committee; communication; concept; council; documents; economic; economy; environment; european; european commission; final; framework; gazette; governance; government; impact; implementation; improvement; initiative; institutions; integration; internet; issn; journal; jurisprudencija; law; legal; legal acts; legislative; legisprudence; level; lietuvos; lithuania; main; making; measures; member; meuwese; ministry; national; new; official; online; parliament; policy; principles; procedures; programme; public; quality; radaelli; reduction; regulation initiative; regulation measures; regulatory; research; scientists; smart; specific; states; studies; system; teisės; union; vilnius; vol cache: eis-6745.pdf plain text: eis-6745.txt item: #278 of 298 id: eis-6759 author: Dubra, Elena title: EUROPEAN CONVERGENCE AND ITS IMPACT ON THE SOCIAL STRATEGY OF LATVIA date: 2014-06-10 words: 8610 flesch: 49 summary: An analysis of EU convergence policy made an attempt to asses whether the distribution of income across EU-28 has become more equitable in the last years, by analyzing the dispersion of GDP per capita expressed in purchasing power standards (PPS) throughout country members of the European Union. An analysis of EU convergence policy made an attempt to asses whether the distribution of income across EU-28 has become more equitable in the last years, by analyzing the dispersion of GDP per capita expressed in purchasing power standards (PPS) throughout country members of the European Union. keywords: analysis; approach; average; capita; catch; challenges; cohesion; commission; convergence; convergence policy; convergence theory; countries; country; december; development; documents; economic; economic development; economic growth; economy; education; employment; eu convergence; eu states; eu-28; european; european convergence; forecasts; funds; future; gdp; goals; growth; impact; improvement; income; information; integration; labour; latvia; level; living; long; main; market; member; national; national development; new; performance; period; plan; policy; poverty; pps; priorities; process; processes; progress; real; regional; regions; research; results; scenario; situation; social; social convergence; social development; social policy; social situation; socio; standards; states; strategic; strategy; structural; studies; survey; targets; term; theory; time; trends; union; world; years cache: eis-6759.pdf plain text: eis-6759.txt item: #279 of 298 id: eis-6770 author: Uminski, Stanislaw title: INTEGRATION OF POLAND’S REGIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION – ASSESSMENT OF INTRA INDUSTRY TRADE RELATIONS date: 2014-06-10 words: 10733 flesch: 63 summary: IIT intensity is the highest for relations with “the old“ EU member states. More and more often, FDI is taken into consideration in research in regard to IIT intensity. keywords: analysis; aspect; branch; brodzicki; brülhart; calculations; capital; chamber; change; companies; concept; concerns; countries; country; customs; data; demand; development; differences; different; dimension; diversification; dynamic; e m; economic; economies; economy; enterprises; entities; ess; european; example; exporter; exports; fact; fdi; figure; foreign; fragmentation; global; groups; han; high; higher; horizontal; iit; iit intensity; imports; index; indices; industry; industry trade; integration; intensity; international; international trade; intra; issn; ith; level; lower; main; marginal; markets; member; miit; n th; nature; new; open; participation; particular; poland; practical; pro; production; products; r e; regard; regional; regional level; regions; relations; research; rmu; role; share; situation; sta; states; static; strong; structure; studies; subject; t s; t t; ted; tha; theory; time; trade; umiński; union; use; value; variety; vertical; vol; wielkopolskie; world; years; zaucha; śląskie cache: eis-6770.pdf plain text: eis-6770.txt item: #280 of 298 id: eis-6829 author: Zvirgzdina, Rosita; Tilta, Elga; Zosule, Madara title: SOLUTION OF URGENT INTENSIFICATION PROBLEMS IN DAIRYING OF THE REGIONS OF LATVIA date: 2014-06-10 words: 5287 flesch: 53 summary: In rural regions, there take place differences in the return per dairy cow that are tending to grow with all the resulting negative social economic consequences. Changes in specific return per dairy cow in rural regions Regions Changes in return per dairy cow in time intervals (LVL/SG) 13./04. 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2013* Pierīgas 615 794 1 127 1 078 1 136 1 282 2,09 Vidzemes 571 774 970 958 1 035 1 183 2,07 Kurzemes 560 716 969 934 1 086 1 237 2,21 Zemgales 539 756 1 041 924 1 070 1 253 2,33 Latgales 510 635 703 706 813 934 1,83 Total 553 727 940 904 1 013 1 161 2,10 Deciphering of abbreviations included in the table: *Prognosis data Source: elaborated by the authors on the basis of the data of the CSB of the Republic of Latvia. keywords: activities; agricultural; authors; basis; changes; dairies; dairy; dairy cows; dairy farming; dairy farms; dairying; data; economic; european; factors; farming; farms; figure; fluctuations; function; highest; important; income; increase; integration; intensification; intensification undertakings; intensity; issn; latgale; latvia; level; lpp; means; milk; model; nature; percent; period; pierīga; place; processes; production; productivity; rapid; region; related; resources; results; return; rural; rural regions; source; studies; table; undertakings; yield; zemgale; zemgale region cache: eis-6829.pdf plain text: eis-6829.txt item: #281 of 298 id: eis-6832 author: Keiss, Stanislavs; Tilta, Elga; Balode, Gunta title: INSIGHT INTO RELEVANT TO THE EU GLOBALISATION AND MARKET DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR date: 2014-06-10 words: 10250 flesch: 55 summary: In case of pressing of developing countries to open their market to imported products that compete with products of certain industries, such ones that are dangerously sensitive according to competition of more powerful rivals from other countries, may lead to catastrophic implications in both areas the social and the economic. The International Monetary Fund was authorized to carry out an international pressure also on such countries that would not fulfil their commitments related to an adequate maintaining of the total demand in the world. keywords: 1980s; able; account; agreement; aim; area; bank; basis; beginning; border; bretton; britain; century; changes; conditions; conference; countries; country; crisis; cross; currency; development; dollar; east; economic; economic development; economic theory; economy; end; european; exchange; financial; foreign; france; free; fund; gatt; general; germany; globalisation; gold; great; historical; ideology; imf; implications; increase; integration; international; international monetary; issn; jamaica; latvia; latvijas; league; liberalism; lpp; market; member; monetary; monetary system; nations; new; organisation; payments; period; place; policy; political; politiskā; post; problems; processes; regulation; relations; republic; result; role; rīga; second; second world; socialist; society; soviet; states; stiglics; studies; study; system; tariffs; theory; thought; time; trade; uno; usa; ussr; war; wood; world; world war; čangs cache: eis-6832.pdf plain text: eis-6832.txt item: #282 of 298 id: eis-6839 author: Sloka, Biruta; Kantane, Inara; Avotins, Valdis; Jermolajeva, Elita title: ANALYSIS OF ENTREPRENEUR’S MOTIVATION TO START BUSINESS (COMPARATIVE STUDIES IN LATVIA IN COMPARISON WITH CANADA, USA, MEXICO) date: 2014-06-10 words: 4336 flesch: 42 summary: Entrepreneurs Evaluations of Business Success Influencing Factors, means and standard deviations Mean Standard Deviation Good client service 4.56 0.638 Honesty reputation 4.52 0.725 Charisma and friendliness with clients 4.44 0.671 Good management abilities 4.44 0.605 Ability of personnel management 4.35 0.756 Good product and competitive price 4.34 0.718 Society involvement 4.13 0.911 Marketing factors. For data processing descriptive statistical indicators, factor analysis and variance analysis are applied. keywords: age; analysis; appropriate; business; canada; complex; countries; different; education; entrepreneurs; evaluated; evaluations; experience; factors; family; february; good; groups; high; higher; important; income; journal; latvia; level; management; mean; mexico; motivation; new; personal; research; researchers; results; scale; service; significant; start; studies; success; support; survey; table; training; usa; venturing; years cache: eis-6839.pdf plain text: eis-6839.txt item: #283 of 298 id: eis-6844 author: Voronchuk, Inesa; Starineca, Olga title: KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT AND POSSIBILITIES OF PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN PUBLIC SECTOR date: 2014-06-10 words: 8413 flesch: 42 summary: Use of the explicit knowledge in the workplace Condition Explicit knowledge Work process Organized tasks Routine Orchestrated Assumes a predictable environment Linear Reuse codified knowledge Create knowledge objects Learn On the job Trial-and-error Self-directed in areas of greatest expertise Meet work goals and objectives set by organization Teach Trainer designed using syllabus Uses formats selected by organization Based on goals and needs of the organization May be outsourced Share knowledge Extract knowledge from person Code Store and reuse as needed for customers E-mail Electronic discussions Forums Type of thinking Logical Based on facts Use proven methods Primarily convergent thinking Evaluation Based on tangible work accomplishments Not necessarily on creativity and knowledge sharing Source: Smith (2001). 5, LV-1050, Riga, Latvia e-mail: olga.starineca@lu.lv http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eis.0.8.6844 One of the important parts of Human Resource Management (HRM) is knowledge management and professional development of employees of each organisation. keywords: activities; administration; analysed; analysis; approach; areas; authors; available; business; capital; case; century; cognitive; communication; concept; country; courses; definitions; development; different; economics; economy; education; employees; ethics; european; exact; explicit; field; figure; finance; formal; general; groups; human; important; information; integration; international; internet; introduction; isco; issn; job; journal; knowledge; knowledge management; labour; language; latvia; law; learning; legal; lifelong; management; managing; market; master; need; new; occupations; organisation; people; performance; person; possibilities; possible; process; processes; professional; programmes; project; public; public administration; public management; public sector; relevant; requirements; research; resource; school; sector; sector employees; service; set; skills; social; society; specific; standards; studies; study; style; table; tacit; tasks; terms; time; type; university; use; work cache: eis-6844.pdf plain text: eis-6844.txt item: #284 of 298 id: eis-6848 author: Zitkus, Leonas title: TRADE RELATIONS BETWEEN LITHUANIA AND RUSSIA IN CONTEXT OF INTEGRATION PROCESSES date: 2014-06-10 words: 7554 flesch: 52 summary: Keywords: trade relations, integration processes, commerce policy, bilateral agreements, tendencies. On the one hand, the statistics of trade relations clearly show the trend of permanent growth. keywords: actions; agreement; area; attitude; bilateral; change; closer; commercial; commercial policy; commercial relations; commission; common; common commercial; conditions; context; cooperation; countries; country; customs; east; economic; economic relations; economy; effect; energy; enlargement; eu common; european; european countries; european integration; european union; export; external; features; february; foreign; formation; free; free trade; goods; group; import; integration; interests; interim; internal; international; issn; legal; lithuanian; main; market; measures; member; milk; mutual; nature; new; paper; parties; partnership; party; policy; political; present; principles; problems; processes; products; provisions; related; relations; resources; russia; russian relations; russian trade; source; specific; states; strategic; studies; table; time; trade; trade policy; trade relations; treaty; union; world; wto; year cache: eis-6848.pdf plain text: eis-6848.txt item: #285 of 298 id: eis-6870 author: Vorslava, Maija; Seimuskane, Lilita; Pukis, Maris title: PUBLIC TRUST AND PARTICIPATION DEPENDING ON ETHNICITY IN LATVIA date: 2014-06-10 words: 7631 flesch: 46 summary: In Latvia trust indicators are also markedly low – 17% residents of Latvia trust in the national parliament, 21% – in the government, but the indicator of trust in political parties is explicitly critical – it constitutes only 6%. Italy (10%; 10%), In Latvia trust indicators are markedly low and Latvia belongs to those Member Countries of the European Union whose level of public trust is defined as low – 17% residents of Latvia trust in the national parliament, 21% – in the government, but the indicator of trust in political parties is explicitly critical – it constitutes only 6% and is one of the lowest in the European Union. keywords: analysis; authors; available; citizens; civic; countries; country; data; decision; democracy; education; elections; eurobarometer; european; figure; government; indicators; individual; inhabitants; integration; interests; involvement; issn; issue; large; latvia; latvia trust; latvians; level; local; local government; low; media; migration; national; nationality; non; number; official; opinion; opportunities; opportunity; order; parliament; participation; people; performance; political; political processes; population; power; processes; public; public trust; research; residents; respondents; riga; russian; saeima; seimuskane; skills; social; society; state; studies; study; trust; union; university; years cache: eis-6870.pdf plain text: eis-6870.txt item: #286 of 298 id: eis-6897 author: Kaivo-oja, Jari title: HAS EUROPEAN IMMIGRATION POLICY CHANGED? A BENCHMARKING ANALYSIS OF IMMIGRATION TRENDS TO 30 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES IN 1998-2011 date: 2014-06-10 words: 4944 flesch: 58 summary: The purpose of research article is to present an analysis of European immigration flows and immigration policy. One remarkable change is that the United Kingdom and Germany have changed their rank positions as major immigration countries of the European Union in 1998–2011. keywords: 1998–2011; 2009; analyses; baltic; biggest; changes; considerable; countries; country; crisis; croatia; czech; economics; european; european countries; eurostat; figure; financial; flows; france; germany; greece; group; http://dx.doi; hungary; immigrants; immigration; immigration flows; immigration policy; integration; ireland; italy; journal; kingdom; labour; logarithmic; netherlands; nordic; oecd; poland; policy; portugal; republic; slovenia; spain; statistics; studies; study; trend; union; united; variations; welfare; years cache: eis-6897.pdf plain text: eis-6897.txt item: #287 of 298 id: eis-6954 author: Stenvall, Jari; Laitinen, Ilpo; Ursin, Klaus af; Virtanen, Petri; Kaivo-oja, Jari title: CONSTRUCTING PUBLIC SERVICES – EUROPEAN APPROACH date: 2014-06-10 words: 5088 flesch: 52 summary: Third generation services are constantly developing interactive processes where learning is based on local knowledge and experiences. Our hypothesis is that knowledge is an essential element in the construction of the identity of third generation services. keywords: approach; boundaries; care; cities; community; construction; contextual; creation; customers; different; european; generation; generation services; gergen; health; http://dx.doi; identity; instance; integration; interviewees; kind; knowledge; learning; local; management; material; new; open; organizations; people; perspective; practices; problems; process; processes; production; professional; public; public services; review; role; school; science; sector; services; social; stenvall; studies; system; tampere; theory; thinking; university; users; working cache: eis-6954.pdf plain text: eis-6954.txt item: #288 of 298 id: eis-6961 author: Krisciunas, Kestutis; Cizauskaite-Butkaliuk, Aurelija title: INTEGRATED EVALUATION OF THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF KNOWLEDGE BASED ECONOMY IN BALTIC COUNTRIES date: 2014-06-10 words: 6483 flesch: 39 summary: Keywords: Knowledge based economy, Sustainable development, Sustainable knowledge based economy index, Integrated evaluation, Multi-criteria index. Strongest indicator of sustainable knowledge based economy is in ICT sector. keywords: 2008–2012; april; aspects; baltic; baltic countries; best; challenges; commission; communication; competitiveness; consumption; context; countries; criteria; development; documents; economic; economy; economy index; education; energy; environment; estimation; estonia; european; evolvement; figure; future; global; growth; human; ict; important; index; indicators; indices; information; innovation; integrated; integration; iske; issn; knowledge; knowledge economy; latvia; level; lithuania; long; melnikas; multi; national; new; positive; processes; public; research; resources; results; science; sectors; social; society; socioeconomic; strategy; studies; sub; sustainable; sustainable development; sustainable knowledge; technologies; technology; total; union; world; year cache: eis-6961.pdf plain text: eis-6961.txt item: #289 of 298 id: eis-6972 author: Pauzaite, Zivile; Baryniene, Jurgita; Suke, Margarita title: LEGAL REGULATIONS OF FREE MOVEMENT OF WORKERS IN THE EUROPEAN UNION AS A BOOST TO BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYMENT: CASE STUDY OF EURES NETWORK ACTIVITIES IN LITHUANIA date: 2014-06-10 words: 7276 flesch: 48 summary: It appears as a tool helping to balance EU labour market and to boost business development. EURES Lithuania network was established in 2003 and there are 10 EURES bureaus in every territorial public employment services (Territorial labour exchange). keywords: activities; analysis; aspects; balanced; benefit; business; citizens; commission; comparative; council; countries; country; crisis; development; documents; economic; eee; employers; eures; eures network; european; eurostat; final; free; free movement; high; important; improvement; information; initiatives; integration; issn; issue; january; job; jobseekers; june; labour; labour market; legal; level; lithuania; main; march; market; member; mobile; mobility; movement; need; network; paper; parliament; people; rate; regulations; research; rights; security; services; social; states; statistics; strategy; studies; unemployment; unemployment rate; union; workers; young; youth; youth unemployment cache: eis-6972.pdf plain text: eis-6972.txt item: #290 of 298 id: eis-6973 author: Espinoza Figueroa, Francis Charlotte title: THE EU EXERTING AN IDEATIONAL POWER BEYOND ITS FRONTIERS? LATIN AMERICAN UNIVERSITIES AND EUROPEAN MODEL AS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE TRANSMISSION OF EUROPE OF KNOWLEDGE: THE CASE OF CHILE AND MEXICO date: 2014-06-13 words: 4781 flesch: 46 summary: The main purpose of this paper is to examine the growth of European ideas circulating throughout the field of Latin American Higher Education (HE), as part of the Bologna Process. In terms of Chilean public policies, European ideas have had a significant impact on three main aspects: a) the mechanism of allocating public financial resources (MECESUP) b) a new culture of planning and assessing projects for HE and c) in an indirect way, the National Accreditation System which has come under European influence. keywords: actor; america; bologna; case; chilean; countries; design; development; different; education; effects; european; external; field; force; global; higher; higher education; ideas; ideational; impact; influences; influential; institutions; integration; international; language; latin; literature; main; material; mexican; mexico; model; normative; notion; phenomenon; policies; policy; power; process; processes; project; public; research; role; significant; social; studies; tuning; union; universities; university; world cache: eis-6973.pdf plain text: eis-6973.txt item: #291 of 298 id: eis-6987 author: Vevere, Velga title: ETHICAL LEADERSHIP: STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF EXERCISING ETHICAL INFLUENCE IN ORGANIZATION date: 2014-06-10 words: 8724 flesch: 46 summary: In order to structure studies on the subject ethical leadership we propose to employ a three-level model of analysis of ethical business leadership developed by Daniel E. Palmer; he distinguishes the following levels: ethics of the leader, the means of ethical leadership, and the heart of leadership. There are numerous studies on the subject matter of ethical leadership but until now the matter of developing business students’ ethical leadership competences has been hardly touched. keywords: analysis; answers; approach; aspects; bases; behavior; brown; business; business ethics; business students; coercive; course; design; development; different; employees; ethical; ethical influence; ethical leadership; ethics; european; expert; followers; future; hand; influence; integration; interpersonal; issn; issues; journal; knowledge; leadership; learning; legitimate; level; making; management; matter; model; moral; opinion; order; organizational; palmer; particular; perception; personal; perspective; positive; possible; power; present; question; raven; referent; related; research; responses; results; reward; role; social; special; students; studies; study; styles; subject; subordinates; sum; survey; tactics; target; teaching; time; trevino; unethical; vision; way; work cache: eis-6987.pdf plain text: eis-6987.txt item: #292 of 298 id: eis-6990 author: Line, Antra; Lasmane, Anita title: LEADERSHIP, COMMUNICATION AND UNION COMMITMENT IN LATVIA: DEVELOPMENT PERSPECTIVES OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT date: 2014-06-11 words: 8855 flesch: 43 summary: The results indicate an ineffective two-way communication between trade union members and enterprise trade union leaders, revealing a leadership problem: industry trade union leaders cannot or do not want to find out members’ opinions on significant issues about the trade union’s activities. As much as possible, ‘leaders’ represent trade union members and fully comply with the trade union principles. keywords: activities; agreement; answers; authors; behaviour; chairperson; collective; commitment; communication; content; correlations; decisions; defining; enterprise trade; european; existence; fact; followers; goals; group; impact; indicators; industry; industry trade; information; issues; latvian trade; leadership; level; level trade; little; making; management; members; officers; opinion; opportunities; opportunity; p<0.05; participation; power; process; professional trade; research; respondents; results; significant; strategic; strategy; studies; survey; trade union; union chairperson; union commitment; union goals; union leaders; union management; union members; union officers; unions; vol; way; work cache: eis-6990.pdf plain text: eis-6990.txt item: #293 of 298 id: eis-7014 author: Daugeliene, Rasa; Mlodkowski, Pawel title: PATTERN OF FINANCIAL FLOWS WITHIN THE EUROPEAN UNION: FIRST INSIGHTS ABOUT CREDITOR-DEBTOR COUNTRY RELATIONSHIP date: 2014-06-11 words: 6097 flesch: 49 summary: Local banks were eager to extend financing for real estate investment observing positive rends in the collateral value due to real asset inflation. Second, banks at home countries (new member states) refrained from providing financing for real estate investments in remote regions. keywords: appreciation; area; assets; authors; basis; behavior; bilateral; capital; common; countries; creditor; crisis; current; database; debt; debtor; economic; empirical; estate; european; external; fdi; figure; financial; financial flows; financing; flows; foreign; france; germany; greece; imf; integration; international; intra; investigation; investment; italy; lane; liabilities; long; market; mechanism; member; net; new; pattern; period; piigs; portugal; positions; present; private; real; real estate; regions; relationship; research; scope; source; southern; spain; states; studies; study; trade; union cache: eis-7014.pdf plain text: eis-7014.txt item: #294 of 298 id: eis-7060 author: Greblikaite, Jolita; Pervazaite, Dovile title: ETHICAL ISSUES RELATED TO E-COMMERCE: CASE OF DISCOUNT E-SHOPPING SITE IN LITHUANIA date: 2014-06-11 words: 5961 flesch: 51 summary: He offered e-shopping site to place the information about Ariel. Thompson and Jing (2007), Hwang and Kim (2007) researched e-trust matters which are tightly related with e-commerce ethical issues. keywords: analysis; ariel; article; available; behavior; benefit; business; business ethics; businessmen; case; commerce; commerce ethics; company; corritore; customers; decision; development; different; digital; discount; environment; ethical; ethical decision; ethical issues; ethics; european; fake; goods; important; information; integration; internet; issn; issues; journal; justice; kracher; legal; lithuania; making; market; marketing; moral; new; online; people; personal; possible; principles; problems; products; quality; research; services; shopping; shopping site; site; situation; studies; theories; traditional; trust; unethical; vol; way; web cache: eis-7060.pdf plain text: eis-7060.txt item: #295 of 298 id: eis-7323 author: Fernandez Gonzalez, Manuel Joaquin; Semjonovs, Dmitrijs; Bogdanecs, Aleksejs; Ozola, Sandra title: YOUNGSTERS’ MOTIVATIONS AND DIFFICULTIES FOR CHOOSING SEAFARER CAREER. THE CASE OF LATVIA date: 2014-06-16 words: 8622 flesch: 51 summary: Identifying present fears and myths about seafarer profession will help to improve the quality of information about seafarer career that is delivered to them by several channels (presentation in the schools, information in websites, forums about carrier choice etc.). Structure of the questionnaire “Youngsters’ motivations and difficulties for choosing seafarer career” Code Description of the variable INTEREST IN AND INFORMATION ABOUT SEAFARER PROFESSION A1 Interest in seafarer profession {1=not at all interested; 2=not very interested; 3=neutral; 4=somewhat interested; 5=very interested} A2 Information about seafarer profession {1=not at all enough; 2=rather not enough; 3=neutral; 4=probably enough; 5=absolutely enough} REASONS FOR CHOOSING SEAFARER PROFESSION B Personal reasons for becoming a seafarer {1=not important at all; 2=not really important; 3=neutral; keywords: academy; analysis; answers; aspects; bad; barriers; beliefs; board; campaigns; career; choice; cognitive; college; concourse; count; data; differences; difficulties; dissuading; education; employment; enkurs; european; factors; family; females; generation; goals; good; health; high; important; industry; influence; information; institutions; integration; interested; international; issn; journal; latvia; level; life; males; maritime; negative; new; novikontas; number; open; order; participants; people; perception; personal; positive; possibility; profession; prospective; quality; questionnaire; questions; regions; research; respondents; results; riga; salary; school; seafarer; seafarer career; seafarer profession; seafaring; shipping; significant; social; stability; students; studies; study; table; team; test; theory; training; travelling; useful; work; world; years; youngsters cache: eis-7323.pdf plain text: eis-7323.txt item: #296 of 298 id: eis-7781 author: Krisciunas, Kestutis; Daugeliene, Rasa title: Editorial date: 2014-08-19 words: 256 flesch: 45 summary: These are Social Evolution of Europe, Economics of European Union as well as Managerial Aspects of European Integration. At the present the annual scientific journal European Integration Studies: Research and Topicalities (ISSN 1822-8402) is published once a year (in September). keywords: european; integration; issn; journal; scientific; studies cache: eis-7781.pdf plain text: eis-7781.txt item: #297 of 298 id: eis-7782 author: Kazlauskas, Stasys title: Information about article's authors date: 2014-08-19 words: 1114 flesch: 31 summary: BARYNIENĖ Jurgita, Lecturer, Kaunas University of Technology Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Institute of Europe, e-mail: jurgita.baryniene@ktu.lt BOGDAŅECS Aleksejs B. Oec., Quality Manager, Novikontas Maritime College, +371 29511079, ab@novikontas.lv BULIGINA Ilze, PhD student, Public administration, University of Latvia, 00371 29478176, ilze.buligina@gmail.com, ČIŽAUSKAITĖ-BUTKALIUK Aurelija holds a master degree (2012) in Management and bachelor degree (2009) in Economy from Siauliai university with a focus on knowledge based economy, Phone: +370 604 39999, E-mail: aurelijacizauskaite@gmail.com DAUGĖLIENĖ Rasa, associate professor, PhD in Social Sciences (management and administration); Kaunas University of Technology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, Institute of Europe. ,Assoc.prof, University College of Economics and Culture, phone number: +37129115177, e-mail: anita.lasmane@gmail.com, LINE Antra, Mag.Soc. keywords: +371; administration; arts; college; economics; education; european; faculty; higher; humanities; institute; integration; kaunas; latvia; lecturer; mail; management; oec; phd; phone; professor; research; riga; sciences; social; technology; university cache: eis-7782.pdf plain text: eis-7782.txt item: #298 of 298 id: eis-7783 author: Kazlauskas, Stasys title: Requirements’ for the preparation of the article date: 2014-08-19 words: 763 flesch: 64 summary: Here are some basic reference forms (journal article; working papers; book; book chapter; the internet address). Requirements for the preparation of an electronic form of an article to European Integration Studies ISSN 1822–8402 European Integration Studies (Times New Roman, 11 pt, Bold) >12 pt Title (Times New Roman, CAPS LOCK, 12 pt, Bold) >12 pt Name Surname (Times New Roman, 12 pt, Bold) >12 pt Name of author’s university, country (Times New Roman, 10 pt, Italic) e-mail: ????@????.???? keywords: article; author; bold; columns; european; list; new; requirements; roman; studies; text; times cache: eis-7783.pdf plain text: eis-7783.txt