Regional Formation and Development Studies

This journal number should be interesting for different field of scientists and business people. We shouldmention that in most of scientific papers there are interdisciplinary approaches. It is mean that authors ofpapers view to scientific problems more open and widely. They are trying to describe scientific and practicalproblems not only from their scientific field, but also to use knowledge from different field of science. In journalwe can read some papers where similar scientific problem is analyzed from different point of view. Forexample, regional cooperation questions are analyzed in D. Burgis and A. Dastanka, V. I. Chuprys papers,but in different aspects: D. Burgis through advanced planning systems and Dastankos, V. I. Chuprys throughsociological and legal aspects. The management problems are described in Klaipeda: organizational cultureresearch was done in J. Paužuolienė, V. Docienė, A. Vaitiekus paper, creativity aspects in E. Župerkienė,R. Šimanskytė paper, findings of leadership style in L. Šimanskienė, A. Petrulis paper. We can read aboutwomen employment in Uzbekistan written by S. Nurdinova and genetically modified product use and traderegulation of the European Union written by A. Gargasas, I. Rimkienė. D. Kiyak, L. Pranckevičiūtė analysesthe prices of insurance products and A. Giedraitis analyses ergonomic risk factors in organization. Importantregional development questions analyses R. Viederytė in paper about Lithuanian maritime sector’sclustering, A. B. Knašas analyses scientific-technical progress in the regions in terms of published patentapplications, M. Kučinskienė, A. Mačerinskienė did the research about cycling for regional development. Soreaders have possibility to know a lot of interesting results from different research.

Like in all other journal numbers, in this journal also there are articles strongly connected with journal topic. There are some regional problems aspects, evaluating them in organizational and governmental level. There are some articles about problems in rural areas. A. Aleksandravičius analyzes models of public electronic services organization in the rural areas; V. Atkočiūnienė describes factors determining labour places sustainable development in Lithuanian rural regions; A. Župerka, E. Župerkienė describe entrepreneurship factors in rural areas of Lithuanian cross-border regions. Some authors, how A. Kozlovskaja and T. Q. Dinh, H. Hilmarsson analyzes relevance of risk factors for Lithuanian agricultural producers and also food processing in Vietnam. For public administration people would be interesting some articles like M. Grigaliūnas article about the official values-level attitudes of EU to volunteering; V. Burkšienė, E. Račaitė article about organizational learning in ministries of Republic of Lithuania; I. Normantė article about public services liberalization. If we continue to read articles about quality of services in organizational level, we can mention V. Grublienė, E. Ambraziūnaitė, L. Venckevičė article. A. Kutkaitis, A. Petrulis evaluate leadership styles, A. Giedraitis describe management of ergonomic risk factors in organization. Transport and international trade problems are described in two articles: I. Gumenyuk, T. Kuznetsova and E. Spiriajevas. Articles for sustainable development and the better country development description are in these articles: R. Čiegis, A. Dilius, A. Mikalauskienė bei L. Šimanskienė, A. Petrulis describe aspects of sustainability; A. B. Knašas analyzes the development of scientific-technical progress in terms of published patent applications; A. Homutinin analyzes system dynamics modeling of social economic development in Latvia and M. Norkevičius describes analysis of regionalization processes in Latin America. So this journal number should be interesting for different field of scientists and business people.

In this journal there are papers selected from international conference, which was held on 4th of Septemberat KU Faculty of Social Sciences “Regionalism and Sustainability: Managing Complexities”. There istradition to organize international conferences on autumn at this faculty. This conference was organized 9thtime. The main objective of this conference is open and critical discussion about regionalism and sustainabilityfrom different academic perspectives, taking in mind different countries experience. There were 23papers in this number of journal. Some papers are strongly connected with sustainability, so another’s morewith regional policy, but in general there is a lot of interesting research results in this theme. So this journalnumber should be interesting for different field of scientists and business people.

In this journal there are some papers selected from international seminar, which was held on 26 of Aprilat KU Faculty of Social Sciences „Regional and Territorial Research Methods: Theory, Practical Applicationand Interdisciplinary Approach“ (the idea of this seminar created by assoc. prof. dr. E. Spiriajevas).If we’ll analyze these papers we’ll see interdisciplinary approach to formulated topic. There are aspects ofevaluation of regions (in papers of B. Melnikas, G. Burbulytė-Tsiskarishvili, I. Normantė), unclosed view tointerdisciplinary approach when is evaluating territorial aspect (J. Paiders, J. Paiders and D. Verkulevičiūtė-Kriukienė, S. Reliūgaitė, M. Eidukevičienė and K. Ramanauskaitė, A. Bučienė). Government politics in regionalaspect are shown in papers L. Kraujutaitytė, J. Dvorak, A. Bučinskas, V. Giedraitytė, A. Raipa andM. Kučinskienė, A. Marčinskas and description of CRS taking in mind opinion of society in I. Mauricienė,J. Paužuolienė paper. More differ paper is created by A. L. Arbušauskaitė, N. Juščenko. This paper analysescemetery data, but it is suit of the used differ methodology from different regions. Efficiency of organizationalnetworks analyzes E. Ribačonka, J. Kasnauskė, and evaluation of managers is described in papers createdby A. Giedraitis and K. Ramanauskas. Methodological aspects in managerial approach are shown in paperscreated by D. Benetytė, G. Jatulevičienė and L. Šimanskienė, L. Sandu. Innovations problems are describein papers like D. Škiltere, S. Jesilevska and E. Mineikaitė. There are some concurrence analyses in differentfield: Lithuanian tourism place in EU (D. Labanauskaitė, E. Gedvilas), airports activity (G. Kristaps), GDPin Baltic States (G. Braslinš, A. Orlovs, I. Braukša, A. Bulis). So this journal number should be interestingfor different field of scientists and business people.

These papers printed in this journal we can divided to some groups. Some papers are exclusively orientedto solutions of regional problems, like Borisas Melnikas describes transformations in regions economics;Gabrielė Burbulytė-Tsiskarishvili analyzes adaptation of synthetic indicators for Lithuanian regional policy;Audrius Kutkaitis shows sustainable development indicators formation methodology; Vytautas Juščius, AgnėŠneiderienė show influence corporate social responsibility on regional development; Ligita Šimanskienė,Jurgita Paužuolienė did research about migration reasons and consequences. Simona Ereminaitė and JanisPaiders, Juris Paiders describe what kind of public relations problems arise in regions. Economic aspectsin world economy analyze Elena Efimova, Natalia Kuznetsova, Rimantas Stašys bei Deimena Kiyak ir IgorSergeev, Tatiana Ponomarenko. Consumers’ affections for choice to by some products, it is the way how developbetter economic growth of region describe Jolanta Žemgulienė, Erika Župerkienė, ir Irma Babičaitė,Inese Aleksejeva, Violeta Grublienė, Lina Šimkuvienė. Tourism sector were analyzed by Eduardas Spiriajevasbei Marija Kučinskienė, Aida Mačerinskienė. So this journal number should be interesting for differentfield of scientists and business people.