Scientific publications

In former socialist countries, urban districts having the lowest building and insulation quality and the highest district heat consumption overlap with low-income and older households, creating a problem of energy poverty and a significant barrier to renovation of multi-flat buildings. Thus, the main challenge centers on fuel poverty in an aging society.

Intelligent agricultural solutions require data on the environmental impacts of agriculture. In order for operationalize decision-making for sustainable agriculture, one needs to establish the corresponding datasets and protocols. Increasing anthropogenic CO2 emissions into the atmosphere force the choice of growing crops aimed at mitigating climate change. For this reason, investigations of seasonal carbon exchange were carried out in 2013-2016 at the Training Farm of the Vytautas Magnus University (former Aleksandras Stulginskis University), Lithuania. This paper compares the carbon exchange rate for different crops, viz., maize, ley, winter wheat, spring rapeseed and barley under conventional farming.

China’s remarkable economic growth during the past four decades has resulted in a number of environmental problems. However, very few studies have addressed the interactive impact of both income and air pollution on public health. Thus, an innovative contribution of this paper is to test whether household income growth (HIG) can mitigate the health risks resulting from air pollution in China

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

The main purpose of this article is to identify the motives of investing in land and arable land and determine the choices of such investment. The empirical research, based on the method of expert evaluation, fills the gap of the investment in land observed in scientific literature.

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

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

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

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

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