This paper aims to evaluate fixed telephone subsector’s impact on economic growth in the European Union for the 1990–2017 years’ time span. Also, the presence of structural break in each European country data is checked since this telecommunications infrastructure subsector shows decline since the beginning of the 2000s. This research results show that between these phenomena there is no statistically significant long run relationship. In the countries without structural break statistically significant short run relationship was not found too, while in the remaining countries with structural break some evidence of short run relationship was found.

The paper analyses knowledge management models, which could guarantee effective knowledge creation, dispersion and application in the organizations, also analyzes how individual knowledge could become organizational.

This article presents research about factors that affect Lithuanian public expenditure and its structure during 2000–2012. The study identifies and evaluates the relationships between the chosen variables. The research was carried out using comparative, regression and correlation analysis. It was noticed that the number of research in this field is low, especially in Lithuania. Most of existing research is of information nature or there is a separate micro or macro-level research. Selected factors are grouped into three groups according to their strength of impact in this study. Structural changes in government spending are also identified.

This article presents research about Lithuanian household consumption structure and its changes during 2008-2011 in respect of demographic, social and other economic variables. The research was carried out, using comparative, regression and correlation analysis. It was noticed that the number of research in consumption field is low, especially in Lithuania. Most of existing research is of information nature or there is separate micro or macro-level research. Various shifts in consumption structure as well significant differences among various households were also identified during research.

This paper analyses the business cycle synchronization research, main methodological assumptions, and methods. In this research paper the techniques to analyse business cycle synchronization intensity are analysed, such as correlation, Granger causality, spatial vector auto regression; to analyse the determinants influence – multiple regression, structural models, extreme bound analyses. There are the advantages and shortcomings of these methods identified emphasizing the necessity of dynamic and spatial approach.

The research on business cycle synchronization started on the early nineties of XX century. This phenomenon is interdisciplinary economics and physics research object. The joint of these fields of science is called econophysics. In traditional view economics and physics are separate fields of science, but the research shows that they have much in common. The earliest econophysicists in this field R. M. Goodwin (1951), C. Hillinger ir T. Weser (1986), D. D. Selover ir R. V. Jensen (1999) tried to prove that synchronization processes visible in nature can be analysed also in economy and finance. They sought to equate business cycle synchronization to mode locking phenomenon discovered in mechanical systems. The main impulse to analyze business cycle synchronization between the economists was the investigation, according to optimum currency area theory (OCA) framework (Mundell, 1961; McKinnon, 1963; Kenen, 1969), whether or not certain countries would be good candidates for the currency union. The member of currency union apply the same monetary policy, but according to the OCA, if the countries experience asymmetric shocks, the same political instruments can’t be implemented, because won’t give expected result, the country will confront with risk to diverge from other countries. Still the research of business cycle synchronization research has broader sense. It is said that business cycles are caused by the international context that is synchronization with other countries. That’s why it is very important to take in consideration the possible consequences of synchronization with other countries while making some political decisions. The phenomenon of business cycle synchronizations and the determinants of it is still ambiguous. [...].

This paper provides a conceptualization and operationalization of employer/organizational attractiveness and employer branding constructs. Development of the university employer brand, specifically value proposition has been approached through qualitative research identifying dimensions of the university’s organizational attractiveness. Eventually, a 12-dimensional questionnaire of 74 items was prepared and psychometric tests of validity have indicated its face and content validity.

This paper analyzes corporate reputation building at higher education institutions. Having determined the definition of higher education institutions’ corporate reputation, the paper discloses the importance of corporate reputation at higher education institutions and problematic aspects of corporate reputation indicators. Eventually the research results of corporate reputation indicators at higher education institutions are presented.