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.

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 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.

The paper presents the principles determining which scientific research field should take priority over all other research. The authors identify research of primary importance, its application field, give suggestions on reorganization of research institutions, and highlight the instruments by which inner structures of such institutions could be modernized. Special attention is devoted to the solving of financial and research implementation problems.

This paper analyses how social expenditure influences social productivity. The results of the empirical research regarding the impact of social expenditure for social productivity in European Union countries and further research areas are also represented.

This paper analyzes the theories employed to explain the impact of the corruption level on the prevalence of the shadow economy. The results of the empirical research regarding this impact in countries with different income levels of inhabitants are also represented.

The connectivity among different economic agents (persons, organizations, countries) is constantly growing and their activity become more and more interdependent. Social, informational, ownership, trade, investment and other ties become closer and this determines such processes as trade and financial integration, synchronization of business cycles and othe processes of interdependence. Connectivity processes are conditioned by such factors as: market liberalization, increasing global competition, technological and informational innovations, increasing speed of information distribution, outsourcing processes and etc. The relevance, scope, threats and opportunities of economic agents connectivity were revealed by the economic crisis of 2008. It also exposed that traditional means of analysis and forecasting are no longer capable to adequately evaluate the complexity of economic agents and their performance. Economists try to solve this problem by applying network analysis to economic research. Network analysis is not an invetion of economic scientists, but adopted from other disciplines. In order for this addoption process to be successful, there should be disclosed the peculiarities of network analysis application to economic research. After a thorough analysis of the existing theoretical and empirical research in this field, the authors of this article identified four groups of peculiarities that determine the possibilities to apply network analysis to economic research: historic background, network elements, dimensions of analysis and fields of application. The frontiers of research examining economic networks have been advancing along two strands: one emanating from economics and sociology, the other from research on complex systems in physics and computer science.[...].