Kontekstinė duomenų apgaubties analizė leidžia stratifikuoti stebėjimus atsižvelgiant į jų gamybinę aplinką ir efektyvumą. Toks klasifikavimas yra naudingas nustatant realesnius produkty-vumo ir efektyvumo didinimo tikslus bei rekomendacijas. Tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti ir kiekybiškai įvertinti efektyvumo lygio skirtumus Lietuvos ūkininkų ūkiuose. Efektyvumo skirtumai vertinti pat-rauklumo ir progreso rodiklių atžvilgiu. Augalininkystės ūkiai buvo sugrupuoti į devynias stratas (efektyvumo lygmenis), gyvulininkystės ūkiai – į penkias, o mišrūs ūkiai – į šešias. Taigi augalinin-kystės ūkiai buvo labiausiai heterogeniški efektyvumo atžvilgiu. Mišriuose ūkiuose buvo pastebėta strata, pasižyminti aukšta progreso rodiklio reikšme. Šiai ūkių grupei būtų ypač sudėtinga pasiekti aukštesnį produktyvumo ir efektyvumo lygmenį. Tyrimo rezultatai rodo, kad numatant žemės ūkio paramos priemones, tikslinga atsižvelgti į atskirų ūkininkavimo tipų ir jiems priklausančių ūkių grupių potencialias efektyvumo didinimo galimybes.

Company’s strategic development has to be aimed at value growth. External growth is connected with effective using of new assets at the created value chains. The goal of the paper is to distinguish organizational and economic conditions of economic efficiency of the value chain transformation. Research Methods: the comparative analysis of financial results of the mining companies for 2003–2015, technology, economic and institutional factors, the case method and strategic and investment analysis are applied. Results: geological, technical, economic and other specific conditions of the value chain transformation as strategic development are formulated; estimate new effects of added assets at the value chains is offered.

The relevance of this study is determined by the necessity to refocus the foreign trade policy of Ukraine and to adjust the agricultural sector of economy to the conjunctural changes on the world agricultural markets. At present, the structure of the foreign trade of Ukraine is changing drastically taking into account economic, social and political circumstances. How can one identify potential partners and single out those that are the most economically feasible for a long-term cooperation? This is one of the most topical issues of the development of the foreign economic activity. The purpose of the article is to identify the main trade partners of agricultural products between Ukraine and the EU. Using the k-means method and the Ward-method, clustering of the trade partners of the EU member countries and Ukraine is carried out. Three cluster groups are singled out and the main factors that have impact on these groups are described.

Economic development of agricultural enterprises can provide the implementation of measures aimed at industrial resources conservation. Apart from the need for significant one-time investments that accompany resources’ economy at enterprises, there are no methodological grounds for assessing the effectiveness of the technology of rational resource use. The goal of the research is to develop methodical tools to determine technical and economic parameters for an advanced system of resource-saving measures. The period under investigation is 2014–2016, the number of enterprises under analysis is 96. To define the rules of choosing solutions on the base of games theory, taking into account information and expectations of agrarians, the analysis is performed based on the Laplas, Bayes, Sewidzh and Hurwitz criteria. Calculated values of the enterprises’ potential advantages, represented as an attribute for analytical grouping, allowed to define optimal strategies for designing a policy of production resources conservation. The demonstration partition of the whole set of enterprises is performed according to the suggested methodology. The data obtained as a result of criteria estimation allows us to draw conclusions about the most probable actions of grain producers in the situation of uncertainty, which enables us to identify typical effectiveness parameters of the system and to assess the prospects of the resource conservation policy.

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the educational sphere financial rules, what can answer the question of how education financing indices must change under the alteration of macroeconomic indices, which determine the national economy state. The authors are investigating the issue regarding the substantiation and specification of educational sphere financial rules and related public administration benefits. The research has applied the fiscal and monetary rules analysis methodology. The applied result of the education financing rules substantiation issue research consists in the application of the algorithm, which covers 5 stages: rules idea formulation, the assessment of variables relationships significance according to the rules idea, the selection of endogenous and exogenous variables with significant relationships, the definition of gaps between the actual and trend values of the selected variables, the derivation of the equation of dependencies between the gaps.

Price competition among the domestic enterprises of meat processing industry requires the permanent increase of marketing price policy efficiency. The purpose of the research consists in the estimation of marketing price policy efficiency, establishment of its intercommunication with efficiency of activity for further improvement of marketing price policy of the enterprise of meat processing industry. The research’s methods are theoretical and logical generalization, statistical analysis, expert questioning, and matrix. The results of research are the methodical approach to the estimation of marketing price policy efficiency of the enterprise on the basis of determination of integral index; matrix that analyses intercommunication of marketing price policy efficiency with efficiency of enterprise’s activity for the development of marketing price policy potential and strengthening of control after the results of the enterprise’s activity are formed.

The European Innovation Partnership (EIP) is considered to be a new phenomenon signalling political will, highly relevant issue in contemporary domain of discussions among practitioners and researchers. While practitioners lack experience, researchers make attempts to identify the factors that influence effectiveness of an innovation partnership, explore the indicators and techniques to determine and evaluate its effectiveness. Aim of the study presented in the article is to determine the external and internal factors that influence effectiveness of the European Innovation Partnership by analysing the operating conditions of an operational group of the European Innovation Partnership in Agriculture (EIP-AGRI). Expert evaluation was carried out by experts who have scientific and practical experience: scientists, policy makers, innovators, developing an innovation partnership. The force field analysis has shown that the number of negative factors of EIP effectiveness exceeds the number of positive factors, and the factors analysed and evaluated allow to identify potential negative consequences in a timely manner and provide the opportunity to predict effectiveness of the EIP-based projects.

Straipsnyje nagrinėjamas sociokultūrinės ir ekonominės švietimo paradigmos susidūrimas. Svarstomas neoliberalizmo poveikis švietimo tikslams. Analizuojama naujoji viešoji vadyba, švietimo sistemoje diegianti verslo vadybos principus. Aptariamas orientacijos į rezultatus, švietimo našumo ir efektyvumo svarbos augimas. Tarptautinių tyrimų pagrindu analizuojamas išteklių ryšys su mokinių pasiekimais. Detaliau nagrinėjami švietimo efektyvumo ir našumo skirtumai išskiriant socialinės, ekonominės ir kultūrinės (SEK) ir emocinės aplinkos mokykloje poveikį pasiekimams. Efektyvumo ir našumo požiūriu apžvelgiami strateginiai Lietuvos švietimo dokumentai.

Straipsnyje akcentuojami finansų sistemos efektyvumo aspektai. Darbe analizuojamas makro ir mikro lygių rodiklių poveikis listinguojamų įmonių vertei pereinamosios ekonomikos laikotarpiu Lietuvoje.

The paper analyzes the effectiveness and efficiency of promotion of electricity generation from renewable energy sources (RES) in Latvia by looking at the economic incentives available for entrepreneurs. The main support measure for increased use of RES is the obligatory purchase mechanism (OPM) and the feed-in tariffs for electricity that is generated from RES (RES-E). The methodology for assessing the efficiency of the economic incentives for RES-E producers is set out. The paper concludes that the efficiency of economic incentives for RES-E generation in Latvia is low and need to be improved.