Transformations  in
Business & Economics

JEL classification: Y20.

Transformations in Business & Economics (TIBE) journal continues in providing a focused outlet for high quality research in the ever-expanding area of Development Economics in the field of Social Sciences and related disciplines. The field research should not be limited by any narrow conceptualisation of development economics, but embraces interdisciplinary and multi-facet approaches to economic theory, business management, marketing, as well as general transformations in the economic, social-cultural, ecological, technological, competitive, demographic and political-legal environment.

Therefore, we expect original and authentic manuscripts, never published before in any format and not submitted to any other publishing institution, which are based on fact-centred research to establish economic and business management regularities, where the theory is motivated by substantiated empirical findings, where disciplined application of economic principles is used to explain and predict the real-world behaviour of organisations, markets and industries. We will continue to seek for:

• empirical studies, which provide convincing and significant findings of fact. Careful establishment of an interesting or puzzling empirical regularity is of value to the field if the author has a convincing explanation for the phenomenon;
• theoretical studies, which stress relatively robust ideas, and combine theory with a sense of empirical magnitudes, presenting fresh viewpoints and theoretical perspectives, new literature overviews and concept classifications, where a systems’ approach is a central focus of the research;
• explanatory research studies about a firm, an industry, or a business practice according to economic principles. Such a case study must go well beyond the purely descriptive by illuminating the ways in which industry practice and institutions can be understood in terms of economic principles. Factors that resist economic explanation also should be identified.

The current issue of TIBE presents guest and special editorials by Spanish and Dutch scholars, who envisage their insights on trade effects of continental and intercontinental preferential trade agreements (Salvador Gil-Pareja, Rafael Llorca-Vivero, Jose Antonio Martinez-Serrano) and analysing evolving subsidiary roles and regional economic integration in Europe (Sergey Filippov, Geert Duysters).

Financial instruments in the CEEC were developed by Lithuanian, Romanian and Slovenian scholars. A focus on sustainability theory and practice demonstrated urgent issues on energy sector, organizational structures and foresight methodology.

Other two sections in the current TIBE issue are dedicated to social issues of selected cases in gender equality, leader and followers’ perspective, quality of life and researching social dilemmas in building new subsidiaries of multinational ventures. A special part of papers was dedicated to IT solutions in businesses and university study programmes.

Prof. Dr. (HP) Dalia Štreimikienė
Editor-in-Chief