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 groups of scholars from Poland, Italy, Lithuania and Malaysia. Marta Götz (Poland) presented her findings on the macroeconomics perspectives of Eurozone, in-depth study on characterizing the economies of member states. This guest editorial serves as a platform for the future perspectives in Eurozone countries, including all economic components. The Belgium team of scientists – Annelies Roggeman, Isabelle Verleyen, Carine Coppens, Philippe Van Cauwenberge – discussed the issues on “An Empirical Investigation into the Design of an EU Apportionment Formula Related to Profit Generating Factors”.

The knowledge-based economy and the main drivers of competitiveness in several sectors of economy are discussed by Lithuanian and others scholars. Their main research fields addressed in current issue of journal are social networks, brokerage, R&D, primary indicators and composite determinants, multiple criteria analysis, cluster analysis, customer relationship management. Other important problems being dealt are related to financial markets issues in Spain and the United Kingdom, transfer pricing model for tax payers and tax administrators and reviewed ecological tax reform in Lithuania.

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