Jurgita Mikolaitytė

• Doctor of Business Administration
• Lecturer at Šiauliai University

Absorptive capacity is considered a main precondition for regional innovativeness. However, each region is unique, and analyzing its innovativeness requires an appropriate methodology. Within scientific discussion on the concept of the “region”, most of the scientific research analyzing absorptive capacity tends to be conducted for large or highly...

Vitality of a smart region depends on the network of closely interconnected actors (individuals and institutions) seeking common goals of development and their capacities to ensure effective knowledge creation and exploitation. This network (a regional innovation system (RIS)) empowers processes of absorptive capacity—knowledge access, anchoring an...

We compare characteristics of local self-government systems in Lithuania and Slovakia in the article and try to identify main differences and similarities within the field of inter-municipal cooperation. We suppose that size structure of local governments has impact on inter-municipal cooperation – the more consolidated structure, the less intensiv...

This book is divided into two parts. The first section presents the theoretical framework of the issue of local governance. The introductory chapter is devoted to the topic of local democratization in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. In political science, the subject of democratic transition has become an almost separate discipline. How...

Straipsnyje analizuojamas NVO valdymo konceptas, atliekant NVO vaidmens ir valdymo modelių analizę. Pateikiamas sisteminis požiūris į atliekamus NVO veiklos vertinimo ir valdymo tyrimus. Akcentuojamas NVO valdymas kaip organizacijų teorijos ir vadybos teorijų objektas. Ypatingas dėmesys skiriamas NVO valdymo tipologijai, grindžiamai sąveikos mastų...