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At the master thesis Lithuanian textile industry international competitiveness improving aspects are being researched. The meaning of textile industry international competitiveness to modern Lithuania economics is being described. During scientific sources analysis it was found that the industry's international competitiveness depends on factors such as relative or absolute advantages of the state (climate, geographical position, resources and self-sufficiency, etc.), new technologies in the production process, investments, government policy in the international competitiveness of industry . In order to assess the Lithuanian textile industry international competitiveness empirical surveys were disposed, which allowed the identification of the factors most affecting the country's textile industry and its competitiveness. It was also examined the practice of the various countries in textile industry international competitiveness improvement. The examination of the theoretical and practical aspects of the work is presented recommendations Lithuanian textile industry to increase international competitiveness. At the end of the thesis conclusions and suggestions were performed. Structure: introduction; textile industry international competitiveness improvement is modern Lithuanian economics priority; theoretical models, whitch can be used to improve textile industry international competitiveness; empirical researches used to evaluate the international competitiveness of Lithuanian textile industry; recommendations for Lithuanian textile industry international competitiveness improvement; conclusions and suggestions, references. Thesis consist of: 77 p. text without appendixes, 6 pictures, 19 tables, 46 bibliographical entries. Appendixes included.

At the master thesis Lithuanian textile industry international competitiveness improving aspects are being researched. The meaning of textile industry international competitiveness to modern Lithuania economics is being described. During scientific sources analysis it was found that the industry's international competitiveness depends on factors such as relative or absolute advantages of the state (climate, geographical position, resources and self-sufficiency, etc.), new technologies in the production process, investments, government policy in the international competitiveness of industry . In order to assess the Lithuanian textile industry international competitiveness empirical surveys were disposed, which allowed the identification of the factors most affecting the country's textile industry and its competitiveness. It was also examined the practice of the various countries in textile industry international competitiveness improvement. The examination of the theoretical and practical aspects of the work is presented recommendations Lithuanian textile industry to increase international competitiveness. At the end of the thesis conclusions and suggestions were performed. Structure: introduction; textile industry international competitiveness improvement is modern Lithuanian economics priority; theoretical models, whitch can be used to improve textile industry international competitiveness; empirical researches used to evaluate the international competitiveness of Lithuanian textile industry; recommendations for Lithuanian textile industry international competitiveness improvement; conclusions and suggestions, references. Thesis consist of: 77 p. text without appendixes, 6 pictures, 19 tables, 46 bibliographical entries. Appendixes included.

The final master's thesis examines high-tech industry and barriers for improving processes in such industries. Overview of high-tech industry in Lithuania is made with comparisons with other European Union countries. Analysis of most popular business improvement methodologies – "Lean", "Six Sigma" and "Theory of Constraints" – is made. In addition to that employee reaction to change and motivational factors are examined as important components of improvement model implementation success. Possibilities to improve high-tech industry performance by implementing business improvement methodologies are analyzed, which is possible by eliminating constraints that reduce the success of such systems implementation in high-tech industry. Employee influence to the success of business improvement methodology implementation is examined and the opposite – business improvement methodology implementation influence to employee motivation and initiative is also examined. Based on the results of the research and empirical data collected from two high-tech companies and one generalized group of employees a model for high-tech company business improvement is proposed, which also has tools to improve employee morale and motivation. The work consists of three parts: introduction, high-tech industry business improvement theoretical aspect analysis, high-tech industry empirical research, high-tech industry business improvement model, conclusions and recommendations, references, appendixes. The work consists of – 89 pages (excluding appendixes), 37 images, 15 tables, 52 references. The accessories are attached separately.

The final master's thesis examines high-tech industry and barriers for improving processes in such industries. Overview of high-tech industry in Lithuania is made with comparisons with other European Union countries. Analysis of most popular business improvement methodologies – "Lean", "Six Sigma" and "Theory of Constraints" – is made. In addition to that employee reaction to change and motivational factors are examined as important components of improvement model implementation success. Possibilities to improve high-tech industry performance by implementing business improvement methodologies are analyzed, which is possible by eliminating constraints that reduce the success of such systems implementation in high-tech industry. Employee influence to the success of business improvement methodology implementation is examined and the opposite – business improvement methodology implementation influence to employee motivation and initiative is also examined. Based on the results of the research and empirical data collected from two high-tech companies and one generalized group of employees a model for high-tech company business improvement is proposed, which also has tools to improve employee morale and motivation. The work consists of three parts: introduction, high-tech industry business improvement theoretical aspect analysis, high-tech industry empirical research, high-tech industry business improvement model, conclusions and recommendations, references, appendixes. The work consists of – 89 pages (excluding appendixes), 37 images, 15 tables, 52 references. The accessories are attached separately.

The final master's thesis analyzes the competitiveness of Lithuanian pharmaceutical industry. The most pressing problems facing the sector in the pharmaceutical industry are highlighted. Based on the analysis of statistical data, it can be stated that the Lithuanian pharmaceutical sector is one of the most legally regulated economic sectors. It is relatively small - the sector is dominated by companies of different sizes producing pharmaceutical products of different values. The performance of companies varies greatly, and the development of the sector is volatile and depends on the performance of large, multinational companies. It is also noticeable that industrial enterprises are mainly focused on foreign markets - most of the products of the Lithuanian pharmaceutical industry are exported and export values are growing every year. The main weaknesses of the sector are insufficient investment in R&D activities: in the development of new products, patent development and innovations compared to other European Union countries. Also, the Lithuanian pharmaceutical industry does not respond sufficiently to the needs of consumers in the domestic market and the increased demand for pharmaceutical products, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis shows that Lithuania and the European Union pay great attention to the development of the life sciences sector, including the pharmaceutical industry, and companies are encouraged to use financial support or expert advice and consultations to increase industrial competitiveness globally: through R&D activities, cooperation with higher education institutions, innovation development, modernizing or expanding infrastructure, increasing exports or improving the quality assurance system. Also, those companies involved in the development and production of innovative products, especially biotechnological pharmaceuticals with the greatest potential, have a greater competitive advantage.

The final master's thesis analyzes the competitiveness of Lithuanian pharmaceutical industry. The most pressing problems facing the sector in the pharmaceutical industry are highlighted. Based on the analysis of statistical data, it can be stated that the Lithuanian pharmaceutical sector is one of the most legally regulated economic sectors. It is relatively small - the sector is dominated by companies of different sizes producing pharmaceutical products of different values. The performance of companies varies greatly, and the development of the sector is volatile and depends on the performance of large, multinational companies. It is also noticeable that industrial enterprises are mainly focused on foreign markets - most of the products of the Lithuanian pharmaceutical industry are exported and export values are growing every year. The main weaknesses of the sector are insufficient investment in R&D activities: in the development of new products, patent development and innovations compared to other European Union countries. Also, the Lithuanian pharmaceutical industry does not respond sufficiently to the needs of consumers in the domestic market and the increased demand for pharmaceutical products, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis shows that Lithuania and the European Union pay great attention to the development of the life sciences sector, including the pharmaceutical industry, and companies are encouraged to use financial support or expert advice and consultations to increase industrial competitiveness globally: through R&D activities, cooperation with higher education institutions, innovation development, modernizing or expanding infrastructure, increasing exports or improving the quality assurance system. Also, those companies involved in the development and production of innovative products, especially biotechnological pharmaceuticals with the greatest potential, have a greater competitive advantage.

This graduation work emphasis competitiveness issues and perspectives of Lithuanian furniture industry enterprises. Research object - Lithuanian furniture industry companies competitiveness. Research aim is to analyze Lithuanian furniture industry enterprises competitiveness, discover main forces at which are based competitive factors, find possibilities to sustain and develop new competitive factors and possibilities. Work is divided in three main parts. In the first part is given analysis of development theoretical conception of competitiveness from the Smith theories of absolute competitive advantages of countries till the later theories. Analyzed macroeconomics factors influence for industry competitiveness. Section ends with M.Porter model of five competitive forces and his further development. In the second part is analyzed Lithuanian furniture industry current situation and statistics, it's main development trends, studied strengths and weaknesses (SWOT analysis). Also is given analysis of European Union and world furniture situation. In the third part is presented methodology and results of performed survey, the main obstacles influencing development and sustaining of competitive forces, which are best known by furniture industry enterprises representatives. Main result of this research is established main factors on which Lithuanian furniture industry competitiveness is based. As for today main competitive factor is low production costs, however this factor is changing because of rising wages, shortage of working people, rising prices of local raw materials and energetic resources. Only fraction of enterprises are producing original design or other way differentiated furniture. As research shows, main possibilities for sustaining present competitive advantages is coherent with ability to increase work efficiency, acquiring of new, high productivity technologies and equipment. Rising furniture industry in China and Russia forces to perform such changes as fast as possible. Because Lithuanian furniture industry is oriented to export it is very important to reduce such competitive force as buyers influence by finding new markets in developed countries and reducing sales concentration.

This graduation work emphasis competitiveness issues and perspectives of Lithuanian furniture industry enterprises. Research object - Lithuanian furniture industry companies competitiveness. Research aim is to analyze Lithuanian furniture industry enterprises competitiveness, discover main forces at which are based competitive factors, find possibilities to sustain and develop new competitive factors and possibilities. Work is divided in three main parts. In the first part is given analysis of development theoretical conception of competitiveness from the Smith theories of absolute competitive advantages of countries till the later theories. Analyzed macroeconomics factors influence for industry competitiveness. Section ends with M.Porter model of five competitive forces and his further development. In the second part is analyzed Lithuanian furniture industry current situation and statistics, it's main development trends, studied strengths and weaknesses (SWOT analysis). Also is given analysis of European Union and world furniture situation. In the third part is presented methodology and results of performed survey, the main obstacles influencing development and sustaining of competitive forces, which are best known by furniture industry enterprises representatives. Main result of this research is established main factors on which Lithuanian furniture industry competitiveness is based. As for today main competitive factor is low production costs, however this factor is changing because of rising wages, shortage of working people, rising prices of local raw materials and energetic resources. Only fraction of enterprises are producing original design or other way differentiated furniture. As research shows, main possibilities for sustaining present competitive advantages is coherent with ability to increase work efficiency, acquiring of new, high productivity technologies and equipment. Rising furniture industry in China and Russia forces to perform such changes as fast as possible. Because Lithuanian furniture industry is oriented to export it is very important to reduce such competitive force as buyers influence by finding new markets in developed countries and reducing sales concentration.

This graduation work emphasis competitiveness issues and perspectives of Lithuanian furniture industry enterprises. Research object - Lithuanian furniture industry companies competitiveness. Research aim is to analyze Lithuanian furniture industry enterprises competitiveness, discover main forces at which are based competitive factors, find possibilities to sustain and develop new competitive factors and possibilities. Work is divided in three main parts. In the first part is given analysis of development theoretical conception of competitiveness from the Smith theories of absolute competitive advantages of countries till the later theories. Analyzed macroeconomics factors influence for industry competitiveness. Section ends with M.Porter model of five competitive forces and his further development. In the second part is analyzed Lithuanian furniture industry current situation and statistics, it's main development trends, studied strengths and weaknesses (SWOT analysis). Also is given analysis of European Union and world furniture situation. In the third part is presented methodology and results of performed survey, the main obstacles influencing development and sustaining of competitive forces, which are best known by furniture industry enterprises representatives. Main result of this research is established main factors on which Lithuanian furniture industry competitiveness is based. As for today main competitive factor is low production costs, however this factor is changing because of rising wages, shortage of working people, rising prices of local raw materials and energetic resources. Only fraction of enterprises are producing original design or other way differentiated furniture. As research shows, main possibilities for sustaining present competitive advantages is coherent with ability to increase work efficiency, acquiring of new, high productivity technologies and equipment. Rising furniture industry in China and Russia forces to perform such changes as fast as possible. Because Lithuanian furniture industry is oriented to export it is very important to reduce such competitive force as buyers influence by finding new markets in developed countries and reducing sales concentration.

This graduation work emphasis competitiveness issues and perspectives of Lithuanian furniture industry enterprises. Research object - Lithuanian furniture industry companies competitiveness. Research aim is to analyze Lithuanian furniture industry enterprises competitiveness, discover main forces at which are based competitive factors, find possibilities to sustain and develop new competitive factors and possibilities. Work is divided in three main parts. In the first part is given analysis of development theoretical conception of competitiveness from the Smith theories of absolute competitive advantages of countries till the later theories. Analyzed macroeconomics factors influence for industry competitiveness. Section ends with M.Porter model of five competitive forces and his further development. In the second part is analyzed Lithuanian furniture industry current situation and statistics, it's main development trends, studied strengths and weaknesses (SWOT analysis). Also is given analysis of European Union and world furniture situation. In the third part is presented methodology and results of performed survey, the main obstacles influencing development and sustaining of competitive forces, which are best known by furniture industry enterprises representatives. Main result of this research is established main factors on which Lithuanian furniture industry competitiveness is based. As for today main competitive factor is low production costs, however this factor is changing because of rising wages, shortage of working people, rising prices of local raw materials and energetic resources. Only fraction of enterprises are producing original design or other way differentiated furniture. As research shows, main possibilities for sustaining present competitive advantages is coherent with ability to increase work efficiency, acquiring of new, high productivity technologies and equipment. Rising furniture industry in China and Russia forces to perform such changes as fast as possible. Because Lithuanian furniture industry is oriented to export it is very important to reduce such competitive force as buyers influence by finding new markets in developed countries and reducing sales concentration.

The present habits of digital content consumption and a rather easy access to illegal creative content reduce the opportunities to limit digital piracy by banning or invoking legislation. Such a context of the creative content industry results in the need to search for new business models that would encourage users to voluntarily switch from illegal to legal products of the creative content industry, rather than simply banning them from using the illegal ones. In order to determine which business model would best suit for managing digital piracy in the creative content industry, by adjusting to the present habits of distribution and consumption of digital content as well as assuring a reasonable payment for the authors, the dissertation analyses and summarises different scholars' viewpoint on digital piracy and measures that could possibly be applied to manage it, focusing on generating income from the present context of digital piracy. The dissertation also develops a theoretical model for digital piracy management, which includes possible alternatives for presenting creative content in the market, assuring commercial gain for the authors and distributors of the content, and a model for digital piracy management in the music industry that serves as a base to realize the possibility to generate commercial gain from digital music records by encouraging users to opt for music records in the scope of the model instead of the illegal ones, preserving the present level of users' satisfaction and assuring a type of record distribution in digital environment acceptable for the music authors.

The present habits of digital content consumption and a rather easy access to illegal creative content reduce the opportunities to limit digital piracy by banning or invoking legislation. Such a context of the creative content industry results in the need to search for new business models that would encourage users to voluntarily switch from illegal to legal products of the creative content industry, rather than simply banning them from using the illegal ones. In order to determine which business model would best suit for managing digital piracy in the creative content industry, by adjusting to the present habits of distribution and consumption of digital content as well as assuring a reasonable payment for the authors, the dissertation analyses and summarises different scholars' viewpoint on digital piracy and measures that could possibly be applied to manage it, focusing on generating income from the present context of digital piracy. The dissertation also develops a theoretical model for digital piracy management, which includes possible alternatives for presenting creative content in the market, assuring commercial gain for the authors and distributors of the content, and a model for digital piracy management in the music industry that serves as a base to realize the possibility to generate commercial gain from digital music records by encouraging users to opt for music records in the scope of the model instead of the illegal ones, preserving the present level of users' satisfaction and assuring a type of record distribution in digital environment acceptable for the music authors.

The present habits of digital content consumption and a rather easy access to illegal creative content reduce the opportunities to limit digital piracy by banning or invoking legislation. Such a context of the creative content industry results in the need to search for new business models that would encourage users to voluntarily switch from illegal to legal products of the creative content industry, rather than simply banning them from using the illegal ones. In order to determine which business model would best suit for managing digital piracy in the creative content industry, by adjusting to the present habits of distribution and consumption of digital content as well as assuring a reasonable payment for the authors, the dissertation analyses and summarises different scholars' viewpoint on digital piracy and measures that could possibly be applied to manage it, focusing on generating income from the present context of digital piracy. The dissertation also develops a theoretical model for digital piracy management, which includes possible alternatives for presenting creative content in the market, assuring commercial gain for the authors and distributors of the content, and a model for digital piracy management in the music industry that serves as a base to realize the possibility to generate commercial gain from digital music records by encouraging users to opt for music records in the scope of the model instead of the illegal ones, preserving the present level of users' satisfaction and assuring a type of record distribution in digital environment acceptable for the music authors.

The present habits of digital content consumption and a rather easy access to illegal creative content reduce the opportunities to limit digital piracy by banning or invoking legislation. Such a context of the creative content industry results in the need to search for new business models that would encourage users to voluntarily switch from illegal to legal products of the creative content industry, rather than simply banning them from using the illegal ones. In order to determine which business model would best suit for managing digital piracy in the creative content industry, by adjusting to the present habits of distribution and consumption of digital content as well as assuring a reasonable payment for the authors, the dissertation analyses and summarises different scholars' viewpoint on digital piracy and measures that could possibly be applied to manage it, focusing on generating income from the present context of digital piracy. The dissertation also develops a theoretical model for digital piracy management, which includes possible alternatives for presenting creative content in the market, assuring commercial gain for the authors and distributors of the content, and a model for digital piracy management in the music industry that serves as a base to realize the possibility to generate commercial gain from digital music records by encouraging users to opt for music records in the scope of the model instead of the illegal ones, preserving the present level of users' satisfaction and assuring a type of record distribution in digital environment acceptable for the music authors.

Ovo istraživanje promatra konkurentnost industrije šećera EU-a. Industrija šećera predstavlja vitalni dio industrije hrane i pića u EU. Cilj istraživanja je prikazati kako proizvođači šećera u EU mogu biti konkurentniji na unutarnjem i globalnom tržištu šećera. Metodologija se temelji na primjeni modela dinamičkih panel podataka pomoću uzoraka koji obuhvaćaju 189 poduzeća za proizvodnju šećera iz 25 država članica EU-a u razdoblju 2008. – 2016. Ključni rezultati pokazuju različiti utjecaj tehnologije (istraživanja i razvoja), ulaganja, proizvodnju šećerne repe, troškove zaposlenika, cijene plina i šećerne repe na prosječne prihode industrije šećera u EU. Rezultati potvrđuju važnost inputa kao što su prirodni plin, prihodi iz prethodnog razdoblja i ulaganja kao ključni čimbeniki konkurentnosti industrije šećera u EU. Na temelju rezultata istraživanja daju se preporuke i prijedlozi. ; This research investigates competitiveness of sugar manufacturing companies of the European Union (EU). Sugar industry represents a vital part of the EU food and beverages industry. The aim of the research is to show how EU sugar producers can be more competitive on internal and global sugar market. The methodology includes dynamic panel data models using sample covering up to 189 sugar manufacturing companies from 25 EU Member States in the period 2008- 2016. The key results demonstrate different impact of technology (Research and development activity), investments, sugar beet production, costs of employees, gas and sugar beet prices on average revenue of the EU sugar industry. The results confirm the importance of inputs such as natural gas, revenues from the previous period and investments as key factors of EU sugar industry competitiveness. The proposals and recommendations are presented after research results.