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This paper presents the results of the empirical research of the networking of Technical Higher Education Institutions (HEI'S) of the Baltic Sea region. The research was conducted in order to understand how the Social Network Analysis (SNA) and network mapping methods could help to strengthen institution's strategic perspective through networking. The author analyse the interaction phenomena in the Higher education sector; its' impact for networking of institutions and for the network itself; the role of the position in the networks; abilities to strengthen the node's perception of the network for the strategizing purposes. The research was based on the SNA of the Erasmus programme student mobility data. The results of the research cover the implications of aspects of the network centrality, clustering and ego networks let to identify the node's position in the network, and to understand surrounding network. The research disclosed that the SNA could be applied in supporting the strategizing process by: increasing of understanding of embedded networks, having more realistic network picture, also could be used as supplement evaluation and development planning method for the relationships portfolio management for HEI's. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Country risk and economic sustainability become more and more important in the contemporary economic world. This paper proposes the analysis on relationship between country risk and economic sustainability in EU Baltic Sea region countries, based on statistical data of the year 2012. Investigations and calculations of rankings for country risk and sustainability were made and the results were optimized by implementing MOORA (Multi-Objective Optimization by Ratio analysis) and MULTIMOORA (MOORA plus Full Multiplicative Form) methods. Furthermore, correlation analysis was prepared and the informative results were obtained. Starting with a system of 8 alternative responses on 21 objectives (indicators), from several approaches the unambiguous results were obtained, which could be engaged in the process of creating new model for country risk assessment and its dependent sustainability indicators for EU Baltic Sea region countries. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The purpose of the paper is to examine the international region-relation as a brand origin. The results of the theoretical analysis of this study provide a foundation for making suggestions about theoretical relationships between components of the brand origin. According to proposed theoretical model, communication with the consumers spreading from the strong business clusters in the international region creates emotional attitudes towards a brand origin; in addition, the quality of the products of the same clusters creates cognitive attitudes towards a brand origin. Our interest centred on a specific international area - the Baltic Sea region. This region embodies the principles of shared values and common purpose, hence portrays a promising situation for regional branding. Performed empirical research allowed the analysis of both emotional and cognitive components of the brand origin. Therefore, the direct effects of the attributes of local brands on the brand origin were tested on the basis of telecoms and food industries in the Baltic Sea region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Changes in travellers’ behaviour are among the most significant issues in the recent revolution of the tourism industry. The perception of perceived value and quality lead to rethinking priorities and choices while travelling. The purpose of the article is to analyse the expression of travellers’ behaviour orientation towards the key elements of responsible tourism in the countries of the Baltic Sea Region. The findings of quantitative research, which has been carried out in the form of survey, reveal that the behaviour of travellers of the Baltic Sea Region confirms that responsible tourism has become a way of thinking. The transition to responsible tourism is primarily driven by tourism destination-related elements and the strength of the impact related to maintaining the quality of life of local people, redistributing the benefits of tourism for travel destinations, enhancing the value and distinctiveness of the travel destination product, and maintaining long-term attractiveness, within the capacity of the travel destination and efficient use of its tourism resources. It may be the direction towards more sustainable and responsible future of traveling. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The rapidly changing world determines changes in the business processes. Logistics and transport are the areas facing constant changes. Therefore, an important point is to analyse the current problems of logistics and transport within the context of the changing environment. For many years, the experts of the Dept of Logistics and Transport Management of the Faculty of Transport Engineering from Vilnius Gediminas Technical University have been pursuing research both, in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR) in Lithuania and foreign countries. This research has been directed toward improvements to logistics and the entire supply chain in pursuit of economic, social and ecological competitiveness, an increase in the competitiveness and attractiveness of the transport system in the context of sustainable development, the impact of this system on the economic and social welfare of society, an increase in the competitiveness and attractiveness of the transport sector of improving the legal framework and the application of innovative technologies (including IT) in the transport sector aimed at implementing economic and social cohesion goals. The article deals with some of the key issues of the above introduced research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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For investigating horizontal deformations of geodetic networks, the data of GPS measurements of the epochs about 1992 and 2003 were used. To avoid the impact of the discrepancy of the systems of coordinates upon the parameters of the deformations, the method of tensor analysis was applied using the method of finite elements. A geodetic network consists of 19 triangles; 15 geodetic ground benchmarks observed by GPS method were used. The horizontal deformations of geodetic network in the territory of the Baltic Sea region were calculated. The maximum relative strain in the territory of the Baltic Sea region varies between +0,03×10-6 and +0,58×10-6 and is positive within the whole territory; the minimum relative strain varies between -0,93×10-6 and +0,03×10-6; and the dilatation varies between -0,35×10-6 and +0,16×10-6. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]