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 the USA, Italy, Lithuania and Malaysia. Vilte Auruskeviciene (Lithuania), Donata Vianelli (Italy), James Reardon (USA) present an in-depth study on “Comparison of Consumer Ethnocentrism Behavioural Patterns in Transitional Economies”. The Malaysian team of scientists – Gurcharan P. Singh, Edward Sek Khin Wong, Susila Munisamy – discussed the issues on Indian banks in “Banking Liberalisations and its Future Performance in the South Asian Region”.

Financial and migration instruments are discussed by Lithuanian and Polish scholars. The development cases in industries are presented by Serbian, Portuguese and Lithuanian contributors, analysing logistics, wholesale sector, telecommunications and mobile sector, as well as specifying competition indices in EU for businesses and project management.

We also welcome a fruitful discussion on place and city marketing, relating to infrastructural transformations in Portugal and Lithuania. Research on corporate social responsibility and communication issues are envisaged by a variety of scholars from different Lithuanian research institutions and universities.

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