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Asta Daunorienė is an Associated Professor of Quality and Value Chain Management at Kaunas University School of Economics and Business, and a senior researcher at the Sustainable Management Research Group at School of Economics and Business, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania. Asta has completed her PhD in the field of Economics at Kaunas University of Technology. Her research interest lies in the area of quality management, sustainable value and supply chain management and new business models’ development. She has actively collaborated with researchers in other disciplines of pedagogy and information technology. Asta currently serves on the ECIU learning and teaching expert group. A. Daunorienė has been involved in the expert activities in Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, contributing her skills to the strategy development for teachers’ professional development and study quality improvement. She has comprehensive experience in quality management systems consulting.
Recently, a growing number of Higher Education institutions have started to implement challenge-based learning (CBL) in study processes. However, despite the growing Higher Education attention to challenge-based learning, research on the method, especially in Engineering education, has not been extensively conducted and made publicly available to the community of researchers and teaching practitioners. To bridge this gap, this paper provides a case analysis of implementing challenge-based learning in a Master’s degree program for engineering students, aiming to highlight the main aspects of combining challenge-based learning and Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11), namely sustainable cities and communities. The findings are consistent with previous CBL studies revealing positive benefits of implementing the method; however, the paper adds novelty by showcasing the learning pathways that emerge to learners and teachers when CBL is implemented in an SDG-11-focused course.
Daina Gudonienė; Agnė Paulauskaitė-Tarasevičienė; Asta Daunorienė; Vilma Sukackė. A Case Study on Emerging Learning Pathways in SDG-Focused Engineering Studies through Applying CBL. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8495 .
AMA StyleDaina Gudonienė, Agnė Paulauskaitė-Tarasevičienė, Asta Daunorienė, Vilma Sukackė. A Case Study on Emerging Learning Pathways in SDG-Focused Engineering Studies through Applying CBL. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (15):8495.
Chicago/Turabian StyleDaina Gudonienė; Agnė Paulauskaitė-Tarasevičienė; Asta Daunorienė; Vilma Sukackė. 2021. "A Case Study on Emerging Learning Pathways in SDG-Focused Engineering Studies through Applying CBL." Sustainability 13, no. 15: 8495.
Olga Riklikiene; Olga Didenko; Ruta Ciutiene; Asta Daunoriene; Ramune Ciarniene. Balancing nurses’ workload: A case study with nurse anaesthetists and intensive care nurses. Economics & Sociology 2020, 13, 11 -25.
AMA StyleOlga Riklikiene, Olga Didenko, Ruta Ciutiene, Asta Daunoriene, Ramune Ciarniene. Balancing nurses’ workload: A case study with nurse anaesthetists and intensive care nurses. Economics & Sociology. 2020; 13 (2):11-25.
Chicago/Turabian StyleOlga Riklikiene; Olga Didenko; Ruta Ciutiene; Asta Daunoriene; Ramune Ciarniene. 2020. "Balancing nurses’ workload: A case study with nurse anaesthetists and intensive care nurses." Economics & Sociology 13, no. 2: 11-25.
Purpose: The purpose of the paper to reveal the linkage between the customer perception of the supplier’s CSR and inter-organisational trust in a B2B context.Methodology/Approach: The paper conceptualises the customer perception of CSR activities as a latent second-order factor composed of three dimensions: CSR towards environment and community; CSR towards employees; and CSR towards customers. Three-dimensional understanding of inter-organisational trust, is applied in this paper. A quantitative study was conducted.Findings: As it was expected, the findings revealed that the customer perception of supplier’s CSR, namely CSR towards environment and community, towards employees and customers, generates inter-organisational trust that could be divided into competence trust, benevolence trust and integrity trust.Research Limitation/implication: Seeing that the paper uses a sample from a single country, it has a limitation due to its restrictive generalisability (especially having in mind that the research was done in a low-trust societal context). Moreover, the paper does not incorporate the characteristics of organisations, and the future research could elaborate on the issues of how the perceived CSR and its impacts on inter-organisational trust vary depending on organisational financial performance, market share, and so forth.Originality/Value of paper: The paper challenges the researchers and managers to move towards more sophisticated assessments concerning the way the customer perception of CSR affects inter-organisational trust in a B2B context, which might lead to improved organisational performance and sustainability.
Egle Staniskiene; Živilė Stankevičiūtė; Asta Daunoriene. Corporate Social Responsibility and Inter-Organisational Trust in a B2B Context. Quality Innovation Prosperity 2019, 23, 46 .
AMA StyleEgle Staniskiene, Živilė Stankevičiūtė, Asta Daunoriene. Corporate Social Responsibility and Inter-Organisational Trust in a B2B Context. Quality Innovation Prosperity. 2019; 23 (2):46.
Chicago/Turabian StyleEgle Staniskiene; Živilė Stankevičiūtė; Asta Daunoriene. 2019. "Corporate Social Responsibility and Inter-Organisational Trust in a B2B Context." Quality Innovation Prosperity 23, no. 2: 46.
Decreased consumer trust, increased unemployment rate, increased availability of technology for hosting an online market drives the growth of sharing economy. The sharing economy provides an ideal lens to explore and contribute to the sustainable development nature. While the sharing economy can contribute to sustainable development and has plenty of room to develop practical issues in driving sustainability there is a lack of sharing economy sustainability empirical studies. This article seeks to provide an approach how to address and estimate sharing economy business models sustainability. This approach aims to determine key sustainability perspectives by using Circles of Sustainability. Key sustainability perspectives have been taken as input to estimate the level of sustainability. This practice can be served as a useful methodology to support decisions toward to sharing economy business models sustainability transition.
Asta Daunorienė; Aura Drakšaitė; Vytautas Snieška; Gitana Valodkienė. Evaluating Sustainability of Sharing Economy Business Models. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2015, 213, 836 -841.
AMA StyleAsta Daunorienė, Aura Drakšaitė, Vytautas Snieška, Gitana Valodkienė. Evaluating Sustainability of Sharing Economy Business Models. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences. 2015; 213 ():836-841.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAsta Daunorienė; Aura Drakšaitė; Vytautas Snieška; Gitana Valodkienė. 2015. "Evaluating Sustainability of Sharing Economy Business Models." Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 213, no. : 836-841.
In modern global market organizations striving for survive and successful compete have not only to satisfy needs of customers but to perform it with the least costs. Specialists of quality management determined that quality costs make a big part of total factor costs, taking about 30 % (Srivastava, 2008). Reducing of quality costs allows reducing of total organizational costs that would result in reducing of price of goods manufactured or services supplied, increase of customers’ satisfaction or improved oeganization performance (Juran, 1951; Crosby, 1979; Heagy, 1991; Tsai, 1998; Moen, 1998; Malchi & McGurk, 2001; Prickett & Rapley, 2001; Love & Irani, 2003; Tannock & Saelem, 2007; Sower, Quarles & Broussard, 2007; Wu et all, 2011). Organizations that have prepared the programs of quality costs accounting adapted to their specific activity and paying more attention to implementation of quality programs, can identify, set in underlying order, evaluate and select quality investments more easy (Bottorff, 1997). Also quality costs programs allow calculation of return of investment to quality, help to find out how development is going (Gray, 1995), determine where highest costs appear and allow to find out what is the loss due to poor quality (Bottorff, 1997). Unfortunately, many organizations don’t know their quality costs (Yang, 2008). Between the reasons determining the absence of quality costs accounting in the organization, following are indicated: use of many types of different accounting systems (Harry & Schroeder, 2000), traditional costs accounting systems are not adapted to identify quality costs data (Chiadamrong, 2003), lack of adequate methods to determine the results of poor quality (Chen & Yang, 2002). Studies performed by Viger & Anandarajan (1999) show that organizations that are calculating and analyzing quality costs, are making efficient decisions more often than those not calculating quality costs. Having calculated the loss due to poor quality and determined where its appearance is the largest, organizations can make decisions allowing optimization of quality costs. While optimizing quality costs, benefit increases (Fine & Charles, 1986; Freiesleben, 2005). Also, optimization of quality costs is a condition necessary to survive and anchor in the market. Quality costs programs were implemented and used worldwide (Carr, 1992, Schiffauerova & Thomson, 2006a. However, both the scientific literature and enterprises’ practice still are having questions how to calculate all constituents of categories of quality costs in details in striving for maximal benefit from the system of accounting of quality costs. In the article there is discussion about the problems of quality costs accounting in striving for detailed calculation of all quality costs, a problem of lack of hidden failure quality costs accounting methodology analyzed, a review of literature on quality costs accounting models presented, the studies performed by other authors discussed, suggestions how to calculate hidden failure quality costs presented. An empirical study was performed in Lithuanian organization where methodology of accounting of constituents of hidden failure quality costs was tested.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.ee.24.3.1186
Vytautas Snieska; Asta Daunoriene; Alma Zekeviciene. Hidden Costs in the Evaluation of Quality Failure Costs. Engineering Economics 2013, 24, 176-186 .
AMA StyleVytautas Snieska, Asta Daunoriene, Alma Zekeviciene. Hidden Costs in the Evaluation of Quality Failure Costs. Engineering Economics. 2013; 24 (3):176-186.
Chicago/Turabian StyleVytautas Snieska; Asta Daunoriene; Alma Zekeviciene. 2013. "Hidden Costs in the Evaluation of Quality Failure Costs." Engineering Economics 24, no. 3: 176-186.