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Prof. Dalia Streimikiene
Lithuanian Energy Institute

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Journal article
Published: 25 August 2021 in Sustainability
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Decision and policymakers are looking at the potential of Industry 4.0 smart technologies to create a green economy as the European Commission aims to deliver the European Green Deal by rethinking policies for clean energy supply. Industry 4.0 will eventually be applied to all aspects of life; however, it is necessary to identify the challenges to the adoption of Industry 4.0 for a sustainable digital transformation. In this vein, the present study aims to identify the challenges to the adoption of Industry 4.0 in fintech companies and to develop a novel Fermatean fuzzy CRITIC-COPRAS method to rank the identified challenges and evaluate the performance of companies concerning the weighted challenges based on three decision experts’ support. The results indicated that “difficulty in coordination and collaboration” is the most significant challenge to the adoption of Industry 4.0 out of the fourteen identified challenges, followed by “resistance to change” and “governmental support.” In addition, the superiority and efficiency of the proposed method were investigated through comparative analyses.

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Mahyar Kamali Saraji; Dalia Streimikiene; Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos. Fermatean Fuzzy CRITIC-COPRAS Method for Evaluating the Challenges to Industry 4.0 Adoption for a Sustainable Digital Transformation. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9577 .

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Mahyar Kamali Saraji, Dalia Streimikiene, Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos. Fermatean Fuzzy CRITIC-COPRAS Method for Evaluating the Challenges to Industry 4.0 Adoption for a Sustainable Digital Transformation. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (17):9577.

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Mahyar Kamali Saraji; Dalia Streimikiene; Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos. 2021. "Fermatean Fuzzy CRITIC-COPRAS Method for Evaluating the Challenges to Industry 4.0 Adoption for a Sustainable Digital Transformation." Sustainability 13, no. 17: 9577.

Journal article
Published: 23 August 2021 in Sustainability
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The objective of the undertaken study is to investigate the association between proactive environmental strategy (PES) and its determinants, such as planning and organizational practices (POP) and communicational practices on sustainable development through the operating and financial performances of the pharmaceutical sectors of south Asian countries. Moreover, we examine this relationship through the eco-innovations as a meditator and technological advances as a moderator. We developed a modified conceptual model and questionnaire and verified by 856 responses from the region’s pharmaceutical sectors. We have tested our hypothesized research model and hypotheses through SEM-based modeling. The findings confirm that proactive environmental strategy and its determinants, for instance, organization and planning practices, operating practices, and communicational practices, have a positive and significant influence on pharmaceutical firms’ sustainable development through operational and financial performance. The findings further show the substantial role in eco-innovation as a mediator and technological advances as a moderator on the sustainable development in this relationship. Subsequently, eco-innovation and technological advances lessen ecological hazards and increase companies’ functioning. Therefore, the undertaken study demonstrated and concurrently ascertained towards sustainable development of environmental and economic leaders. The practical implications are equally important for every stakeholder, such as the community, policymakers, companies, and regulatory agencies concerned with fostering eco-friendly controlling exercises.

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Rizwan Raheem Ahmed; Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos; Dalia Streimikiene; Justas Streimikis. Drivers of Proactive Environmental Strategies: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry of Asian Economies. Sustainability 2021, 13, 9479 .

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Rizwan Raheem Ahmed, Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos, Dalia Streimikiene, Justas Streimikis. Drivers of Proactive Environmental Strategies: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry of Asian Economies. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (16):9479.

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Rizwan Raheem Ahmed; Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos; Dalia Streimikiene; Justas Streimikis. 2021. "Drivers of Proactive Environmental Strategies: Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry of Asian Economies." Sustainability 13, no. 16: 9479.

Research article
Published: 16 August 2021 in Business Strategy and the Environment
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Over the recent decades, the evolution of the European Union (EU) agricultural system has resulted in significant structural changes in member states. Knowledge about the nature and main patterns of structural change is critical to select a sustainable development path for the EU agriculture. This paper contributes to the academic discourse on structural changes in agriculture demonstrating the nexus between socio-economic and environmental aspects of development. In this regard, results are important to understand the contribution of the EU agriculture to climate change, because study deals with energy use and greenhouse gas emissions. The research covers period from 2008 to 2018 and investigates the fundamental structural change measures, namely, gross value added, labour and agriculture-related energy emissions, in EU member states. Structural changes are investigated applying a shift-share analysis that allows calculating a performance of individual member states, compared to the EU economy. The applied shift-share model investigates the situation of individual member states employing three components. The first component tracks the development of the selected measures with the EU economy growth, the second component shows the change due to effect of economic activities and the third shows competitiveness of agriculture in member states. The shift-share analysis empowers ranking member states in accordance with their progress towards the sustainable development. Findings suggest that EU economy faces the outflow of labour from agriculture and this trend is common for most countries. The changes of gross value added and emissions for fuel combustion demonstrate both upward and downward trends. However, research results suggest that new member states often face more fundamental changes.

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Nelė Jurkėnaitė; Tomas Baležentis; Dalia Štreimikienė. The sustainability prism of structural changes in the European Union agricultural system: The nexus between production, employment and energy emissions. Business Strategy and the Environment 2021, 1 .

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Nelė Jurkėnaitė, Tomas Baležentis, Dalia Štreimikienė. The sustainability prism of structural changes in the European Union agricultural system: The nexus between production, employment and energy emissions. Business Strategy and the Environment. 2021; ():1.

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Nelė Jurkėnaitė; Tomas Baležentis; Dalia Štreimikienė. 2021. "The sustainability prism of structural changes in the European Union agricultural system: The nexus between production, employment and energy emissions." Business Strategy and the Environment , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 30 June 2021 in Journal of Competitiveness
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The objective of this study is to examine a multi-dimensional modified conceptual model based on stakeholder theory & previous literature. The work represents an attempt to evaluate the association of environmental issues and practices of an organization’s corporate social responsibility and the impact of these two factors on overall competitiveness. We have taken four corporate social responsibility (CSR) factors regarding the environment that affect competitive organizational performance. Additionally, we incorporated green innovation as a mediator and social media marketing apps as a moderator to examine the impact on organizational competitiveness. We collected 906 responses from the manufacturing and services sectors from the regional developing Asian countries China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the UAE for more generalizable and robust results. We developed a modified questionnaire and conceptual framework to empirically test organizational performance & competitiveness. For the analysis, we employed SEM-based multivariate modeling. The study’s findings reveal that all the considered CSR factors of the environment positively and significantly impact organizational performance for competitiveness. The results further show that both green innovation as a mediator and social media marketing apps as moderators significantly impact the relationship of CSR factors of environment and organizational competitiveness. Thus, the modified conceptual model demonstrates that the environmental CSR factors are beneficial for the manufacturing and service sectors of developing economies, which create value for competitive business, society, and environment. The findings provide valuable directions for the senior management in the manufacturing and services sector to devise and implement environmental strategies for competitiveness.

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Rizwan Raheem Ahmed; Dalia Streimikiene. Environmental Issues and Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility for Organizational Competitiveness. Journal of Competitiveness 2021, 13, 5 -22.

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Rizwan Raheem Ahmed, Dalia Streimikiene. Environmental Issues and Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility for Organizational Competitiveness. Journal of Competitiveness. 2021; 13 (2):5-22.

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Rizwan Raheem Ahmed; Dalia Streimikiene. 2021. "Environmental Issues and Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility for Organizational Competitiveness." Journal of Competitiveness 13, no. 2: 5-22.

Earlycite article
Published: 29 June 2021 in Kybernetes
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Purpose The proposed DHHFLOWLAD is used to design a recommendation system, which aims to provide the most appropriate treatment to the patient under a double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic environment. Design/methodology/approach Based on the ordered weighted distance measure and logarithmic aggregation, we first propose a double hierarchy hesitant fuzzy linguistic ordered weighted logarithmic averaging distance (DHHFLOWLAD) measure in this paper. Findings A case study is presented to illustrate the practicability and efficiency of the proposed approach. The results show that the recommendation system can prioritize TCM treatment plans effectively. Moreover, it can cope with pattern recognition problems efficiently under uncertain information environments. Originality/value An expert system is proposed to combat COVID-19 that is an emerging infectious disease causing disruptions globally. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has been proved to relieve symptoms, improve the cure rate, and reduce the death rate in clinical cases of COVID-19.

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Yuhe Fu; Chonghui Zhang; Yujuan Chen; Fengjuan Gu; Tomas Baležentis; Dalia Streimikiene. Ordered weighted logarithmic averaging distance-based pattern recognition for the recommendation of traditional Chinese medicine against COVID-19 under a complex environment. Kybernetes 2021, ahead-of-p, 1 .

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Yuhe Fu, Chonghui Zhang, Yujuan Chen, Fengjuan Gu, Tomas Baležentis, Dalia Streimikiene. Ordered weighted logarithmic averaging distance-based pattern recognition for the recommendation of traditional Chinese medicine against COVID-19 under a complex environment. Kybernetes. 2021; ahead-of-p (ahead-of-p):1.

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Yuhe Fu; Chonghui Zhang; Yujuan Chen; Fengjuan Gu; Tomas Baležentis; Dalia Streimikiene. 2021. "Ordered weighted logarithmic averaging distance-based pattern recognition for the recommendation of traditional Chinese medicine against COVID-19 under a complex environment." Kybernetes ahead-of-p, no. ahead-of-p: 1.

Chapter
Published: 26 June 2021 in Structural Change, Productivity, and Climate Nexus in Agriculture
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Tomas Baležentis; Dalia Štreimikienė; Nelė Jurkėnaitė; Vida Dabkienė. Introduction and Key Findings. Structural Change, Productivity, and Climate Nexus in Agriculture 2021, 1 -9.

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Tomas Baležentis, Dalia Štreimikienė, Nelė Jurkėnaitė, Vida Dabkienė. Introduction and Key Findings. Structural Change, Productivity, and Climate Nexus in Agriculture. 2021; ():1-9.

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Tomas Baležentis; Dalia Štreimikienė; Nelė Jurkėnaitė; Vida Dabkienė. 2021. "Introduction and Key Findings." Structural Change, Productivity, and Climate Nexus in Agriculture , no. : 1-9.

Journal article
Published: 26 June 2021 in Technology in Society
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Such large-scale disruptions as the pandemic increase the uncertainty and risk related to business. Therefore, the business continuity management (BCM) has become an essential technical solution for enterprise emergency response. Since the beginning of 2020, the COVID-19 has spread worldwide at an alarming rate causing many threats to sustainable development of the business sector. The decline in consumer demand has hugely impacted service industries, such as wholesale and retail sales, tourism. Enterprise production and operations have faced severe challenges. In this study, we develop a risk factor analysis of BCM under the presence of COVID-19 in China. Based on a statistical survey of 940 enterprises in Hangzhou City, China, this study employs ordinal logistic regression to explore the hindering effect of risk factors introduced by the epidemic on business performance. Then, the interpretive structure model (ISM) is applied to analyze the hierarchical structure of the factors under examination. The key factors influencing the enterprise production and operation during COVID-19 outbreak significantly differ across the sub-sectors of the service industry. Therefore, this paper assesses the resilience of the productive technologies and business models of different industries amid the pandemic. This paper proposes epidemic prevention and control strategy focusing on investment and government regulation to ensure sustainable business development.

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Ji Chen; Jiayan Huang; Weihua Su; Dalia Štreimikienė; Tomas Baležentis. The challenges of COVID-19 control policies for sustainable development of business: Evidence from service industries. Technology in Society 2021, 66, 101643 .

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Ji Chen, Jiayan Huang, Weihua Su, Dalia Štreimikienė, Tomas Baležentis. The challenges of COVID-19 control policies for sustainable development of business: Evidence from service industries. Technology in Society. 2021; 66 ():101643.

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Ji Chen; Jiayan Huang; Weihua Su; Dalia Štreimikienė; Tomas Baležentis. 2021. "The challenges of COVID-19 control policies for sustainable development of business: Evidence from service industries." Technology in Society 66, no. : 101643.

Chapter
Published: 26 June 2021 in Structural Change, Productivity, and Climate Nexus in Agriculture
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Dalia Streimikiene. Sustainability of Agriculture: Energy Use and Climate Change Mitigation Issues. Structural Change, Productivity, and Climate Nexus in Agriculture 2021, 11 -63.

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Dalia Streimikiene. Sustainability of Agriculture: Energy Use and Climate Change Mitigation Issues. Structural Change, Productivity, and Climate Nexus in Agriculture. 2021; ():11-63.

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Dalia Streimikiene. 2021. "Sustainability of Agriculture: Energy Use and Climate Change Mitigation Issues." Structural Change, Productivity, and Climate Nexus in Agriculture , no. : 11-63.

Review
Published: 18 June 2021 in Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja
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Covid-19 pandemic provided many negative effects on world economies and people around the world. The covid-19 creates many threats to sustainability of agriculture sector which is very sensitive because of food supply security needs. First of all, it is necessary to analyse and comprehend the immediate consequences of current pandemic on agricultural and food systems in order to develop necessary actions. The risks, vulnerability, resilience and systemic shifts of agricultural systems need to be better understood in order to adapt to covid-19 pandemic. The aim of this paper is to analyse the negative impacts of covid-19 on agriculture and food systems by applying vulnerability and resilience approach by treating covid-19 like global disaster. The concepts of ‘vulnerability’, and ‘resilience’ which dominates disaster studies historically initiated after the World War II were applied to systematise literature review. The main input of this paper is systematization and grouping of the main measures to enhance resilience of agriculture systems in the face of covid-19 pandemic based on recent scientific studies published in 2020. The future research guidelines are also provided based on conducted systematic literature review.

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Dalia Štreimikienė; Tomas Baležentis; Artiom Volkov; Erika Ribašauskienė; Mangirdas Morkūnas; Agnė Žičkienė. Negative effects of covid-19 pandemic on agriculture: systematic literature review in the frameworks of vulnerability, resilience and risks involved. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja 2021, 1 -17.

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Dalia Štreimikienė, Tomas Baležentis, Artiom Volkov, Erika Ribašauskienė, Mangirdas Morkūnas, Agnė Žičkienė. Negative effects of covid-19 pandemic on agriculture: systematic literature review in the frameworks of vulnerability, resilience and risks involved. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja. 2021; ():1-17.

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Dalia Štreimikienė; Tomas Baležentis; Artiom Volkov; Erika Ribašauskienė; Mangirdas Morkūnas; Agnė Žičkienė. 2021. "Negative effects of covid-19 pandemic on agriculture: systematic literature review in the frameworks of vulnerability, resilience and risks involved." Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja , no. : 1-17.

Journal article
Published: 01 May 2021 in www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro
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Streimikiene Dalia; Mikalauskiene Asta; Digriene Lina; Grigorios Kyriakopoulos. Assessment of the Role of a Leader in Shaping Sustainable Organizational Culture. www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro 2021, 23, 1 .

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Streimikiene Dalia, Mikalauskiene Asta, Digriene Lina, Grigorios Kyriakopoulos. Assessment of the Role of a Leader in Shaping Sustainable Organizational Culture. www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro. 2021; 23 (57):1.

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Streimikiene Dalia; Mikalauskiene Asta; Digriene Lina; Grigorios Kyriakopoulos. 2021. "Assessment of the Role of a Leader in Shaping Sustainable Organizational Culture." www.amfiteatrueconomic.ro 23, no. 57: 1.

Original research
Published: 29 April 2021 in Social Indicators Research
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EU has set ambitious commitment to achieve low carbon energy and economy transition up to 2050. This low carbon transition means sustainable energy development path based on renewable energy sources and first of all should address the energy poverty vulnerability and justice issues. The main goal of the paper is to develop indicators framework for assessing low carbon just energy transition and to apply this framework for analysis how climate change mitigation policies in households targeting enhancement of energy renovation of residential buildings and promotion of the use of micro-generation technologies and other policies are affecting household’s energy poverty and vulnerability in selected countries: Lithuania and Greece. This framework allows to assess three main dimensions of sustainable energy development: environmental, social and economic. The paper provides policy recommendations how to deal with just low carbon energy transition which means addressing energy poverty issues during moving to 100% renewables in power generation based on performed case studies.

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Dalia Streimikiene; Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos; Vidas Lekavicius; Indre Siksnelyte-Butkiene. Energy Poverty and Low Carbon Just Energy Transition: Comparative Study in Lithuania and Greece. Social Indicators Research 2021, 1 -53.

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Dalia Streimikiene, Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos, Vidas Lekavicius, Indre Siksnelyte-Butkiene. Energy Poverty and Low Carbon Just Energy Transition: Comparative Study in Lithuania and Greece. Social Indicators Research. 2021; ():1-53.

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Dalia Streimikiene; Grigorios L. Kyriakopoulos; Vidas Lekavicius; Indre Siksnelyte-Butkiene. 2021. "Energy Poverty and Low Carbon Just Energy Transition: Comparative Study in Lithuania and Greece." Social Indicators Research , no. : 1-53.

Journal article
Published: 26 April 2021 in Journal of Asian Economics
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The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is expected to boost the economic and technological cooperation among the participating countries. In this paper, we argue that the economic and environmental efficiency can be used as measures identifying the best practice in the BRI. However, the results of the analysis may be affected by perturbations in the data and outlying observations. The outliers may lead to biased policy implications. Unlike previous research, this paper compares economic and environmental performance in developing countries using both convex and nonconvex production technologies based on a nonparametric framework. Specifically, this paper extends the by-production model with nonconvex technology. The model allows reducing the impact of extreme production plans (e.g., small or large countries). The resampling approach is applied for the by-production framework. The research covers 61 countries along the Belt and Road during 2000−2017. Our results indicate that the influence of outliers is more significant for convex technology than nonconvex technology. The use of the robust approach is particularly important when a convex technology is assumed. The proposed approach also allowed identifying BRI countries that are significantly over- or underperforming in either economic or environmental efficiency.

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Qianqian Yuan; Tomas Baležentis; Zhiyang Shen; Dalia Streimikiene. Economic and environmental performance of the belt and road countries under convex and nonconvex production technologies. Journal of Asian Economics 2021, 75, 101321 .

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Qianqian Yuan, Tomas Baležentis, Zhiyang Shen, Dalia Streimikiene. Economic and environmental performance of the belt and road countries under convex and nonconvex production technologies. Journal of Asian Economics. 2021; 75 ():101321.

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Qianqian Yuan; Tomas Baležentis; Zhiyang Shen; Dalia Streimikiene. 2021. "Economic and environmental performance of the belt and road countries under convex and nonconvex production technologies." Journal of Asian Economics 75, no. : 101321.

Journal article
Published: 26 April 2021 in Technology in Society
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Improving green innovation efficiency (GIE) is crucial for attaining sustainability in China's stage of high-quality development. However, there is a paucity of research on the roles of and links among the government and market in GIE. This study bridges this research gap by unifying marketization, local government competition, and GIE into one empirical framework. First, we extend a super-efficiency Ray slacks-based measure model to evaluate provincial GIE in China during 1997–2018 and then analyze its evolution of spatial-temporal dynamics. Subsequently, marketization, local government competition, and GIE are incorporated into a nest of spatial panel models to address the endogeneity concerns resulting from model misspecification and omitted variables. The empirical results show that China's GIE at the national level is only 0.4813, and above 80% of provinces are far from reaching the green innovation frontier. Moreover, the observed imbalance in GIE between regions continues to worsen; notably, this coincides with the emergence of a pattern under which the gap between the north and south is widening. Furthermore, the seven spatial panel models assessed in this study reveal that local government competition not only has a direct inhibitory effect on GIE, but also indirectly impedes the corresponding promotional effect of marketization. This finding provides new evidence supporting the “grabbing hand of government” view and sheds light on the behaviors of the market and government in green innovation development.

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Hongyun Huang; Fengrong Wang; Malin Song; Tomas Balezentis; Dalia Streimikiene. Green innovations for sustainable development of China: Analysis based on the nested spatial panel models. Technology in Society 2021, 65, 101593 .

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Hongyun Huang, Fengrong Wang, Malin Song, Tomas Balezentis, Dalia Streimikiene. Green innovations for sustainable development of China: Analysis based on the nested spatial panel models. Technology in Society. 2021; 65 ():101593.

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Hongyun Huang; Fengrong Wang; Malin Song; Tomas Balezentis; Dalia Streimikiene. 2021. "Green innovations for sustainable development of China: Analysis based on the nested spatial panel models." Technology in Society 65, no. : 101593.

Journal article
Published: 23 April 2021 in International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the power of social media in the dissemination of information. The current pandemic has hurt not only social media users but also on state's sustainable development. As a result, the present study seeks to understand the reasons for using social media during the COVID 19 pandemic by screening various topics and assessing the impact of misinformation on social media, primarily psychological and mental effects. The study utilized a quantitative research design. Participants were individuals between the age of twenty and fifty. Data was collected using a questionnaire shared online to the 360 participants. The studies' responses were analyzed using descriptive statistics and the arithmetic percentage method using graphs and figures. The study results revealed that many respondents use social media as a source of information, news, and psychological nourishment. Besides, the results indicated that participants below 50 years of age used social media frequently. Whatsapp, Twitter, and Youtube were the most used social media sites among the participants. The findings indicated that most participants used social media as a source of vital information during the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study recommends that governments and health institutions focus on developing abilities to respond simultaneously to misinformation cases. This study has facilitated more knowledge into the uses of social media in times of health crises. The study acts as a blueprint to prepare the world for managing social media information sharing in the future.

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Harith Yas; Ahmad Jusoha; Dalia Streimikieneb; Abbas Mardania; Khalil Md Nora; Abeer Alatawic; Jameela Hanoon Umarlebbed. The Negative Role of Social Media During the COVID-19 Outbreak. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 2021, 16, 219 -228.

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Harith Yas, Ahmad Jusoha, Dalia Streimikieneb, Abbas Mardania, Khalil Md Nora, Abeer Alatawic, Jameela Hanoon Umarlebbed. The Negative Role of Social Media During the COVID-19 Outbreak. International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning. 2021; 16 (2):219-228.

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Harith Yas; Ahmad Jusoha; Dalia Streimikieneb; Abbas Mardania; Khalil Md Nora; Abeer Alatawic; Jameela Hanoon Umarlebbed. 2021. "The Negative Role of Social Media During the COVID-19 Outbreak." International Journal of Sustainable Development and Planning 16, no. 2: 219-228.

Research article
Published: 14 April 2021 in Environmental Science and Pollution Research
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The study of the link between production, measured in gross domestic product and CO2 emissions, is a topic under intense research. Carbon emissions are moving together with economic shocks (high synchronicity), particularly at troughs and peaks of a business cycle. This research investigates the influence of economic shocks to carbon emissions. Previous studies do not provide a direct empirical evidence on the impact of economic shocks to carbon emissions that are available. We employ structural vector autoregression to explore the impact of economic shocks on carbon emissions in 20 advanced economies from 1870 to 2016. Our empirical results prove a strong, statistically significant connection between emissions and output with a coefficient of elasticity > 1. We identify a strong empirical link using panel structural vector autoregression between carbon emissions and real GDP growth per capita. Up to 40% of the fluctuations in CO2 emissions is explained by combined economic factors (output, population, oil prices, stock exchange). The findings further indicate that carbon emission is determined by energy policy (energy intensity, carbon intensity, relative costs of renewable energy). Our findings contribute to energy policy management, energy, and business cycle research to inspire novel research on energy cycles.

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Marinko Skare; Dalia Streimikiene; Damian Skare. Measuring carbon emission sensitivity to economic shocks: a panel structural vector autoregression 1870–2016. Environmental Science and Pollution Research 2021, 28, 44505 -44521.

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Marinko Skare, Dalia Streimikiene, Damian Skare. Measuring carbon emission sensitivity to economic shocks: a panel structural vector autoregression 1870–2016. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 2021; 28 (32):44505-44521.

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Marinko Skare; Dalia Streimikiene; Damian Skare. 2021. "Measuring carbon emission sensitivity to economic shocks: a panel structural vector autoregression 1870–2016." Environmental Science and Pollution Research 28, no. 32: 44505-44521.

Review
Published: 13 April 2021 in Energies
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Developments, trends, business climate, conditions, factors influencing the efficiency and results of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the energy sector are explored in this research. PESTLE (political, economic, social, technological, legal, environmental) analysis was performed in order to determine the driving forces of M&As in the energy industry. Considering the motivation and main questions of the study, a sample of global M&A deals that have occurred during the period 1995–2020 has been analyzed. DataStream 5.1 database by Thomson Reuters was employed to identify the sample of global energy companies that took over another company in the period 1995–2020. According to the research, while the role and presence of M&As in the energy industry are increasing, the purpose of the M&A deals has changed remarkably. During 1995–2010, most M&A events were conducted in order to explore synergies and benefit from cost reduction. Since the last decade, firms are pursuing M&As in the search of growth opportunities, ensuring supply and reflecting demand for green development of ecological environment and ongoing changes in the nature of energy.

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Karolis Andriuškevičius; Dalia Štreimikienė. Developments and Trends of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Energy Industry. Energies 2021, 14, 2158 .

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Karolis Andriuškevičius, Dalia Štreimikienė. Developments and Trends of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Energy Industry. Energies. 2021; 14 (8):2158.

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Karolis Andriuškevičius; Dalia Štreimikienė. 2021. "Developments and Trends of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Energy Industry." Energies 14, no. 8: 2158.

Earlycite article
Published: 12 April 2021 in Journal of Enterprise Information Management
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Purpose The Green Deal strategy of the European Union (EU) as well as the increasing concerns over resource scarcity worldwide has put forward such concepts as the circular economy. This paper seeks to compare the progress of the development of the circular economy across the EU Member States. Such analysis is helpful in guiding the circular economy support policies. Design/methodology/approach This paper develops a quantitative framework for analysis of the implementation of the circular economy objectives in the EU Member States. The framework proposed includes three multi-criteria decision making methods representing reference point and outranking approaches. The use of multiple methods allows exploiting the differences in the underlying aggregation principles. Findings Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands appear as the most advanced in the sense of circular economy development. The results indicate that the water-locked small countries and the new EU Member States are among the lowest performing ones. The flows of the waste need to be monitored more tightly in order to increase the circularity. The development of recycling facilities can also increase circularity irrespectively of the economic development level (e.g. the case of Bulgaria). Originality/value The paper contributes to the discussion regarding the circular economy by proposing an indicator system and the multi-criteria analysis framework. The proposed indicator system covers input use (circularity), trade flows and recycling processes. The proposed framework can be applied to track the progress of different countries in implementing the targets of the circular economy.

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Jonas Ūsas; Tomas Balezentis; Dalia Streimikiene. Development and integrated assessment of the circular economy in the European Union: the outranking approach. Journal of Enterprise Information Management 2021, ahead-of-p, 1 .

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Jonas Ūsas, Tomas Balezentis, Dalia Streimikiene. Development and integrated assessment of the circular economy in the European Union: the outranking approach. Journal of Enterprise Information Management. 2021; ahead-of-p (ahead-of-p):1.

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Jonas Ūsas; Tomas Balezentis; Dalia Streimikiene. 2021. "Development and integrated assessment of the circular economy in the European Union: the outranking approach." Journal of Enterprise Information Management ahead-of-p, no. ahead-of-p: 1.

Journal article
Published: 31 March 2021 in Oeconomia Copernicana
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Research background: This paper integrates the marketing and corporate social responsibility concepts by investigating how the previous studies de-bated CSR as a business strategy. This discussion extended from academics to business practices. Hence, this study investigated the concept of CSR as a business strategy in a multifactorial fashion in the marketing field. Purpose of the article: This study evaluates the modified model of CSR initiatives as business and marketing strategy and their impact on customers' buying behavior. For this purpose, we have taken dimensions of Carroll's pyramid of CSR as marketing strategies. We have also examined the influence of brand loyalty and cause-related marketing as mediating variables and technology as a moderator between dimensions of Carroll's pyramid and customers' buying behavior. Methods: We employed modified theoretical & conceptual model for evaluating the direct and indirect hypothesized relationship. We have collected 693 responses from the structured and adapted questionnaire. The survey was done among marketing and senior managers of the Asian pharmaceutical industry. We employed SEM-based multivariate modeling to examine the hypothesized relationship. Findings & value added: The finding of this research exhibited that dimensions of Carroll?s pyramid of CSR have a positive and significant impact on customers' buying behavior. The results further demonstrated that brand loyal-ty and cause-related marketing positively and significantly impact mediators between CSR dimensions and customers? buying behavior. Finally, the technology has a significant influence as a moderator between exogenous and endogenous factors. The undertaken study demonstrated important theoretical and practical implications. The modified conceptual framework has provided several new dimensions for future researchers to use and replicate in different economic sectors. On the other hand, practitioners of the pharmaceutical industry should incorporate Carroll's CSR pyramid as business strategies to gain the trust and respect of their customers.

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Dalia Streimikiene; Rizwan Raheem Ahmed. The integration of corporate social responsibility and marketing concepts as a business strategy: evidence from SEM-based multivariate and Toda-Yamamoto causality models. Oeconomia Copernicana 2021, 12, 125 -157.

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Dalia Streimikiene, Rizwan Raheem Ahmed. The integration of corporate social responsibility and marketing concepts as a business strategy: evidence from SEM-based multivariate and Toda-Yamamoto causality models. Oeconomia Copernicana. 2021; 12 (1):125-157.

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Dalia Streimikiene; Rizwan Raheem Ahmed. 2021. "The integration of corporate social responsibility and marketing concepts as a business strategy: evidence from SEM-based multivariate and Toda-Yamamoto causality models." Oeconomia Copernicana 12, no. 1: 125-157.

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Published: 25 March 2021 in Economic Change and Restructuring
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The pros and cons of economic cooperation and integration have often been debated in the literature. Trade theory suggests that national economies could benefit from multilateral cooperation in international trade and investment owing to transnational division of labour, the mobility of production factors and technology diffusion. The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) can help promoting economic cooperation and development among BRI countries. This paper embarks on analysis of the potential economic growth for selected BRI countries by investigating technical inefficiency and structural inefficiency. The latter measure assesses the potential gains in productivity due to economic collaboration. The scenario analysis identified China’s influence on pushing the production frontier and optimising resource allocation for the participating countries. The empirical results indicate that structural optimisation may result in higher productivity gains than reduction in technical inefficiency at the country level. Therefore, economic collaboration may facilitate appealing results for the BRI.

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Ning Zhu; Xiang Dai; Tomas Baležentis; Dalia Streimikiene; Zhiyang Shen. Estimating production gains from international cooperation: Evidence from countries along the Belt and Road. Economic Change and Restructuring 2021, 1 -22.

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Ning Zhu, Xiang Dai, Tomas Baležentis, Dalia Streimikiene, Zhiyang Shen. Estimating production gains from international cooperation: Evidence from countries along the Belt and Road. Economic Change and Restructuring. 2021; ():1-22.

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Ning Zhu; Xiang Dai; Tomas Baležentis; Dalia Streimikiene; Zhiyang Shen. 2021. "Estimating production gains from international cooperation: Evidence from countries along the Belt and Road." Economic Change and Restructuring , no. : 1-22.

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Published: 06 March 2021 in Social Science & Medicine
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This study aims to examine the association between province-level socioeconomic welfare factors and depression symptoms among older adults in China. Province-level socioeconomic characteristics were merged with microdata for respondents over 65 years from the 2018 China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) Wave 4 (N = 6657). Principal component analysis (PCA) was used to extract three socioeconomic welfare factors constructed from 14 province-level variables. A Bayesian mixed-effects logistic model was applied to measure the association between the three socioeconomic welfare factors and depression symptoms while controlling for socio-demographic variables. The PCA showed that economic welfare, medical resource welfare, and social service welfare together explained 72.2 percent of the total variance of the 14 province-level variables. It was found that increasing economic welfare was significantly associated with a lower probability of depression symptoms (OR = 0.806, 95%CI: [0.674, 0.967]), while medical facilities were associated with a higher probability of depression symptoms (OR = 1.181, 95%CI: [1.029, 1.354]) among Chinese older adults. Uncertainty existed as to whether having access to social welfare (OR = 0.941, 95%CI: [0.835, 1.060]) was associated with prevalence of depression. Thus, improved socioeconomic welfare systems for older adults (which possibly require an increase in spending) are necessary to contribute further to reduced depression risk in China. Policymakers should also improve the utilization of medical resources to mitigate the incidence of depression among the elderly in China.

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Wei Li; Echu Liu; Tomas Balezentis; Huanhuan Jin; Dalia Streimikiene. Association between socioeconomic welfare and depression among older adults: Evidence from the China health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Social Science & Medicine 2021, 275, 113814 .

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Wei Li, Echu Liu, Tomas Balezentis, Huanhuan Jin, Dalia Streimikiene. Association between socioeconomic welfare and depression among older adults: Evidence from the China health and Retirement Longitudinal Study. Social Science & Medicine. 2021; 275 ():113814.

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Wei Li; Echu Liu; Tomas Balezentis; Huanhuan Jin; Dalia Streimikiene. 2021. "Association between socioeconomic welfare and depression among older adults: Evidence from the China health and Retirement Longitudinal Study." Social Science & Medicine 275, no. : 113814.