scholarly journals Bookstores in Lithuania in 2013–2018: Less Physical Bookstores, Less Choice of Books

Knygotyra ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 162-198
Author(s):  
Arūnas Gudinavičius
Keyword(s):  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Market Position ◽  
Book Sales ◽  
The Past ◽  
Screen Reading ◽  
Global And Local

Despite various global and local economic crises, the shift of some readers to screen reading, growing online shopping habits, and the shorter time spent on reading books, physical bookstores are able to change and retain their customers. This research is a continuation of a 2013 study in order to capture the current situation and identify the changes that have taken place in Lithuanian physical bookstores over the past five years. During the research, the list of bookstores operating in Lithuania compiled in 2013 was updated and clarified, and an analysis of the collected data and comparison with the data of 2013 were performed. The results showed that from 2013 to 2018 the number of bookstores in Lithuania decrea­sed by 18.8%, to 168 units. On average, the number of inhabitants per Lithuanian bookstore increased by 16.2% and reached 16,720 inhabi­tants per bookstore; the number of municipalities with no bookstores at all increased to 15 (9 in 2013). The largest Lithuanian bookstore networks remained the same: Vaga and Pegasas, which maintained almost the same number of bookstores – 33 bookstores at the end of 2018. The number of medium-sized bookstore networks decreased, and only one of the nine small bookstore networks (2–3 bookstores), which owned two bookstores in 2013, remained. Such changes show that the two major bookstore networks Vaga and Pegasas are strengthening their market position. Calculated by the number of bookstores, in 2018 they already ran 39% of the market. The range of available books in physical Lithuanian bookstores has decreased – from an average 9 thousand titles in 2013 up to 6 thousand titles in 2018. It seems that the 2004–2008 race between physical bookstores for the largest range of book titles in the past is now witnessing an increase in the choice of additional goods in bookstores, sometimes even exceeding their book sales. The decrease and change in the number and range of physical bookstores in Lithuania since 2008 was due to several reasons – from the economic crisis at that time, the continuing decline of the population to the decline of book reading ha­bits, and the transition of some readers to on-screen reading and online shopping.

Back to the Past? Social assistance and the coronavirus epidemic: preliminary analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-53
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Chaczko ◽  
Robert Paprota
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Assistance System ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Transformation Period

The article intents to answer what conclusions drawn from the past experiences of the social assistance system may be useful for functioning of the system in the approaching economic crises produced by the coronavirus epidemic. Using comparative analysis, an attempt was made to compare selected elements of the social assistance system from the transformation period of the 1990s with the situation of social assistance in the last decade. Then, there are defined threats to the functioning of social assistance in case of the economic crisis.

scholarly journals Shopping Centres, Cycling Accessibility and Planning—The Case of Nova Lund in Sweden

Urban Science ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 70
Author(s):  
Till Koglin ◽  
Lucas Glasare
Keyword(s):  
Conflicts Of Interest ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Shopping Centre ◽  
The Past ◽  
Whole Process ◽  
The Subject

This paper evaluates the history and cycling accessibility of Nova, a shopping centre established in Lund, Sweden, in 2002. The current situation was also analysed through observation and a literature review. Moreover, the study conducted a closer analysis of the history and role of the municipality based on further literature study and interviews with officials. The conclusion of the analysis indicates poor and unsafe bikeways caused by conflicts of interest between politicians, officials, landowners and the general public. It also depicts a situation in which the municipality’s master plan has been ignored, and, in contrast to the local goals, cycling accessibility at Nova has seen no significant improvement since the shopping centre was first established. The reasons for this, arguably, are a relatively low budget for bikeway improvements in the municipality, as well as a situation in which decision-makers have stopped approaching the subject, as a result of the long and often boisterous conflicts it has created in the past. Lastly, it must be noted that it is easy to regard the whole process of Nova, from its establishment to the current situation, as being symptomatic of the power structures between drivers and cyclists that still affect decision-makers at all levels.

The dialectic between global and local perspectives in archaeological theory, heritage and publications

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Kristiansen
Keyword(s):  
Annual Meeting ◽  
The Other ◽  
Archaeological Theory ◽  
Common Trends ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Legislative Framework ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Local Perspectives

When I agreed to present the article as a vehicle for discussion at a session at the EAA's annual meeting in Zadar, Croatia, I decided to approach the question of a European archaeology from what I considered to be the three organizing pillars of archaeological practice: heritage, theory and publications. Heritage is the dominant organizational/legislative framework for archaeological practice, and it is where most of the money is spent. Theory, on the other hand, organizes most of our interpretations of the past, while publications are still the most common way of presenting the results of both heritage work (mostly excavations) and interpretations of that work. In this way I hoped to have encircled the dominant parameters for a diagnosis of the archaeological landscapes in Europe. I assumed that there might be some correlation between the three, and that such observed common trends within two or more variables would strengthen the argument, to paraphrase processual jargon.

scholarly journals A longitudinal study of e-commerce diversity in Europe

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Sadowski ◽  
Karolina Lewandowska-Gwarda ◽  
Renata Pisarek-Bartoszewska ◽  
Per Engelseth
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Online Shopping ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Spatial Diversity ◽  
Regional Level ◽  
Spatial Data Analysis ◽  
Household Preferences ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Data Analysis Methods ◽  
Local Spatial Autocorrelation

AbstractOwing to increased access to the Internet and the development of electronic commerce, e-commerce has become a common method of shopping in all countries. The purpose of this study is more precisely to research e-commerce diversity in Europe at the regional level and develop the conception of “E-commerce Supply Chain Management”. Statistical data derived from the European Statistical Office were applied to analyse the spatial diversity of e-retailing. Assessments of the regional diversity of e-retailing applied geographic information systems and exploratory spatial data analysis methods such us global and local spatial autocorrelation statistics. Clusters of regions with similar household preferences related to online shopping were identified. A spatial visualisation of the e-retailing diversity phenomenon may be utilised for the reconfiguration of supply chains and to adapt them to actual household preferences related to shopping methods.

scholarly journals Strategic stakeholder management by corporate social responsibility: Some conceptual thoughts

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus Stiglbauer
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Stakeholder Management ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Supervisory Boards ◽  
Corporate Strategic Management ◽  
Corporate Social

The sustainability and responsibility of corporate strategic management has become an important issue in recent years, not only against the background of the current financial and economic crisis. Companies are expected not only to succeed economically, but also ecologically and socially. Companies can use the issue of corporate responsibility to capture new markets and opportunities. But new requirements arise. Thus, stakeholders may exert pressure on companies to assume social responsibility, whereas executives shall lead by example. This paper tries to assess possiblities to meet stakeholder expectations towards companies by implementing corporate social responsibility concepts. We identify primary and secondary stakeholders of companies by using salience theory and try to give conceptual answers how the well-known concept of Caroll‟s corporate social responsibility pyramid my help to improve the current situation and to take top management and supervisory boards into account to establish a change of focus on corporate social responsibility not just as a hot topic.

scholarly journals Empoderando vidas y naciones resilientes desde el giro biográfico-local.

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseba Agirreazkuenaga
Keyword(s):  
Human Development ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Global History ◽  
Political Practice ◽  
The Past ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Local Research

In order to establish and consolidate the themes and ways of writing history, historians must be attentive to the global and local public agenda. Empowered lives - Resilient nations is a program for human development promoted by the UN. As long as there are local powers and local communities it will be necessary to carry out biographical-local research, analyzing these powers and communities in the past and present, establishing resilience patterns. We transform the historical research of the local past into global history. The personal and the political cannot be dissociated because “The personal is political and the political is personal”. Even eating is a political practice in today’s globalized world.

scholarly journals Lessons on the Economics of Pandemics from Recent Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Sewon Hur ◽  
Michael Jenuwine
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Containment Measures ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Economic Studies

The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a dual public health and economic crisis. Many economic studies in the past few months have explored the relationship between the spread of disease and economic activity, the role for government intervention in the crisis, and the effectiveness of testing and containment policies. This Commentary summarizes the methods and findings of a number of these studies. The economic research conducted to date shows that adequate testing and selective containment measures can be effective in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, and in the absence of adequate testing capabilities, optimal interventions involve social distancing and other lockdown measures.

scholarly journals Russian Nationalists Fight Ukrainian War

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalia Yudina
Keyword(s):  
Current Situation ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nationalist Movement ◽  
Current Regime ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Consolidation

Abstract In this article, I am going to focus on how the radical nationalist movement in Russia fares in the current situation, given the political consolidation of the current regime, and the war in Ukraine1 and the government’s reaction to it. The article describes the situation as it stood at the end of 2014, which makes it predictably incomprehensive because new updates on the conflict still arrive every day, and there has also been more news about Russian ultra-right forces over the past few months.

A fresh look at the concepts of economic and macroeconomic crises: General, priority, and institutional approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 2282-2313
Author(s):  
Dmitrii V. MANUSHIN
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Economic Approach ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Institutional Economic ◽  
Institutional Approach ◽  
Effort Mobilization ◽  
Logical Method ◽  
The Impact

Subject. The article addresses approaches to understanding the economic and macroeconomic crisis. Objectives. The aim is to study and update the concepts of macroeconomic crisis and economic crisis, taking into account modern crisis phenomena and processes, for easier identification and timely anti-crisis measures. Methods. The study draws on the abstract-logical method. Results. The paper clarifies the terms "macroeconomic crisis" and "economic crisis", adds two approaches to the traditional general economic approach to understanding macroeconomic and economic crises, i.e. priority-economic (new approach) and institutional- economic (updated approach). I offer a new systemic grouping of signs of macroeconomic crises and examples that reveal the impact of new signs of these crises on macroeconomics. I formulated a new idea of the unity of intermittent and persistent crisis. Conclusions. The priority-economic approach indicates the priority areas of effort mobilization in the process of crisis management of macroeconomics. The institutional-economic approach broadens the perception of the crises and confirms the need to apply an updated institutional approach to all phenomena and processes studied in macroeconomics.

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