Author, institution: Oksana Palekienė, Kauno University of Technology
Scientific Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Habil. Žaneta SIMANAVIČIENĖ (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Economics, 04S).
Scientific Advisor: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Jurgita BRUNECKIENĖ (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Economics, 04S).
Science area, field: Social Sciences, Economics, 04S
The Doctoral Dissertation is available at the libraries of Kaunas University of Technology (K. Donelaičio St. 20, Kaunas), Klaipėda University (K. Donelaičio a. 3, Klaipėda), Lithuanian Energy Institute (Breslaujos St. 3, Kaunas).
Dissertation Defence Board of Economics Science Field:
Prof. Dr. Vytautas SNIEŠKA (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Economics, 04S) – chairman;
Prof. Dr. Daiva DUMČIUVIENĖ (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Economics, 04S);
Prof. Dr. Irena MAČERINSKIENĖ (Mykolas Romeris University, Social Sciences, Economics, 04S);
Prof. Dr. Gražina STARTIENĖ (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Economics, 04S);
Prof. Dr. Maija ŠENFELDE (Riga Technical University, Social Sciences, Economics, 04S).
Annotation:
Negative conditions within the economic space provoke a tense economic situation, both in the private and public sectors, thus unbalancing the overall national economy, and the country becomes vulnerable and less resistant to economic shocks. Despite an increasing interest in problems on regional resilience to economic shocks, the scientific literature lacks a methodologically grounded regional resilience to economic shocks assessment methodology that allows not only to calculate the index value, to determine the rank and regional hierarchy by resilience determining capacities and factors, but also to assess the regional ability to be resilient from a time perspective and the vulnerability and recovery levels. The lack of complex instruments for measuring regional resilience to economic shocks is becoming one of the obstacles that impedes the assessment of regional capacity to be resilient and develop efficient resilience-enhancing strategies for dealing with future economic shocks. Scientific novelty and theoretical significance of the dissertation is determined by developed an assessment model for regional resilience to economic shocks, enabling, by the identified regional resilience determining capacities (insight, regional governance, knowledge and innovation, learning, networking and collaboration, infrastructure capacities) and factors, to calculate the regional resilience to economic shocks index (Resindicis) and to assess the region’s vulnerability and recovery from the incurred economic shock levels.Negative conditions within the economic space provoke a tense economic situation, both in the private and public sectors, thus unbalancing the overall national economy, and the country becomes vulnerable and less resistant to economic shocks. Despite an increasing interest in problems on regional resilience to economic shocks, the scientific literature lacks a methodologically grounded regional resilience to economic shocks assessment methodology that allows not only to calculate the index value, to determine the rank and regional hierarchy by resilience determining capacities and factors, but also to assess the regional ability to be resilient from a time perspective and the vulnerability and recovery levels. The lack of complex instruments for measuring regional resilience to economic shocks is becoming one of the obstacles that impedes the assessment of regional capacity to be resilient and develop efficient resilience-enhancing strategies for dealing with future economic shocks. Scientific novelty and theoretical significance of the dissertation is determined by developed an assessment model for regional resilience to economic shocks, enabling, by the identified regional resilience determining capacities (insight, regional governance, knowledge and innovation, learning, networking and collaboration, infrastructure capacities) and factors, to calculate the regional resilience to economic shocks index (Resindicis) and to assess the region’s vulnerability and recovery from the incurred economic shock levels.
