Author, institution: Rozita Susnienė, Kaunas University of Technology
Scientific supervisor – prof. dr. Irena PEKARSKIENĖ (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Economics – 04S).
Science area, field of science: Social Sciences, Economics – 04S
The doctoral dissertation is available at the libraries of Kaunas University of Technology (K. Donelaičio St. 20, 44239 Kaunas, Lithuania), Klaipėda University (K. Donelaičio Sq. 3, Klaipėda, Lithuania) and Lithuanian Energy Institute (Breslaujos St. 3, Kaunas, Lithuania).
Dissertation defence board of Economics science field:
Prof. Dr. Vytautas SNIEŠKA (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Economics, 04S) – chairman;
Prof. Dr. Dzintra ATSTAJA (BA School of Business and Finance (Riga, Latvia), Social Sciences, Economics, 04S);
Prof. Dr. Vaida PILINKIENĖ (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Economics, 04S);
Prof. Dr. Violeta PUKELIENĖ (Vytautas Magnus University, Social Sciences, Economics, 04S);
Prof. Dr. Gražina STARTIENĖ (Kaunas University of Technology, Social Sciences, Economics, 04S).
Annotation:
The scientific problem of the dissertation is how to measure the level of globalisation in a country‘s manufacturing industry and how to assess the impact of globalisation on a country‘s manufacturing. The relevance of the problem was caused by the lack of a unified methodology that would enable the establishment as to what extent manufacturing is involved in the processes on international integration and how global processes affect the development of manufacturing.
Concepts of globalisation, theories and main dimensions of globalisation, as well as problematics of an assessment of globalisation, at a country‘s, economic sector and corporate level are discussed in the first part of the dissertation. In the second section, on the basis of the scientific analysis, the main channels of economic globalisation, i.e. international trade, FDI, activity of MNCs, and international dissemination of technologies, have been established. Each channel of globalisation has been analysed following the concept of cause-outcome accepted in this dissertation and the indicators of globalisation evaluation are grouped by the features of the cause (the level of globalisation) and outcome (the impact of globalisation). The model for assessment of the impact of globalisation on the manufacturing industry, consisting of two structural parts is developed. The first part of the model has been developed for the formation of the index of manufacturing globalisation and estimation of the level of globalisation in manufacturing industry. The second part of the model has been developed for assessment of the impact of globalisation on the development of the manufacturing industry. In the third part of the research work the model for evaluation of the globalisation level and assessment of the impact of globalisation was applied to Lithuanian manufacturing.
