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Lately many companies regard entrepreneurial behavior as essential if they perceive to survive in a world increasingly driven by accelerating change. Both the academic and popular press suggests an inherently positive influence of entrepreneurial activity on the performance of a company. In parallel a positive and robust correlation between entrepreneurship and economic performance has been found in terms of growth, firm survival, innovation, employment creation, technological change, productivity increases and exports. Still the search for an appropriate basis for understanding and describing the phenomenon creates challenging problem for entrepreneurship researchers. Aiming to provide some clarification of the concept of entrepreneurship, its components, entrepreneurial process and nexus between them, the theoretical framework, based on resent research in the field of entrepreneurship, was built.

Lately many companies regard entrepreneurial behavior as essential if they perceive to survive in a world increasingly driven by accelerating change. Both the academic and popular press suggests an inherently positive influence of entrepreneurial activity on the performance of a company. In parallel a positive and robust correlation between entrepreneurship and economic performance has been found in terms of growth, firm survival, innovation, employment creation, technological change, productivity increases and exports. Still the search for an appropriate basis for understanding and describing the phenomenon creates challenging problem for entre¬preneurship researchers. Aiming to provide some clarification of the concept of entrepreneurship, its components, entrepreneurial process and nexus between them, the theoretical framework, based on resent research in the field of entrepreneurship, was built.

Implementation of sustainable development policy is one of the most complicated tasks and challenges faced by the global community. The efforts to move the concept of sustainable development from a theoretical level to a decision-making level and to link the economic development to environment are followed by a number of problems. Several theories and individual methods of the development of trends exist and they could be applied in the forecast of potential future. The setting of concerned social problems, related to scientific knowledge, its receipt and representation, consists of four different but inter-related elements: real world, data, theory, model. Analysis of the sustainable development must be based on a systematic approach. In article are presented some examples of models: urban development, foreign investment, the standard of living and housing and others. The trends of regional development scenarios (Supporting, Green and Market) are described in next chapter. Conclusions and recommendations finalized article.

Aim of the article is to present results of the study on purpose to examine and evaluate peculiarities and outcomes of the application of the market integration principle in Lithuania's agriculture. After studies of scientific literature, juridical documents and statistical facts it has been determined that Lithuania has chosen a way of integration into market economy. This decision provided farmers the ability to take place in EU market were free movement of items, labor force and funds is guaranteed. However, experience showed that difficulties which have been influenced by competition, high quality standards and limitations of marketing and manufacturing had to be faced in the process of market principle integration in Lithuania's agriculture.

The papers aims to analyze e-business barriers and to classify then regarding modified M.Porter competitive forces framework. The empirical survey summarizes e-business barriers in threat of existing competitors, history and intensity of innovation introduction context between Lithuania SMEs.

Application of marketing researches in business could be defined as the search for qualitative and quantitative information. Market researches are closely related to business strategy and choice of alternatives is usually aided by experimental tests. The qualitative analysis consists of different methods intended for singling out. Logic regression may be used to analyse and forecast relations of the dependent dichotomic variable and independent variables measured at any scale. Above-given algorithms of the quality data analysis are illustrated in the article by the case when the dependent variable is of dichotomic nature. Drafting general plans of Akmene region a questionnaire - survey of inhabitants of this region and towns was carried out. Application of quality analysis methods is a valuable measure enabling specialists and planners to apply the proposed solutions by taking account of their specific features and peculiarities.

The comparison of the results of two research works, which have been carried out by authors, is presented in this paper. The special emphasis is made on the changed economical conditions after join in EU. The first research have been fulfilled in 2003 year, before join in EU. For this purpose the questionnaire was prepared. The main objective of the research was to analyze the opinions of students about E-Learning Master’s Degree Studies Outputs at Civil Engineering Faculty at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University. The second research have been fulfilled in 2006 year, after join in EU. The comparison of the results of two research works was made based on basic indexes, which shows the level of economics. The main purpose of the comparison was to show the differences of student’s opinion and the development of E-learning at Civil Engineering Faculty at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University.

Constantly increasing volumes of passenger and cargo transportation require a constant transport network development as well as renewal and updating of its elements. Thus, transport is a branch of economy that requires a lot of resources for its normal functioning. On the other hand, the development of transport infrastructure can cause negative effects on the environment. We propose here the optimization model allowing us to choose the most efficient way of development of transport infrastructure. The criterion of the model involves the expenses needed for compensating the negative effects of development of the transport infrastructure and system restrictions of the model involve the restrictions limiting the negative effects of development. The model allows us to optimize the costs of development of the transport infrastructure without exceeding the limits set for the negative effects.