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IJORTISS Advisory Board

Saulius Gudas, Dean, prof. dr. (HP), Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Stasys Girdzijauskas, prof. dr. (HP), Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Peter Timmann, Professor, Director of International Relations, Hamburg University of Economics and Politics, Germany, and European Association of International Educators, the Netherlands
Leon Zygmunt Dorozik, Dean, prof. habil. dr., Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Szczecin, Poland
Daniela Parisi, Professor, Institute of Theoretical Economics and Quantitative Methods, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy
Penny Tirtaine, Professor, Head of International Relations, Graduate School of Management, Groupe Sup de Co Amiens Picardie, France
George Tesar, Professor, Umeå School of Business and Economics, Umeå University, Sweden

IJORTISS Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Dainora Grundey, prof. dr. (HP), Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, Vilnius University, Lithuania; e-mail:

Co-Editors

Baiba Šavrina, prof. dr., Faculty of Management and Economics, University of Latvia, Latvia; e-mail:
Bruno S. Sergi, prof. dr., University of Messina, Italy and International Management Development Association (IMDA), the USA, e-mail:

Editorial Board

Aldona Andrzejczak, prof. habil. dr., Faculty of Economics, Poznań University of Economics, Poland
William T. Bagatelas, Faculty of International Relations and Political Economy, City University Bratislava, Slovakia
Tomasz Bernat, dr. habil., Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Sczcecin, Poland
Maja Biljan-August, assoc. prof. dr., Faculty of Economics Rijeka, University of Rijeka, Croatia
Aristidis Bitzenis, dr., University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki and a Tutor at the Hellenic Open University of Patras, Greece
Lori Ann Coakley, assoc. prof. dr., chair of the Management Department at Bryant University, outside of Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Remigijus Čiegis, prof. habil. dr., Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Dmitri P. Gavra, prof. habil. dr., Head of Communication Theory Department, Saint-Petersburg State University, Russia
John Kuada, assoc. prof. dr., Center for International Studies, Department of Business Studies, Aalborg University, Denmark
María C. Latorre, prof. dr., Faculty of Economics and Business, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
John Marangos, assoc. prof. dr., Department of Economics, University of Crete and Colorado State University, USA
Robert Mikecz, dr., Faculty of Sciences and Social Sciences, Liverpool Hope University, UK
Anna Pawlowska, PhD, Department of Organizational Sociology in the Faculty of Management at Warsaw University, Poland
David Pollard, dr., Dundee Business School, University of Abertay Dundee, Scotland, UK
Wojciech Popławski, assoc. prof. habil. dr., Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management, Nicholas Copernicus University in Torun, Poland.
Marek Ratajczak, prof. habil. dr., Vice-rector of University Development and Personnel Improvement at the Poznan University of Economics, Head of the Department of History of Economic Thought
Dalia Štreimikienė, Prof. Dr. (HP), senior research fellow, Centre of Socio-cultural Research, Kaunas Faculty of Humanities, Vilnius University, Lithuania.
Robert Guang Tian, assoc. prof. dr., Erskine College, USA
Tauno Tiusanen, is a prof. emeritus of University of Glasgow and Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland

Technical Staff and Editorial Assistants

Antanas Diedonis, (since 2005), IJORTISS Web administrator, e-mail
Ingrida Griesienė, (since 2009), IJORTISS technical editor, e-mail
Ingrida Griesienė, (since 2009), INYRSS coordinator, e-mail
Lina Verbauskienė, (since 2005), INYRSS vice-coordinator for Lithuania