VILNIUS TECH Library invites you to follow the published new dissertations. The dissertation „Assessing the Competitiveness of Cultural Economy“ („Kultūros ekonomikos konkurencingumo vertinimas„) prepared by VILNIUS TECH, Kristina Astikė. The dissertation was prepared in 2021–2025. Scientific Consultant – Assoc. Prof. Dr Viktorija Skvarciany.
The dissertation was defended at the public meeting of the Dissertation Defence Council of the Scientific Field of Economics in the Aula Doctoralis Meeting Hall of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University at 9 a.m. on 9 June 2025.
The dissertation focuses on selected indicators of the cultural economy, i.e., cultural sector workers, such as creators, stage artists, authors, journalists, and linguists, as well as trade in cultural goods, cultural sector facilities, and public participation in tourism. The object of the dissertation research is the Cultural Economy Competitiveness Index and its indicators and sub-indicators. The dissertation addresses four tasks: to analyse the scientific literature on the concept of cultural economy, to identify the indicators and sub-indicators of cultural economy that would reflect the competitiveness of a country in the field of culture, to analyse the methodology of compiling the indexes, and to use the Index of Competitiveness of Cultural Economy to assess the competitiveness of the cultural economy. The dissertation consists of an introduction, three chapters, a summary of the results, lists of the literature used and publications on the subject of the dissertation, and appendices. The Introduction discusses the research problem and the relevance of the work, describes the object of research, formulates the aim and objectives of the work, describes the research methodology, the scientific novelty of the work, the practical significance of the work results, and the defensible statements. The Introduction closes with lists of the author’s publications and conference presentations on the subject of the dissertation and the structure of the dissertation. The First Chapter analyses the scientific literature, discusses the theoretical aspects of cultural economics, identifies the indicators and sub-indicators of cultural economics, and examines the links between cultural economics and competitiveness. The chapter concludes with a summary of the findings. The Second Chapter presents the methodology for assessing the competitiveness of the cultural economy. It analyses the methodology of index construction related to the cultural economy and develops a methodology for the construction of the Cultural Economy Competitiveness Index. Finally, it presents the logic behind the methodology and conclusions of the study. The Third Chapter examines the assessment of the competitiveness of the cultural economy. It proposes a Cultural Economy Competitiveness Index, which assesses 11 EU countries. The chapter concludes with the chapter’s conclusions and general conclusions. The dissertation is the subject of three published articles in Web of Science database publications with a citation index and Scopus database publications. Six presentations on the subject of the dissertation have been read at international conferences in Lithuania and other countries.
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