RESEARCH JOURNALS

INTELLECTUAL ECONOMICS 2008, Number 2(4)

FROM THE EDITORIAL BOARD

This issue of Intellectual Economics continue the presentation of researches of intellectual decisions in finance systems (Mark Bradford) and e-business according to main trends of the journal. The discussions on actual problems of the credit risk management (Eugenija Martinaityte), e-money (Marius Laurinaitis, Darius Štitilis) and e-banking (Dalė Dzemydienė, Ramutė Naujikienė) as well as mobile payment systems (Rimantas Petrauskas, Laurynas Zumaras) under world finance recession and globalization are continued. The practice of intellectual capital development in the U.K. and Czechia, also problems of the quality of university management and branch forecasting are also reviewed (Terri Kim, Jiří Luňáček, Robert Zich). The systemic researches of organizational decisions in the preconditions of their automatization are presented by Aldona Juozapavičienė, Kazimieras Mickus, Gediminas Mikaliūnas, Evaldas Urbonas. The continuation of this research will be presented in the next issue of the Intellectual Economics. The cultural and intellectual aspects of the management of regional economics are revealed on the data of East Europe, Russia and Kazachstan by Petr Němeček, Alena Kocmanová, Iveta Šimberová, also Tonni Rogacheva.

It is possible to find rather interesting intellectual decisions in the fields of finance strategies and market management. The determination of their efficiency parameters has a principal importance to the measurement of intellectual capital and the more clear understanding of the criterial system of its contribution to the economic development in the metaeconomic context. The presented publications highlight the economic criteria of intellectual resources and ground their determination operations in detail, they are interpreting the growing international role of ebanking and e-business as a total in the transforming of postindustrial society to competitive knowledge and information society, first-of-all, in the Central and Eastern European EE countries.

Antanas Buračas