Generolo Jono Žemaičio Lietuvos karo akademija

The purpose of the study is to review the foreign practice of operating representative offices in Russia and other countries, develop criteria for their performance evaluation. The methodological framework of the study is based on the review and analysis of the existing mechanisms for evaluating performance of representative offices of foreign companies. in this study, general research methods are used: methods of empirical research, monographic method, structural-logical method, methods of multidimensional classification. For many economies, entrepreneurship is the major driving force behind economic growth. Small businesses create employment opportunities and improve the quality of people’s lives, which in turn favorably affects the country’s own development. Entrepreneurship is a powerful mechanism to reduce unemployment, which is one of the pressing issues of today. The originality and novelty of the study rely on the need to formalize and implement a systematic approach to governmental support of entrepreneurship throughout all business areas in Russia. It will positively affect the development of the economy in general and the efficiency of entrepreneurship in particular.

Lately a lot of attention has been given to legal regulation of cybersecurity. This article will review legal regulation of cybersecurity in Lithuania. Historical retrospective of legal regulation of cybersecurity in Lithuania will be discussed, strategic Lithuanian cybersecurity documents will be analysed, and the Law on Cybersecurity of the Republic of Lithuania will be analysed and evaluated. After a comparative analysis of cybersecurity strategies and laws and a review of legal regulation of cybersecurity in Lithuania, gaps of law-making and of other measures were distinguished, and corresponding conclusions were made. The adoption of the new Law on Cybersecurity, which regulates many important institutes, is evaluated positively. But with regard to the current legal regulation on cybersecurity in Lithuania additional measures are necessary (functions of institutions that formulate cybersecurity policy and perform control functions have not been detailed and distinguished, also functions of the Lithuanian national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) are not foreseen in the Law on Cybersecurity, etc.).

The quality of the public sector activity may have crucial influence on the social economic status of the state. In order to make public sector efficient, stimulate its contribution into the social economic development of the state, it is rational to apply a management tool which has been tested and proven in business practice – the strategic planning possibilities of realising whose principles are higher if the method of functional review is applied. In order to create a model of effective functional review, it is first of all expedient to fulfil these objectives: to reveal the role of functional review of institutions, to analyse its principles, to show what kind of functional review practice we have in state institutions, to define the directions and preconditions for improving functional review of institutions. This article presents the results of fulfilling such objectives which were received with the help of systematic analysis that allowed to perform a synthesis of the results achieved through research of different spectrum.