Introduction Journal of Turiba University No. 7 ISSN 1691-6077 Riga 2016 1 Acta Prosperitatis 7 Journal of Turiba University Acta Prosperitatis No. 7 Editor-in-Chief Assist.prof. Dr. paed. Aldis Baumanis, Turiba University, Latvia Co-editor-in-Chief Mg.sc.ing., MBA Ivars Namatēvs, Turiba University, Latvia Executive Editors Aasoc.prof., PhD Suat Begeç, University of Turkish Aeronautical Association, Turkey Prof. Dr.hab. Waldemar Dotkuś, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland Assoc.prof. Dr.iur. Kristina Miliauskaitė, Mykolas Romeris University, Lithuania Prof. Dr.oec. Andrei Pochovyuk, Kremenchuk Mykhailo Ostrogradskyi University, Ukraine Asoc.prof. Dr.phil. Gregory Simons, Uppsala University, Sweden Prof. Dr.iur Jānis Teivāns-Treinovskis, Daugavpils Univeristy, Latvia Assist.prof. Dr.ing.sc. Ilmārs Vīksne, Riga Technical University, Latvia Assoc. prof. Dr. oec. Rosita Zvirgzdiņa, Turiba University, Latvia When quoted the reference to the issue is mandatory Publisher Turiba University, Ltd. Head of Publishing House Daiga Rugāja Literary editor Assoc.Prof. Dr.paed. Diāna Rumpīte, Riga Technical University, Latvia © SIA “Biznesa augstskola Turība”, 2016, 174 p. 2 Introduction CONTENT Introduction ............................................................................................................................................... 4 THE DOMINO EFFECT IN RISK AND CRISIS COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS LEGAL ASPECTS ........................................................................................ 7 Derkevica–Pilskunga Jolanta IMPROVEMENT OF NOTIONAL DEFINED CONTRIBUTIONS OLD-AGE PENSION SCHEME FOR ENSURING PENSION SUSTAINABILITY .................................... 24 Dundure Ināra MULTICULTURALISM IN THE WORLDWIDE MIGRATION CONDITIONS ................... 42 Gražulis Vladimiras EVALUATION OF NON-FINANCIAL SOCIAL ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES IN CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS: SITUATION ANALYSIS IN LITHUANIA ............................ 59 Gražulis Vladimiras, Čižikienė Janina INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF RAILWAY TRANSPORT IN LATVIA ............................................................................................... 75 Jurušs Māris, Landmane Līva, Ivanova Anastasija COMPARISON OF THE RETAIL EFFICIENCY INDICATORS IN THE BALTIC STATES ...................................................................................................................................................... 89 Liniņa Iveta INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL AS A FACTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF UKRAINE .......................................................................................................................................... 104 Maslak Olga, Grishko Natalya, Hlazunova Olha, Maslak Maria INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE IN MULTICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS .............. 119 Namatēvs Ivars, Turlais Viktors, Dubkēvičs Lotārs INNOVATIONS IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT ............................................................................ 132 Skrastiņa Una, Gaile Džeina SOURCES OF ADMINISTRATIVE LAW IN LITHUANIA AND LATVIA ........................... 153 Urmonas Algimantas, Načisčionis Jānis Kopsavilkums ....................................................................................................................................... 171 3 Acta Prosperitatis 7 INTRODUCTION Aldis Baumanis, Dr. paed. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Turiba University Acta Prosperitatis, No. 7 To win in marketplace, organizations must move faster entering new markets, being more competitive and accessible to clients, launching new, innovative ideas, and offering better prices. It means we all live in a complex world to be dictated by many changing patterns in business environment. Business environment builds on the proposition that is not necessarily in equilibrium. Organizations, firms, consumers constantly change their strategies, tactics and actions in response to the developing set of contingency, openness to change and indeterminacy. Current circumstances affect conditions that determines what might come next. Business is a system whose building blocks are constantly updating their behaviour based on the present situation. The priorities of scientific and business research are changing along with the development of national politics and economy. Now it is shifting towards seeing these changes as a series of denoting actions – to innovate, to be effective and productive, Readers of this volume of Acta Prosperitatis can get acquainted with the authors’ views regarding the key elements of today`s business environment, i.e. regulatory requirements, change management, the importance of culture, as well as business process modelling and value creation for organizations. Jolanta Derkevica-Pilskunga in her article “The Domino Effect in Risk and Crisis Communication of its Legal Aspects” examines the problems of effective communi- cation when companies have come to downturn of their business activities. Accurate and timely communication in which all units of the business entity take part together, alongside a sound risk management mitigation process, can be used to decrease the influence of negative factors. Special attention has been paid to the evaluation of domino effect on the business factors that can exercise influence on Latvian small-sized companies. “Improvement of Notational Defined Contributions Old-age Pensions Scheme for Ensuring Pension Sustainability” is a research conducted by Ināra Dundure. The author assesses global notational defended contributions (NDC) old-age pension schemes in Europe, as well as the criteria of sustainability. Based on the measures taken, improved and sustainable old-age pension scheme has been developed and offered. Globalization and worldwide contacts between organizations, companies and individuals have given rise to the need to be able to manage migration flows in a successful way. Vladimiras Gražulis in his paper “Multiculturalism in the Worldwide Migration Conditions” presents the trends of interculturalism development in the world of today. The paper presents approaches of foreign and Lithuanian scholars and international organizations (UN, UNESCO, etc.) to the phenomenon of intercultu- ralism and trends of its expression in contemporary society, and analyses the results of an empirical study of 2015 with about 1100 participants. 4 INTRODUCTION The paper “Evaluation of Non-Financial Social Assistance to Families in Child Day Care Centers: Situation Analysis in Lithuania” by two authors Vladimiras Gražulis and Janina Čižikienė shows how non-financial social assistance can help the disadvantaged families and their childern, and in child day care centers. The paper demonstrates the necessity of improving the process of providing non-financial assistance in child day care centers. The results of the research also reveal the possibilities of organizing and improving the process of providing non-financial assistance in child day care centers in Lithuania. Railway has a significant role in transportation industry. Māris Jurušs, Līva Landmane and Anastasija Ivanova in their paper “Infrastructure Funding for Sustainable Development of Railway Transport in Latvia” analyse the current trends in the railway transport and logistics sector in accordance with the EU development strategy “Europe 2020” – to make carriage by railway more competitive than road transport. The authors suggest redistribution of the revenue from excise duty on diesel used in rail transport to finance the maintenance and development of railroad infrastructure. Efficiency and productivity are the major drivers of competitive economy, including retail industry. Iveta Liniņa in her article “Comparison of the Retail Efficiency Indicators in the Baltic States” uncovers and compares efficiency indicators among the Baltic states. The main conclusion of her research is that to ensure competitiveness the retail businesses have to carry out their operations as efficiently as possible and evaluate the flow of investment. Social phenomena have an essential role in the economic development of any country. The paper “Intellectual Capital as a Factor of Economic Development of Ukraine” by Olga Maslak, Natalya Grishko, Olha Hlazunova and Maria Maslak analyses intellectual capital. The basic components of development and improvement of the effectiveness of realization of the intellectual capital as a factor of decreasing the effects of economic crisis and speeding up the future development of Ukraine have been studied. The main factors of formation and development of intellectual capital of Ukraine are strengthening of innovation, investment activities, and formation of stable legal system to support them. Ivars Namatēvs, Viktors Turlais and Lotārs Dubkēvičs in their paper “Intercultural Competence in Multicultural Organizations” present the results of the empirical study relating to business process modelling paradigm. The authors of their scientific paper propose a new model of evaluation of the intercultural competence level among companies which are located in different countries. The objective of their research is to provide a deeper insight into the problem to assist other researchers of the intercultural competence evaluation by reflecting differences between cultures and finding ways towards efficient collaboration and diverse business environment. Innovation and creativity still, and, presumably, will play, an important role in many industries and businesses. The paper “Innovations in Public Procurement” by Una Skrastiņa and Džeina Gaile within the