According to the official assessment conducted by the Research Council of Lithuania for the evaluation period 2024, Kazimieras Simonavičius University (KSU) achieved exceptional results in the field of social sciences, including:
- 1st rank in Lithuania for research performance per full-time equivalent (FTE)
- 1st rank in terms of absolute research performance among all private universities
- 6th rank out of all 36 Lithuanian universities and research institutes terms of absolute research performance
Moreover, two KSU publications were officially recognised as TOP Publications of 2024:
- Relationality in transaction cost economics and stakeholder theory: A new conceptual framework, co-authored by Prof. Vladislav Valentinov and me.
- Three Problems of Business Addressed by Stakeholder Theory: Insights from the Institutional Economics of John R. Commons, authored by Prof. Vladislav Valentinov
In my capacity as Founding Director of the Next Society Institute (NSI), I would like to express my sincere gratitude to Prof. Dr. Augusto Sales, Lars Clausen, Prof. Dr. Tilia Stingl de Vasconcelos, and all other colleagues who have contributed substantially to this unparalleled success story, which began five years ago with the establishment of the NSI—an act that was firmly supported by the then-Rector Austė Kiškienė and then-Chancelor Darius Verbyla. My congratulations also go to our former Rector, Prof. Dr. Jolanta Bieliauskaitė, on her recent monograph, which represents another major building block of this remarkable achievement!
