Future Challenges of Lithuanian Transport Sector Enterprise's Certification in the Context of Evolution of the Management Systems Certification

AbstractIn the provided article we touch some issues of broader research in the area of management systems standardization. One of the partial objectives of our paper is to predict the evolution of management system standards (MSS) in the context of the “BIG REVISION” and its future penetration into the market worldwide. The other aim of the article is to present results of the survey among the Lithuanian transport sector enterprises which are in the process of implementation of MSS as well as to discuss their possible challenges in the future. To understand the evolution and predict future certification quantities, it is necessary to examine more deeply the behavior of individual standards on the markets. There we conclude that the scope and structure of standards markets penetration is impacted by their dependence (mutual pull-effect), type of standard (universal, sectorial MSS), “age” of standard and the number of revisions, existence of “higher” sector standard (where it is possible to skip or substitution universal standard), economic conditions of the region, business and legislative rules (external pressure to introduce standards).The research described in the paper was partially financially supported by the Slovak Grant Agency (VEGA) under grant No. 1/0336/14