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Call for papers – Monothematic issue 2025
Transitioning to the green circular economy: The age of VUCA

The monothematic issue aims to systematize and expand knowledge about the possibilities and barriers of using digital technologies to eliminate the vulnerability of supply chains. A specific focus of this special issue is about the use of emerging digital technologies and technical solutions in enhancing lean, agile, resilient and green aspects of supply chains.
Important dates – submission open date: June 1, 2024, submission deadline: October 31, 2024. Upon submission, please inform the editorial office that the manuscript is intended for the monothematic issue (journal@tul.cz).
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Monothematic issue 2024
Emerging digital technologies and their influence on elimination of supply chain vulnerability

This monothematic issue aims to systematize and expand knowledge about the possibilities and barriers of using digital technologies to eliminate the vulnerability of supply chains. A specific focus of this issue is about the use of emerging digital technologies and technical solutions in enhancing lean, agile, resilient and green aspects of supply chains. The issue will be published in September 2024.

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The journal E&M Economics and Management (E&M) publishes high quality original research articles and scientific studies based on theoretical and empirical analyses. E&M encourages new intriguing ideas and new perspectives on existing state of knowledge.
Among the key topics covered are Economics, Business Administration, Finance, Management, Information Management, and Marketing & Trade. More information here.

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Choice of articles of current issue

The role of leadership in managing digital transformation: A systematic literature review

Lazar Rakovic, Slobodan Maric, Lena Djordjevic Milutinovic, Vuk Vukovic, Radmila Bjekic

Digital transformation should not be seen as a time-bound project, but rather as a process that needs to be continuously improved and managed over time. In the absence of leadership, digital transformation will occur spontaneously in an organisation, but it is necessary to monitor and manage the process itself to achieve the goal and establish a digital organisation. A person who leads the digital transformation must possess the appropriate competencies. Leadership competencies, especially the…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-2-006 more

Regional COVID-19 cases and Bitcoin volatility: Assessment through the Markov switching prism

Dat Minh Phan, Sinh Duc Hoang, Tung Duy Dao, Tien Phat Pham

The 21st century has become the century of technology, which has spread to the currency market, presenting the international economic system with a new challenge – the challenge created by digital currency, which has determined a change in the rules of operation in the market. The main property of cryptocurrencies in general, and Bitcoin in particular, is constant volatility and mutual sensitivity to each other. This article aims to analyze the cryptocurrency market landscape from both short…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-2-009 more

Digital payments as an indicator of financial inclusion in Euro Area countries

Tamara Petrikova, Kristina Kocisova

The process of digitisation in the financial sector is developing through the systematic introduction of computer systems, the establishment of Internet connectivity and the use and ownership of various information and communication devices. Information and communication technologies can increase the desired degree of financial inclusion in a country by increasing the availability of various financial services. This study examines the individual attributes that can affect financial inclusion in…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-5-004 more

Exploring travel agencies customers’ loyalty motives throught machine learning analysis

Andrzej Dudek, Daria E. Jaremen, Izabela Michalska-Dudek, Pavlina Pellesova

This article focuses on identifying the directions of changes in the decision-making process of purchasing package travels and the motives determining this purchase, as well as the impact of these motives on the affective, behavioral and global loyalty of travel agency customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. To achieve the research goal, a literature review and field research were con ducted. In the case of secondary sources, the content analysis method was used to examine them, while data from…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2024-2-012 more

An attempt to resolve no-wait flow shop scheduling problems using hybrid ant colony and whale optimization algorithms

Reza Rostamzadeh, Arezou Gholipour, Mohammad Reza Komari Alaei, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Jonas Saparauskas

The incentive for many developments and scientific progresses within the field of scheduling has emerged from industrial environments, and naturally, it could be utilized in expressing the scheduling concepts regarding terms used in the industry. Generally speaking, scheduling problems are known as limited optimization issues through which decisions related to the machines’ assignment and works processing sequence are probed. Thus, following a review of the related literature, the major goal of…