bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Should I stay or should I go? Global COVID-19 pandemic influence on travel intentions of Bulgarian residents
Authors: Terziyska Ilinka , Dogramadjieva Elka
Published: January 2021

Research background:The COVID-19 pandemic brought an unparalleled global lockdown and economic paralysis, with the travel and tourism sector being among the worst affected industries worldwide. This situation has set a lot of questions regarding the future of tourism and its re-shaping into a ‘new normality’, among which those referring to anticipated changes in tourist demand and behavior stand out. Such questions are empirical in nature and imply conducting of studies in various contexts in order to identify customers’ perceptions, attitudes, intentions, and real behavior patterns.

Purpose of the article:The paper presents results of a recent study of the influence of COVID-19 pandemic on travel intentions of Bulgarian citizens and discusses them in relation to other similar studies conducted in different countries.

Methods:The online survey covered 654 respondents and was completed in the period 9-16 April 2020, so the study results outline travel intentions at a relatively early stage of the COVID-19 crisis.

Findings & Value added:There was a strong impact of the global pandemic on travel at the time of the research but the findings indicate less significant influence on the respondents’ travel intentions for the future. While some of the outcomes support the generally expected consequences of the COVID-19 crisis, many are quite surprising and challenge existing anticipations for dramatic changes in tourist demand and behavior, at least in regards to Bulgarian customers.
Globalization and post-pandemic world order: place of Georgia in transformative international system
Authors: Ubilava Irakli , Tukvadze Avtandil , Dolidze Valerian
Published: January 2021

Research background: Many scenarios of organization of the international system of the post-pandemic era has been formulated.

Purpose of the article: The purpose of the article is the prediction one of these scenarios using simulation analysis of the situation which will be formed after the economic and political crises caused by COVID 19 and the determination the place of Georgia in post-pandemic globalized order.

Methods: structural-functional analysis, geopolitical approach and simulation analyses.

Findings & Value added: In the post-pandemic world the globalization will weaken and the role of nation states will increase. In this situation, for states with great military potentials, the establishment of military strategic and political control over countries rich in natural resources and raw materials and also those favorable for transit will gain great importance. One of such regions is the southern Caucasus and Georgia, which has a nodal geographic position. The likely restructuring of the world system caused by theoretical and paradigmatic revisionism of world politics will force Georgia to rethink its place in the system of geopolitical relations in the region to ensure national security and stable democratic development. In this situation polarized worldviews of generations (Orthodox, conservative versus liberal and democratic) will produce two-party system. One of these parties will be oriented to the west and another to Russia. Such party system will ensure the functioning of the security system based on a balanced foreign policy.
Technologies for government regulation of the fight against the pandemic Covid-19: global trends and Russian practices
Authors: Urazgaliev Vladimir , Menshikova Galina , Evstratchik Svetlana
Published: January 2021

Research background The fight against the pandemic has become not only a field for implementing medical efforts to counter the disease, but also an arena for identifying government (as well as corporate) technologies for effective management. Sad circumstances make it more urgent to compare the potential of state systems in the face of force majeure. They re-highlight the role of public confidence to their government as a factor of readiness to switch to a regime of strict self-restraint. Again, an analysis of social and economic investment clearly shows the true priorities of governments. It is clear that it is too early to draw conclusions, the fight against the epidemic is far from complete, but a number of major comparative studies have been launched, and scientists publish studies describing the situation in their countries.

Purpose of the article: to show the role of science as a factor that implements the trends of globalization; to identify the main global models of government measures, comparing them in terms of impact effectiveness: to give some parameters that characterize Russian model, outlining legislative and organizational innovations in its public administration.

Methods The article is based on the data-driven approach, which allows you to compare measures applied by governments of different countries, including Russia.

Findings & Value added The publication identifies at least four general global trends and some models, reflecting national features in basic technologies. In addition, the article describes the organizational features (governing bodies and the adopted special laws) of Russia.
Detection of earnings management by different models
Authors: Bilan Yuriy , Jurickova Veronika
Published: January 2021

Research background: Earnings management means the usage of gaps in the legislative frameworks of individual countries and their accounting systems in the global world. Businesses thus adjust profits and revenues to the form that is desirable and desired for them. However, there is a very thin line between fraud and earnings management. By adjusting their financial statements, companies seek to impress potential investors and influence their own market position.

Purpose of the article: The main goal of the article is to describe the possibilities and methods of detection of earnings management in companies in aspects of globalization. The article contains a brief overview of theoretical knowledge and definitions about earnings management. The contribution of the article lies in the application of the selected method to a specific company and based on the outputs of the model to determine whether the company is using earnings management.

Methods: The scientific method of analysis was used in the article, on the basis of which the obtained information was necessary for further calculations. A calculation based on the Beneish model was used to determine the use of earnings management.

Findings & Value added: The output of the article is the application of the Beneish model in the detection of earnings management in a selected company. In the calculation process, pre-established theoretical knowledge on the issue and the numerical characteristics of the selected company were used. Finally, the application of earnings management in the company can be ruled out.
Earnings management: Local or global phenomenon in the Visegrad Four?
Authors: Durana Pavol , Bacik Radovan
Published: January 2021

Research background:Increasing number of national scientific studies related to business finance shows that the earnings management phenomenon as a legal apparatus of manipulation business profit plays a significant role in financial reports in conditions of Slovak economy. Slovakia belongs to Visegrad Four, group of very historically and developmentally close countries. That is why it is relevant to compare the issue of earnings manipulation it these countries’ context.

Purpose of the article:The main purpose of the article is to confirm global approach to manipulation of earnings in the Visegrad Four’s enterprises and justify that managers incline to earnings management systematically in all analysed group not only at a local level in chosen country.

Methods:This econometric investigation used the observations of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of 1,058 Slovak enterprises, 688 Czech enterprises, 1,376 Polish enterprises and 731 Hungarian enterprises. It was investigated nine-years period from 2010 to 2018. Non-parametric time series trend modelling was run by Mann-Kendall test and estimation of the slope of the trend by Sen’s method used a linear model.

Findings & Value added:The article focused on nine-years development of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization in the Visegrad Four’s enterprises. It was found out the systematic trend manipulation in all analysed countries. This fact highlighted that earnings management is not local phenomenon, but its development is globally preferred tool of business finance.
Financing climate change in the conditions of the Slovak agricultural sector
Authors: Holúbek Ivan , Tóth Marián , Rábek Tomáš , Jakabovičová Johana
Published: January 2021

Research background: Globalization is a powerful engine of structural changes in national, regional and global economies. Except for positive economic effects, globalization also has negative effects. One of them is the deterioration of the global environmental situation and the ongoing global climate change.

Purpose of the article: The paper focuses on the current global financing trends to mitigate the effects of climate change. Generally financial funds come from international, national and regional actors. Governments have a range of funding mechanisms and resources at their disposal. Within the EU, these are the Structural Funds, investment funds and the financing from European Investment Bank. At the national level, it is financial assistance from state budgets and local government budgets.

Methods: The paper provides literature review of the possibilities of financing climate change at the national and international level and, using analysis and synthesis, points to future trends and sources of financing climate change. We also analyse the proposal of Common agricultural policy 2021-2027 and effects on Slovak agriculture. European Commission wants member states to use up to 40% of the budget for environmental goods and climate change. Slovakia might have problems to spend the allocation due to the fact, that most of the money will be voluntary schemes. Farmers will have the option to participate.

Findings & Value added: Agriculture is seriously exposed to the adverse effects of climate change as agricultural activities are directly depending on climate conditions. The article analyses in detail the possibilities and sources of financing adaptation measures in the Slovak agricultural sector.
The usage of economic profit and other forms of profit as a part of prediction models to forecast the financial stability of business entities in the context of globalization
Authors: Karpac Dusan , Sedlakova Iveta
Published: January 2021

Research background:Predicting financial health of a company is in this global world necessary for each business entity, especially for the international ones, as it´s very important to know financial stability. Forecasting business failure is a worldwide known term, in a global notion, and there is a lot of prediction models constructed to compute financial health of a company and, by that, state whether a company inclines to financial boom or bankruptcy. In the current global world of uncertainty and continuous change, it is in each business’s interest to improve its performance. Businesses have to adapt to changing market conditions and keep moving to maintain their, either local or global, market position. In the past, entities preferred to increase primary accounting profit forms. The global modern goal of enterprises, value creation, is achieved through the concept of economic profit.

Purpose of the article:The aim of this article was to find out the connection between two very important terms for the global economy, namely prediction models and economic profit.

Methods:We focused on the research of both areas and looked for a common connection through how often different forms of profit, and especially the form of economic profit, are used in individual prediction models among the examined sample.

Findings & Value added: The output of the whole article is the finding the division of the use of economic and accounting profit in the sample of models and the importance of economic profit for mathematical constructions of prediction models.
Specifics in strategic management of non-profit organizations in the globalization process
Authors: Kicová Eva , Poniščiaková Oľga
Published: January 2021

Research background: If globalization presents really a new and not reversible process that creates a more homogenous world, strategies of enterprises should appropriate to this phenomenon, too. European legislation has significantly contributed to the creation of the mutual market and increasing freedom of movement of services within the European Union. Its basic principle can be applied to the harmonization of basic requirements for services and the subsequent normalization – the creation of common European standards. This also applies to the area of non-profit organizations. These organizations are an important part of the public sector, which in the form of various activities, in particular the providing of various services, performs tasks related to addressing manifestations of market imbalances. In contrast to the “traditional” business sector (profit sector), the task of the non-profit sector is not to generate profit but to provide consumer tasks.

Purpose of the article: The objective of the article is to clarify and present the specifics of functioning and management of non-profit organizations in the conditions of the Slovak Republic.

Methods: During the elaboration of the paper, the methods of compilation of analysis, synthesis and description were used on the basis of the search of the relevant literature. Part of the paper is a survey, which we conducted through a questionnaire on a selected sample of non-profit organizations in the Slovak Republic.

Findings & Value added: The results of the survey we have transported into general practice recommendations for non-profit organizations to improve their operating in the conditions of Slovakia while accepting the process of globalization.
Contextual Non-financial Analysis of Annual Reports of Slovak, Turkish and Ukrainian Companies
Authors: Kubaščíková Zuzana , Tumpach Miloš , Juhászová Zuzana , Zeytinoglu Emin , Chyzhevska Lyudmyla
Published: January 2021

Research background: Various sources of information are available to assess possible and future financial results for stakeholders. The annual reports of companies should also include information on the risks of the environment in which the company operates and doing business. Textual analysis of annual reports can assess behavioral aspects of accounting as a source of information for decision-making.

Purpose of the article: With the growing range of annual reports being observed, or the growing interest of investors or analysts in the non-financial information from annual reports stakeholders find annual reports in support of their decisions.

Methods: For the purposes of comparison, we selected companies from the growing economy of the Slovak Republic, Turkey and country at war, Ukraine. In our paper we examined whether the tone and structure of language applied in annual reports changed over time alongside the changing economic growth in the country and whether there are any differences in narrative disclosure between Slovak, Turkish and Ukrainian companies. Then we compared the results obtained in order to propose reliable recommendations and tested whether it is possible to detect uncertainty of business environment in annual reports or companies by textual analysis.

Findings & Value added: Based on our results we conclude that non-financial “narrative” data could also correlate with changing GDP growth of the country. The annual reports are to point out the reality without distortion, which was confirmed to us in the analysis.
The Network of Bilateral Tax Treaties of the Slovak Republic – Does It Mirror Challenges of the Globalization through Digitalization? A Cluster Analysis Approach
Authors: Kubicová Jana
Published: January 2021

Research background: Globalisations and movement of production factors - especially capital and workforces, call for elimination of double international juridical taxation and consequently for negotiation of bilateral tax treaties. Recently global network of bilateral tax treaties has reached immense size.

Purpose of the article: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the network of bilateral tax treaties of the Slovak republic from the point of view of distance and level of development of the Contracting States.

Methods: To reach this goal a cluster analysis method is applied where clustering variables are distance between capital cities of the Contracting States and measures of economic development.

Findings & Value added: The main finding is that the Slovak republic’s bilateral tax treaties are clustered into 11 clusters, and three of them are the most numerous. This implies, that Slovak republic follows certain pattern when chosing Contracting Party. It is also found, that geographical location and distance have diminishing roles. Instead economic development and atractiveness of the country in terms of GDP per capita and total FDI inflow play more important role. These findings prove, that Slovakia no more follows old-fashioned pattern of chosing Contracting Parties based predominantly on distances, instead it adjust its policy of concluding bilateral tax treaties to globalization through digitalisation trend.
Management Accounting in Russian Companies: Analysis of Practices by Company Size and Industry Group
Authors: Lebedev Pavel
Published: January 2021

Research background: The paper extends previous reports [1, 2] providing detailed analysis of the state of management accounting practices in Russian mid-sized companies.

Purpose of the article: This study investigates the state of management accounting practices in Russian mid-sized companies.

Methods: Data was collected by means of survey. It is a qualitative study of interpretive and exploratory nature.

Findings & Value added: The study demonstrated that bigger companies have more advanced level of management accounting. The integrated management accounting score – a measure developed in this study to assess the state of management accounting in a company – was lowest in the group of the “small” mid-sized companies and the highest in the group of the largest “mid-sized” companies, while “medium” mid-sized companies scored in between taking the closest position to the average of the whole sample. Analysis by industry group revealed that the level of management accounting is more advanced among manufacturing and trade companies, while the companies from construction & engineering, transportation and services industries significantly lag behind.
The system of customs and tariff regulation of the EAEU in the context of globalization: problems, trends and prospects of development
Authors: Novikov Maxim , Zemlyanskaya Stella
Published: January 2021

Research background:Simplifying the system of foreign trade relations and providing advantages to individual States, allows you to increase the volume of foreign trade turnover and most effectively transform the structure of exports and imports of the country, taking into account its international specialization and competitive advantages. An integral component of the process of globalization is the strengthening of competition between national and foreign producers. In these conditions, it is important for the national economy to achieve a certain balance between protectionist measures and free trade instruments.

Purpose of the article:The purpose of this article is to summarize the theoretical and practical experience of using the tools of customs and tariff tools and develop recommendations to improve the efficiency of their application within the EAEU.

Methods:The research used methods of generalization, classification and comparative analysis of theoretical and methodological approaches to assessing the effectiveness of customs tariff instruments and their individual elements, methods of setting scientific hypotheses, grouping research depending on the conclusions and results obtained, and the possibility of using this experience to improve the system of customs and tariff regulation of the EAEU.

Findings & Value added: As a result of the research, it was possible to identify the most acute problems of the customs and tariff regulation system of the EAEU, to identify their impact on the economy of the member States, to offer recommendations for improving the tools of customs and tariff regulation, and to assess the economic effect of the proposed recommendations.
Evaluation of quality of life in the period of globalization
Authors: Stofkova Zuzana , Seemann Peter , Binasova Vladimira
Published: January 2021

Research background: With the rapid development of information technologies, the trend towards the complexity of the concept of quality of life is intensifying. It is rapid economic change, together with globalization, which is leading to relatively significant changes in the quality of life. The article deals with the issue of quality of life (QoL) as a composite phenomenon in order to evaluate the quality of life.

Purpose of the article: Subjective indicators of quality of life are analysed, including partial and overall life satisfaction in the European Union and in Slovakia. An analysis of the subjective quality of life on a representative sample of inhabitants in Zilina self-govening region (ZSK) was carried out.

Methods: The method of e-survey focused on determining the level of subjective quality of life of inhabitants Zilina self-govening region with individual areas influencing their quality of life. In the survey 540 respondents were requested on the satisfaction with individual areas affecting their life in Zilina self-govening region.

Findings & Value added: The result of the article is a comparison of individual indicators of the subjective quality of life of the Slovak Republic and selected EU member states. The survey of the satisfaction of the inhabitants of the Zilina self-governing region was carried out in February 2020.The evaluation of the results of the e-survey was performed. The aim of the article is to point out of importance of monitoring and evaluation quality of life and for the purpose of higher territorial units, regions nad local governments´ decisions.
Are businessmen a benefit to public policy? And if so, what specifically can they offer?
Authors: Urban Jan
Published: January 2021

Research background: The closer interaction between business and government has, on a global basis, drawn attention to the “revolving doors” issue, i.e. the movement of persons between high posts in the public and private sectors.

Purpose of the article: The main research question of this study covers the issue whether successful businessmen do or do not have better prospects for more effective political governance and economic policy making than career politicians or political professionals, and/or if politics and business require, for achieving their goals, similar or substantially different personal requirements.

Methods: The survey was based on multidisciplinary qualitative comparative approach and literature research, covering historical, economics, management, and psychological views. This method corresponds the complex nature of the topics surveyed.

Findings & Value added: The findings arrived to the conclusion that even a person successful in business may not necessarily have the expertise for effective public administration as well as sound public policy decisions. It showed that the opposite idea, coming often from businessmen circles themselves, fails to take into consideration that government, due to several reasons, cannot be operated like a business and many characteristics of successful businessmen do not fit well to high political posts, due both to their management style and “professional blindness” in terms of their approach to economic policy, e.g. international trade. Even though many management methods of successful companies can and should be taken over by the state/public administration, this goal can be achieved without the direct personal involvement of professional businessmen.
Competition criminal law: an international and global trend?
Authors: Fernandes Godinho Inês , Castro Marques Nuno
Published: January 2021

Research background:Competition laws have become widespread and as a rule have a sanctioning nature. DANVERS refers an exponential increase in legal systems that introduced competition laws in recent years, accounting for more than 127 jurisdictions hereto. Specifically concerning the trend of criminalizing cartels, SHAFFER and NESBITT consider it due to transnational interests, and SÁNCHEZ defends a link between the economic subsystem as the engine of globalization and the economic law with the latter – where economic criminal law, competition law, financial markets law, among others are included - being subject to strong international influences, and possibly being moreover a sign of democracy. More than 30 jurisdictions already have criminalized cartels and STEPHAN mentions that about 60 jurisdictions already present internal legal solutions combining a reinforcement of sanctions with the figure of leniency, in a “carrot and stick” approach to destabilizing and deterring cartels.

Purpose of the article:Considering the cartel criminalization trend in competition law, it is paramount to identify the underlying legal interests as a (global) recognized fundamental value, even if there are particularities adjusted to each legal order, and the purpose of the article is to identify the legal interests and adscription criteria that may be considered and retained as common in competition enforcement.

Methods:normative analyses of the law.

Findings & Value added:To discuss how to harmonize, in an international legal environment, competition enforcement.
Winner Strategies in Crisis
Authors: Langenstein Laura , Užík Martin , Warias Roman
Published: January 2021

Research background: Since the publication of Markowitz’ Portfolio Selection Theory, researchers and practitioners have been searching for the optimal structure of investment portfolios. An unlimited number of portfolio-based investment strategies have been created since 1952. However, none of these strategies seem to continuously generate overperformance over a long time period. This may also be due to the strong dynamics of economic development and other external factors.

Purpose of the article: The aim of this article is to analyze which strategies are successful in generating winning portfolios in times of crisis. Three types of crises are considered: first, the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001, second, the financial crisis of 2008, and finally, the performance impact of the corona crisis.

Methods: The data of the S&P 500 and STOXX Europe 600 companies are analyzed. The first step is the statistical review of the performance of companies in different periods with the focus on the analysis of the crisis years. Subsequently, the formation of portfolios is carried out according to known key figures such as high-low PE ratio, high-low market-to-book ratio, and others. In the form of a regression analysis, selected fundamental data are used to statistically check their relevance for performance.

Findings & Value added: The results shows that all crises have similarities in certain factors. However, they also show that companies with a digital business model are able to manage crises better than those without a digital business model.
Modern aspects of managing the financial risks of an oil company in the context of globalization and global change
Authors: Mironova Margarita , Romanova Anna , Burkeev Danil , Zaynutdinov Bilyal , Safina Roza
Published: January 2021

Research background: Globalization is a process of uniting the world into a single system of global properties. The globalization of the world economy finds expression in the process of the global space being altered where it transforms into a single zone open to the free and unrestricted movement of goods, services, information and capital. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the unification of economic life rules and the transformation of the system of interstate regulation of global economic cooperation. There has been a disruption in technological, logistics and business chains resultant from the world’s leading national economies closing and many economic entities which operated in the “real economy” shutting down. These “pandemic-caused” factors have put substantial restrictions on the income of companies and their staff while also fueling unemployment.

Purpose of the article: to research the company’s financial risks in the context of global changes caused by the pandemic.

Methods: The study employs methods of analysis and synthesis, statistical data analysis as well as regression analysis.

Findings & Value added: The main goal of the research is to study the main types of financial risks of an oil company, analyze the econometric model, and identify the main factors that affect the company’s solvency in the context of global changes.
Transformation of municipal Finance in the context of globalization
Authors: Morunova Galina , Gorbushina Svetlana , Kolesnikova Tatyana
Published: January 2021

Research background: In the context of globalization, a steady trend towards the formation of “open” economies in the context of the international division of labor, the idea of states defending their national economic interests as the basis for their economic and political independence becomes particularly important. The basis for strengthening the economic base seems to be the formation of sustainable finances at all levels of government, especially at the municipal level, which is directly close to the needs of the population, as well as the active involvement of civil society in ensuring the independent and comprehensive development of territories.

Purpose of the article: To study the transformation of municipal finances, turning them into the economic basis of “state-population” political exchange

Methods: The research is based on J. Buchanan’s theory of constitutional economics about the “state-population” political exchange as a condition of social development.

Findings & Value added: The research conducted by the authors allows them to conclude that due to the constitutional and legal status of the municipality, local government is the level where the real and most effective “state-population” political exchange takes place, acting as a driver of socio-economic transformations. Because of this, municipal finance becomes the economic basis for such an exchange and an indispensable condition for the harmonious sustainable development of territories, which gives special importance to the issues of their formation and evaluation of the effectiveness of public participation in the organization of their functioning.
Information Platforms and the Global Network Economy
Authors: Gojayeva Elmira , Huseynova Shahla , Babayeva Saida , Sadigova Ulker , Azizova Reyhan
Published: January 2021

Research background: The research investigates the formation of the intellectual elite; a radical modernization of the education system is necessary with the use of IT technologies and the introduction of innovations created on the basis of scientific achievements. The development of human capital is crucial for the transition from a traditional economy to a knowledge economy.

Purpose of the article: The aim of the article is to show how human capital plays a very important role in the country’s economy, the knowledge that is concentrated in it, allows you to develop a knowledge economy - a type of economy based on the use of this capital. The formation of human capital is associated with investment and high-quality modern education. Modernization of higher education is closely related to the use of information and communication technologies and the introduction of innovations. Distance education can be the beginning of a new stage of higher education.

Methods: The method of observation, concretization and abstraction, comparative analysis, abstract-logical, economic-statistical, theoretical and practical assessment were used in the study of various aspects of the research.

Findings & Value added: Large-scale reforms carried out in the state have led to an improvement in the standard of living of our society, and it has become possible to improve social infrastructure: housing, its construction, social and cultural facilities, health care systems, education, sports and fitness facilities, etc.
Customer experiences of technology-enabled business applications in smartphone-based mobile shopping: Browsing satisfaction, purchasing intention, and buying behavior
Authors: Nica Elvira
Published: January 2021

Research background: Despite the relevance of customer experiences of technology-enabled business applications in smartphone-based mobile shopping globally in terms of browsing satisfaction, purchasing intention, and buying behavior, only limited research has been conducted on this topic.

Purpose of the article: Using and replicating data from Statista, I performed analyses and made estimates regarding mobile shopping app user acquisition rate worldwide, EU consumers who use their mobile phone for shopping-related activities, preferred payment methods of online shoppers worldwide, and digital payment methods that U.S. retailers accept or plan to accept.

Methods: The results of a study based on data collected from 5,200 respondents provide support for my research model. Using the structural equation modeling, I gathered and analyzed data through a self-administrated questionnaire.

Findings & Value added: Mobile retailers have engineered their technological proficiencies to encompass digitally savvy purchasers. Smartphone applications created to help users in their ethical consumer performances allow and influence responsible consumption. Smartphones and the repositioning to mobile-device-supported purchase enable users to incorporate shopping into their ordinarily hectic and mobile activities. Mobile applications vary in respect of whether data exchange is essentially brought into and thus regulated by the recipient or the supplier. Particularly for financial grounds, applications which are extremely time critical are not as much adjustable to revision attributable to user misinterpretations or system failure.
Telemedicine as a part of globalization and tool for innovation from the legal point of view
Authors: Orviský Martin , Klátik Jaroslav
Published: January 2021

Research background: The use of various information systems is currently beginning to be increasingly promoted also in the area of provision of health care. This is the so-called telemedicine and nowadays can by considared as standard - the prescribing of electronic prescriptions, enrolling in a doctor’s waiting room online and so on. One of the last services in telemedicine was the introduction of a video-call with a doctor as a form of teleconsultation. However, the video-call with the doctor is not recognized by the current law and allows it to be performed only as an emergency form of replacement of medical examination during a pandemic-related emergency. The use of telemedicine for that raises a number of serious legal issues that need to be solved.

Purpose of the article: The main purpose of article is deal with the use of information systems in medicine and analyze the possibility and permissibility of using telemedicine from the legal point of view. The authors therefore analyze the possibility of providing certain acts in medicine and acts related to medical examinations online and analyze what conditions of personal data protection must be maintained in this case.

Methods: The authors use the method of analysis, synthesis, system-structural method and normative-legal method of interpretation of legal norms.

Findings & Value added: The main benefit of the research is the analysis of the conditions that a doctor must observe when providing telemedicine in order to provide healthcare in accordance with the law and proposals for the regulation of telemedicine de lege ferenda.
Users’ Behavioral Intention and Adoption of Mobile Shopping Applications on the Smartphone Platform
Authors: Popescu Gheorghe H , Mușat Mihaela , Corpodean Horea
Published: January 2021

Research background: We draw on a substantial body of theoretical and empirical research on users’ behavioral intention and adoption of mobile shopping applications on the smartphone platform globally,

Purpose of the article: We inspected, used, and replicated survey data from eMarketer, Adobe, Bizrate Insights, Econsultancy, eMarketer, and Retail Dive, performing analyses and making estimates regarding smartphone retail m-commerce sales in the U.S. ($), top reasons EU consumers use smartphones in stores, and activities EU smartphone/tablet owners have done using apps on their smartphone/tablet in the past month. Methods: Structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data and test the proposed conceptual model.

Findings & Value added: Mobile payment is a user-oriented manner of finalizing transactions as a result of the growing fashionableness of smartphones and the advancement of associated technologies. Superior ubiquity of mobile devices and swift mobile internet access result in higher quality offers and higher degrees of adoption of smartphones in commercial operations. Mobile retailers can raise the pool of prospective mobile purchasers by selecting individuals who are more knowledgeable in online buying and smartphone adoption. Consumers at a preliminary mobile shopping readiness stage allocate more relevance to omnipresence when compared with the habit in determining purchase intentions. As mobile consumers download and employ more applications, they confront the diminishing expenditures of acquiring further software.
The Use of Progressive Technologies in Logistics of Slovak Automotive Enterprises
Authors: Richnák Patrik
Published: January 2021

Research background: Rapid technical progress supports the development of advanced technologies, which increases the requirements of customers who emphasize the quality of products. We can expect revolutionary changes in every business area, but especially in production and logistics, as they will be most subject to the implementation of artificial intelligence, robotics, augmented reality, 3D printing and other technologies related to Industry 4.0 as a representative of The Fourth Industrial Revolution. Based on these facts, every enterprise is looking for new ways to reduce costs not only in production but also logistics, speed up and simplify the production and logistics process. One of the effective ways to achieve this is to use and implement progressive technologies in logistics. The aim of the paper was to examine progressive technologies in logistics that are used in Slovak automotive enterprises and then analyse selected technologies. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part of the paper is devoted to a literary view of progressive technologies in logistics. The second part provides an insight into a comparative analysis of selected technologies in logistics of 65 Slovak automotive enterprises. The paper used several research methods, which include: literature search, system analysis, comparative analysis, induction, deduction and visualization method. Progressive technologies in today’s conditions are a prerequisite for effective results in every enterprise in the form of economy and efficiency. The use and continuous improvement of progressive technologies in automotive enterprises must be one of the necessary activities in the management of the enterprise in order to maintain competitiveness in the market.

Purpose of the article: The aim of the paper was to examine progressive technologies in logistics that are used in Slovak automotive enterprises and then analyse selected technologies. The paper is divided into two parts. The first part of the paper is devoted to a literary view of progressive technologies in logistics. The second part provides an insight into a comparative analysis of selected technologies in logistics of 65 Slovak automobile enterprises.

Methods: The paper used several research methods, which include: literature search, system analysis, comparative analysis, induction, deduction and visualization method.

Findings & Value added: Progressive technologies in today’s conditions are a prerequisite for effective results in every enterprise in the form of economy and efficiency. The use and continuous improvement of advanced technologies in automotive enterprises must be one of the necessary activities in the management of the enterprise in order to maintain competitiveness in the market.
Globalization as the basis of marketing communication of a multinational company influencing the development of the local circular economy
Authors: Darázs Tamás , Šalgovičová Jarmila
Published: January 2021

Research background: Safe treatment of waste in a way that ensures that future generations of the population can live and raise their offspring in a healthy habitat is one of the challenges we need to address. It is globalization that is becoming the basis for the introduction of such business in our regions, in which companies convince of their good intentions with examples from abroad.

Purpose of the article: The work approaches the process of environmental change aimed at fulfilling the essence of the concept of the circular economy. The practical output of the paper is the evaluation of the marketing activities of ewia a. s., the aim of which is to build a facility for energy recovery of waste in the locality of Šaľa and Trnava. The paper presents the results of research focused on the views of the affected population on waste treatment and the construction of a facility for energy recovery of waste.

Methods: The work uses empirical methods of observation and experiment to collect and evaluate information. The logical method used in the presented article is comparison and scientific methods are supplemented by analysis and synthesis. A questionnaire is used for the obtained primary data and the obtained results are processed by mathematical-statistical methods and graphical display methods.

Findings & Value added: The contribution of the work is to find out the facts about behavioural processes in the minds of consumers in the processes of introducing the circular economy, based on globalization.
The Effects of Globalization and the Sharing Economy on the Intercultural Communication of the Young Generation
Authors: Hes Aleš , Švecová Martina
Published: January 2021

Research background:The pros of globalization processes are a challenge for society, but also a warning not to turn to society itself. E.g. disproportionate support of consumption and consumerist lifestyle can totally destroy the social belonging of individual cultures and the environment. With the growing globalization processes of the world’s population, communication is an important means of the stability of postmodern society. It can establish and eliminate the causes of communication noise, which can grow into a conflict. All this has an impact on the global movement of people and intercultural communication, especially among the younger generation.

Purpose of the article:The article points to the need to create a unified and fair communication platform for the young generation to properly understand their position and position in the intercultural environment and not to be manipulated by global communication, which is managed by multinational companies.

Methods:The main methods to be used will be structured analysis and simple description of facts, as well as methods of synthesis, logical and deductive procedures in order to identify and formulate the effects of globalization on the formation of relations of the young generation.

Findings & Value added: The article will present both a description of the current behavior of the young generation in the context of their possibilities of intercultural communication and a recommendation that information and knowledge become a source of economic growth.
International smart cities ratings and Russian cities IQ rating comparative study
Authors: Kamolov Sergei , Kornaukhova Ksenia
Published: January 2021

Research background: The global rating methods of smart cities rankings used in such international organizations as The Intelligent Community Forum, Center for Globalization and Strategy IESE and the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. International ratings are considered to be a source of information that allows everyone to see and evaluate the scale of it. Along with this phenomenon, the Russian Federation develops national smart cities IQ index which creates the case in rating methodology to help researches assess and better understand smart cities revolution.

Purpose of the article: Major international rankings of smart cities arise alongside one national rating through the prism of the following methodological objects: comparison criteria, scope and structure of the study, research goals and priorities, obtaining information methods, number of criteria, range of estimated values, frequency of ranking compilation and compilers. All mentioned comes up with the basics of global metarating and possibility of its creation.

Methods: As for the main research methods, we turned to analysis and developed our own criteria in comparison, synthesis of metarating and approaches to the study of smart cities development.

Findings & Value added: As a result of the study, the main criteria of the considered rating assessment methods and the basis of metarating were identified. Based on the study, substantiated conclusions are formulated, and scientifically based recommendations are given to provide the basis for further metarating creation and elaboration.
Study of SMEs from electrical engineering industry providing smart services in the Czech Republic
Authors: Kaňovská Lucie , Bumberová Veronika
Published: January 2021

Research background: A buzzword such as industry 4.0, digitalization and smart services are tracking economic news in recent time. The world has changed over the last decade from a mainly physical to software controlled economy. Many manufacturers provide a lot of accompanying services to their products. However, not all of them supply smart services with the expectation of achieving better performance, portfolio expansion and long-term cooperation with their customers.

Purpose of the article: The aim of the paper is to find out differences between providers and non-providers of smart services and across subcategory of smart service providers in cooperation flexibility, innovation flexibility in product and accompanying services and performance.

Methods: A quantitative research was held among 112 electro-technical SMEs in Czech Republic. The analysis is based on descriptive statistics and non-parametric tests to compare the differences in electrical industry and across providers of smart services in key areas.

Findings & Value added: The findings show that the differences are statistically significant. The results in the field of electrical engineering suggest that the found diversity (patterns of behavior) could also help managers in this field and policies aimed at supporting the development of small businesses in this context.