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Call for papers – Monothematic issue 2026
Sustainable cities

This monothematic issue seeks to create a platform for interdisciplinary research on sustainable cities. Urban areas have become central to the global economy, yet they also face significant social and environmental challenges. Without addressing these issues, cities risk becoming overcrowded, polluted, and increasingly detrimental to the quality of life for their inhabitants. We invite submissions of original papers from diverse academic disciplines, presenting innovative research that can contribute to overcoming the key sustainability challenges facing urban areas worldwide.
Important dates: submission open date – June 1, 2025, manuscript submission deadline – October 31, 2025. Please inform the editorial office that the manuscript is intended for the monothematic issue (journal@tul.cz).
More information in Call for papers here.

Monothematic issue 2025 (expected publication September, 2025)
Transitioning to the green circular economy: The age of VUCA

We invite contributions from researchers and practitioners from the circular economy for our upcoming monothematic special issue that is exclusively focussed on the implications of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity on the sustainability of the circular economy. We recommend that the contributions be specific and targeted towards the scholarship and practice of the circular economy.
Important dates: expected publication September 2025 (submissios closed).
More information in Call for papers here.

Monothematic issue 2024 (published September 6, 2024)
Emerging digital technologies and their influence on elimination of supply chain vulnerability

This issue of E&M Economics and Management aims to expand the understanding of how digital technologies can be leveraged to mitigate supply chain vulnerabilities. The focus is on exploring the role of these technologies in making supply chains more lean, agile, resilient, and environmentally sustainable. The collected articles offer a comprehensive look into various aspects of this dynamic field. More information in Editorial here.

Aims & Scope

Among the key topics covered are Economics, Business Administration, Finance, Management, Information Management, and Marketing & Trade. More information here.

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.

Warning

Editorial office of the journal E&M Economics and Management warns that there have recently emerged false offers promising mediation of publishing in our journal for a certain fee. Editorial office declares that we do not keep such cooperation. Every single review process is standartized and transparent. If you are interested in publishing with E&M, contact our editorial office directly. The journal does not have any intermediaries abroad.

Choice of articles of current issue

Do inconsistent online reviews reduce sales for merchants on the platform? Evidence from China

Xulong Wang, Chenyu Fu, Feng Leng

Inconsistent online reviews are the norm in online shopping. However, platform merchants often believe that inconsistent online reviews have a negative impact on sales. They delete or hide negative reviews in pursuit of consistent praise. So, do inconsistent online reviews really reduce sales? In view of this, this study explores the impact of inconsistent online reviews on the sales of platform merchants based on the stimuli-organism-response (S-O-R) theory and service remediation theory, as…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2025-5-011 more

Carbon emission trading policy and green technological innovation in Chinese listed companies: A corporate reputation perspective

Xinfeng Jiang, Jiakun Xu, Rong Ma, Ahsan Akbar, Marcela Sokolova

The carbon emission trading policy (CET) makes enterprises’ pollution information transparent and is an important environmental regulation tool for China to achieve the goal of “carbon peak” and “carbon neutrality.” Taking A-share listed companies in China’s Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchange from 2008 to 2021 as a research sample, this paper chooses the implementation of China’s carbon emission trading policy in seven pilot regions as a quasi-natural experimental scenario and takes 2014 as…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2025-2-003 more

Emerging trends in food consumer behavior in Romania: A PLS-SEM approach

Simona-Beatrice Manolache, Daniela Nechita, Cristina Gabriela Zamfir, Silvius Stanciu

The agri-food market is in constant flux, influenced by economic, social, and technological factors, as well as recent challenges such as economic and health crises. In this context, consumer behavior adjusts dynamically under the influence of needs, desires, and environmental factors, aligning with market demands and conditions. The proposed research focuses on emerging trends in food consumer behavior in Romania, emphasizing the determinants of economic decision-making. To this end, data was…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2025-2-014 more

Multivariate time series models of development for countries with transitional economies and prospects for post-COVID growth

Seisembay Jumambayev, Katarzyna Halicka, Almazhan Dzhulaeva, Guliya Ilyashova, Aidana Dosmbek

The study aims to compare the economic achievements of the Visegrad Group (V4), the Baltic states (B3), Central Asia (CA4) and Balkan states (BA5), Kazakhstan on their way to joining the group of developed countries and to analyze the dynamics of their economic development. The results of studying the average annual growth rates of gross domestic product on the example of V4, B3, and Kazakhstan allowed for establishing the main patterns and trends of economic development in the pre-crisis,…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2025-2-001 more

A proposal of a relative weighted online 5-star rating system as a way to mitigate online reviews biases

Jiri Mazurek, Cristina Perez-Rico, Carlos Fernandez-Garcia

Online ratings and reviews can be considered an electronic word of mouth regarding the quality of goods, products, or services. Reviews provide crucial information for customers, therefore significantly influencing their behavior, and they enable feedback to businesses from their customers, increase visibility, drive sales, help in developing a brand and building trust and reputation among consumers. However, the current 5-star rating system currently used on many Internet platforms such as…