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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

The lens of business model element activation

Pavel Adamek

A business model is the foundation for understanding the functioning of a business entity and is a source of innovation and change. Therefore, developing a business model is necessary, and proactive activation can be a source of competitive advantage to meet the appropriate requirements in the composition of business model elements. The study aims to identify the key elements of activation in business models and to discover their significance. This study uses an expertbased approach based on…

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

Twenty years of efficiency research in Czech and Slovak banking – A bibliometric analysis

Martin Boďa, Emília Zimková, Anton Karaka

The article is a survey of 44 empirical studies that applied frontier techniques in analyzing efficiency of Czech and Slovak commercial banks in a hope to summarize the state of the art of efficiency research in Czech and Slovak banking. A sample of 44 journal articles was extracted from the Web of Science™ database, and a bibliometric analysis was conducted to identify the most active authors and most influential works to establish mutual relationships between them and to sketch the main…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2025-1-009 more

Assessment of the development potential of the tourism industry in Czechia on the basis of smart specialization

Tetiana But, Tetiana Pulina, Olha Bielan, Veronika Zidova

The tourism industry is constantly evolving and requires the introduction of the latest technologies and development tools, such as smart specialization, which contributes to the economic development of countries, the welfare of the population, and an increase in foreign Exchange earnings. The aim of the article is to assess the potential for the development of the Czech tourism industry on the basis of smart specialization using the integral indicator of smart specialization potential. The…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2025-1-008 more

How does top management’s environmental awareness influence green innovation: The moderating role of absorptive capacity and slack resources

Ying Yang, Jiaxin Zhao, Xiu-e Zhang

Based on the upper echelons theory, dynamic capability theory, and resource-based view, this study explores the impact of top management’s environmental awareness (TMEA) on green innovation (GI), the moderating role of absorptive capacity (AC) and slack resources (SR). Using the data of A-shared listed manufacturing firms in China from 2010–2023, this study finds that TMEA has a significant positive effect on GI. Furthermore, AC and unabsorbed slack resources (USR) strengthen the effect of TMEA…

DOI (& full text): doi.org/10.15240/tul/001/2025-5-003 more

The impact of Fintech on bank development: A meta-analysis investigation

Wei Wang, Songze Guan, Juan Li, Yuefei Tang, Tianyu He

To test whether the results of the empirical literature on bank Fintech are affected by the characteristics of specific research, the paper selects existing high-quality empirical literature to conduct a meta-analysis. It finds that the empirical estimation results conducted across various studies are influenced significantly by factors such as sample interval, estimation methods, measurement indicators for Fintech and bank development, and the inverse of the model count. Specifically, the…