23^rd annual conference ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS AND SUSTAINABILITY 

 renamed from Enterprise and Competitive Environement

We are pleased to invite you to the conference with its new name Economic Competitiveness and Sustainability renamed from the Enterprise and Competitive Environement.

The conference is held at the Faculty of Business and Economics of Mendel University in Brno on March 26 – 27, 2020. It crosses traditional discipline boundaries and involves a wide variety of interactions ranging from traditional academic disciplines or schools of thought to the reality of business. Many of the issues discussed provide innovative ideas and combine the best academic thinking with the industry expertise development in financial services, public sector/government, information and communications technologies. 

Keynote Speakers

Makram El-Shagi		Hana Urbancová		Martin Kahanec		Bela Gipp
Professor at Henan University in China Director of the „Center for Financial Development and Stability“		Director of Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences		Professor at the Central European Unversity, Director at CELSI, Mercator Visiting Fellow at Bruegel		Professor for Data & Knowledge Engineering at the University of Wuppertal, Germany

Conference Fields

• Economic Policy
• Finance
• Macro and Microeconomics
• Accounting and Taxation
• Management
• Marketing
• Statistics and Econometrics
• Information Sciences

Conference Organization

The conference is held in English. 

Authors are welcome to submit original and unpublished research papers. Best papers will be invited for a submission to selected journals.

Conference participants are expected to serve as discussants of a paper of other conference participant.

Conference participants will receive a printed version of the Book of Abstracts. An on-line version of the Book of Abstracts will be available on the conference website.

Conference Outputs:

Selected papers will be considered for special issues in journals indexed in Web of Science (Social Sciences Citation Index) and Scopus databases.

Only the high-quality papers successfully passing a review process will be considered for publishing.

All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review.

Only the high-quality papers successfully passing a review process will be considered for publishing.

All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review.

Conference Fees

• The Regular fee includes access to plenary session, conference sessions, presentation of the paper, review process, conference materials, refreshment (coffee breaks, lunch and social event).
• The Co-author (attending), Passive Participation fee includes access to plenary session, conference sessions, conference materials, refreshment (coffee breaks, lunch and social event).
• The Additional Paper fee is for authors with more than one paper, thus, the Regular fee is applied for the first submitted paper and Additional Paper fee is applied for each additional submitted paper. Each submitted paper must have different content in accordance with publication ethics.
• Accommodation is not included in the fee. Registration is required for all participants attending the conference.
• * Payment confirmation will be issued in CZK. 

Important Dates

Scientific Conference Board  

• Radim Farana (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Jarko Fidrmuc (Zeppelin University of Friedrichshafen, Germany)
• David Hampel (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Peter Huber (Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Austria)
• Josef Jablonský (University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic)
• Jitka Janová (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Svatopluk Kapounek (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Martin Kvizda  (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
• Martin Macháček (VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic)
• Danuše Nerudová (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Daniel Stavárek (Silesian University in Opava, Czech Republic)
• Jana Stávková (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)
• Pavel Žufan (Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic)

Organisation Board

Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic

• Svatopluk Kapounek
• Hana Vránová
• Dominika Doubková
• Andrea Kozáková
• Barbora Šiklová

Contact: ecos@mendelu.cz