The Department of Economics and Management was established on 1 September 2022 through the merger of the Department of Economics and the Department of Management. The head of the department is Prof. Dipl. Ing. Bohuslava Mihalčová, PhD. & PhD., EUR ING. 12 internal teachers, including two professors, five associate professors, five assistant professors (one of them on maternity leave) and five PhD students work at the Department in the academic year 2022/2023.
The Department of Economics and Management provides teaching at the first, second and third degree in full-time and part-time study. The pedagogical activities focus primarily on economic theories, finance, business administration and the teaching of a wide range of management disciplines. The courses offered by the department provide students with the necessary theoretical knowledge, while focusing also on the development of practical management and communication skills and teamwork.
The members of the department are actively involved in scientific research projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (VEGA, KEGA and APVV) and projects of the University of Economics in Bratislava. Within the framework of these projects, the members of the department organise scientific conferences, seminars and workshops. The department plans to continue the tradition of organising the International Scientific Conference of MTS (MARKETING MANAGEMENT, TRADE, FINANCIAL AND SOCIAL ASPECTS OF BUSINESS), which has been organised annually since 2015 by the Department of Management in cooperation with other departments of the Faculty.
The members of the department present their scientific results at domestic and foreign scientific conferences. In their publication activities, they mainly focus on publishing results in high-quality scientific journals and proceedings registered in the Web of Science, SCOPUS, or other databases. The members of the department are responsible for issuing the scientific journal Business Revue and the online journal Management in Theory and Practise.
The department actively cooperates with domestic and foreign institutions, in particular with Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín, Prague University Economics and Business, the Faculty of Economics in Bologna, Ningbo University in China and Parthenope University in Naples.
