Anna Pilkova

Comenius University Bratislava · Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship

This research explores the impact of document complexity and readability on user preferences for disclosure information on commercial bank web portals, with a focus on Pillar 3 disclosures. The study investigates the usage patterns of disclosed information by stakeholders. Through an analysis of web portal access variables and document complexity a...

This study aims to describe the existing tests for determining Emotional Intelligence (EI), identify problematic tasks, and determine ways to solve them. The article describes the most popular models of EI and their corresponding tools for measuring EI. Three main groups of questionnaires for measuring EI (ability-based model, trait-based model, mi...

The aim of the present research is to investigate the effectiveness developing Emotional intelligence in entrepreneurship, based on the principles of Challenge Based Learning. Suggested Emotional Intelligence training tools developed on the basis of a synthesis of the latest theoretical data and application software. The methodological basis of the...

In today’s rapidly changing environment, organizations are fighting a decisive battle for the most effective use of data. Owing to technological innovation, the volume, velocity, variety, variability, and veracity of data gathered, stored, and processed by organizations in electronic systems are rapidly growing. Analytics, process mining, and artif...

Emotional Intelligence (EI) fosters positive synergies for an intergenerational match in business. The main goal of this contribution is to investigate the components of ЕI for selected young people and seniors and to formulate recommendations for their successful intergenerational business cooperation in Slovakia. The 4-component instrumental mode...

At the time of Covid 19 pandemic, one of the major issues that businesses started facing was poor supply chain resilience. Many firms could not survive due to the poor response of their supply chains and even more struggled hard to keep their supply chains floating. Researchers & managers started arguing that implementation of blockchain technologi...

The article proposes an approach to teaching entrepreneurship using the 4-component instrumental model of emotional intelligence (4EI model), which can be easily used in teaching and applied in business to form entrepreneurial competence. This approach differs from the existing approaches and contains a toolkit (questionnaire), which allows explori...

This study aims to present practical tools for developing emotional intelligence (EI) in training entrepreneurs, managers and business students. The study proposes innovative tools that allow consistent development of each part of the 4- component instrumental model for emotional intelligence development. The systematic approach is based on contemp...

Executive summary In line with the main objective of the scientific monograph, "to identify the status and dynamic of entrepreneurial activity and environment in Slovakia based on GEM data analysis, with an emphasis on the main years of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to identify key trends in individual areas of entrepreneurship, taking into accou...

Coworking spaces are flexible and shared work environments that make a significant effort to connect users with supportive networks that commonly result in efficient work outputs, a high level of collaboration and knowledge transfer. Recent years have seen swift growth and popularisation of the coworking model, making these spaces an integral part...

In Central and Eastern European countries, the generational gap between youth and seniors involved in entrepreneurship is a pending issue, yet the research covering the particularities of this problem is sparse. This article contributes to covering the gap in the literature by a/ studying key entrepreneurial factors that influence both the youth an...

Digital transformation is one of the key recent trends in business organizations, entire business sectors, and whole economies, and it reflects the recent economic, social, and technological challenges across societies. One of such challenges is the intergenerational context of (not-only) business enterprises that has become apparently relevant in...

The dataset presented in this article represents the pre-processed web server log file of the commercial bank. The source of data is the web server of the bank and keeps access of web users starting the year 2009 till 2012. It contains accesses to the bank website during and after the financial crisis. Unnecessary data saved by the web server was r...

The methods presented in this article were created to model and describe the behaviour of the web users of a bank institution web portal. The source dataset is represented by a log file of the commercial bank web server. The analysis is oriented on examining the behaviour of visitors over an extended period (2009-2012). The years 2009-2010 represen...

The paper examines the interest of the commercial banks’ stakeholders in Pillar 3 disclosures and their behaviour during the timing of serious market turbulence. The aim is to discover to which extent current banking regulation supports stakeholders’ interest in the information required by regulators to be disclosed. The examined data consists of l...

This paper aims to identify differences in the entrepreneurial process across Slovak regions (NUTS 3 level) for the population as well as youth and seniors based on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data. A pooled sample was created using the adult population survey (APS) individual-level data for Slovakia (2016-2020). We implemented descri...

Market discipline has been a scrutinized area since the last financial crisis in 2008. Regulators strengthened their role particularly through Pillar 3 in Basel III. However, there are still some aspects of market discipline that deserve special attention to avoid future failures. This study focuses on the analysis of the interest and behaviour of...

The Pillar 3 is a supervisory tool for enhancement of market discipline, which was introduced as a response to the financial crisis in 2008. The aim of this paper is an assessment of Pillar 3 disclosures as a tool for market discipline enhancement, which is supported by the analysis of the website data dedicated to Pillar 3 disclosures of the banki...

The main objective of the scientific monograph is to determine the key characteristics, trends in entrepreneurial development at the national and regional level, as well as the entrepreneurial environment in Slovakia and Bratislava ecosystem.

The book is devoted to supporting entrepreneurship in Poland, Slovakia and Estonia from the perspective of local authorities of each country, solutions available from the perspective of the central level, as well as the involvement of the institutional environment in creating conditions for initiating and running a business.

The main objective of this paper is to identify differences and similarities in the key characteristics of entrepreneurs belonging to the youth and senior generations in Slovakia and compare them with entrepreneurs belonging to these age groups in Europe, based on an analysis by stages of the entrepreneurial process. The results of our research sug...

In line with the main objective of the scientific monograph, which is to provide, based on quantitative and qualitative research methods, characterization of intergenerational entrepreneurship in Slovakia and, at the same time, the state of digitalization and digital transformation from the perspective of the generations, the summary contains key f...

Small and medium-sized entrepreneurship in Slovakia represents a key segment of the business sector, that contributes to macroeconomic growth, and is the basis of the country's competitiveness. However, entrepreneurship is also the backbone of the local economic development in Slovakia. In theory proved by practice, the local government plays a key...

Purpose: The objective of this paper is to contribute to cover the knowledge gap on inclusive entrepreneurship of women, youth and seniors in CEE countries. We investigate this phenomenon from three perspectives: a/ a level of inclusive entrepreneurship both in CEE and Western European countries, b/ identification of significant differences between...

The paper aims to present an analysis of time spent on the web pages of a web portal by the web users. The time spent on the web page can indicate that the web page contains important information or has too much content. This article works with the preprocessed data from a log file of a web portal of a banking institution. The web portal pages were...

Although ageing is a universal process that concerns most countries, so far there are great differences particularly in relation to post-socialist countries . In Slovakia , population ageing appears to be irreversible in the coming decades at least up to 2050. Therefore, society must prepare to function under changed conditions and adapt to the inc...

Home-based businesses (HBBs) account for a considerable proportion of entrepreneurial activity worldwide. Among Europe’s new and established entrepreneurs, almost 45% operate their business activities primarily from home. Moreover, this option is most frequently chosen among youth and senior entrepreneurs. To better understand this phenomenon also...

Abstract: The objective of this paper is to contribute to the knowledge of entrepreneurial activity with special attention to inclusive entrepreneurship of women, youth, and seniors in Slovakia and Europe. We analysed GEM data and compared the results for Slovakia and Europe. A pooled sample was created using the adult population survey individual-...

The publication presents the findings on student entrepreneurship in Slovakia based on GUESSS 2018 study. It is written in Slovak language, with Executive summary available in English, too.

The main objective of this scientific monograph, Entrepreneurship in Slovakia: Activity, Environment and Selected Types of Entrepreneurship is to provide an overview of the current state of solo entrepreneurship, family-based entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship in theory and research as a basis for analyzing their state in Slovakia, based on dyna...

Study aims to empirically investigate characteristics of regional distribution of inclusive entrepreneurship in Europe through the selected less represented segments (seniors, women, youth) and to identify how entrepreneurial environment factors, macroeconomic indicators and individual entrepreneurial characteristics influence the extent to which t...

Purpose: The main aim of our study was to contribute to this increasing body of the regional entrepreneurship literature by a better understanding of the regional entrepreneurial activity in Slovakia as an example of post-communist economy. Design/methodology/approach: We exploit the existing measures of entrepreneurship from Global Entrepreneurshi...

This book is structured as a scientific monograph with an aim to provide a comprehensive overview of student entrepreneurship in Slovakia. The empirical part is built on the results of the GUESSS 2016 study, analyzing the student entrepreneurship in the country in the international comparison. The book is written in Slovak language, but it includes...

The main goal of the monograph is to provide comprehensive characteristic of the entrepreneurial status of women, youth, seniors and migrants in Slovakia.

The main aim of this article is to present an overview of different methods of economic, social and environmental impact evaluation. The content is as follows: first, the basic concepts are defined, such as impact and impact evaluation. Consequently, the current state of the impact evaluation of public initiatives is analysed, next, the theoretical...

ociálne podnikanie sa v uplynulých dvoch desaťročiach stalo témou, kto- rej sa venuje čoraz viac pozornosti a to tak vo vyspelých, ako aj v rozvíjajú- cich sa krajinách. Napriek tomu je však stále ešte málo publikácií, ktoré by sa výskumne venovali problematike sociálneho podnikania v jednotlivých krajinách a komparácii s určitými benchmarkmi. Vypl...

This monograph is a Global Entrepreneurship Monitor 2016 national report for Slovakia.

Entrepreneurial intention is the first step in entrepreneurial process. It is seen as one of the strongest predictors of entrepreneurial behavior. Measurement of key factors that influence entrepreneurial intention is still great challenge for researchers. The aim of this paper is both to analyse the significance of selected individual-level factor...

The study presented in the paper contributes to covering the gap in the area of sufficient information disclosure that also increases the interests of relevant stakeholders in contributing to depository market discipline and in being relevant to their interest within Pillar 3 framework. This paper is focused on an analysis of website data dedicated...

In this chapter the main trends in entrepreneurial dynamics and development of entrepreneurial environment in Slovakia over the last 5 years are analyzed. Generally, entrepreneurship in Slovakia is characterized by relatively high levels of entrepreneurial activity throughout all its types and phases of the entrepreneurial process. However, the ove...

Purpose: Age in entrepreneurship research is one of the key variables which is extensively studied from different perspectives. One of the newest trends in entrepreneurship related to the age of population is “intergenerational entrepreneurship”. The key to the success of this concept lies in a thorough research of the differences and similarities...

The paper studies the relationship between key factors influencing senior entrepreneurship and the level of inclusiveness of seniors in entrepreneurial activity in Europe. The objective is to cluster countries with similar patterns in senior entrepreneurial inclusivity and to identify the factors leading to inclusive entrepreneurship of seniors and...

This publication is a scientific monograph focusing on the three types of entrepreneurial activity in Slovakia in comparison to CEE countries and the Europe in general, based on the GEM 2015 data.

The paper examines level of the senior entrepreneurial activity at Central and Eastern European countries (CEE) based on regional comparative analysis of the senior inclusivity indices in Europe, USA and CEE countries and senior and youth inclusivity indices in Europe, USA and CEE countries both at early entrepreneurship stage entrepreneurial activ...

Inclusive entrepreneurship is concept that represents an involvement of under-represented groups into entrepreneurship with aim to help them to overcome their economic and social problems. The paper focuses on inclusive entrepreneurship in Visegrad4 countries. Its goal is two-fold: a/ based on GEM datasets to do comparative analysis of inclusivity...

This paper examines the determinants of total early stage entrepreneurial activity (TEA) within European countries and the different effect of these determinants on general population and senior cohort (aged 50+) in Eastern and Western Europe. We exploit the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) dataset spanning years 2001 - 2012 to address this is...

The intellectual capital has been stressed to play a crucial role in determining firm performance in current knowledge economies. Theoretical works as well as several empirical studies have declared its importance as a value creation driver. The aim of our study is to challenge these paradigms in the context of SMEs in Slovakia. Therefore, we exami...

Objective: The aim of our paper is to analyse the entrepreneurial activity drivers of youth and young adults in Visegrad countries, considering the opportunity/necessity motivation dichotomy. Research Design & Methods: We employ the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data for young individuals (18 to 34 years) from V4 countries for years 2011 to 2013....

Entrepreneurship plays an important role in economic growth mainly through contribution to creation of new jobs, development of competitiveness and innovations on company, country and global levels. Theoretical works and empirical studies confirm that entrepreneurial activities of individuals are key drivers of entrepreneurship development. The pap...

Scientific monograph focused on the analysis of entrepreneurial activity and environment in Slovakia http://znalosti.sk/GEM_2014/kniha.html#1

The paper analyses usefulness of the Pillar 3 financial and risk information disclosures to the commercial banks users. The Pillar 3 are specific regulatory disclosures requirements set out in the Basel 2 framework and incorporated into EU law and subsequently laws of the member states. According to Pillar 3 intention market participants should be...

In this paper, we focus on finding the suitable value of the time threshold, which is then used in the method of user session identification based on the time. To determine its value, we used the Length variable representing the time a user spent on a particular site. We compared two values of time threshold with experimental methods of user sessio...

The recent economic crisis has caused a significant discontinuity in the world of business. Companies and researchers are constantly trying to understand the key drivers that caused significant impact on companies’ performance and how to challenge them in the future. One still insufficiently covered research issue is the role that intellectual capi...

This paper studies the relationship between senior entrepreneurship propensity (entrepreneurship of the elderly) and national entrepreneurial context, in the European countries that exhibit either high or low levels of senior entrepreneurship. We focus on European countries that participated in Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) in 2013. We use...

The recent economic crisis has caused a significant discontinuity in the world of business. Companies and researchers are constantly trying to understand the key drivers that caused significant impact on companies performance and how to challenge them in future. One still not sufficiently covered research issue is the role that intellectual capital...

Starnutie obyvateľstva je jedným z vážnych problémov, ktorý zamestnáva ako politikov tak aj akademické výskumné tímy. Jednou z alternatív riešenia tohto problému je zvýšenie podnikateľskej aktivity seniorov. Počiatočná podnikateľská aktivita seniorov na Slovensku je pod priemerom Európy a je najnižšia medzi krajinami V4. Dá sa predpokladať, že jedn...

Entrepreneurship in Slovakia: activity, inclusivity, environment Monograph on Entrepreneurship in Slovakia 2013 Executive summary in english available in the pdf.

A B S T R A C T Objective: The main goal of our paper is to analyse business restarts in Visegrad countries on an individual level and to identify key drivers of restart activity from among perceptual variables. Research Design & Methods: The analysis is based on Global Entrepreneurship Monitor data. We employ descriptive statistics to analyse the...

The paper analyses domestic and foreign market participants' interests in mandatory Basel 2, Pillar 3 information disclosure of a commercial bank during the recent financial crisis. The authors try to ascertain whether the purposes of Basel 2 regulations under the Pillar 3 - Market discipline, publishing the financial and risk related information,...

The paper focuses on modelling of commercial bank website visitors' behaviour. The authors analyse domestic and foreign market participants' interests in mandatory financial information disclosure of a commercial bank during the recent financial crisis and try to answer the question whether the purposes of Basel 2 regulations under the Pillar 3 - M...

Intellectual capital, which incorporates skills and knowledge at all levels of an organization, has become the most important economic resource and is replacing financial and physical capitals as the most important capital in the new economy. Uniqueness, and hence the possibility of a longer validity of chosen competitive strategy lies within the i...

We use data cleaning, integration, reduction and data conversion methods in the pre-processing level of data analysis. Data processing techniques improve the overall quality of the patterns mined. The paper describes using of standard pre-processing methods for preparing data of the commercial bank website in the form of the log file obtained from...

The phenomenon of business restart, also referred to as second chance, proved to be an integral part of entrepreneurial dynamics. Considering the high level of individual entrepreneurial activity (14.2% in 2011, 10.2% in 2012) accompanied with high discontinuance rate in Slovakia (7.0% in 2011, 4.7% in 2012) ¹ , it is important to further investiga...

This paper examines the entrepreneurial profile of early-stage entrepreneurs and established entrepreneurs in Slovakia, as well as the compares the partial results of the profile from the regional and European perspective. The study builds on Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) data, and is aimed to analyze both to analyze the sectorial distribut...

Research of entrepreneurship today is an important area, where results are used not only in the academic field, but also in order to find possible solutions in the financial and economic crisis, as well as designing forms of business support and thus stimulate economic growth. This article contains the results of an analysis of the profile of en...

Monograph on Entrepreneurship in Slovakia 2012 Executive summary in english available in the pdf.

The paper provides qualitative research based evidence on the usage of the concept of intellectual capital as the system providing indicators adding value to knowledge management initiatives within companies in Slovak republic. Data in this paper have been presented and analyzed through descriptive statistics using histograms, bar charts, statistic...

The objective of the paper is the verifi cation of the fulfi lment of the purposes of Basel II, Pillar 3 - market discipline during the recent fi nancial crisis. The objective of the paper is to describe the current state of the working out of the project that is focused on the analysis of the market participants' interest in mandatory disclosure o...

doc. Ing. Anna Pilková, PhD., MBA Katedra stratégie a podnikania Fakulta managementu Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave Odbojárov 10, 820 05 Bratislava Email: anna.pilkova@fm.uniba.sk Mgr. Ján Rehák Katedra stratégie a podnikania Fakulta managementu Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave Odbojárov 10, 820 05 Bratislava Email: jan.rehak@fm.uniba.sk Abst...

Business restart is an essential part of entrepreneurial activity. The ability of discontinued entrepreneurs to restart their business activity is determined by their individual attitudes and aspirations, as well as by environmental conditions. Insight on business restart in Slovakia can be provided by GEM, world’s greatest study on entrepreneurial...

The issues of senior entrepreneurship in Slovakia, is currently not addressed by theoretical studies or government policies. Slightly better is the situation on the global level, where a limited number of theoretical publications regarding senior entrepreneurship were written. Increasing number of works begin to emerge in American and Australian li...

Monograph on Entrepreneurship in Slovakia 2011 Executive summary in english available in the pdf.