Natasa Urbancikova

Technical University of Kosice - Technicka univerzita v Kosiciach · Faculty of Economics, Department of Regional Science and Management

The aim of this paper is to model and interpret the results obtained from the assessment of the Level of Excellence of Slovak service organizations using the criteria of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) excellence model. The Gompertz logistic function is effectively employed to fit the incremental improvement and predict the va...

This article contributes to the recent debate on the perception of migration and diversity; it empirically examines whether public decision‐makers and public administrators perceive migration and diversity as related or if they distinguish between them. It also seeks to identify the most important characteristics of respondents with positive attitu...

Border and administrative divisions usually have considerable severe impacts on the economic growth and sustainable management of natural and human on both sides of the border. Schengen border regions mostly perform less well economically in comparison to non-border regions, and the citizens and businesses are facing all sorts of barriers on a day-...

The European Capitals of Culture (ECOC) is the most ambitious cultural, collaborative programme in Europe. Up until 2000, ECOC projects were hosted by several national capitals and principal cultural cities in Europe. In the second phase, the programme also began to discover second-tier and less well-known cities hidden in the shadow of the cultura...

p> Purpose: to study social, economic, demographic, regional factors of digital literacy as a basis of digital prosperity. Methodology/Approach: Three research questions are studied, using regression models for cross-sectional data - Pooling model, Random effects model and Fixed-effects model and the Item Cluster Analysis method. Findings: Age, e...

The public funds have become a major source of finance for clusters in the last decade, also in European countries. The source of financing clusters and innovation performance of the countries is directly connected to subjects of the national/regional cluster policy, i.e. to its centralisation. The paper examines the relationship between European c...

Introduction of innovative practices in the management of self-government is conducted in order to increase the efficiency and quality of public goods and services. The paper deals with process management as part of the modernization processes in reform of public administration in Slovakia in terms of the concept of New Public Management. Empirical...

div> Purpose: The aim of the paper is to present an enhanced internal quality assurance model based on the requirements of ISO 9001:2015 European Standards and Guidelines (ESG) principles, criteria for accreditation, and data management support in the web-based environment developed within the European Structural Fund (ESF) project. Methodology/Ap...

By area, the Slovak Republic is considered to be a small European country. There are dramatic differences between Slovak cities and regions both in economic and social terms. Public investment is supposed to bring a positive impact on the dynamics of economic development, economy growth and its overall performance; nonetheless, it is town and regio...

Supporting and financing geographically concentrated industrial clusters became an object of public regional policies as the positive effects raising from spillover of knowledge among the clustered firms and institutions is believed to supporting growth of regional economies. An interesting dimension of the industrial cluster financing is a mode of...

The paper highlights the link between the European Capital of Culture (ECoC) designation and the development of cultural tourism in Europe. Cultural tourism is the fastest growing segment of tourism in the world and is the desirable objective of new defined cultural policies in European cities. According to the European Commission (2012), it is est...

The strategic decision-making may be studied as a process which takes into consideration several criteria. Regionalisation of the accessing countries is one of the key conditions represented particularly with regard to so called Chapter 21 and it is the assumption of satisfactory regional administrative capacity for the European regional policy imp...

The energy sector forms a basis of the economic development of a country or a region. The aim of the paper is to analyse the energy sector in the Kosice region, focusing on the knowledge potential level of firms and research and educational institutions. The research does not rely only on secondary data; it is based also on knowledge obtained from...

The paper is focused on the process of identification of the technological platforms and innovation areas with high regional impact. The aim is to discover future fields of technological innovation which are having a high qualitative and quantitative demand of high potentials. The research has been undertaken within project Innovative Development o...

Innovations are considered to discover new solutions to exploit novelty in the technological, but in social and economic fields as well. It means, the concept of innovations is true also for a sustainable development. The sustainability of the regional strategies is studied at the background of the regionalisation of the governance system. Particul...

The regional policies of the advanced countries are focused on the regional competitiveness enhancement thought four main factors – economical activities structure, the level of innovation, the degree of accessibility of the region and level of labour force education. The innovations are considered to be the key driving factor of the economical gro...

The regional policies of the advanced countries are focused on the regional competitiveness enhancement thought four main factors - economical activities structure, the level of innovation, the degree of accessibility of the region and level of labour force education. The innovations are considered to be the key driving factor of the economical gro...

Women as Engineering Students in Slovakia. In spite of the fact that in the last decades the number of women who have decided to study in higher education institutions has been continuously increasing in all European countries, in engineering studies on the contrary, there are only 20 per cent of female students. Even though the percentage of the f...

Strategic Planning is a creative, practical planning process for community change. Community Strategic Planning produces a visionary statement of what the community wants to be 10 to 20 years in the future. There is no one ideal strategic planning process that has worked for all communities and community groups. Different communities have successfu...

The paper deals with the utilisation of the marketing mix tools for the improvement of the educational services in the area of continuing education. The individual elements of the marketing miy are described with the special focus on the continuing educaion services. The recommendations for the continuing education practitioners are included as wel...