Gabriela Dubcová’s research while affiliated with University of Economics in Bratislava and other places

The development of the approach of organizations to environmental protection went through several stages from the passive approach, which relied on the power of nature to dispose of waste by its own assimilation ability, through the so-called. a reactive approach, based on a control and management strategy, mainly in connection with the adopted legislative measures up to the preventive principle. It is based on the fact that preventing the occurrence of environmental pollution is cheaper and more effective than removing it or bearing its consequences. Instead of focusing on control and management, the focus has been on finding ways to prevent negative phenomena. Businesses demonstrate their environmental responsibility in a variety of ways, such as implementing environmental policy, implementing environmental management systems, environmental audit and publishing their environmental reports. Many of the companies that care about the environment have this information published on their Internet portals, where it is available to the public.

Basic aspects of responsible and sustainable activities. The essence of the ESG pillars. Differences between ESG, CSR and SDGs. General rules for reporting on responsible behaviour. Principles of GRI reporting. ESG reporting methods and tools. Relevant information for ESG management communications and reporting. Implementation of ESG reporting. Implementation of ESG reporting according to OECD. 3 pillars of Research Design. Fuzzy Logic and Metta Analysis. Object of research UN Global Compact member companies in the sector "Software & Computer Services" in the V4 countries. Research objective - Status Quo of ESG in IT companies. Benefits of management and ESG reporting in leading companies.

The Proceedings of Scientific Articles and Studies is a partial output of the research project VEGA1 / 0708/20 Socio-economic determinants of sustainable consumption and production and represents one of the planned outputs within the research tasks solved by an experienced team of scientific and pedagogical staff of the Faculty of Business Management of the University of Economics in Bratislava. The aim of the Proceedings is to publish the achieved partial output of the project solution. Contributions are sorted in alphabetical order according to authors' names. The aim of the Proceedings is to stimulate new ideas for scientists who could contribute to the use of new expertise in sustainable consumption and production in the conditions of the current Slovak economy, thus contribute to a more objective view of the researched issues. I believe that the peer-reviewed scientific volume will contribute not only to the popularization of the presented topics, but also to a broader scientific and professional discussion of the authors and their followers.

The Proceedings of Scientific Articles and Studies is a partial output of the research project VEGA1 / 0708/20 Socio-economic determinants of sustainable consumption and production and represents one of the planned outputs within the research tasks solved by an experienced team of scientific and pedagogical staff of the Faculty of Business Management of the University of Economics in Bratislava. The aim of the Proceedings is to publish the achieved partial output of the project solution. Contributions are sorted in alphabetical order according to authors' names. The aim of the Proceedings is to stimulate new ideas for scientists who could contribute to the use of new expertise in sustainable consumption and production in the conditions of the current Slovak economy, thus contribute to a more objective view of the researched issues. I believe that the peer-reviewed scientific volume will contribute not only to the popularization of the presented topics, but also to a broader scientific and professional discussion of the authors and their followers.

Over a short period of time, the individual countries of the world must face a common problem that affects them and adversely affects the lives of individuals. In the context of the current emergency related to the coronavirus pandemic, fundamental changes and enormous impacts can be seen in the social or economic dimension. The article aims to provide an overview of the current situation in selected countries and compare the system of measures in the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic to stabilize or retain workers or eliminate impending damage.

The ongoing situation with the new Covid-19 virus has hit a huge number of countries whose populations and economies are under a tough test. No one expected such a catastrophic scenario in 2020. Coronavirus is a major topic in the whole world as no other up to now. Individual countries have chosen various approaches to fight the virus. These approaches have been influenced by a number of factors that either make the situation better or worse. Timely response, strict measures, discipline of the population, political position of countries, access or ability to produce or provide medical protective equipment - being the most desirable and precious goods of today, represent the salient role in coping with the situation.

Over a short period of time, individual countries in the world face a common problem that affects them and adversely affects the lives of individuals. In connection with the current emergency situation related to the corona virus pandemic, it is possible to notice fundamental changes and enormous impact in the social or economic dimension. The aim of the article is to provide an overview of the current situation in selected countries and to compare the system of measures in the Slovak Republic and the Czech Republic that were adopted in order to stabilize or retain workers or aimed at elimination of imminent damage.

International scientific project: “Social & Solidarity Economy (SSE) as Development Approach for Sustainability in EYD 2015” (Europe Aid/134863/C/ACT/MULTI, Grant Contract: DCI-NSAED/2014/352-248). The University of Economics in Bratislava – the responsible institution for research focused on SSE in Slovakia. Applied research design: hypothesis and aim, object, methodology. Specification of determining conditions for efficient SSE activities. Analysis and description of the role of the SSE entities. Evaluation of the attributes of supportive public policy for the SSE activities. Identification and recognition of all possible SSE entities from official public open registers. Confrontation of this selected databases with websites of each concrete SSE entity. Mapping the relevant SSE entities in the SR. Selection of the best relevant representatives of SSE entities. Segmentation of the best relevant representatives of SSE entities according to the adequate quadrant of the Power Map of the evaluated entities. Elaboration of the questionnaire for the research of functioning selected SSE entities in Slovakia. Completion and evaluation of questionnaires. Comparison of the obtained information with involved stakeholders according to their direct experiences. Evaluation and selection of the best practice list for relevant representatives of SSE entities (TOP1+TOP2→TOP6). Conclusions and recommendations for science, theory, legislation and practice.

Travel industry, it is not an integrated sector in Slovakia with measurable inputs and outputs in the system of national accounting like agriculture, construction industry etc., but it is the conglomerate of products and activities from various areas that mean travel industry is a sector influenced by other areas as regional development, healthcare, culture, education, sport, forestry and environment protection. That is why the Travel industry is not acting on vertical line but horizontal which mean it could include various problems which could be solved only by cooperation. Travel industry clusters are therefore everywhere in the World, Europe and Slovakia, too. In these subjects we could find typical vacation destination as Spain, Italy or Portugal, but very important subjects within clusters we could find also in Germany, Poland, Czech Republic or Slovakia. Clusters are supported by number of policies and initiatives within the EU countries because of their synergy effect and increased productivity of enterprises joined within clusters. To support individual enterprise with potential to create a clusterneeds careful identificationof their potential and potential of regions for smart specialization connected with cluster. For appropriate cluster identification, we have opportunity to use various methods, quantitative and qualitative, too. We have mainly focused on quantitative methods with the perspective to directly determinate achieved outcomes. Our objective in this this paper was to find possibilities of cluster creation and their identification in the areaSlovak eight regions. With this aim were haveused Location Quotient. Statistical data has been provided from statistic database and they were compared then with the real clusters operating in selected 8 regions within area of Slovakia. Identification of the economic perspectives of travel industry clusters in regions is the precondition of the originality of this paper as the starting point for formation of clusters and cluster initiatives within these individual regions of Slovakia.