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Research activities

Research activities of the members of the department are mainly focused on risks, supply chain management and management of innovation activities. It focuses on defining a business process model based on the discovery and use of business opportunities and on mapping the readiness of small and medium-sized enterprises to implement Industry 4.0. When research tasks are solved through wide variety of methods such as multiple-criteria decision-making, statistical analysis of data, data envelopment analysis, cluster analysis and selected innovative methods are also implemented.

Research areas

  • risk management,
  • supply chain management,
  • multiple-criteria decision-making methods (AHP, PROMETHEE),
  • statistical analysis of data,
  • data envelopment analysis,
  • management of innovation activities in companies (innovation methods and methodologies),
  • business process model based on discovering and using business opportunities,
  • readiness of small and medium-sized enterprises for the implementation of industry 4.0.

Unrated conference paper

FRANEK, Jiří. The Classification Of SME Based On The Survey Of SME ICT Utilization In The Moravian Silesian Region. In: MEKON 2012 : the CD of participants' reviewed papers from 14th International Conference. Ostrava: VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2012. p. 1-8. ISBN 978-80-248-2552-6. [Detail]
FRANEK, Jiří. Knowledge Workers: a typology framework. In: MEKON 2011 : the CD of participants' reviewed papers from 13th International Conference. Ostrava: VŠB - Technická univerzita Ostrava, 2011. p. 1-14. ISBN 978-80-248-2372-0. [Detail]
NYTRA, Igor, Lucie KRČMARSKÁ and Hana RŮČKOVÁ. Managers' Competencies and their significance for business competitiveness. In: Proceedings International Conference Increasing Competitiveness or Regional, National and International Markets. Ostrava: Ekonomická fakulta VŠB-TU Ostrava, 2007. p. 1-5. ISBN 978-80-248-1457-5. [Detail]