Published: 12.07.2021
In collaboration with their colleagues, researchers from the Faculty of Economics and Administration are addressing the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic. They have deliberately chosen the Czech Republic and Slovakia for their empirical research focused on issues related to the COVID 19 crisis. Both countries have undergone a similar development, with positive results and international recognition in the first stage, while in the second stage the situation developed very negatively and both countries were severely affected by the epidemic.
Based on analyses, their aim is to formulate a set of recommendations while seeking to estimate the possible development of multidisciplinary research and the relevant policy response. "In 2020, the governments of the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic made decisions in conditions of great uncertainty, and their decisions were often very contradictory or even counterproductive. However, it is now 2021 and we would probably like to and should avoid the mistakes that occurred in 2020. And it is the knowledge from the field of public policy-making and reactions of various entities that should be important as one of the bases for making further decisions," explains doc. PhDr. Daniel Klimovský, PhD. of the FEA Centre for Research and Development.
Prof. Geert Bouckaert (KU in Leuven, Belgium), one of the currently most respected scientists in the field of public management, has been invited to participate in the editorial cooperation in a special issue of the journal SciPap addressing the issue of the impact of the pandemic.
The text summarizing the most important findings is available here. Special issue of the journal is available here.
A special issue of the journal was published in June 2021. SciPap is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that aims to bring new knowledge from the fields of economics, business economics and management, finance, social sciences, law, informatics and systems engineering. The journal has been published since 1996, publishing four issues in electronic form. The full electronically published texts are freely available on the journal's website: https://editorial.upce.cz/scipap.
Prof. Geert Bouckaert (1958) has been a professor of public management at the Public Governance Institute in Katholieke University in Leuven, Belgium since 1994. He has held a number of important positions, such as President of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences, President, then a member of the Steering Committee of the European Group for Public Administration, or President of the Flemish Governmental Commission for the Efficiency and Effectiveness of the Public Sector. He is a member of a number of scientific councils, editorial boards of major world journals, has won a number of awards and is the holder of the titles of Dr. h. c. from universities such as those in Tallinn, Marseille, Bucharest, Budapest and Lausanne. He is the author of hundreds of professional articles, chapters and monographic works.
