"The fact that dinner awaits us every day does not depend on the kindness or goodness of a butcher, brewer or baker, but on the fact that each of them pursues his own interest". Adam Smith

Institutional development of the workplace

The institutional predecessor of today's department was the Department of Management at the Faculty of Arts of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, which was established in 1996. With the establishment of the Faculty of Management at the University of Prešov in Prešov on October 1, 2004, conditions for the creation of new departments were gradually created. The Department of Economics and Economy was established on December 1, 2005. The Department continues its successful activity even after the extension of the name of the faculty (the change of the faculty name to "Faculty of Management and Business" took place on November 11, 2021)

Head of the department

assoc. prof. Ing. Rastislav Kotulič, PhD. (since2005).

Department members

There are 6 Associate Professors, 2 Assistant Professors with PhD and 1 administrative-technical employee working at the department. Current/past international internships at the department: Askar Mustafin (K2016 (09-12), 2017 (09) - 2018 (06), Kazan Federal University)

Education and research infrastructure

The workplace disposes of a standard scientific and research background in the form of computer technology, presentation technology and specialized scientific and research software.

Accredited study programmes and rights

Although the department does not have its own accredited study programme, it plays an important role in teaching the major economic disciplines and co-guaranteeing the accredited study programmes at the Faculty of Management of the University of Prešov in Prešov. The main economic subjects of the department are Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Business Economics, Entrepreneurship in Small and Medium Enterprises, National Economy, Economic Policy, World Economy, and International Relations.

Research activities

Several research projects within the agencies APVV, VEGA, KEGA and the Norwegian Financial Mechanism have been carried out at the department since 2005. Thematic focus of the research is in the following areas: production and financial-economic analysis of a group of agricultural enterprises, identification of factors of prosperity and productivity of the company in general, ensuring the effective business management, sustainable development of regions from a production and environmental point of view, research on development tendencies and key determinants of cross-border mergers and acquisitions in a common European area, theoretical and analytical view of the organisation of the economic sphere, its decision-making and trends in the process of creating economic principles. Expertise for practice has traditionally been developed in the workplace.

Publication activities

The non-conference reviewed proceedings “Scientific Proceedings of the Department of Economic Sciences and Economy” have been published once a year since 2006 in electronic form. There were also created several other occasional proceedings from scientific conferences, university textbooks, scientific monographs, and other professional publications at the department.

International and domestic cooperation

In organizing the scientific seminars and conferences the department co-operates not only with domestic universities and institutions but also with universities and institutions from abroad. Its foreign partners were/are in the United States (Mid-Atlantic Christian University), Great Britain (Middlesex University; University of Lincoln), Australia (Australian Catholic University), Russia (Kazan Federal University), Poland (University of Dąbrowa Górnicza, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Rzeszow University of Technology, Czestochowa University of Technology), Hungary (Budapest Metropolitan University), Netherlands (Wageningen University), Serbia (University of Novi Sad), in Romania (University of Brasov), in the Czech Republic (Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, University College of Business in Prague, Technical University of Ostrava). Domestic partners are (University of Economics in Košice, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, School of Economics and Management in Public Administration in Bratislava, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra).