This is the 14th event of the International Conference on Management (ICoM) conference series which was started in 2011 with the idea to bring together scientists, researchers, PhD students and the representatives of the business sector to exchange and share their experiences and research results about contemporary management and social issues. The conceptual originators and founders of the conference were Prof. Dr. Felicjan Bylok and Prof. Dr. Csaba Bálint Illés and the purpose of establishing was to enable researchers from the partner universities to meet annually in a different country of the Visegrád Group.
The conference covers a broad range of topics within the field of management science, aligned with the key issues and developments of the period. The 2026 conference is dedicated to explore key contemporary research questions: how sustainability and competitiveness can be jointly advanced, what new challenges businesses face in an era characterised by sustainability-driven strategies, digital transformation, and artificial intelligence. The conference places particular emphasis on high-quality, innovative research that examines how enterprises can achieve and sustain competitiveness within an increasingly dynamic economic, environmental, and social landscape.
The conference provides opportunity for scientists and professionals from various areas of knowledge and disciplines to meet each other, to share their experiences, research results and theoretical studies and to build and strengthen international cooperation for improving the quality of scientific research.
An additional goal of the conference is building bridge between experienced researchers with the young researchers and PhD students to start new relationships and research networks to work together the next generations.