Welcome to the website of the 12th Annual DOKBAT – International Bata Scientific Conference for Ph.D. Students and Young Researchers that will be held on the 28th 2016 at the Faculty of Management and Economics of Tomas Bata University in Zlín.

This international conference will provide participants with the unique possibility of presenting and discussing a broad range of scientific and economic topics as well as a forum for meeting interesting guests and practitioners. The highest quality contributions will be offered to the editors of the faculty review journal – The Journal of Competitiveness.

Every year the conference is also attended by representatives from several foreign universities in Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Turkey and Slovakia. The DOKBAT scientfic conference offers Ph.D. students the unique opportunity to both present their research in front of a professional audience and to receive critical feedback. This helps students to improve the quality of their dissertation theses, while giving participants the opportunity to acquire useful contacts as a means of developing international partnerships and creating joint international projects. The conference will also include stimulating workshops with practitioners.