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I<\/strong>nternational M<\/strong>ay C<\/strong>onference on S<\/strong>trategic M<\/strong>anagement (IMCSM<\/strong>) is a leading international conference in the field of general management. This conference is annually organized by Management Department of Technical Faculty in Bor, University of Belgrade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IMCSM20 was the first international conference successfully organized online at Technical Faculty in Bor<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Due to the COVID – 19 pandemic the International May Conference on Strategic Management – IMCSM20 was organized on 25 – 27th September 2020, instead of May 2020.<\/strong> The entire conference with all supporting events were organized online – using the web conference platform provided by Zoom application.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Colleagues, unfortunately during the year 2020 we were all challenged with the outbreak of the new corona virus, which is one of the most acute challenges in present days. Also, no one was certain about the extend and the period of time required to fight this disease. Preventing the spread of COVID-19 is a top priority for the international community, including the scientific community as its vital part. Accordingly, the 16th International May Conference on Strategic Management 2020 was committed to support the fight against this pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Due to the challenges regarding the COVID \u2013 19 pandemic, the IMCSM20 conference was organized on-line and the participants presented their papers via an on-line platform<\/strong>. All registered participants were notified of the final schedule plan of the IMCSM 2020 conference, in due date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The papers submitted for publication in the IMCSM20 Book of Proceedings have been reviewed and revised versions of the papers have been compiled into two issues of the IMCSM20 Proceedings by the Scientific Board of the conference:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 1<\/a> | Issue 2<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The third issue contains papers presented at the 16th<\/sup> Students symposium on strategic management:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Issue 3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The intended date of the 16th International May Conference on Strategic Management – IMCSM20 was from May 29 – 31st, 2020 in city of Bor, Serbia. Due to the situation with the COVID-19 pandemic, the new date of the conference was September 25 – 27th 2020<\/strong>. The Final Announcement for the IMCSM20 is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The official opening of the conference was on Saturday, September 26th, <\/strong>followed by a plenary session, after which authors presented their papers. The platform used for communication and presentation of the papers was Zoom software for which we provided the detailed instructions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zoom instructions<\/strong> in English<\/a> and Serbian<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Opening Ceremony<\/strong> and the Plenary Session<\/strong> was hosted via the Section 1 link (Meeting ID: 421 144 2780; Meeting Password: 114084).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A trial session<\/strong> was organized on Friday, September 25th, from 10-12 AM (GMT+2), during which presenters tested their connection and made sure everything works as expected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants were advised to prepare the presentations according to the IMCSM20 presentation template<\/strong> which can be downloaded here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The schedule for the online presentations, which took place on the main conference day – Saturday, September 26th<\/sup><\/strong> is available here<\/a>. Every author had an option to present the paper within the allocated Section and time slot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All papers accepted for presentation at the IMCSM20 are published in the IMCSM20 Book of Abstracts<\/strong> and can be downloaded  here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The IMCSM20 Roundtables <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In frame of this years IMCSM2020 conference two thematic scientific round tables were organized within special conference sessions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  1. The most important factors for SMEs sustainability<\/strong>. Technical Faculty in Bor is implementing the project \u201cB.O.S.S. – Be Owner of Successful SME”, funded by the European Union in partnership with the Government of the Republic of Serbia through the EU PRO program. The goal of the training planned by the Project is to strengthen the competencies of entrepreneurs and improve their business by applying information and communication technologies in the field of marketing, finance, communications and operational management. This round table took place in frame of the IMSCM20 conference, with international participation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  2. Applicability of the Industry 4.0. concept in local industry as the potential for regional development<\/strong>. This round table gathered domestic and foreign experts in the Industry 4.0 concept, together with interested representatives of the industry, students and lecturers who want to participate in this event. The round table was organized in the format of thematic session of the conference, in which the manuscripts including the aspects of I4.0 were presented. The topics such are: artificial intelligence, machine learning, digitalization, cognitive computing and modelling, processes optimization based on smart technological devices, internet of things, machine to machine communication, cloud computing and similar were the topics of this session. Besides scientific, also the practical application of listed I4.0 concepts, with special direction toward sustainable regional development, were be the topics of this session.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n
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    Organizers of the conference are happy to announce that the International May Conference on Strategic Management is accepted to be covered by the Clarivate Analytics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Therefore, in addition to the EBSCOhost database<\/strong>, IMCSM Proceedings is also covered by the Web of Science<\/strong> and indexed in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index – Science<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Selected papers from the conference were be published in Serbian Journal of Management – SJM<\/a> an international journal for theory and practice of Management science. Serbian Journal of Management is covered by SCOPUS<\/a>,<\/strong> EBSCO<\/a> and SCImago database (SJR = 0.27 – Q3)<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Also, there was possibility to publish selected manuscripts of the conference in the journal The Acta Oeconomica Universitatis Selye<\/a> , which is indexed in ERIH PLUS base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Plenary Lectures for the IMCSM20 were:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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    Professor Dr. Valentina Gerasimenko<\/strong> is the head of Marketing Department at the Lomonosov Moscow State University – Faculty of Economics, Russian Federation.  Her main research interests are:  marketing strategies of companies in emerging markets, digitalization of management and marketing, management education etc. She is teaching:  Marketing (bachelor studies); marketing in project management; pricing in marketing (master studies and MBA); market development and business strategies (doctoral academic studies). She is the head of MBA programs.  Valentina Gerasimenko is the author or co-author of 36 articles published in the scientific journals, 27 papers at national and international conferences, 17 books and chapters and 19 textbooks. She is a reviewer of the conferences and scientific journals, as well as a member of the professional bodies. She was a mentor or a member of the commission of more than 150 final exams, 20 masters and 5 PhD theses, a participant of a few projects.  At the conference IMCSM20 she presented the research on the topic: “Digital challenges for management and management education”.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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    Dr Aleksandra Sulik-G\u00f3recka <\/strong>is an assistant professor at the Department of Accounting, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland. Her research and teaching interests are focused on the subject of financial and management accounting. She combines the work of an academic lecturer, researcher and practictioner in an IT company. The area of her \u200b\u200bspecial interest is the problem of tax optimization and transfer pricing in MNEs. She participates in an international V4 project, dealing with the topic \u201eTransfer Pricing in V4 Countries\u201d. She is also a member of working group of Transfer Pricing Forum, operating at the Transfer Price Department at the Ministry of Finance in Poland. The topic of her plenary lecture at the IMCSM20 was: \u201eCorporate Base Erosion and Profit Shifting out of Poland\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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    Dr Jacques Bazen<\/strong> is senior lecturer Entrepreneurship & International Economics at the department for Industrial Engineering & Management and research fellow at the research group on Regional Economic Development at Saxion University of Applied Sciences in Enschede, the Netherlands. He also works as visiting lecturer at the Higher School of Business at Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russia and the Hochschule Osnabr\u00fcck in Germany. Jacques has worked in business, as teacher in secondary education and as trainer\/consultant in economic and\/or society development programs (mainly in Central and Eastern Europe), before and partly also during his work in higher education. Besides teaching, he regularly develops international (applied science) study modules aimed at entrepreneurship and university-business cooperation. He has participated in at least 20 ERASMUS+ lecturer exchanges throughout Europe during the last ten years and participated in several EU and nationally funded projects for regional economic\/business development. His main research interests are in monitoring spatial and economic effects of government policy (in particular on energy transition, circular economy and human capital), as well as the relation between university and society, especially on identifying the economic output of universities, for example in terms of the development of regional innovation systems or in terms of jobs created by university spin-off companies. At IMCSM20 he spook about the regional economic effects of academic spin-off companies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Dr Dragan Pamucar<\/strong> is an Associate Professor at University of Defence in Belgrade, Department of Logistics, Serbia. Dr. Pamucar received a PhD in Applied Mathematics with specialization of Multi-criteria modeling and soft computing techniques, from University of Defence in Belgrade, Serbia in 2013 and an MSc degree from the Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering in Belgrade, 2009. His research interest are in the field of Computational Intelligence, multi-criteria decision making problems, neuro-fuzzy systems, fuzzy, rough and intuitionistic fuzzy set theory, neutrosophic theory. Application areas include wide range of logistics problems. Dr. Pamucar has authored\/co-authored over 60 papers published in SCI indexed International Journals including Experts Systems with Applications, Computational intelligence, Computers and industrial engineering, Applied Soft Computing, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research, Operational Research, Journal of intelligent and fuzzy systems, Land use policy, Environmental impact assessment review and research and so on, and many more. Dr. Pamucar is also the author of several professional books, in area as Operational Research and Decision making. In the year 2018, Dr. Pamucar was awarded top and outstanding reviewer for the journal numerous Elsevier journals like Sustainable Production and Consumption, Measurement, International Journal of Hydrogen Energy and so on. At the IMCSM20, he presented the research on the topic of: \u201cMulti-criteria decision making and validation of the results\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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    Dr Marija Todorovi\u0107 <\/strong>is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences, University of Belgrade. She has been engaged at all levels of education on the following courses: Management, Project management, Strategic management. In her teaching and research work, she has achieved substantial results: over 60 papers published in national and international congresses and journals, as well as several monographs. She is engaged as a reviewer for top tier journals in the field of project management and is the Associate Editor of the European Project Management Journal. She also works as a consultant; during her career, she participated in more than 20 projects, for different companies, public institutions and NGOs, engaged as a consultant, project assessor, trainer, mentor or coach. She participated in several programs of continuing education for business and management university teachers. Marija is a member of several professional bodies: Serbian Project Management Association, International Project Management Association (IPMA), and South-East Europe Project Management Network (SENET). Since 2018 Marija holds a position of the IPMA Young Crew Board Member. Her research and teaching interests are in the fields of project management, management of project-oriented societies. The topic of her lecture at the IMCSM20 was: “Circular Economy 4.0 \u2013 An Entrepreneurial Approach”.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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    Dr Danijela Voza <\/strong>is an assistant professor at the Engineering Management Department of Technical faculty in Bor, University of Belgrade. She teaches following subjects: Environmental Management, Business Ethics and Business organization. Her scientific work relates to the water resources management and application of different statistical techniques (cluster analysis PCA\/FA, discriminant analysis, artificial neural networks, control charts) in order to improve water quality monitoring system and define patterns. In addition, she deals with other environmental management issues. She is author or co-author of 7 scientific papers published in SCI indexed international journals, 16 papers published in international and national journals, 11 chapters in international and national monographs and monograph studies and numerous conference articles. In January 2009, she attended and accomplished HP Graduate Entrepreneurship Training through IT (GET-IT), as an IT training program for implementing new technology in business and he became certificated GET-IT trainer. In December 2011, she spent three weeks in Umwelt-Campus in Birkenfeld (Germany), as a participant of the international project network \u201cEntrepreneurship and Innovation\u201d, supported by DAAD. In April and June 2018, she participated in ERASMUS+ mobility program as guest lecture at the Obuda University in Budapest, Hungary. She is engaged on national project OI (179013) supported by Ministry of Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia. She is member of Union of Engineers and Technicians of Serbia. At the IMCSM20, she presented the research related to the prediction of water quality index variations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Conference topics were:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n