The public defense of Tural Aliyev's doctoral dissertation entitled "Exploring Influences on Consumer Behavior in Perfume Advertising" will take place on February 18, 2025 at the Doctoral School of Regional Sciences and Business Administration of the Széchenyi István University. The supervisors of the dissertation are Boglárka Eisingerné Balassa and Attila Pongrácz.

The Department of Business Communication and Marketing and the Research Group for Green Economy and Economic Ethics of
Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Social Sciences organizes the interdisciplinary conference Green Transition in Economy: Opportunities and Challenges.

The public defense of Admilson Veloso da Silva's doctoral dissertation entitled "Forever Ephemeral? – An Exploratory Analysis of Youth Self-presentation with Instagram Stories in the Context of Visual Mobile Communication" will take place on January 23, 2025 at the Doctoral School of Sociology and Communication Science of the Corvinus University of Budapest. The supervisor of the dissertation is Ágnes Veszelszki.

The public defense of Moaaz Kabil Mahmoud Mohamed's doctoral dissertation entitled "REGIONAL COASTAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT FROM THE BLUE ECONOMY PERSPECTIVE: CASE STUDY OF SOUTHERN RED SEA COAST, EGYPT" will take place on January 29, 2025 at the Doctoral School of Economic and Regional Sciences of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő. The supervisor of the dissertation is Lóránt Dénes Dávid.

The annual Research and Teaching Methodology and the PhD workshop of EMOK will be held 31 January 2025 at Corvinus University of Budapest. The morning research methodology presentations of the all-day event examine from various aspects what we have learned about artificial intelligence recently and where we are going. The afternoon teaching methodology workshop presents the possibilities and forms of effective integration of artificial intelligence into education with specific, takeaway ideas, tips and solutions. As the closing event of the day, the PhD workshop will take place, within the

The EMOK Autumn Research Methodology Workshop on Eye-tracking and Other Neuromarketing Solutions in Marketing Research was held on 22 November 2024. This time the workshop was held in an interactive format, hosted by the Faculty of Economics of ELTE.

The public defense of Ghayth Ali Al Laheebi's doctoral dissertation entitled "IMPROVING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE OF SMES THROUGH DIGITAL MARKETING ORIENTATION AND SERVICE QUALITY WITH THE MEDIATION EFFECTS OF COMPETI-TIVE ADVANTAGE: EVIDENCE FROM IRAQ" will take place on January 7, 2025 at the Hantos Elemér Doctoral School of Business, Management and Regional Sciences of the University of Miskolc. The supervisor of the dissertation is László Molnár.

The public defense of Dirk-Siegfried Hübner's doctoral dissertation entitled "ENTWICKLUNG UND ETABLIERUNG EINER NACHHALTIGKEITSZERTIFIZIERUNG FÜR UNTERNEHMEN – AM BEISPIEL VON DEUTSCHEN BÄCKEREIEN" will take place on March 3, 2025 at the Doctoral School of Economic and Regional Sciences of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Gödöllő. The supervisors of the dissertation are Gergely Tóth and Bernadett Horváthné Kovács.

On November 14, 2024, the Economic Sciences Committee of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Section IX, awarded the Department of Management and Business Economics at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) the "Jubilating Scholarly Department 2024" recognition. This year, the Department of Management and Business Economics is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

From the virtual trees planted in the game at the 2024 EMOK Conference, a real forest has now been born. 🌳 On November 23, 2024, the colleagues of the Department of Marketing and Tourism at the University of Pécs planted 150 saplings in Somogytarnóca, thus fulfilling their promise.