prof. Ing. Tomáš Klieštik, PhD.

Courses taught:

Education and academic development:
prof. – Inaugural lecture, University of Žilina, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, field of study 3.3.16 Business Economics and Management, inaugural lecture title: Modelling Credit Risks, 2014.
doc. – Habilitated, University of Žilina, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, field of study 3.3.11 Sectoral and Cross-Sectoral Economics, habilitation lecture title: Application of Selected Quantitative Methods in the Management of a Transport Company, 2007.
PhD. – External doctoral studies, University of Žilina, Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, field of study 62-03-9 Sectoral and Cross-Sectoral Economics, dissertation title: Proposal of Methodologies for Investment Decision-Making in Road Transport Companies, 2005.
Ing. – University of Economics in Bratislava, Faculty of Economic Informatics, field of study: 3.3.25 Econometrics and Operations Research, 1998.

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Research focus:
prof. Ing. Tomáš Klieštik, PhD., is a prominent scientific figure and a leading expert in the application of mathematical-statistical methods in financial management and finance. His professional profile was shaped after studying Operations Research and Econometrics at the Faculty of Economic Informatics, University of Economics in Bratislava, in the environment of Faculty PEDAS, University of Žilina, where he completed his doctoral studies, habilitated, and was appointed professor. In his research activity, he cuts across a pentalogy of fundamental problems, or issues, in financial management: i) prediction of financial health, ii) earnings management, iii) cost of capital, iv) quantification and diversification of risks, and v) optimization of corporate outputs based on tax shields. Recently, in response to paradigmatic changes in society, he has also begun focusing on the digital and SMART economy with an emphasis on IoT and Digital Twins. Through his research activities and by supervising bachelor's, master's, and doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers, and young scientists, he builds the necessary school of financial management, without which many research activities, not only at Faculty PEDAS, would very likely have to be scaled back. It is worth recognizing his activities aimed at nurturing the young scientific generation, as evidenced by the exceptionally productive research and publication activity of collaborators from his research school. Several of them have received prestigious awards, participate in research of a transnational character, publish in recognized international scientific journals, are members of the research teams of significant national and international projects, and sit on the editorial boards of renowned scientific journals. He has completed research stays in the Russian Federation, the Czech Republic, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, and Croatia. He is Head of the Department of Economics, Faculty PEDAS, University of Žilina. He is a member of several scientific boards at home and abroad. He is also a member of several editorial boards of renowned indexed and impacted foreign journals. Last but not least, he is guarantor and editor of the proceedings of the largest international scientific conference in the social sciences in Central Europe, “Globalization and its Socio-Economic Consequences.” In 2020, he received the Literary Fund Award, Section for Scientific and Professional Literature and Computer Programs – the Award for Three-Year Scientific Impact 2020 in the category of social sciences. It can also be considered an extraordinary achievement that several scientific articles in which he features as an author have received the prestigious Web of Science “Highly Cited Papers” designation nearly 20 times.

During his work at the Department of Economics, he has taught lectures in the following courses: business economics, corporate finance, investment management, financial-economic analysis of a company, financial management, financial market analysis, statistical analysis, econometric analysis, operations research, financial mathematics, mathematical modelling, company value management, managerial finance, quantitative methods in economic research, digital and SMART economy, accounting, calculations and budgets, microeconomics, general economic theory.

Most significant pedagogical outputs:

Cisko, Š., et al. (2013). Ekonomika podniku. EDIS Žilina: University of Žilina, 2013, 468 p. ISBN 978-80-554-0756-2
Cisko, Š., Klieštik, T. (2009). Finančný manažment podniku I. EDIS Žilina, 2009, 511 p. ISBN 978-80-554-0076-1
Cisko, Š., Klieštik, T. (2013). Finančný manažment podniku II. EDIS Žilina, 2013, 775 p. ISBN 978-80-432-0105-5

Most significant scientific publications:

Jena, R., Singh, A. N., Dabholkar, S., Kliestik, T., Chatterjee, S., & Vrontis, D. (2026). Modeling near-field communication (NFC) mobile banking adoption from innovation and knowledge management perspective: a fuzzy-set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA). Journal of Knowledge Management, 30(2), 609–629. (2024: Q1 – AIS, JCI, JIF, Scimago, author's share – 50%). https://doi.org/10.1108/JKM-01-2025-0130

Capestro, M., Rizzo, C., Kliestik, T., Peluso, A. M., & Pino, G. (2024). Enabling digital technologies adoption in industrial districts: The key role of trust and knowledge sharing. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 198, 123003. (2024: Q1 – AIS, JCI, JIF, Scimago, author's share – 30%). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2023.123003

Kliestik, T., Nica, E., Durana, P., & Popescu, G. H. (2023). Artificial intelligence-based predictive maintenance, time-sensitive networking, and big data-driven algorithmic decision-making in the economics of Industrial Internet of Things. Oeconomia Copernicana, 14(4), 1097–1138. (2023: Q2 – AIS, Q1 – JCI, JIF, Scimago, author's share – 30%). https://doi.org/10.24136/oc.2023.033

Sohag, K., Kliestik, T., Shams, R., Mariev, O., & Davidson, O. (2022). Capital market deepening, Governor's characteristics and Russian regional enterprises: A big data analysis. Journal of Business Research, 149, 340–352. (2022: Q1 – AIS, JCI, JIF, Scimago, author's share – 40%). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2022.05.035

Kliestik, T., Misankova, M., Valaskova, K., & Svabova, L. (2018). Bankruptcy Prevention: New Effort to Reflect on Legal and Social Changes. Science and Engineering Ethics, 24(2), 791–803. (2018: Q1 – JCI, JIF, Scimago, author's share – 50%). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-017-9912-4

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Projects:

Slovak Research Agency – NFP313011BWN6, Implementation Framework and Business Model of the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, and Smart Transport, 2022–2023 (€1,574,162.80) – principal investigator
Slovak Research and Development Agency – APVV 17-0546, A Variant of a Comprehensive Revenue Management Model in the Conditions of the Slovak Republic as a Fundamental Tool for Company Development and Reducing Market Uncertainty, 2018–2022 (€216,411) – principal investigator
Slovak Research and Development Agency – APVV 14-0841, A Comprehensive Prediction Model of the Financial Health and Prospective Development of Slovak Companies, 2015–2018 (€207,856) – principal investigator
Projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and SAS – VEGA 1/0428/17, Creating New Paradigms of Financial Management on the Threshold of the 21st Century in the Context of the Development of the Slovak Environment, 2017–2019 (€38,328) – principal investigator
Projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and SAS – VEGA 1/0656/14, Research on the Possibilities of Applying Credit Default Models in the Conditions of the Slovak Republic as a Tool for Objective Quantification of Corporate Credit Risks, 2014–2016 (€26,207) – principal investigator
Projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and SAS – VEGA 1/0357/11, Research on the Possibility of Applying the Fuzzy-Stochastic Approach and Corporate Metrics as Tools for Quantifying and Diversifying Business Risk, 2011–2013 (€18,987) – principal investigator
Projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and SAS – VEGA 1/3777/06, Evaluation Models of Company Efficiency in the Region and Research on Their Development Using Data Envelopment Analysis, 2006–2008 (€8,026) – principal investigator

Additional information:

Chair of the programme committee, member of the organizing committee, and editor of the proceedings of the international scientific conference Globalization and its Socio-Economic Consequences (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 editions, indexed in the WoS database)
Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journal Ekonomicko-manažérske spektrum
Member of the editorial board of several American international peer-reviewed journals: Journal of Self-Governance and Management Economics (Addleton Academic Publishers, indexed in Scopus – Q1, SJR 0.64); Economics, Management, and Financial Markets (Addleton Academic Publishers, indexed in Scopus – Q1, SJR 0.61); Geopolitics, History, and International Relations (Addleton Academic Publishers, indexed in Scopus – Q1, SJR 0.5)
Member of the editorial board of the scientific journal International Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management, Novi Sad, Serbia (Scopus)
Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Operation and Economics of Transport and Communications, University of Žilina (Slovakia)
Member of the Scientific Board of the University of Žilina (Slovakia)
Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Economics and Management, Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (Slovakia)
Member of the Scientific Board of the Faculty of Economics, Saint Petersburg State University of Economics (Russian Federation)
Member of the Scientific Board of the Institute of Chemical Technology in České Budějovice (Czech Republic)
Member of the American Economic Association
Member of the American Association for Economic Research
Member of the Royal Economic Society
Member of the World Economics Association
Member of the European Economic Association
Member and Vice-Chair of the Social Sciences College of the Slovak Research and Development Agency (APVV)
Member of the committee for VEGA projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and SAS
Member of the committee for APVV projects funded by the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic and the Slovak Research and Development Agency
Reviewer and ad hoc reviewer for various indexed (Web of Science/Scopus) and impacted journals and conference proceedings