Trade Operations in International Business
- Credits: 10
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 16sP
- Semester: winter
- Year: 2
- Faculty of Commerce
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Students will obtain following knowledge:
- ability to understand the issues of trade operations in international business,
- the overview, categorization and regulation of trade operations in international business,
- contractual provision of various forms and specifications of trade operations used in
international business.
Upon successful finishing of the course, students will acquire the following competencies:
- interpret knowledge in practice with regard to the conditions of international trade
operations in international business,
- communicate at the required level within the assigned work team,
- implement business operations and create new strategies for further development of the
use of business operations in a changing international business,
- evaluate the acquired theoretical knowledge and innovations in the field and propose new
methods and forms of trade operations in a rapidly changing international business,
- lead a discussion in the field of proposed new methods and forms of trade operations in the circle of experts on the given issue.
Upon successful finishing of the course, students will acquire the following skills:
- use all the acquired knowledge in performing unpredictable tasks and solving various
problems in the field of business operations in international business,
- present the achieved results of research in the field of trade operations in international
business to the professional public,
- discuss and defend their opinions before the general professionals in the field of research results achieved,
- plan the development in the field of international trade operations in the context of new
scientific-technical knowledge.
Indicative content
• Classification and regulation of international trade operations and new trends in
international trade operations.
• International trade operations with goods affected by current development trends.
• International trade operations with goods using intermediary relations.
• International trade operations in the field of services.
• International trade operations in the field of tourist industry.
• International trade operations with intellectual property.
• International trade operations in offshore business.
• Fairs and exhibitions in the international business.
Support literature
Books
KAŠŤÁKOVÁ, Elena - RUŽEKOVÁ, Viera. Medzinárodné obchodné operácie. Bratislava : Vydavateľstvo EKONÓM, 2019. 200 p. ISBN 978-80-225-4611-9.
KAŠŤÁKOVÁ, Elena - LUPTÁKOVÁ, Anabela. Position of the Russian Federation in the Foreign Trade of the Visegrad Group Region. Reviewers: Nadezhda N. Bashkirova, Zuzana Kittová. Praha : GUPRESS, 2020. CD-ROM 137 p. ISBN 978-80-904926-6-0.
KAŠŤÁKOVÁ, Elena - DRIENIKOVÁ, Kristína - ZUBAĽOVÁ, Ľubica. Impact of the Geopolitical Changes on the EU Foreign Trade Relations with Selected Territories : Implications for the Slovak Economy. Reviewers: T. M. Isachenko, Peter Baláž. 1st Edition. Saint Petersburg : Saint Petersburg University Press, 2019. 246 p. ISBN 978-5-288-05988-9.
SZATMÁRI, Zsolt. Global Trade and Customs. A Practical Comparison of Major Jurisdictions. Amsterdam: IBFD, 2020. 716 p. ISBN 978-90-8722-626-8.
BLOCKMANS, Steven – KOUTRAKOS, Panos. Research Handbook on the EU ́s Common Foreign and Security Policy. Cheltenham: Edward Elgars, 2018. 560 p. ISBN 978-1-78536-407.
KLASEN, Stephan et al. Trade preferences for LDCs. Are they effective? Preliminary econometric evidence. New York: 2016. 16 p.
Articles
KAŠŤÁKOVÁ, Elena. Vplyv komparatívnych výhod na prehlbovanie vzájomných zahraničnoobchodných vzťahov Slovenska s Ruskom. In Ekonomický časopis : časopis pre ekonomickú teóriu, hospodársku politiku, spoločensko-ekonomické prognózovanie = journal for economic theory, economic policy, social and economic forecasting. - Bratislava : Ekonomický ústav SAV : Prognostický ústav SAV, 2012. ISSN 0013-3035, 2012, vol. 60, no. 7, pp. 746-762.
KAŠŤÁKOVÁ, Elena - BAUMGARTNER, Boris - ŽATKO, Matúš. The Impact of the Russian Embargo on its Agri-Food Trade with the EU: Analysis by Selected Indicators. In Vestnik meždunarodnych organizacij : obrazovanije, nauka, novaja ekonomika. - Moscow: National Research University Higher School of Economics. ISSN 1996-7845, 2018, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 256-271.
KAŠŤÁKOVÁ, Elena - ŽATKO, Matúš - BARINKOVÁ, Natália. The Current State of, and Perspectives on, Foreing Trade Between the EU and Central Asia in a Period of Geoeconomic Change. - Registrovaný: SCOPUS. In International Organisations Research Journal - Moskva : National Research University Higher School of Economics .ISSN 1996-7845, 2021, vol. 16, no. 1.
RUŽEKOVÁ, Viera. Liberalizácia svetového obchodu: význam a účinky regionálnych dohôd (na príklade Európskej únie a Kanady). In Ekonomický časopis : časopis pre ekonomickú teóriu, hospodársku politiku, spoločensko-ekonomické prognózovanie = journal for economic theory, economic policy, social and economic forecasting. - Bratislava : Ekonomický ústav SAV : Prognostický ústav SAV, 2013. ISSN 0013-3035, 2013, vol. 61, no. 9, pp. 963-982.
RUŽEKOVÁ, Viera - KITTOVÁ, Zuzana - STEINHAUSER, Dušan. Export Performance as a Measurement of Competitiveness. In Journal of Competitiveness : Scientific Journal from the Field of Management and Economics. - Zlín : Fakulta managementu a ekonomiky Univerzity Tomáše Bati ve Zlíně, 2020. ISSN 1804-1728, 2020, no. 1, pp. 145-160 online.
KNAPIK, Peter. Vybrané aspekty ofsetových obchodov. In Ekonomický časopis : časopis pre ekonomickú teóriu, hospodársku politiku, spoločensko-ekonomické prognózovanie = journal for economic theory, economic policy, social and economic forecasting. - Bratislava : Ekonomický ústav SAV : Prognostický ústav SAV, 2004. ISSN 0013-3035, 2004, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 683 – 695
Syllabus
• International trade operations – overview, categorization, regulation of international trade operations in the EU after Brexit and new trends (digitization and e-commerce). • International trade operations with goods – contract of sale, special types of trade operations, ensuring the trade operations influenced by current development trends. • International trade operations using intermediary relations and trade operations taking place in special trading venues. • International business operations in the field of services – ensuring the purchase and sale of the investment unit, international and consulting engineering, export and import leasing operations. • International trade operations in the field of tourist industry and their significance and impact of the pandemic crisis illustrated on the example of specific countries. • International business operations with intellectual property focused on know-how, trading with international licenses, patents and international franchising. • Trade operations in offshore business, their organizational and legal form, important centres of tax havens and their use in international business. • Fairs and exhibitions in international business, contract conditions, important international fairs and exhibitions, specialization and importance in international business.
Requirements to complete the course
- Active participation in discussion within the consultations – 10%
- Elaboration of the semestral work with a content leading to the topic of the dissertation thesis - 30 %
- Semestral work defense within the final professional colloquium – 60%
Student workload
Workload: 260 hours
Participation in consultations: 16 hours
Preparation for consultations: 26 hours
Elaboration of the semestral work with a content leading to the topic of the dissertation thesis: 78 hours
Preparation for exam in the form of the semestral work defense within the final professional colloquium: 156 hours
Language whose command is required to complete the course
Slovak, English
Date of approval: 02.04.2023
Date of the latest change: 23.03.2022