Welcome

Dear „e-mentora” readers,

It is my great pleasure to present the newest collection of papers. The diversity of the topics in the current volume reflects the ubiquity of technological progress. Among others, you will learn how modern technologies enable deaf people to take an active part in surveys, how students and graduates perceive the potential usefulness of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the academic curricula of Finance and Accounting Courses, how open source software supports the implementation of social innovation in SMEs, and about the impact of remote work, resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, on the functioning of Scrum teams.

Moreover, you can also read about the development of public policy on city center revitalization based on the Town Centre Management concept, the importance of structural capital for the intellectual capital of an organization, the process of building a personal brand by managers in service companies, and about more education-related problems: the usefulness of podcasts in improving English listening comprehension for university students and key competencies in the labour market from the perspective of higher education students. I strongly believe that this collection of papers will satisfy everyone interested in modern trends in education and management worldwide.

Appreciating the invaluable role of reviewers in the process of delivering the best quality papers, I wish to acknowledge the contributions of all of close to one hundred Professors and Experts who cooperated with us throughout 2021:

Magdalena Andrzejewska, Christoph Bach, Jeremy Bachelor, Ufuk Balaman, Przemysław Banasik, Jan Barski, Bartłomiej Biga, Piotr Bołtuć, Dominika P. Brodowicz, Jan Brzóska, Agnieszka Budziewicz-Guźlecka, Beata Bugajska, Wojciech Cellary, Nadia Cheikhrouhou, Ewa Chmielecka, Vickie S. Cook, Adam Czerwiński, Patrick Dougherty, Wojciech Dyduch, Monika Eisenbardt, Osveh Esmaeelinezhad, Artur Fabiś, Jorge Tenorio Fernando, Bartłomiej Gabryś, Beata Gałan, Tomasz Gigol, Agnieszka Huterska, Ewa Jagodzińska-Komar, Joanna Jatkowska, Jan Amos Jelinek, Agnieszka Kampka, Hanna Klimek, Adam Koliński, Michael A. Kolitsky, Rita Koris, Jan Kruszewski, Wojciech Kurowski, Wioletta Kwiatkowska, Agnieszka Landowska, Krzysztof Leja, Regina Lenart-Gansiniec, Faye L. Lesht, Anna Leszczyńska-Rejchert, Anna Lis, Kinga Łazuga, Joanna Łukasiewicz-Wieleba, Joanna Małocha, Katarzyna Mikołajczyk, Bogusz Mikuła, Jerzy M. Mischke, Rafał Mrówka, Dick Ng'ambi, Małgorzata Niklewicz-Pijaczyńska, Hanna Nowak, Anna Para, Justyna Pawłowska, Marcin Piekarczyk, Jana Pieriegud, Anna Pietruszka-Ortyl, Piotr Pietrzak, Dariusz Piotrowski, Jarosław Plichta, Monika Płaziak, Lidia Pokrzycka, Daniel Puciato, Irena Pulak, Marek Rocki, Anna Rogala, Aleksandra Rudawska, Izabela Rudzka, Małgorzata Skibińska, Agnieszka Marta Sokołowska-Durkalec, Monika Sońta, Seweryn Spałek, Mariusz Strojny, Agata Sudolska, Zofia Szarota, Anna Szkolak-Stępień, Dorina Tila, Łukasz Tomczyk, Maciej Walczak, Piotr Walecki, Sławomir Wawak, Jan Wiktor, Sławomir Winch, Lidia Wiśniewska-Nogaj, Agnieszka Włoch-Szymla, Krzysztof Woźniak, Magdalena Wysocka, Przemysław Zbierowski, Jolanta Zielińska, Marta Znajmiecka, Michał Zubek, Joanna Żukowska, and Małgorzata Żytko.

They represent over 40 different institutions:

AGH University of Science and Technology, Akita International University (Japan), Amirkabir University of Technology (Iran), Budapest Business School (Hungary), City University of New York (USA), Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovak Republic), Cracow University of Economics, Excelsior College (USA), Hacettepe University (Turkey), HafenCity Universitat Hamburg (Germany), Heartland Community College (USA), Higher Institute of Technological Studies of Beja (Tunisia), Jagiellonian University, Jesuit University Ignatianum, Kazimierz Wielki University, Kozminski University, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Maritime University of Szczecin, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poznan School of Logistics, Poznań University of Economics and Business, SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Silesian University of Technology, Sao Paulo State Tech College (FATEC) (Brazil), The Maria Grzegorzewska University, University of Cape Town (RSA), University of Economics in Katowice, University of Illinois Springfield (USA), University of Lodz, University of Opole, University of Silesia, University of Szczecin, University of Texas at El Paso (USA), University of Warmia and Mazury, University of Warsaw, University of Wrocław, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, WSB University in Wrocław.

The growing number of reviewers from all over the world is a result of the "e-mentor" successful struggle for internationalization. At the same time, our constant effort is to create the opportunity for authors with different backgrounds to share their ideas and academic outcomes. "E-mentor" is an open-access journal available for free both online and in printed form. All scientific papers are peer-reviewed. Every article gets its individual DOI registered in Crossref, and the journal is indexed in several global databases, including Web of Science ESCI and EBSCO. There is no publishing fee for the authors. More detailed instructions are available online at http://www.e-mentor.edu.pl/eng/page/8/Info_for_Authors. If you have any questions concerning the publications in "e-mentor", please contact the editorial team at redakcja@e-mentor.edu.pl.

Małgorzata Marchewka
Editor