Corvinus TDK (institutional level)

In case of papers with co-authors, it is no need each author to register their personal data on the TDK’s online platform.
A joint piece of paper needs to be registered with only one of the author’s name. Then the registered author can add other authors. Then they can search for the name(s) of the co-author(s) from the already registered users and add them.
Falsely selected co-authors can only be deleted by the organizers of TDK during the same period.

Institutional unit: Department
The aim of the section is to address academic issues relevant to economists in the field of accounting and economic law and to provide a forum for students interested in these areas.

Institutional unit: Department
The Agricultural cconomics section encompasses the broad areas of agricultural economics and agribusiness. It deals with a wide range of topics, from traditional agricultural product path analyses, to the analysis of management issues of certain agricultural enterprises, to rural development and the examination of agricultural policy, to the relationship between bioenergy and agriculture. The section welcomes all students who feel they have the appropriate knowledge and commitment to the scientific examination of certain areas of agricultural economics.

Institutional unit: Department
This section primarily welcomes research related to artificial intelligence, with a special focus on AI’s impact on society and human-AI interaction. Key areas include: machine learning and neural networks, AI system development, large language model applications, and the social and organizational aspects of AI. We accept submissions in the following fields: AI development and implementation, human-AI collaboration, AI’s impact on the job market and education, digital transformation, information management and information governance, data protection and AI ethics, and AI regulatory frameworks. The section also welcomes research on information society and AI-based optimization of business processes.

Institutional unit: Department of Macrofinance
The Banking, household and macro finance section primarily welcomes theoretical and practical research topics related to the teaching and research fields of the Department of Macrofinance.
A. Banking System

B. Macrofinance

C. Household Finance

Institutional unit: Department
Our section provides an opportunity for both undergraduate and master’s students in the subject area of business economics to receive substantive feedback on their scientific work. We welcome students who have already participated in the business economics competition and feel that they have reached important conclusions during their research. The active participants of our section are students from colleges for advanced studies, and we continue to count on their active participation. The topics of competitiveness, business model, digitalization and internationalization play a prominent role within the subject area of business economics. We consider the environmental embeddedness of companies and a more detailed analysis of the key element of the stakeholder network important. Therefore, in addition to industry studies, we also welcome applications from students in special topics, e.g. corporate health development or hybrid working.

Institutional unit: Department of Business Studies
We welcome papers to the section from many areas of business sciences with particular regard to the field of business economics, international business economics, business policy, market analysis, competitiveness, sports management, knowledge management, corporate governance, and firm theories. You can find the primary supervisors below, but you are free to contact the instructors with your own ideas. We welcome all types of research, from quantitative to qualitative to mixed. We encourage everyone to proactively contact the instructors with additional questions or contact the secretary of the section.

Institutional unit: Department
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The section invites any empirical or theoretical research on how the media reflects, represents and influences the world; and language and human communications in all kinds of environment and context – by using scientific approaches from the fields of communication and media studies, linguistics or social psychology. Accordingly, the section is open (but is not limited to) papers in the following areas: social, corporate or public communication, language and human communication, psychology of communication, education; media and new media, marketing communication, media literacy, persuasion and rhetoric, framing, verbal and visual metaphor.

Institutional unit: Department
The section on Corporate finance invites papers that use empirical or theoretical methods to investigate the financial decisions of firms. For students who are interested, but do not have a fully developed idea, the staff of the Institute of Finance can help with the selection of the TDK topic and the supervision of the topic. The research areas, contact details and office hours of the staff can be found on the Institute of Finance homepage.

Institutional unit: Department
The section welcomes all papers that explore the digital aspects of marketing: the proliferation of online technologies, innovative approaches to designing, implementing and evaluating digital marketing strategies; online consumer behaviour and related decisions, omnichannel marketing; current content reflecting on the challenges of digital marketing, for example in the digital marketing activities of SMEs or marketing agencies.

Institutional unit: Department
The section will address the topics of digitalization and digital transformation, mainly along the aspects of strategy, organization, processes and performance, with a management focus. [1] Business models based on digitalization, networks, IT and competitiveness. [2] Digital strategy/maturity/readiness, management of digitalization projects. [3] Process automation and robotization (RPA, AI, etc.) [4] Digital transformation of organizations, the organization of the future, with a special focus on the management of business service centers. [5] Performance implications of digital transformation and performance measurement in the digital age. [5] Data-driven decision making and management (BI, advanced analytics, etc.) [6] CDO and other responsibilities and roles related to data-driven culture.

Institutional unit: Department
This section is available for studies that use the methodologies of actuarial sciences, insurance, decision theory, game theory, operations research, and multivariate analysis.

Institutional unit: Institute of Economics
This section expects papers from the wide fields of economic policy and macroeconomics, either in a theoretical approach or analyzing international and Hungarian experience. We welcome papers in any topic in economic policy or macroeconomics, from theoretical macroeconomic questions to the fields of fiscal and monetary policy, and to sectoral policies.

Institutional unit: Institute of Economics
We welcome papers to this section in which authors make research in theoretical and/or empirical economics. There is no further specification, any area of economics is welcome.

Institutional unit: Department
You can apply for the session with any business topic. For example: starting a business, stratups, operational/development issues of domestic SMEs, HR/finance/marketing issues of small enterprises, generational change, but also analysis of a particular set of enterprises or even elements affecting the functioning of enterprises (e.g. ecosystem, tax/regulatory issues) can be included if the focus of the essay is entrepreneurial. We welcome essays from students in the GM Entrepreneurial specialisation, but we also welcome essays from students’ colleges and student organisations.

Institutional unit: Department
The section will cover topics in the field of enterprise development, and will invite student papers that deal with innovation, the creation and development of enterprises and strat-ups, among others. The section is intended to provide a space for deepening and broadening the knowledge studied in the framework of the Master’s Degree in Business Development. We welcome research that deals with the strategy, market position, financial performance, innovation activities of a specific enterprise, or that focuses on a comprehensive industry study or a multi-faceted investigation of a specific economic problem.

Institutional unit: Department
The aim of the section is to provide a space for the presentation of research that examines the ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) approach, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and various aspects of sustainability. We look forward to research that focuses on the analysis of corporate strategies and practices, and studies that explore attitudes and preferences of consumer behavior related to sustainability. Special attention will be given to works that demonstrate how both companies and consumers can contribute to the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and the role of collaboration with communities in shaping a sustainable future.

Institutional unit: Department
The Europe section welcomes papers that aim to address topics within and outside the EU, (provide to European issues: Balkans, Eastern Europe, Caucasus, etc.), The welcome papers highlight from multiple angles, and to critically examine processes the chosen topic. They examine the challenges and status of our continent and integrations economically, politically, and socially. We live here with our partners and our responsibility is to understand and react to these challenges as much as we can do it.

Institutional unit: Department
The central topic of the section is the implementation of succession within the family or the continuation outside of the family (including the family constitution, the succession plan, partial or full exit options, and buy-outs, etc.). Another important theme is the professionalisation of family businesses, including the professional implementation of strategy and organisation, the development of organisational structures in line with international standards (e.g. logistics, marketing, HR, accounting, finance, controlling), the recruitment of qualified managers and the training of existing staff, and the creation of a professional business culture. The diversification and international expansion of family businesses and their innovative activity –particularly in terms of advances in digitalisation–, could also be the topics of this section. Furthermore, all the other areas not listed here which serve to sustain and develop family businesses are welcome.

Institutional unit: Department
The section on Financial markets invites papers that investigate the financial markets either empirically or theoretically. We also welcome papers that either focus on the simulation study of econometric methods or that seek to demonstrate the advantages/disadvantages of econometric/statistical methods in an empirical research question. In addition to traditional econometric models, we also welcome research on financial applications of machine learning methods. For students who are interested, but do not have a fully developed idea, the staff of the Institute of Finance can help with the selection of the TDK topic and the supervision of the topic. The research areas, contact details and office hours of the staff can be found on the Institute of Finance homepage.

Institutional unit: Department
The Geography, geopolitics, regional development section welcomes and fosters the work of students interested in scientifically demanding studies on topics ranging from the examination of socio-economic phenomena, the geographical appearance of certain social groups, territorial inequalities and processes, to the development of settlements and companies, to all aspects of development policy and geopolitics.

Institutional unit: Department of Health Policy
Student papers dealing with any topic related to health economics, pharmacoeconomics, financing healthcare systems, health policy in any country are welcomed.

Institutional unit: Department
This section welcomes research papers, analytical descriptions, and comparative or case studies of inequality issues, global or local, in any historical era, from the ‘caveman’ till yesterday. A significant share of today’s human population does not have full access to basic needs of life, fresh air, potable water, sufficient food, and housing. Proper health care and education are even less accessible for many. There are considerable inequalities in wealth and income, economic and social circumstances, and access to diverse infrastructures, including communication and media. Thus, inequality is the most crucial issue that social sciences, arts and humanities should explore. The historical perspective provides a deeper understanding of the present for setting the future.

Institutional unit: Department
In this section, we welcome papers that are related to the field of institutional economics or comparative economics, either in their subject matter or in their approach. We invite both theoretical and empirical contributions. Within this framework, we are particularly interested in studies that analyze a social or economic issue from an institutionalist perspective, drawing on institutional economics. We also welcome research that examines institutions, regulatory issues, economic systems or subsystems, the functioning of the state and the market, or the intersections of politics and the economy—whether employing economic methodologies or interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches.

Institutional unit: Department
The section welcomes papers that examine marketing problems primarily from an international, intercultural perspective. In addition, there is an opportunity to learn about, explore, and analyze domestic patterns. The section focuses on various areas of consumer behavior.

Institutional unit: Department
The section welcomes papers on any current topic that want to deal with the analysis of external and internal processes affecting the European Union. On the one hand, we expect papers related to the EU’s international relations, which examine the role, position, and possibilities of the EU either in multilateral or bilateral terms. In addition, the section is also looking for papers dealing with challenges of strategic importance affecting any of the EU’s policies (like migration, security, economic and social cohesion, the digital and green transition, or the energy crisis). The section also includes an examination of issues affecting cooperation within the Union: it is also possible to analyse conflicts and cooperation between member states’ interests, including reforms affecting institutional frameworks, as well as the topic of examining cooperation between selected member states. The section also includes topics related to the rule of law procedures and the transparency of the operation of the EU.

Institutional unit: Department
Section International Relations welcomes papers on inter-state relations, on the role of IOs (universal and/or regional) and other non-state actors in the international system or on impacts of global challenges on international affairs. We invite papers presenting original theoretical and empirical research work in the field of IR, focusing on foreign polcy analysis, area studies, security studies or dilemmas of international law.

Institutional unit: Department
The section welcomes applications from students in the following areas of management science: management and organisation, organisational design, change management, corporate governance, management theory and methodology / management history, management of inter-organisational networks, and international management. The staff of the Department of Management and Organisation are available to the students as supervisors.

Institutional unit: Department
The Marketing strategy section welcomes papers that address strategic marketing issues as well as the related theoretical and practical considerations. This includes topics such as market strategy, competitive analysis, online marketing, commerce, services, and marketing strategies in the non-profit sector.
In addition to mainstream topics, the section also encourages alternative approaches (e.g., postmodern perspectives). We particularly welcome papers that integrate methodologies from other disciplines with marketing practices.

Institutional unit: Department
Marketing communications in the 21st century is no longer a combination of ATL and BTL tools. Everything communicates, direct and indirect messages are displayed. The revolution in ICT has not only led to radical structural changes in the media landscape, but has also brought about major changes in the field of corporate communication. Design communication is not only function and form, but also content, message, style and culture. It is an approach that tries to link design with the economy and strategic communication that shapes our lives, together with the status that goes with it. In this form, communication is not an afterthought, but is born with problem finding and problem solving, and is encoded in the development of a product, service or process.

Institutional unit: Department
We are looking for students who are interested in mathematics and its applications in economics and keen to work on questions that help them acquire a deeper knowledge of the topic.

Institutional unit: Department
The section welcomes papers in the following topics: consumer behavior, industrial organization and competition policy, and applied microeconomics, including behavioral economics as well as analysis of any social problem with the tools of economics.

Institutional unit: Department
We welcome theoretical, systematic and historical works on social reality. We also welcome papers on political philosophy and religious studies, which take a broad approach to philosophy. Emphasis will be placed on conceptual analysis, the study of transformations of meaning, historical and systematic discussion, including ethical, aesthetic, logical, art-theoretical and theological aspects.

Institutional unit: Department
This section invites empirical research in comparative and international political economy, addressing the complex interactions between politics, markets, and institutions in shaping economic outcomes. We particularly welcome papers exploring the limits to economic catch-up in semi-peripheral and emerging economies; capitalist regime diversity and economic performance in the post-GFC era; the role of finance, foreign capital, and financialization in development trajectories; institutional quality, trust, and their impact on economic competitiveness; green growth strategies and energy transitions; the resurgence of protectionism, trade wars, and evolving geoeconomic rivalries; the transformation of welfare states and labor markets in response to globalization and automation; industrial policy, state capitalism, and the geopolitics of supply chains; the political economy of inflation, debt crises, and monetary policy shifts; the role of international financial institutions and regional economic blocs in shaping global economic governance. We welcome contributions that provide fresh insights into these pressing global challenges.

Institutional unit: Department
We welcome papers in the section from the field of political science that aim to address one or more elements of the broadly defined political system. Papers may describe or compare political institutions, examine political actors (parties, politicians), present elections or voter behavior, explain certain political events, or they may also be on public policy, political theory, political history, political communication, or even political economy.

Institutional unit: Department
The section welcomes TDKs focusing on various areas of project management. This does not limit the available topics to the general hard and soft parts of this field of this management area, but also allows students to conduct research addressing the project manager as a key individual of the field or current trends alike.

Institutional unit: Department
This section welcomes papers that incorporate a psychological perspective. We encourage submissions focusing on topics such as the psychological processes of social systems, political psychology, social psychology, organizational psychology, and economic psychology. Papers may also explore the psychological aspects of communication and decision-making, including interdisciplinary approaches. We invite students who have acquired psychological knowledge during their studies and are interested in psychological processes and related questions. We especially welcome those who conduct research or wish to engage in research in these areas.

Institutional unit: Department of Public Policy
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Institutional unit: Department
If you want your research to have an immediate social, ecological impact…

If you are looking for a research field…

If you would like to research a topic that advances the goals and operations of a social enterprise or non-profit organisation…

In the TDK section of the Corvinus Science Shop, we welcome topic ideas and research partners from a wide variety of organisations, in different industries, in many different walks of life, exploring a myriad of possible socio-economic perspectives. The science shop connects you with partners and even consultants. The idea behind the session is that TDK research should also serve a civic, non-profit organisation, social enterprise – i.e. a community, social, ecological cause. On a topic that is of interest to both the organisation and the student. To this end, we offer community-engaged research, which has the potential for a wide range of methodologies, while allowing the student and the organisation to become partners, resulting in mutual learning. Organisations working with science shop are mostly social innovators, struggling with common organisational issues, often wanting to understand more deeply a socio-economic process, the practices of national and international organisations working for similar causes. Thus, their proposed research questions are often linked to these. See the attached examples as starting points, we also organise links with other organisations and topics. You are also welcome to submit your own ideas for the session, whether on a topic or an organisation (social enterprise, NGO, non-profit), or both.

Institutional unit: Department
The Section focuses on the topic of sports management, including the business operations of sports companies and the economic impact of sport (e.g. sponsorship, media, sport consumer behaviour, related industries). Sport, by its character, has the potential to achieve not only economic benefits but also social objectives. It can also create individual, corporate and societal value and support sustainability goals, and essays from a broader range of social sciences are therefore also welcome. In addition to professional sport, the business operations and social impacts of leisure sport are a regular topic. In a functional approach, sport marketing, sport innovation, human resource management in sport, sport finance (e.g. performance measurement) and the management of value-added processes (e.g. service management) will also be addressed.

Institutional unit: Department
We welcome papers from authors who mainly focus on applied statistics and econometrics and are interested of applying and further developing the course material.

Institutional unit: Department
We invite applications from students who are interested in exploring the current challenges and solutions in strategic and international management. Relevant topics in the session: strategic management, international management, management challenges, management capabilities, competitiveness, process management, performance management, digitalisation challenges, strategic opportunities of AI.

Institutional unit: Department
In the Sustainable finance section, we are primarly looking for topics with theoretical and preactical approach related tot he teaching and redearch areas of the Institute of Finance:

The area, contact information and reception hours of the Institute’s staff can be found on the research website of the Institute of Finance.

Institutional unit: Department
We welcome all papers related to the behavioral approach to decision theory, theoretical or practical issues of decision-making. The topics announced include, in addition to corporate decisions, decision planning, decision-making situations of social enterprises and civil society organizations, and social decisions. We also accept papers related to individual behavior change and influencing behavior from various fields.

Institutional unit: Department
The staff of the Department of Tourism are available to students interested in scientific research and intending to write a TDK paper on topics related to their diverse educational and research activities. The staff of our department welcomes applications from all committed students interested in scientific research. If you have any questions regarding the research topic or the selection of a supervisor, please contact the secretary of the section!

Institutional unit: Department
The aim of the section is to provide space for papers analyzing the multifaceted connection between transport and tourism, transport development, its sustainability, current trends and the characteristics of the transport sub-sector. Those interested in the topics below should contact the secretary of the section, who will direct students to appropriate university and external professional supervisors.

Institutional unit: Department
Section World economy welcomes all interested in the Scientific Student Conference, and particularly in the fields of economy and business from an international perspective. Hence, in topics related to international trade and finance, international development (development economics), international (or transnational/multinational) corporations and e.g. banking organisations, cross-border business or economy-related decisions, processes, practices; issues and phenomena of high actuality like digitalisation, industry 4.0, migration, populism, resource curse, epidemic of coronavirus, Russian–Ukrainian war etc. in an economic and/or business context. With regard to the type of study, all methodologically grounded initiatives are accepted from theoretical to empirical papers. The associates of the Department of World Economy would be glad to help as supervisors in case of inquiry. For further questions, please contact Secretary of Section, dr. Sejla Almadi (e-mail: sejla.almadi@uni-corvinus.hu).

Participating in the TDK is by submitting a paper based on an individual research study beyond the regular curriculum.
Acceptable papers are those, that haven’t been published, or submitted as a thesis for master degree, or TDK paper before. 
A developed version of a Thesis prepared for a Bachelor degree is acceptable, if it hasn’t been published before (on platforms like TDK or other academic publications). In this case, a clear indication of the history of the paper is mandatory.
The paper must contain the usual elements of an academic paper: 

When submitting the paper each and every author claims and accepts the followings: 

The paper’s suggested range of content (from the first page of the Introduction part to the last page of the Summary) for papers covering topics within the field of:

A4 format, with a margin size 2.5 cm. 
The title ‘Scientific Student’s Associations Conference’ should be written on the front page with the font size 14, as well as the title of the paper, date, name of the author(s), faculty, study program, year and the name of the supervisor. 
Font: Times New Roman; font size: 12 pt; paragraph and line spacing: 1.5; justification 
The page number should be set on the bottom of the page in the middle; starting with the Introduction page with number 1. 
All figures, tables and appendices should be numbered and given titles to. The number, title and source need to be written under each figure (or table). 
All subtitles and subcaptions should be signed with decimal numbers (I. First level of heading; I.2. Second level of heading; I.2.3. Third level of heading). 
In order to highlight some parts of the content (only within reasonable framework) should be done by using cursive (italic) text. Authors should abstain from using bold text (apart from the titles, subtitles) from underlining the text, or applying any other forms of highlighting. 
Tables, figures and other documents, illustrating the concept of the paper, although not serving the essence of the paper, should be included in the Appendix. 
Structure of paper:

After receiving the submitted paper the TDK Office forwards them to the section secretaries. They assign two members for review, whose task is to evaluate the paper with a score ranking from 0–30 based on specific criterias on the format and content. The person for review raises two questions regarding the topic of the paper in a composed inscription, to which the author would answer at the oral conference before a committee. If the sum of scores given by both members of review doesn’t reach 36, then the author of the paper cannot participate at the oral conference. Authors can access the obtained reviews. When they reach the minimal score of 36, they can further on prepare for the oral conference based on the six highest ranking. 
The committee’s review will be available on the registrational platform (each participant will be able to find their own at their paper).
The Students Scientific Committee can sanction with disqualification those who: