Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development Post COVID-19 2022 Prague Institute for Qualification Enhancement (PRIZK) International Leadership Conference, June 24-25, 2022, Prague, Czech Republic

The proceedings volume provides an account of the pandemic-inspired policy changes in  leadership, entrepreneurship, and  sustainable development. The volume is a collection of papers presented at the 2022 International Leadership Conference hosted by the Prague Institute for Qualification Enhancement (PRIZK), Czech Republic. The focus of the conference was to outline positive changes for  leadership in business and economics based on the lessons learned during the pandemic. The enclosed selection of papers describe the digital surge in business, economics, and education, as well as the development of frontier technologies caused by the COVID-19 lockdown periods. They also provide new insights into the concepts of leadership, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development post the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the papers define the new place and role of leadership within the context of global initiatives in sustainability such as the European Union'sGreen Deal and the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SGDs).

1. An introduction: pandemic-inspired policies for leadership, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development.- Part 1: Leadership as a social, economic and cultural phenomenon in the post-COVID era.- 2. Cooperation as a driver of socio-economic leadership and sustainable development in local communities: main trends and perspectives of the interdisciplinary research.- 3. Economic development scenarios for effective organization management in post-COVID conditions.- 4. Participation of business in leading the development of the social sphere: best world practices in the post-pandemic world.- 5. Public sector leadership as a core prerequisite for national security resistance to COVID-19.- 6. Social problems within the context of leadership and public policies in the post-COVID era.- 7. Social and economic stability of the state in the post-COVID era: the evolution of theoretical approaches and leadership practices.- 8. Institutional problems ofleadership development in the developing economies: a case of Azerbaijan.- Part 2: Novel leadership trends in business and economics.- 9. Entrepreneurial ecosystem and digitalization: relationship and synergy of development.- 10. Greenwashing detection, impact on responsible business and investment: case of Ukrainian companies - agriculture leaders.- 11. Development of the leading sustainable and viable e-government concept in the post-COVID era.- 12. Leading information and communication model for social and economic sustainability of the post-pandemic small and medium business.- 13. Shadow economy, transparency, and leadership in business: short-run dynamics and long-run equilibrium.- 14. Leading information and communication technologies in tourism and hospitality within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.- 15. Informal employment, digitalization and economic sustainability: lessons from the COVID-19 crisis.- 16. Development of leading digital technologies in business: new risks and prospects in the post-coronavirus era.- Part 3: Leadership in academia and higher education after COVID-19 pandemic.- 17. Digitalization and innovation transfer as a leadership trend in education: bibliometric analysis and social analytics.- 18. Leading quality issues of higher education in tourism and hospitality: the case of Azerbaijan.- 19. Leadership in business and economics through the development of popular scientific research and practice-oriented education after COVID.- Part 4: Leadership and the digital surge in business and education.- 20 . nformation openness as a factor of business leadership in today's digital environment.- 21. Novel leading approaches to the digitalization of professional education: best world practices.- 22. Sustainability of economics and education after the COVID-19 pandemic based on the formation of network structures.- Part 5: Leadership in energy policy: new threats and opportunities.- 23. Digital eco-energy: patterns of achieving eco-nomic leadership, national security, and sustainability.- 24. Leading aspects of transition from the traditional energy to renewable energy sources after the COVID-19 pandemic.- 25. Leadership and global energy security: sentiment analysis of Twitter using a named entity recognition.- 26. Leadership towards behavioral change in energy consumption.- Part 6: Leadership within the context of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).- 27. Corruption as an obstacle of sustainable development.- 28. Transformation of the concept of the business leadership and sustainability in the post-COVID era.- 29. Personnel development as a leading strategy of adult learning in the framework of achieving the sustainable development goal 4 "Quality education".- 30. Managing green innovations in European Union: should we expect updates in the concepts of leadership, entrepreneurship, and sustainable development?.- 31. Commitment to sustainability: innovations, drivers and changemakers in the times of digitalization in the post-COVID era.- 32. Europe's energy innovation: global leadership scenarios and prospects for achieving Sustainable Development Goals.

Wadim Strielkowski is Managing Director of the Prague Institute for Qualification Enhancement (PRIZK) and Professor at Prague Business School, Prague, Czech Republic. He is also a visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States. Professor Strielkowski pursues a multi-disciplinary approach with a number of research topics such as leadership in business, economics, and higher education, energy economics and policy, and tourism economics. He is among 2% of the world's most cited scientists in 2019 and 2020 (a list of over 100,000 top-scientists with a percentile rank of 2% or above) at the prestigious Stanford University ranking which covers all disciplines included in the Scopus database.