From the Editor

Małgorzata Marchewka

Welcome

Dear “e-mentor” readers,

I am pleased to share with you the latest collection of papers. The topics covered in this issue are related to trends in education and trends in management.

Readers primarily interested in trends in education can learn about the concept of Team as Support, explaining how psychological safety experienced by students leads to higher performance. Subsequently, readers can discover various aspects of implementing new technologies in pedagogy, including the potential of ICT in counteracting the social exclusion of students with mild intellectual disabilities and the application of augmented reality for teacher candidates. Finally, readers are invited to reflect on how universities can achieve sustainable development through mutual cooperation.

The part dedicated to trends in management concerns, among other subjects, knowledge management. Readers will learn about the use of machine learning in enhancing data and information management processes, as well as about the relationship between knowledge, communication and organisational silos. In the context of technological transformation, two other articles explore the challenges posed by digital transformation in family businesses and the implications of dualism in attitudes towards the metaverse in online consumer behaviours. Finally, two last texts address the problem of effects of the reference price in the context of the Omnibus Directive and the issue of synergy effect of selected management tools.

I hope you will enjoy exploring this issue. At the same time, I would like to cordially invite you to contribute to "e-mentor" and to support our efforts to internationalise the journal. Following an analysis of the results of the project financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Poland) completed in Oct 2024 (RCN/SP/0361/2021/1), we have decided to publish all articles in English only. Please be advised that from the beginning of 2025, there will be no further calls for manuscripts prepared in Polish. Furthermore, we have decided to redefine the scope of the journal, focusing on higher education in management and economics. Our goal is to make "e-mentor” a journal that serves as a forum for the presentation and discussion of research and ideas related to teaching and learning in management and economics higher education. We aim to provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge and insights on the use of technology in education, including e-learning, forms and methods of education, the verification of learning effects, and the integration of new trends in management and economics into higher education.

"E-mentor" is an open-access journal available free of charge, both online and in printed form. All scientific papers are peer-reviewed and we provide free proofreading of papers accepted for publication. Every article gets an 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. Further details are available online at http://www.e-mentor.edu.pl/eng/page/8/Info_for_Authors. Should you have any questions concerning publications in "e-mentor", please contact the editorial team at redakcja@e-mentor.edu.pl.

Małgorzata Marchewka
Editor