Numerous challenges and problems in the field of economics and management require various theoretical and methodological responses implying the development of new concepts, methodologies, methods, models and techniques. Given the complexity of contemporary economic and managerial problems, the papers submitted to the International Scientific Conference entitled Contemporary Issues in Economics, Business and Management (EBM 2018), which was held at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Kragujevac on 9th and 10th November 2018, encompassed diverse topics in the following fields: management, marketing, globalization, regionalization, accounting, business finance, information systems and the application of quantitative methods and models in economics and management. So far, this EBM 2018 fifth biennial international conference brought together the largest number of participants, i.e. 127 participants in total, 88 authors being from higher education institutions (HEIs) in the Republic of Serbia, and 39 authors coming from abroad (Poland, Russia, Germany, Slovenia, Japan, Spain, Croatia, Hungary, Bosnia and Herzegovina).

The Fifth International Scientific Conference entitled Contemporary Issues in Economics, Business and Management (EBM 2018) will be held at the Faculty of Economics, University of Kragujevac, on November 9 and 10, 2018.

Professor Thomas L. Saaty, a distinguished professor of the University of Pittsburgh, the designer of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and the Analytic Network Process (ANP), a new theoretical and methodological approach to the decision-making process, passed away in August 2017.