Ivana Blažková is an associate professor at the Department of Regional and Business Economics, Faculty of Regional Development and International Studies, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic. She graduated (Ph.D. degree in Management and Economics) from the Faculty of Business and Economics at Mendel University in Brno in 2002. She has worked at Mendel University in Brno since 2002, first as a researcher and assistant professor, and since 2018 as an associate professor. Her research focuses on agribusiness, agricultural economics, and business performance. She is a member of the European Association of Agrarian Economics (EAAE) and the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS). Her paper “Investigating the Differences in Entrepreneurial Success through the Firm-specific Factors: Microeconomic Evidence from the Czech Food Industry” published in the Journal of Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies was awarded an Outstanding Paper by the Literati Awards 2020 – Awards for Excellence.