Executive Summary
This report is about documented plagiarism found in an English-language dissertation published in 2019. The dissertation was submitted for the Doctoral Program in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic, by Katja Stammen. It was supervised by doc. Ing. Petr Blížkovský, Ph.D. It is freely available online as a PDF.
This report is the 213th documentation published by VroniPlag Wiki and is based on the findings of a collaborative, manual plagiarism analysis as of 2021-12-14. It is not the result of a commercial or software-based analysis.
The investigation has documented quite extensive plagiarism in the thesis. 44.4 % of the pages of the main text contain plagiarized passages. They extend from the introduction to the discussion chapter and the final conclusions. These passages are taken from 18 sources, almost all of which are available online. The suspicious passages found are primarily translation plagiarisms. These are often not detected by software-based analyses.
The top source, which is the source for numerous, extensive passages and illustrations, is a master's thesis written in German that was submitted to the Leuphana University in Lüneburg. Another major source is the German-language Wikipedia. Entire pages of the dissertation consist of text translated from there.
The current state of the findings and additional information can be found on the pages
This document contains an overview of the thesis structure, a discussion of the most prominent findings and sources, a tabular representation of the sources and the plagiarized passages, a listing of the fragments in page order, and bibliographic details of the potential sources identified.