Research
Jana Valentová's research (published as Jana Abíková) sits at the intersection of logistics, crisis management and migration studies — with a deliberate focus on topics the field often overlooks, despite their real impact on how the humanitarian sector operates.
Humanitarian logistics and supply chains
Planning and managing the flow of goods, information and people in humanitarian operations — from siting refugee camps to the role of defence organizations in emergency networks.
- Abíková, J. (2020). Application of fuzzy DEMATEL–ANP methods for siting refugee camps. JHLSCM, 10(3), 347–369.
- Kaneberg, E., Piotrowicz, W. D., Listou, T., Schiffling, S. A., Abíková, J., et al. (2023). Defence organizations in emergency networks: the early response to COVID-19 in Europe. JHLSCM, 13(1), 91–105.
- The Contexts and Challenges in Humanitarian Supply Chain — book chapter, Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-032-08472-9_3
- Abíková, J. Humanitární logistika a její outsourcing, logistika Lékařů bez hranic.
Disaster and crisis management
Managing the response to large-scale, human-caused disasters, camp planning and logistics, and case studies used in teaching crisis management.
- Abíková, J. (2023). Building a Refugee Camp: The Importance of Planning and Logistics. SAGE Business Cases, 36 pp., ISBN 9781529620818. — award-winning case study
Forced and transit migration, refugee crises
Development and changes in the so-called Balkan corridor during the 2015–16 European refugee crisis, examined through the lens of management and logistics — the subject of her dissertation.
- Abíková, J., & Piotrowicz, W. (2021). Shaping the Balkan corridor: Development and changes in the migration route 2015–16. International Migration, 59(5), 248–265.
- Dissertation: Balkan corridor: transit migration in the light of management and logistics during the humanitarian response to the refugee crisis in 2015/2016 (VŠE).
Sustainability in humanitarian aid
Comparing cash and in-kind assistance in the humanitarian sector from an environmental and economic sustainability perspective.
- Abíková, J. Is It Green Enough? Cash and In-Kind Assistance in the Humanitarian Sector. SAGE Business Cases. — 3rd place, FPH Dean's publication award 2025
People in the humanitarian sector: motivation, job satisfaction, mental health
What keeps humanitarian workers in the sector despite its demands — motivation, job satisfaction and trauma exposure among humanitarian logisticians.
- Abíková, J. (2025). Management matters: what do we need to know about the motivation and job satisfaction of humanitarian logisticians? JHLSCM. doi:10.1108/JHLSCM-01-2024-0012
- Mental health and trauma exposure in the humanitarian sector (2023). Traumatology.
Societal resilience, climate adaptation and transport poverty
Work building on her role as Head of the Green Europe programme at EUROPEUM: preventing transport poverty through the Social Climate Fund and addressing it in the Czech Republic.
- Abíková, J., & Hengalová, R. (31 Mar 2025). Transportation Poverty Prevention via Social Climate Fund. EUROPEUM, policy brief.
- Abíková, J., & Hengalová, R. (31 Mar 2025). Addressing Transportation Poverty in the Czech Republic. EUROPEUM, policy paper.