The prediction of bankruptcy has been the major subject of many studies since first study in this area, carried out by Fitz Patrick (1931). Many economists from all over the world have been trying to find company’s bankruptcy forecasting model using different methods wi...

Game industry is one of the profitable industries nowadays and a lot of individuals and companies are working in this field. A lot of people like the products of such industries, especially online games which are new. The aim of this research is studying the c...

The aim of the paper is to describe and analyse the process of urban shrinkage and especially the governance structures, actors and policies tackling the causes of urban shrinkage of the city of Ostrava. In the theoretical chapters, both urban (city) shrinkage and urban...

The current paper explores CAPM as a static model expressing relationships between excess return on the market portfolio often proxied by capital market indices, where beta is a measure of the volatility or systematic risk. We discuss background to the CAPM and derive t...

In 2012, the Czech koruna celebrated twenty years since its inception. During this time it went through systems of various exchange rates. While fixed system was implemented at the beginning of its existence, since 1997 the Czech Koruna has moved to a system that a...

This study develops and tests a conceptual model that investigates customer orientation as a full mediator of the effect of job resourcefulness on performance outcomes. Data were obtained from a sample of full-time frontline employees in the four- and five-star hotels in&#x...

In increasingly competitive business environment the issue of service customer loyalty, its determinants and their relative impact on customers' future behavior have been gaining rising prominence among Services Marketing researchers and practitioners. Despite ample empirical evidence pointing&...

The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive overview of the utilization rate of Business Process Management (BPM) and its components in Czech factories focused on goals that managers follow by the implementation of process management and the factors that are m...

Presented paper discusses influence of implemented quality and environmental management systems ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 on enterprise sustainability (CSR) priorities. The paper brings original results and comments on realized and processed questionnaire research concerning approx. 700 companies...

Gender inequality, especially gender inequality of incomes is at present times very monitored and discussed problem. The recognition of gender inequality degree has big social, as well as economic importance. The theoretical and the methodological part of this work provides an &#...

The paper deals with big sports events economic impact measuring. Impact studies of the big events are frequently used for evaluation of its economy efficiency or social acceptability. In the first part of the paper theoretical issues of evaluation of big events are&#x...

The paper assesses the relationships between the quality of business and social environments on the example of micro-regions (districts of municipalities with extended powers) and meso-regions (NUTS 3) of the Czech Republic. The applied approach develops the concept of the quality...

Increased global economic integration, global forms of governance, globally inter-linked social and environmental developments are often referred to as “globalization”. The requirements of life standards and qualities, such as the right to an adequate/healthy environment, the importance of ...

The article is concerned with the consumer’s choice models and with the determining factors of his/her behaviour particularly according to the attitudes of a neoclassical theory and its modern modifications, which are compared with the concepts of other authors. It contents ...