The article is focused on the issue of trade exchange between European Union member states. The trade exchange volume noted an increase after the new members had joined the European Union. That may be observed while analysing statistical data on the trade exchang...

Focus on monetary policy transmission mechanism has regained its importance especially in regards to fi nancial and debt crisis. Negative developments after 2008 still verify the ability of monetary policy to mitigate its impacts. In EMU, it can be seen&...

This paper examines the use of management tools among Slovenian and Croatian employees, with the main focus on linkages between the current use of management tools and patterns of its future use. The authors developed and tested a model for predicting the future&...

This paper discusses the in fl uence of organizational values on managers’ competencies. Organizational values are a re fl ection of individual values of founder or founding members of the organization. Through time organizational values are shaped by&...

Nowadays, at the time of economic globalisation and the European labour market formation, it is possible to carry out different analyses which enable comparsions among enterprises from the geopolitical, economical and commercial point of view. In the paper we compare the&#...

The paper deals with the evaluation of selected current location factors in the individual economical activities of the secondary and the tertiary sectors. These two sectors were chosen because of the increasing importance of appropriate localization and huge costs associated&#...

The paper presents a general way of improving product features so that products were more competitive. The presented concept fi rst represents the general standard of a product to be improved by a weighted average of the product feature levels, thus...

The aim of this article was to de fi ne and compare current trends in the business environment of small and medium-sized enterprises in selected regions of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In accordance with the objective, motivational factors, status in&...

A competency-based approach is one of the important tools of human resource management aimed at achieving strategic organisational goals and a competitive advantage. The article focuses on application of the competency-based approach in organisation in the Czech Republic. The &...

The purpose of this study is to identify the most important motivations for drinking wine and the factors in fl uencing wine purchase in the Czech Republic and to ascertain if there are signi fi cant differences between genders and age&#...

The importance of balneology for the economy of the Czech Republic has always been crucial. At a time of an unstable political environment as well as turbulent legislative and other changes, there is nothing more important than to ensure that spa guests are ...

There was significant reduction in number of municipalities in the Czech Republic in the era of socialism. This is a consequence of the application of the central system of settlement, which was based on Christaller’s theory of central places. In connection with ...

Mergers and acquisitions are important operations that happen nowadays. The goal of such processes is to “conquer” new markets and bene fi t from their resources (natural or human), or to lower competition (by acquiring a competitor or merging with it).&#...