The dramatically growing disproportion between the value of corporate assets and market valuation has resulted in a well-researched schism between strategic management and financial theory. Options theory provides a potent tool to resolve this issue. We propose a model which is consistent with...

This paper presents the basics of the Transaction cost theory (TCT) and shows it's contribution to the Theory of the firm by the view of the new institutional economics. In the first part, author presents resources and presumptions of the TCT mainly by O. E. Williamson. The theory is based on...

Enviable strategic objective of Czech business sphere is to increase competitiveness. There is a long term task which major objective is to participate in this problematic. Its first part, empiric research and descriptive analysis of competitiveness of Czech organizations, are discussed in this...

The first part of the paper formulates the definition of the knowledge and the new economies and two systems of quantitative characteristics for the new economy - the American and the European ones. The knowledge economy can be regarded as a general characteristic of the current and important...

Global business environment is preferably characterized by turbulences as well as by uncertainties and other undeterminable parameters which can hardly be described by routine mathematical tools. At these circumstances corporate management could be likened to ship captain who has to rudder a...

We analyze the extent of the integrated state control over the privatized companies in the Czech Republic during the decade of 1995-2005. During this period, the integrated potential of the state to control companies had a pyramid-like form. Even though the pyramid control was not fully...

Czech Abstract: Cílem tohoto článku je představit Kirznerovu teorii podnikatelského objevování jako doplněk a alternativu k teorii hlavního proudu. V první a druhé části autor vysvětluje hlavní vlivy Ludwiga von Misese a Friedricha Augusta von Hayeka na vznik podnikatelské...