Services have expanded rapidly over last twenty years and they play a dominant role in advanced economies today. The economic research reflects these structural changes by increasing interest in integrating services into the traditional value chain. This study aims at creating conceptual...

The article provides a general description of the world money development in both developed and developing countries during the second half of 20th century. We were primarily focusing on the long run trends in dollar gold prices, monetary aggregates (broad and narrow money), foreign exchange...

The Czech Republic has undergone a profound political, economical and social transformation in the past few decades. The changes that have occurred in society showed strongly in the change in the demographic behaviour of society and the change in the general population climate. The transition to...

Questions connected to innovations were included in survey realized within the research target "New theory of economics and management in organizations and its adaptation processes". These questions also touched the area of measuring the intensity of innovations and impulses of innovations.

The article focuses on cooperation of enterprises while performing their innovation activities. Many firms face various obstacles while innovating their product or service portfolio. One way how to remove some of the barriers is to collaborate with another firm. The article covers most common...

The aim of the article is to investigate if there exists a systematic link between size of the firm, market concentration and R&D activity of firms. Three tentative results emerged from the regression analysis based on the firm balanced panel data 1998-2006. First it follows from a regression...

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 article deals with data evaluation of a part of survey in the Czech firms (N = 252). The main aims were flexibility of employment and forms of flexibility, employment of foreigners and ability of Czech employee's to compete at the European employment market. The next aim was organizational...

Czech Abstract: Cílem příspěvku je představení vybraného modelu, který vysvětluje mzdové rozdíly mezi muži a ženami. Model (Oaxaca-Blinderův rozklad) bude využit v dalším zkoumání tzv. genderové mzdové mezery (GPG) v České republice. V tomto slova smyslu je předkládaný...

Czech Abstract: Studie zkoumá výši genderové mzdové mezery (GPG) ve vybraném podniku s cílem zjistit, zda jsou ženy v daném podniku mzdově diskriminovány. K identifikaci nevysvětlené části genderové mzdové mezery jsou užity dvě metody: Oaxaca-Blinderův rozklad a metodu...