Multi-national companies introduce centralized or centrally administered ERP systems to cope with challenges of globalization. Introduction of such systems need careful planning. The planning should take not only the project and its deployment into consideration. Very important are the support...

The article deals with definition of approach of managerial audit and its importance for development of SME. Managerial audit is not understood here like a personal audit but way of the evaluation of management of the firms. The interviews with managers of SME are the essence of the managerial...

This paper uses new firm-level data to examine the effects of breakups of the Czech firms and their subsequent privatization on corporate performance. Unlike the existing literature, which analyzes breakups almost exclusively in advanced economies, we control for accompanying ownership changes...

The aim of the paper is to set the agency problem into a broad context of New Institutional Economics with an emphasis on historical connections. In the first section, I explain the historical evolution of basic theoretical concepts like the theory of firm, the theory of market process and the...

Suggestion of effective systém of management is based on knowing results of changes in entrepreneurial environment, knowing Tudory of autopoisesis, and analysis of chosen best practices organizations (business excellence, world vlase manufacturing).

The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2053674 Czech Abstract: Cílem tohoto článku je vložení problému zastoupení do širšího kontextu Nové institucionální ekonomie s důrazem na historické souvislosti. V první části vysvětluji historický...

The aim of this article is to characterise the process of consumer and mortgage loans legislative harmonization as a part of reduction of credit market integration barriers. The harmonization of consumer credit market law is a long-term process in European Union. For mortgage loan markets, the...

This paper provides a brief but comprehensive overview of microfinance academic literature with emphasis on recent innovations, trends and efficiency. In particular, we focus on controversial issues of microfinance, such as commercialization, regulation, interest rate policy and the balance...

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) finance their business activities primary with clients’ deposits, equity or with external funding. The aim of our thesis is to determine whether macroeconomic development and the size of banking sector affect the range of external funding and consequently the...

This paper investigates the possible reasons why many microfinance institutions (MFIs) have gradually experienced a decrease in the share of female borrowers in their portfolios over the last few years. We confirm that the share of women may be decreasing due to the growing dependence of the...