World, European and Czech manufacturing has been and is currently facing dramatic changes in its business environment. This paper is focused on the deindustrialization in manufacturing sector.

The aim of this paper is to analyze and systematic theoretical findings which are based on Porter´s Generic Chain of Values in regards to the area of supporting activities. Supporting activities were long time at the margin of interest, both social and economic. Today, they represent important...

The text describes the basic decision making task of trader concerning private labels - decision on building private label assortment in certain product category and decision on private label range in circumstances of limited space at trader´s disposal. The text works up (on basis of Direct...

This paper deals with the new strategies in management of innovations, particularly the strategy of differentiated complexity of innovations. It explains how to manage and apply rationalization innovations, incremental innovations and radical innovations. It is always necessary to apply proper...

The aim of this article is to inform about the application of modern approaches into management, mainly management of change. Modern approaches involve the application of some ideas of system theory, some ideas of biology, cybernetics and entropy.

This paper presents the research results of the attractiveness of the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, China and India as countries suitable for searching for outsurcing services providers. The research was carried out from both the Britisch copany and the Czech copany point of view. Country...

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...