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Steering of Supporting Activities - Facility Management

Vyskočil, Vlastimil Karel - In: Ekonomika a managment 2009 (2009) 2

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...

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Corporate strategy and financial theory

Vlachý, Jan - In: Politická ekonomie 2009 (2009) 2, pp. 147-162

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...

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Transactions cost and boundary of the firm

Vitík, Robert - In: Ekonomika a managment 2008 (2008) 3

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...

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Modern methods of production and foreign direct investment

Žďárek, Václav - In: Politická ekonomie 2009 (2009) 4, pp. 509-543

of production process, i.e. investment abroad, mainly realised by setting-up a new production facility in a foreign … country, usually in the form of the foreign direct investment (FDI). Some of these influences are also connected with new …

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To problems of competitiveness of czech organizations in turbulent environment

Truneček, Jan - In: Politická ekonomie 2009 (2009) 4, pp. 435-450

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...

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Tobin´s Q - theory and application

Pánková, Václava - In: Politická ekonomie 2005 (2005) 5, pp. 601-608

Investment expenditure relates to an evident optimization problem: to create an optimal capital stock which is a … function of expected profits. According to the Tobin´s Q - theory, investment depends on the ratio Q of the market value of … business capital assets to their replacement value. A firm´s investment should rise with its Q. In practice, however, Q is not …

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Corporate social responsibility (CSR): Only a proclamation or economic necessity?

Hlaváček, Jiří; Hlaváček, Michal - In: Politická ekonomie 2008 (2008) 5, pp. 579-597

The theory "corporate social responsibility" (CSR) is characterized in the paper. The paper expresses the authors´ opinion, that CSR as a mere proclamation of necessity of the firms´ ethic behavior does not enforce this into praxis. The internal economic motivation to CSR is the necessary...

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Analysis of Subsidies in the Private Sector on the Enterprise Basis

Pšenčík, Jiří; Kouřilová, Jindřiška; … - In: Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2010 (2010) 5, pp. 58-71

subsidies (so-called hidden subsidies) was derived from the investment and operating subsidies in the model. An individual tax …

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Strategic Choice Handicaps when Females Pay the Cost of the Handicap

Nöldeke, Georg; Samuelson, Larry - University of Bonn, Germany - 2001

We examine a strategic-choice handicap model in which males send costly signals to advertise their quality to females. Females are concerned with the net viability of the male with whom they mate, where net viability is a function of the male's quality and signal. We identify circumstances in...

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Are economists different? economic model

Šeneklová, Jitka; Špalek, Jiří - In: Politická ekonomie 2009 (2009) 1, pp. 21-47

One of the key assumptions of neoclassical economics is the existence of the rational individual, who always tries to maximize his or her utility. The paper shows possibilities of experimental evaluation of this hypothesis with respect to the various groups of people who undertake the...

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