Building upon exhaustive research of extant and often fragmentary contemporary resources, this paper provides a thorough analysis of financial options trading and sales in interwar Czechoslovakia. Whilst focusing primarily on a remarkable bucketshop episode occuring in the late twenties and...

The article outlines the historical roots of bonds and bond-market institutions in the Czech Republic. The survey begins in early 20th century, during the Habsburg monarchy, carries through the First Republic of Czechoslovakia and the preceding post-Second World War socialist era, and culminates...

Nonprofit hospitals and their corporate governance in health care systems of California and Great Britain are shown as an equivalent variant to the legal and economic status of for-profit hospitals. The analysis of legal and economic statuses of nonprofit hospitals in California, Great Britain...

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...

The paper analyzes two types of corporate governance system: the insider control system (the bank based system) and the outsider control system (the market based system). The paper focuses on the differences of the systems: ownership structure, financing in the systems, managing body and control...

The description of contemporary application of Corporate Governance principles in Czech companies. The prezentation of Corporate Governance decision steps. The definition of Corporate Governance individual practices in Czech companies. Presentation of future system development of Corporate...