The paper familiarizes the reader with the sphere of the Non-governmental Organizations (NGO). It points out main differences between NGO´s and traditional production companies, characterizes their role and describes possibilities of NGO financing. It briefly defines also two types of...

The Czech Council for R&D developed a new version of the Methodic for the Evaluation of R&D. In this paper, we discuss especially three criteria from this Methodic: - publications in impacted journals - publications in other scientific refereed journals - evaluation of publications with more...

Doubts about the intrinsic value of economic performance are nothing new (T.Scitovsky, J.Galbraith). The paper starts with a criticism of „catching up“ models and a „puzzle“ of East Germans dissatisfaction with a rise of welfare after the Berlin wall’s fall. Author provides a sketch of...

The author raises doubts about a sense of "catching up" and an idolatry of HDP´s growth. His argumentation is based on the longitudinal international research of the link "economics-happiness" at the frontier between economics and psychology. The rationality of economic science "more is better"...

The author undertakes in his essay a risky experiment as he tries to look at the present-time-economic-transformations in the view of the great thinker of 18th century, Dr. Bernard Mandeville, who famed by his Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices and Public Benefits. The philosophy of Mandeville,...

The social responsibility concept is quite broad and relies on three pillars - economical efficiency, environmental responsibility and social involvement. In recent years we have lived in a world of rising interest in the isssues of social responsibility, that is supported not only by the...

The firms approach in the new economics to your activities comprehensively. The maximization of the firm´s value and the continuous corporate social responsibility are themost important goals of the firms. The corporate social responsibility is the important characteristic of the new economy....

This paper deals with the problems of organizational culture management and transfer. Current theoretical concepts of organizational culture are discussed in the first part, so that they can be used in the application part. The second part of the article is based on the results of a case study...