The complex and decentralised use of renewable energy sources is one of the key issues in the European Union. The main objective is to develop a safe, diversified and environment-friendly energy structure in all member states, in which process agricultural production may play an important role....

Since the beginning of the modern state and the establishment of mass schools, education has been an important factor that contributes to the strengthening of the ties between political institutions and citizens. The role of education is strengthened by the belief that the lack of civil...

Most of the studies carried out on identification of barriers to knowledge sharing have focused on developing and developed countries. The purpose of this study was to explore the barrier factors inhibiting knowledge sharing in small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in transition economies...

The aim of this paper is to examine how Polish people perceive advertisements which are presented on Polish TV but are directed to the global consumer. Generally, respondents try to omit as many advertisements as possible. Advertisements that irritate most of the people are the ones that are...

In the fast changing and turbulent environment, one of the major elements which make maintaining the competitive advantage by a given company possible is introducing innovations. Creating and applying innovations in the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility is thus one of the modern...

This article was created on the basis of a research task at College of Polytechnics Jihlava (VsPJ) in the Czech Republic under the name "The Influence of Trust, Reputation and other Intangible Assets on Company Performance". Leadership of employees is a part of management. A leader has an innate...

A person’s ability to manage the money is essential to being successful in life. Today’s financial world is highly complex when compared with that of a generation ago. New products and technologies are fundamentally changing the ways we relate to money. As a consequence of the changing,...

Is there an optimal capital structure in a company? There is no definite answer to that question. There are many theoretical conceptions in which authors try to indicate a way to determine an optimal capital structure. Most of them are based on the assumption that the optimal capital structure...

Mentoring, as a social learning model, is based on the practice of broadly stressing the importance of positive reinforcement on behavior change (Bandura, 1977). Mentoring places emphasis on learning from other people through models of expected behavior norms (Mahoney, 1974; and Staats, 1975,...

Organisations within sport industry are playing an important role in society nowadays. They influence fans attitudes through their activities, which in many cases may be classified as CSR. Those include volunteerism, educational initiatives, philanthropic/charitable donations, community...