This paper uses new firm-level data to examine the effects of breakups of the Czech firms and their subsequent privatization on corporate performance. Unlike the existing literature, which analyzes breakups almost exclusively in advanced economies, we control for accompanying ownership changes...

Multi-national companies introduce centralized or centrally administered ERP systems to cope with challenges of globalization. Introduction of such systems need careful planning. The planning should take not only the project and its deployment into consideration. Very important are the support...

The article deals with definition of approach of managerial audit and its importance for development of SME. Managerial audit is not understood here like a personal audit but way of the evaluation of management of the firms. The interviews with managers of SME are the essence of the managerial...

The aim of the paper is to set the agency problem into a broad context of New Institutional Economics with an emphasis on historical connections. In the first section, I explain the historical evolution of basic theoretical concepts like the theory of firm, the theory of market process and the...

Suggestion of effective systém of management is based on knowing results of changes in entrepreneurial environment, knowing Tudory of autopoisesis, and analysis of chosen best practices organizations (business excellence, world vlase manufacturing).

The English version of this paper can be found at http://ssrn.com/abstract=2053674 Czech Abstract: Cílem tohoto článku je vložení problému zastoupení do širšího kontextu Nové institucionální ekonomie s důrazem na historické souvislosti. V první části vysvětluji historický...

Four years of EU membership has brought new opportunities and challenges for local companies and public administration in member countries. New small and medium companies (SMB) emerged in the neighboring regions cross over the former frontiers, there are new clusters using inter-regional...

The core aim of this paper is to suggest comprehensive definition of the information economy and delineate the range of economic problems it deals with, paying particular attention to its connections to the economics of information. The text, in the extent provided, can not investigate...

The article is based on the thesis that institutional quality influences the economic performance. From this point of view under certain circumstance the government policy is able to increase efficiency and performance of economies through creation, maintenance and cultivation of appropriate...

Dne 9. prosince 2004 přijala Slovenská republika zákony o konkurze a reštrukturalizácii a o správcoch, které byly vyhlášeny pod čísly 7/2005 Z.z. a 8/2005 Z.z. Stalo se tak necelých osmnáct měsíců poté, co vláda Slovenské republiky schválila v červenci 2003 legislativní...