The purpose of this article is to point out that SFA deployment is not an IT challenge only, but it concerns the topics of pschychology, team communication and management and last but not least the necessity of top management support . Some suggestions how to solve these challenges are...

The book deals with theoretical concepts and ways of practical implementation of information sytems in companies. A successful information system project has to be based on the information strategy of the company. Taking the business strategy into consideration the information system value for...

The paper deals with quality management in the sector of Tourist Information Centres (TIC) in the Czech Republic and the development of the quality management systems in the sector as part of the national quality management system in tourism. Since the TICs perform a prominent role in...

Entrepreneurs have been exposed to continually increasing competitive pressures. Hence, a process of continuous improvement is to be an inherent part of firm management. In case this process shall be implemented on a broad basis with the aim to maintain and increase firm competitiveness, then...

This paper presents results of repeated economic lab experiments. They were designed to test a model of combinatorial auctions on the case of providing financial support (capital investment subsidies) to polluters. Combinatorial auctions are those auctions in which bidders can place bids on...

This paper provides a brief but comprehensive overview of microfinance academic literature with emphasis on recent innovations, trends and efficiency. In particular, we focus on controversial issues of microfinance, such as commercialization, regulation, interest rate policy and the balance...

Microfinance institutions (MFIs) finance their business activities primary with clients’ deposits, equity or with external funding. The aim of our thesis is to determine whether macroeconomic development and the size of banking sector affect the range of external funding and consequently the...

This paper investigates the possible reasons why many microfinance institutions (MFIs) have gradually experienced a decrease in the share of female borrowers in their portfolios over the last few years. We confirm that the share of women may be decreasing due to the growing dependence of the...

Agregátní úvěry v selhání jsou úvěry bankovního sektoru se zpožděnými splátkami. Tento článek zkoumá, jak agregátní úvěry v selhání, jakožto indikátor agregátního kreditního rizika, reagují na makroekonomický vývoj v České republice v letech 1993-2014. Naše...