The theory of corporate finance considers taking decisions on implementation of IPOs as one of the most significant decision-making issues in the company's lifecycle. At the moment, there are a number of partial decision models whose authors define the criteria that are considered to be crucial...

The small and medium sized entrepreneurship is often considered to be as a phenomenon of our times. Why many authors dedicated their work on this field? The main reason is that SME make influence on society life and contribute to economic development of the region, where they establish their...

Small and medium size enterprises in the Moravia-Silesian Region and issues associated with their development can be examined from various points of view. These aspects have to be synthetically linked, since we can state that individual factors are mutually interconnected. Development of small...

At the beginning of nineties small and medium enterprises (SMEs) constituted a new phenomenon in the Czech economy. Their role increased during past fi fteen years but the development and internationalisation of their activities have been infl uenced by many barriers. The shortage of fi nancial...

Common features of modern approaches used in retailing companies is thein complex approach for solution of problems leading to reaching higher effectivness of integrated ways using on supply and demand side. Among main factors influencing development and implementing of modern management methods...

The aim of this paper is to analyze and systematic theoretical findings which are based on Porter´s Generic Chain of Values in regards to the area of supporting activities. Supporting activities were long time at the margin of interest, both social and economic. Today, they represent important...

Long-term memory processes have been extensively examined in recent literature as they provide simple way to test for predictability in the underlying process. However, most of the literature interprets the results of estimated Hurst exponent simply by its comparison to its asymptotic limit of...

The paper deals with the impact of new information on the fixed income market. We expect this to be the first study covering such a topic in Central European markets. We prepared a model of a market reaction and found out that the market is not significantly driven by new macroeconomic figures....