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The article focuses on cooperation of enterprises while performing their innovation activities. Many firms face various obstacles while innovating their product or service portfolio. One way how to remove some of the barriers is to collaborate with another firm. The article covers most common...
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E-commerce as an aggregation of activities concerning trading and rendering service to customers using internet is important for firms of all size to preserve competitiveness in global markets However, introduction of e-commerce means also introduction of new business models. To incorporate new...
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Services have expanded rapidly over last twenty years and they play a dominant role in advanced economies today. The economic research reflects these structural changes by increasing interest in integrating services into the traditional value chain. This study aims at creating conceptual...
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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...
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Investment expenditure relates to an evident optimization problem: to create an optimal capital stock which is a function of expected profits. According to the Tobin´s Q - theory, investment depends on the ratio Q of the market value of business capital assets to their replacement value. A...
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The article deals with the phenomenon of globalization and in particular its influence on production chains of multinational firms. The on-going process of globalization has set off new trends and possibilities of production (e.g. outsourcing) which resulted in changes of firms´ behaviour. This...
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Enviable strategic objective of Czech business sphere is to increase competitiveness. There is a long term task which major objective is to participate in this problematic. Its first part, empiric research and descriptive analysis of competitiveness of Czech organizations, are discussed in this...
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The dramatically growing disproportion between the value of corporate assets and market valuation has resulted in a well-researched schism between strategic management and financial theory. Options theory provides a potent tool to resolve this issue. We propose a model which is consistent with...
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This paper presents the basics of the Transaction cost theory (TCT) and shows it's contribution to the Theory of the firm by the view of the new institutional economics. In the first part, author presents resources and presumptions of the TCT mainly by O. E. Williamson. The theory is based on...
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The theory "corporate social responsibility" (CSR) is characterized in the paper. The paper expresses the authors´ opinion, that CSR as a mere proclamation of necessity of the firms´ ethic behavior does not enforce this into praxis. The internal economic motivation to CSR is the necessary...
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