Banks in Slovakia are under a strong influence of information technologies. These technologies are redesigning the product as well as the organizational structure. Strategies must also adapt to the information technologies and to their influence on the business environment. Companies often...

The purpose of this article is to find out if there is a necessity of doing research in business strategies due to differences between businesses in industrial and postindustrial era. Business strategies are a key factor of success. Only a company with a good strategy can beat others in hard...

The aim of this paper is to identify relation between intensity of competition in business environment and the strategy. The aim is also to identify the relation between intensity of competition and factors of influence on the business. The research was done in Slovakia on 382 companies. Main...

Utilization of information technologies in postindustrial business environment is an actual topic covering the potential benefit this technology could bring to business. This paper contains the partial results from dissertation Business Strategies in Deindustrialized Era. Postindustrial era is...

This article is oriented on the analyses of the development of the mergers and acquisition process. The author shows the main reason and motivations of expansion MA and its influence on the globalization of the world economy. This activity is (in the time and the territory) very different and...

This paper aims to estimate efficiency of the Slovak commercial banks in the period 2001-2005. The paper uses data obtained from annual reports of 13 Slovak banking institutions. For the practical estimation we applied the parametric Stochastic Frontier Approach and Cobb-Douglas production...

The 2008 financial crisis has its origins in the US real estate market. By means of purchases of US mortgage-backed securities it spread to the portfolios of financial companies everywhere in the world and it is making its way to the real economy. The measures to be taken include cutting...

In this paper historical performance of eleven approaches for estimation of one-day 95% value-at-risk is evaluated. Random sample of 1000 foreign exchange portfolios consisting of positions in EUR and USD with CZK as a base currency was considered. Since foreign exchange portfolio consists of...

The paper presents empirical analysis of influence of different ownership forms on efficiency of Czech and Slovak banks using the Stochastic Frontier Analysis. The paper brings new results as it uses set of data which has not been used previously in the literature. On the set of 44 Czech and 21...

Svetová finančná kríza, ktorá postupne prerástla do globálnej ekonomickej krízy vo veľkej miere ovplyvnila aj svetový obchod a obchodné financovanie. Obchodné financovanie je pre medzinárodný obchod nevyhnutnosťou, a preto ICC (International Chamber of Commerce) na podnet WTO...