Štefan Slávik - NEFORMÁLNE A SPONTÁNNE POZADIE TVORBY STRATÉGIE
Abstrakt/Abstract: Traditional conceptions of strategic management are well known in practice and academic education, too. Planning concepts are systemic, logical and supplied with a great number of working techniques. Nontraditional and emergent processes are participating in practice too, but scale of their formalization is low, working techniques intuitive in nature, they involve random events, and they are carried out beyond common working schemes and procedures; therefore they are a theme of research and education in small range only. Submitted article tries to undraw at least partially a curtain to reveal informal phenomenons and unplanned activities in strategic management and look at what is going on behind the scenes of formal processes.
Keywords: strategy, emergent strategy, informal background of strategy
formulation, intuition
JEL: M 10, L 21
str./p. 307-322
Ján Rudy, Jana Fratričová - CHANGES IN JAPANESE HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM PART I: CHANGES IN THE POST-WAR ERA
Abstrakt/Abstract: Lifetime employment, seniority system, Ringi system of decision making, and company trade unions are considered the typical characteristics or features of the traditional Japanese approach to management. In reality, majority of these features are related to human resource management practice in Japan. The paper deals with changes in Japanese management practice in both the post-war era and the lost ten years’ era. The post-war era includes about three decades since the 1950’s till the end of 1980’s. Period of the 1990’s till the beginning of the 21st century is regarded the lost ten years’ era in Japan. It makes sense to separate these periods as large industrial Japanese companies operated in different business environments in both periods. Changes that occurred in the Japanese management practice during both periods, of course, reflected these differences. Accordingly, the paper is published in two parts. The first part deals with changes in the post-war era.
Key words: American management, human resource management, Japanese management, kanji, management theory, management practice, Ringi procedure
JEL: M 12
str./p. 323-331
Michal Pružinský - VÝCHODISKÁ MALÝCH A STREDNÝCH PODNIKOV V RIEŠENÍ DOSAHU HOSPODÁRSKEJ RECESIE
Abstrakt/Abstract: Growth of national economies after two prosperous decades slowed down in most countries; there is a decrease. Examination of the economic processes is carried out from macroeconomic and microeconomic aspects. Ranges of measures made by national governments, which aim to help businesses overcome the difficult and complex period are similar in nature. However, they differ in terms of the support, the size of enterprises, types of industry, and the current transfer of aid to economic entities. On the part of enterprises themselves, in most cases the differences are in an innovative and flexible access to markets and to their customers. Small businesses are an important segment of the economy, consequently studying their performance highly relevant. Motivation of entrepreneurs is essential for maintaing their activities. We are looking for answers to questions whether the performance of small businesses is on a lower scale in comparison with large busines-ses. It is a fact that, although SMEs employ more than 65% of the workforce, they produce less than 57% of Gross Domestic Product. Is the Gibrat regularity valid under current conditions ? We are looking for answers to whether and how the performance is affected by business size, its ownership structure and survival.
Keywords: economics, growth, small and medium-size enterprises, innovation, the enterprise’s performance
JEL: A 1, E 32, F 43
str./p. 332-341
Michael Mamonov - ECONOMIC DETERMINATION OF PUBLIC MOOD OF THE RUSSIANS: MYTH OR REALITY?
Abstrakt/Abstract: The paper deals with the research in the correlation between the parameters of the economic situation and the state of public mood. On the basis of the data presented in the pa-per, the author draws five important conclusions concerning the nature of the public mood as well as social and political activities of the Russians. Firstly, the economic situation is not a basic determinant for the mass mood as for the social and political activities of the Russian population. Secondly, non-economic factors have a decisive influence on the assessments of the overall situation in Russia. Thirdly, emotional and psychological conditions of the Russians significantly determine the economic assessments. Fourthly, changes in the country‘s economic situation are neither reflected in mass consciousness nor in the results of the sociological surveys. Fifthly, the Russian population very faintly links the development of the economic situation with the activities of the RF government.
Keywords: assessment of the economy, economic crisis, economic assessment, Russian Federation, public opinion, public mood
JEL: P 16
str./p. 342-351
Ewa Bogalska-Martin - LA RHÉTORIQUE DE LA CRISE ET LE GRAND DÉVOILE- MENT. QUELQUES REMARQUES SOCIOLOGIQUES
Abstrakt/Abstract: Crisis is bound to be both social and political: it concerns in the first place indivi-duals; it highlights the issue of decision making and decision taking. We cannot leave this topic only to economists – specialists in statistical balance and to financiers. In the present paper authors are trying to find some elements of the answer to the following question: In whose services is the rhetoric crisis being mobilised? Who needs this kind of rhetoric to re-group social and economic structures and enforce new forms of global, European and national dominance? Can also citizens have a say here? From a purely economic aspect, this crisis shows how new information and communication techno-logies get out of control of entities, but also how the entities that utilise them, get out of control of political and legal institutions. We can speak about the crisis that results from the failure of regula-tion mechanisms. At the same time, by pulling down its veil, the “crisis” reveals its permanent, structural, deep and hidden nature. In harmony with this interpretation, the present-day crisis is nothing but a revealing a conflict of reality interpretations.
Keywords: domino effect, failre of regulating mechanisms, real-life economy, Greece, civil society
JEL: A 14, E 32, E 42, E 52, B 41, B 52
str./p. 352-361
Aleksander Suseł, Paweł Żukowski - FERTILITY OF IMMIGRANTS AND NON-IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES
Abstrakt/Abstract: The paper deals with fertility determinants in the populations of immigrants and non-immigrants in the United States. We consider the following determinants: age, marital status, education, religion, and race and Hispanic origin. The analyses show that a relation between fertility and place of birth was statistically significant in both populations, women and men. We prove that migration is a major source of variation in fertility between immigrants and non-immigrants, which may lead to the postponement of maternity or marriage. Finally, we find that the duration of resi-dence is positively correlated with fertility among US immigrants.
Keywords: immigrant, non-immigrant, income, fertility, USA
JEL: A 13, J 13
str./p. 362-377
Slavoj Czesaný - THE BUSINESS CYCLE IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: TRENDS, CONTEXT AND ECONOMIC POLICY IMPLICA-TIONS
Abstrakt/Abstract: The goal of this analysis of the current business cycle in the Czech Republic is to identify the causes and consequences of fluctuations in economic activity in the period 2000–2009. The paper deals with the 2000–2007 expansion phase and the 2008–2009 contraction phase of the business cycle. A description of the links between changes in the economic environment, the nature of the demand and supply side of the economy and the character of the external and internal balance provides the economic framework for the analysis. Segmentation of supply and demand into its components enables us to identify their sensitivity to the business cycle. Special emphasis is put on the indicators of internal and external balance, which signal in advance the possibility of an economic slowdown or a drop in economic activity. The objective of this analysis is also to identify the position of the Czech Republic in international comparison as regards macroeconomic indicators connected with the monitoring of the business cycle. A macroeconomic forecast and economic policy implications form the last part of this article.
Keywords: economic cycle, financial crisis, recession, gross domestic product, demand components, supply components, sources of growth, monetary policy, fiscal policy, employment policy, economic outlook
JEL: E 21, E 23, O 11
str./p. 378-405
Renáta Myšková, Ivana Linkeová - INDEX FINANČNÍHO ZAJIŠTĚNÍ OBYVATEL
Abstrakt/Abstract: Assessing the level of the region is possible through a series of indicators evalua-ting economic, social or environmental areas. The article emphasizes the economic aspect and focu-ses on the definition and simulation of the new index – the financial security index of inhabitants. The model is created in Microsoft Excel and real statistical data of the Pardubice Region were used for the inquiry.
Keywords: economic level, the Index of financial security of inhabitants/population financial security index, mathematical model
JEL: G 22, E 44, C 5
str./p. 406-417
Jozef Čimo - ÚLOHA INOVATÍVNEHO MARKETINGU V KOMPLEXNEJ INOVAČNEJ STRATÉGII
Abstrakt/Abstract: The paper deals with the role and place of marketing in innovation process. The role of marketing is innovation process is indispensable. The first part deals with the theoretical explanation of innovation importance, innovation strategies, their creation and implementation. The second part deals with the integrating function of marketing and innovative marketing when designing the innovation strategy. This view highlights the function of marketing in product life-cycle and links research and technical preparation of production with potential users of products.
Keywords: innovations, innovation process, innovation strategy, marketing, marketing strategy
JEL: M 31, B 83
str./p. 418-429
Kateřina Hrazdilová Bočková - SOUČASNÝ INOVATIVNÍ MARKETING
Abstrakt/Abstract: The present paper deals with the issues of innovations in relation to customer. The impact of product changes on customer behaviour and the role of innovations in firm’s mana-gement are described; fundamental principles of innovative marketing, it course of action, and use in the present-day economic practice are depicted in the paper. Innovation strategy is linked to marketing, which results in an integration of innovation system and the area of the economy. The transformation of an innovating idea supported by marketing is defined as a competitive advantage; this is what enables the firm improve its position on the market and become more competitive.
Keywords: innovation, customer value, innovation
JEL: M 21, M 31, O 31
str./p. 430-438
Jana Gašparíková - INOVÁCIE A ICH ZÁZEMIE
Abstrakt/Abstract: Innovations represent fundamental pillars for knowledge economy in general, its future development, but also for each country’s economic development. It is in the country’s best interest to underpin the real status quo of innovations in the Slovak Republic and their impact on the country’s future favourable or unfavourable economic development.
Keywords: regions, innovations, innovation policy
JEL: F 01, I 2, O 31, R 10
str./p. 439-450
RECENZIE/REVIEWS
Pavel Vavrinčík
Thomasová, E.: Organizovanie (Organising)
str./p. 451
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Juraj Silvan
Ivanička, K. et. al.: Overcoming Crisis - Creation of the New Model for Socio-Economic Development of Slovakia
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