The paper is focused on human resource development in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and on effective using of e-learning for employee training. The Delphi method has been used to identify factors influencing effectiveness of e-learning implementation for employee tr...

Many approaches on disparities among countries and regions can be found (i.e.:[12], [22]). One of these is to measure citizen involvement in public issues which is often used to benchmark civil society maturity of given country. However, we should not stay ...

Financial derivatives were introduced in 1981 when the European Option Exchange in Amster- dam was introduced. Despite some opinions that say that financial derivatives cause deformations in prices at financial markets, volume of sales of financial derivatives are annually rising.&#x...

In main part of this paper we describe and analyze some conclusions of previous studies regar- ding derivative instruments throughout the whole world. We attend more closely to the scale of derivatives utilization, types of derivatives used, risks hedged by these instrument...

Electronic business (e-business) is burgeoning area. E-business presents alternatives having amongst and significantly supports profitability and competitive advantage production and busine- ss subjects. E-shops are one of extension of e-business. There are millions of e-shop web pages &...

Over the last years, internationalization and globalization have been typical features of the retail development. Big retail chains expand their retail strategies and activities to many countries espe- cially in East Asia, Middle and Eastern Europe and Latin America. Similar tre...

Data envelopment analysis (DEA), the non-parametric approach to measuring efficiency, was widely used in the literature as a linear programming model. Since the DEA is non-parametric linear program model, the estimated efficiency might be biased if there is data aggregation...

This article presents the partial results of the most extensive analysis focused at environmental fees ever made in the Czech Republic performed by Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in Usti nad Labem in collaboration with the Czech Statistical Office. The current paper&#x...

The construction of the urban transport line network is one of the fundamental problems in the traffic practice. Efficient functioning of the public mass transportation supported from the public sources in the towns is more urgent at present, when the individual autom...

The article deals with an application of the methodology of Analytic Hierarchy process (AHP) and also its newly developed modification named FVK at portfolio management. The method AHP was published already in 1980s whereas FVK is a newly created tool enlarging applic...

The first location theories are based on assumptions of perfect competition (e.g. J. H. von Thünen, A. Weber). These theories build fundaments for other classic or modern theories of lo- cation decision-making process. Modification of location theory was realized after deconstru...

The marketization of public services, among them health care service aims at a continuous incre- ase in public expenditure efficiency, continual improvements in public services quality, the imple- mentation of the professional management tools in the public sector and developing the&#...

Monetary policy measures cannot directly affect the economy. Their impact is usually indirect and mediated through various channels of monetary transmission. The choice of particular trans- mission mechanism is determined by several factors that include the specific conditions of eac...