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The Competition among major fitness clubs in region Prague
Hercík, Petr ; Čáslavová, Eva (advisor) ; Šíma, Jan (referee)
Title: The Competition among major fitness clubs in region Prague Goals: The objective of the thesis is to analyze and compare clientele of Prague's major fitness clubs and to acquire proper data to characterize the customer base in Prague. Results from this research will lead to characterization of competitiveness in the field and recommendations will be proposed to clubs. Methods: The research was completed by both quantitative and qualitative methods. Data were required by questionnaire given to current customers of chosen clubs and by interviews with sales managers from those clubs. Results: Results confirmed assumption about intense competition on the market with providers of fitness services in fitness clubs. The importance of the right targeting was shown as well as the relevancy of the location of the club, because clubs have a tendency to contact potential customers who live or work in an area nearby a club. Keywords: Fitness club, fitness center, customer, membership, CRM, competition
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Transnational Corporations from Developing Countries and their Integration into the Globalization Process
Hinková, Lenka ; Novotný, Josef (advisor) ; Ženka, Jan (referee)
The main theme of this master's thesis is an effort to explain the integration of transnational corporations from developing countries into the economic globalization. Firstly, we define the main concepts, such as process of globalization and competition. Then, we specify the most important characteristics of transnational corporations from developing countries, we identify major incentives and strategies of their integration into the global competition, we also devote our attention to measurement of degree of their integration into the global economy and evaluate their main competitive advantages and disadvantages. In the analytical part of the work we use quantitative analysis in order to find the differences between transnational corporations from developing countries and their counterparts from developed countries in the transnationality index, diversification of industry and industrial sector in which these companies operate. The last part is focused on a case study of an Indian transnational conglomerate Tata Group. On this example we show the practical aspects of integration of transnational corporations from developing countries into the global economy.
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Abuse of dominant position in Czech law and European law
Peták, Šimon ; Černá, Stanislava (advisor) ; Patěk, Daniel (referee) ; Kindl, Jiří (referee)
This paper analyzes regulation of abuse of dominant position under the law of the European Union and under the Czech law. Both the European and Czech competition laws are not only very similar, as the Czech Act on Protection of Competition is inspired by the European competition law, but after the so called modernization of the European competition law, including the decentralization of its enforcement, the Czech authorities are entitled (and obliged at the same time) to apply the European competition law. Given the special relation between the two legal orders, this paper does not attempt to compare the two, but rather to analyze them it their mutual relation, which is the basic view for the submitted analysis. Firstly, a basic introduction to the problems of competition economics is presented, including characteristics of the basic functions and principles thereof. An explanation of the economic background and different models of competition follows, particularly of those important for understanding the specifics of dominant undertakings' behaviour and motivation. Models of monopoly, oligopoly and monopolistic competition are briefly described in opposition to the model of perfect competition and also some other important approaches to this issue are addressed, including the basic views of the...
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Abuse of a dominant position and the concept of relevant market
Bacíková, Martina ; Horáček, Vít (advisor) ; Eichlerová, Kateřina (referee)
Reference 1 1 Abstract - Abuse of a dominant position and the concept of relevant market The main aim of this thesis was firstly to describe the definition of abuse of dominant position constitute as one of the pillars of competition law (except for agreements distorting competition and illegal merger) and secondly to define the concept of the relevant market in accordance with the interpretation of rules on competition and the case law of the European Commission, the Court of First Instance, European Court Justice and the Office for Protection of the Competition. The introductory chapters I have tried to acquaint potential readers especially with the interpretation of key concepts, facilitating global orientation through the issue of competition and its distortion or restriction. Mainly to work with concepts such as competition, competition law, cartel law, undertaking, company, etc. Without explanation and interpretation of these key concepts could seldom be properly grasp the issue of abuse of dominant position. In the next section, I focus on issues describe the subject of my thesis and a dominant market position and its forms of abuse. A comprehensive interpretation of the issue greatly assists the Community case-law for this purpose I chose the most significant cases clarifying fundamental questions...
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Competitive Balance the of selected football leagues in Europe, their development and comparison
Mráček, Václav ; Šíma, Jan (advisor) ; Procházka, Jan (referee)
Title: Competitive Balance of the selected football leagues in Europe, their development and comparison. Goals: Determining the competitive balance in the six top European football competitions. This is a Czech Gambrinus liga, Dutch Eredivisie, German Bundesliga, Austrian Bundesliga, Ukrainian Premier liha Hungarian OTP liga, compare to competition and an outline of the development trend. Methods: The standard deviation of percentage wins, correlation coefficient, the presentation of results based on percentages, graphs, trends. Results: All results are presented in the analytical part of the work, verify predetermined hypotheses and are an important source of comparison for each event and outline trends. Keywords: Competition, equilibrium, European football league, football league, static balance, dynamic balance, season, club, reform, UEFA, sport, decreased balance, standard deviation, correlation coefficient.
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Relationship of biological age of children and their success in karate
Peřinka, Filip ; Honsová, Šárka (advisor) ; Chytráčková, Jitka (referee)
and key words The definition of problematicity: According to the date of birth, the whole population expresses their age numerically, sometimes known as the calendar or chronological year. Nevertheless, from the biological point of view, this statement can be misrepresented in the meaning. The real and precise age, here we mean the biological age, can be different. The Aim: The aim of my batchelor thesis is to consider and evaluate the populational biological age of children doing karate, ranging from 10-15 years. We want to find out whether the biological age has any impact on karate competitions' results. The methods: There is a group of individuals, including boys and girls, who accomplish the criteria for the evaluation. One of them is the approximate achievement of the same technical level of the karateist and the minimal two years competition's attendance. According to Brauer, the biological determination of the year will not only be carried out by the proportional method (in Riegerová, Přidalová, Ulbrichová, 2006; Riegerová, Sedlak, 1996; Riegerová, 1984) but also by the help of orientational growing age of children. Next, we compare the calendar and biological age and evaluate them. All results gained from the survey, will be compared with the anthropological research of Czech population,...
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Shanghai versus Hong Kong: Global Economic and Transport Competition
Ďurica, Michal ; Horálek, Adam (advisor) ; Tomeš, Jiří (referee)
Shanghai versus Hong Kong: Global economic and transport competition Abstract The main objective of the work is to compare global position of two chinese cities Shanghai and Hong Kong. The first part compares financial position of the cities, which comes out from the historical background of the cities and actual economic situation. The global transport competition in ship and air transport is compared in the second part of the work. Final analysis summarises the results and comes out with the statement of stronger city. There is a maximal effort of an actual information and a visual presentation via maps and graphs. Keywords: Shanghai, Hong Kong, China, global position, competition, finance, transport
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The social pressure to have slim and shaped body present in public places
Mixová, Kristýna ; Holeček, Tomáš (advisor) ; Uhl, Michal (referee)
Bachelor thesis is trying to concrete the pressure to have slim and shaped body which is present in public places. Theoretical sources of the text are terms of Elias Canetti - order and judgement, and terms of Theodor W. Adorno - standardization and competition. The text is trying to answer, how the character of these terms looks like in the context of the pressure to have slim and shaped body. The methodology is qualitative research based on fieldnotes from walking through the city. The main findings of the text are that the main characteristic of order in context of social pressure to have slim and shaped body is unambiguity and the fact that the order instructs the way. For judgement is typical the evaluation and dividing people into two group based on their size Competition is present in competing in slimming, in competiting of beauty and in the advantages of helping to make the slim and shaped body easier. In standardization there is important the change in appearance of human body and the information that other people are involved in having a slim and shaped body
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Marketing mix of a new emerging sports facility
Brichcín, Matouš ; Šíma, Jan (advisor) ; Voráček, Josef (referee)
Title: Marketing mix of a new emerging sports facility Objectives: The primary objective of this work is to formulate the draft of an emerging sport facility and build its marketing mix, which represents a set of necessary arrangements for the implementation of marketing strategy aimed at achieving the business plan. Methods: For the development of this work was used qualitative research method in the form of a structured interview with open questions, which was carried out with representatives of the three facilities providing similar services. Based on these interviews, together with the quantitative method of written inquiries, applied to a sample of potential future customers was created the SWOT analysis model for this emerging facility. These methods, along with the method of competition analysis using Porter's five forces model and PEST analysis of external influences, played a key role in shaping the actual marketing mix. Results: Researches in this work confirm that the target group of respondents is really interested in development of a new sport facility. The analysis in this work points to the potential threat that could threaten the implementation of the project. Thanks to these findings, it is possible to be prepared for these possible dangers and threats in time, or to try to prevent...
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Biology, ecology and invasion characteristics of Campylopus introflexus in the Czech Republic
Mikulášková, Eva ; Soldán, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Tribsch, Andreas (referee) ; Kučera, Jan (referee)
A B S T R A C T Ecological and economic impact of invasive plants to natural ecosystems is the subject of many studies; however, invasive bryophytes have been stud- ied only marginally. Campylopus introflexus (Hedw.) Brid. is one of the most strongly invasive bryophyte species in Europe. The species appears to be native in the Southern Hemisphere. In Europe, it was collected for the first time in the British Isles in 1941. The moss has expanded eastward and the first collection in the Czech Republic is dated to 1988. This thesis found that more than 70 localities were known known in the Czech Republic in 2006, and more than 100 localities became known by 2011. It has been further demonstrated that the Czech Republic was colonized repeatedly by generative spores and all populations have a unique genetic composition. Genetic variation of the populations is low, the genetic diver- sity of populations within the Czech Republic is not correlated with their geographic position or with any of the monitored environmental variables. At a fine scale within particular localities, the species disperses by vege- tative diaspores, while it uses generative spores for spreading over longer distances. In Central Europe, C. introflexus prefers open coniferous forests, especially plantations of either spruce or pine. It colonizes...
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