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Company's strategic change due to merger or acquisition
Smolíková, Lenka ; Rais, Karel (advisor)
The dissertation’s subject matter is mergers and acquisitions (“M&A”). The reason standing behind the dissertation is the ever growing number of announced M&A transactions around the world. The research shows why M&A are important for the company management and why managers today see them as one of the greatest challenges. The work includes a chapter dedicated to the history of M&A and its current state, which has been affected by the financial crisis. One of the main objectives of the dissertation is to connect the economic and legal views on M&A. The work confronts theoretical knowledge with actual M&A cases. In order to provide a clearer understanding of M&A, cases of both successful and unsuccessful M&A transactions in various industries are described. The dissertation includes a detailed description of the specific stages in the M&A process. It deals with the preparatory stage, due diligence, implementation, and the subsequent integration of the two and more merged companies. The dissertation also provides evaluation of the individual stages’ importance. Special attention is given to the most frequent problems occurring during the entire M&A process: human resources and the integration process. In addition, the dissertation responds to the changes in economic environment that took place between the economic boom, at the beginning of the millennium, and the recession that commenced in autumn 2008. It also shows possible future developments in M&A. The dissertation was based on a review of the existing secondary sources; on primary research in companies with experience in M&A, and on collaboration with the tutor and other experts in the M&A field. On the grounds of secondary sources review, primary research, and discussions with experts, a guide on how to successfully implement an M&A transaction was prepared. The dissertation is to serve for didactic purposes in educating future managers, as a guide for companies’ management which implement M&A transaction, and should provide a basis for further research and scientific work in the M&A field. The dissertation’s conclusion evaluates hypotheses formulated prior to its elaboration.
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Využití ratingu a nástrojů umělé inteligence v rozhodování podniku
Kunstová, Ivana ; Rais, Karel (advisor)
This doctoral thesis is an outcome of research in the field of financial performance and credibility evaluation of enterprises and an artificial intelligence apparatus in decision making. Within the framework of a cognitive objective is a complex analysis in the field of financial credibility of enterprises and artificial intelligence, as this subject is currently perceived first of all in the Czech, but also in foreign literature. Within the framework of this objective a convenient instrument in the field of an evaluation of financial performance of enterprises was chosen. For an applied evaluation of financial credibility, a convenient instrument oriented at assessment of risk spread for a calculation of equity capital costs was chosen. An inventive objective is a proposition of a rating model, application of chosen artificial intelligence apparatus for assessment of risk spread for the calculation of equity capital costs on the basis of proposed rating model and compilation of algorithm for calculation of equity capital cost.
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The use of optimization in production planning
Pokorný, Pavel ; Rais, Karel (referee) ; Dostál, Petr (advisor)
The Master’s thesis deals with production scheduling in an industrial company. It uses the means of artificial intelligence to develop an appropriate production schedule in a generalized Flow-shop Programming problem. This problem can be solved by application which is a result of this thesis and was prepaired with use of the software Matlab 7.1 and its Genetic Algorithm and Direct Search toolbox. There is a part devoted to the use of advanced production systems (APS) and the concept of the operative production planning in praxis as well. The thesis pays attention to various optimization models in production scheduling and supply chain management too.
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eLearning - Operational and System Analysis
Vojta, Robert ; Bartoš, Jaroslav (referee) ; Rais, Karel (advisor)
This graduation project deals with the analysis of the actual state of the eLearning, teaching aids available and the proposal of the proper teaching aid for subject The Operations and System Analysis. The whole project is divided into the five parts. The first one is the introduction, the second part defines and concretises the main goal and used methods of this thesis. Further chapter contains theoretical explications of the given topic from the point of view of several authors and other resources. The fourth part pursues the comparison and analysis of the existing software. The results of this analysis, their presentation and evaluation you can find, together with the proper teaching aid prototype, in the last chapter.
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