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An analysis of some economic and legal aspects of governance of Central European joint-stock companies
Pustówka, Tomasz ; Urban, Jan (advisor) ; Hraba, Zdeněk (referee)
The Analysis of Some Economic and Legal Aspects of Corporate Governance of Central European Corporations There are three main goals of the thesis: 1) To identify the biggest economic risks of present Czech corporate governance 3) to recommend appropriate measures how to regulate corporate governance of publicly owned companies 2) to consider the question how appropriate it is to regulate corporate governance by hard law rules or when soft law rules could be appropriate enough. The thesis is divided into two parts - the theoretical part and the practical one. The theoretical part is subdivided into four chapters. The first contains a general introduction to the corporate governance, the second includes a description of the system of corporate governance regulation, the next one is dedicated to financial crisis impact on the corporate governance regulation, and the final chapter deals with the comparison of Polish and Czech law regulation of corporate governance in publicly owned companies. The practical part consists of three case studies. The first case study analysis the main findings of the report, which was worked out as a result of the independent audit of supervisory boards in publicly owned companies. The second case study examines the corporate governance system of state-owned companies PKN...
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Regulation in agriculture - application to the milk market
Voborníková, Tereza ; Hraba, Zdeněk (advisor) ; Urban, Jan (referee)
Regulations are often an object of interest of the economists. Some of them criticize regulations because they deform the market. The others appreciate their ability to redistribute the wealth in the society. The purpose of my thesis is to analyze the regulations in a specific agriculture market - production of milk. I supposed this part of agriculture market to be very interesting. There are some reasons: milk is a product of daily requirement, it is hardly to substitute, but still there are two levels of regulation - the European and the Czech one. The thesis is composed of six chapters. They are ordered from the general to particular facts. The used methods are mainly description and historical method. Interdisciplinary approach is also used. The first chapter focuses on the economic theory of regulation. The chapter is subdivided into parts that are dealing with market failures, capture theory, public interest, competition and monopoly. The conclusion of this chapter is as follows: the regulation in our economies exists because of the capture theory. Chapter Two explains the regulations on the European level. The conclusions of the previous chapter are proved and the reasons for regulation creating as well as its main problems are described. It also explains the reform of common agriculture...
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Organic food consumption as an example of pro-environmental behavior: application of the theory of planned behavior
Urban, Jan ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Smith, Michael Lee (referee) ; Buriánek, Jiří (referee)
This work has two objectives. At the empirical level, it seeks to investigate the role of attitudinal, normative and other factors influencing the intention of Czech consumers to purchase organic food, specifically by exploiting the theoretical framework of the theory of planned behavior. On a more theoretical level, this thesis seeks to extend the theory of planned behavior by including descriptive norms in its framework and subjecting such extended theory to an empirical test. The dissertation proceeds in seven chapters. The first three chapters are introductory in the sense that they discuss the motivation for the present work, provide definitions of organic food, and attempt to establish the link between the choice of organic food, as an example of individual pro-environmental behavior, on the one hand, and processes that lead to environmental degradation on the other. Chapter 4 introduces the theory of planned behavior, its assumptions and empirical applications in various domains, including organic food consumption. The empirical data from a small (N=253) yet country-representative survey of the general adult population are described in Chapter 5, together with the method of structural equation modeling that is primarily used to analyze them. In Chapter 6 we test four empirical models of...
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Impro theatre - theatre sports in Czech Republic
Urban, Jan ; Christov, Petr (advisor) ; Pšenička, Martin (referee)
This thesis focuses on the Theatresports as a general category of improvisational theatre. Theoretically analyses their structure in terms of theatre studies and interprets the principles of this specific approach to theatre production, deals with their history and development, also is trying to establish a suitable theoretical and conceptual apparatus for them. It also reflects the decade of work of Theatresports in the Czech Republic, summarizes their characteristics and places them in context with other selected speeches theatrical improvisation on the Czech scene. Keywords: Theatresports, Keith Johnstone, improvisational theatre, improvisation, contemporary Czech theatre, Czech improvisational League
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Bells
Urban, Jan ; Matějů, Martin (referee) ; Czumalo, Vladimír (advisor)
This thesis is about the bells as a culture artefacts. It is divided into four parts. The first part is historica1. It begins with the developement of the bells in the ancient times and continues through the period of the middle ages to the beginning of the bell founding as a craft. It continues with the developement of the bell founding in Bohemia to the present days. The second part treats the technique of the bell manufacturing. It also includes the brief technical description of the bell accessories. The third part treats the bell as a musical instrument and iť s sound. The last fourth part is about legends and stories concerning the bells. This work also mentions well known and famous bells in our country and abroad. The next subject is about orchestral bells which have a little tradition in Czech republic but in the other parts ofthe world is considered as a top ofthe bell founding. The research objective of this work is to show the bell as a multicultural artefact with iť s own history and to describe the bell founding as an original craft. It was very respectful in the past but nowadays it looses iť s importance. One possibility of the future developement in the world are orhcestral bells. Leť shope that this tendence will set up in our country.
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Dying and death as a sociological problem
Beranová, Lenka ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Urban, Jan (referee)
This thesis aims to trace the thematisation of death and dying in Sociology, which in the 1990' evolves into constituion of independent sociological subdiscipline: "sociology of dying and death". The main intention then is to go beyond the commonly held beliefthat the death is still a taboo. The Thesis consists of four thematic parts: first part summarizes the occurence of problems of dying and death in sociology, reflecting recent developments not only in social sciences, but also in the society as such. Theretofore the death is interpreted by religion but has been medicalized so that nowadays medicine represents the determinative paradigm of death. This development is in accordance with the most important framework in the intensely individualized society centered around the notion of "self', closely connected with the concept of body and embodiment. Second part represents - on the background of medicine - three stages of death, where each of them allows to develop its own sociological reflection. Third part is concerned with the revival concept of death in the work of British sociologist Tony Walter. On the basis of the comparison of traditional, modern and neo-modern model of death we comment on social phenomena associated with other relevant conceptions. Fourth part is focused on the problems os...
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Dying and death as a sociological problem
Beranová, Lenka ; Šubrt, Jiří (advisor) ; Urban, Jan (referee)
This thesis aims to trace the thematisation of death and dying in Sociology, which in the 1990' evolves into constituion of independent sociological subdiscipline: "sociology of dying and death". The main intention then is to go beyond the commonly held beliefthat the death is still a taboo. The Thesis consists of four thematic parts: first part summarizes the occurence of problems of dying and death in sociology, reflecting recent developments not only in social sciences, but also in the society as such. Theretofore the death is interpreted by religion but has been medicalized so that nowadays medicine represents the determinative paradigm of death. This development is in accordance with the most important framework in the intensely individualized society centered around the notion of "self', closely connected with the concept of body and embodiment. Second part represents - on the background of medicine - three stages of death, where each of them allows to develop its own sociological reflection. Third part is concerned with the revival concept of death in the work of British sociologist Tony Walter. On the basis of the comparison of traditional, modern and neo-modern model of death we comment on social phenomena associated with other relevant conceptions. Fourth part is focused on the problems os...
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Visitors monitoring and inhabitants'opinions variety research in the area of Nature Park Ještěd
Kešnerová, Tereza ; Urban, Jan (referee) ; Čihař, Martin (advisor)
Nature park is enounced on account of conservation of a landscape character which is a specific typical appearance of landscape. It is often placed in a proximity to larger towns and cities and thus used by urban inhabitants as a place for relaxation and recreation in a natural environs. Small-scale protected areas with valuable natural properties are often parts of a nature park. An efficient management of each protected area even the nature park requires not only the essential knowledge but also the communication between government, visitors and inhabitants. The knowledge in opinions of involved groups is therefore fundamental. This study is focused on the research of the quantitative and qualitative aspects of the visit rate in the Nature park Ještěd and the opinions variety of the park's inhabitants. The physical counting method was used for the investigation of the visit-rate's dynamics - objects passing through the chosen site have been counted. Prepared questionnaires and the method of the controlled personal interview were used for the qualitative research. Visitors were monitored from July 2006 to September 2007 one weekend within each month except the winter season. Inhabitants were monitored in the chosen villages in spring and summer 2008 always during the weekends. Twenty-days'...
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