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Globalization: social-political effects of activities of multinational corpotations
Koryntová, Adéla ; Havlík, Radomír (advisor) ; Tichá, Milena (referee)
This thesis entitled "Globalization: the sociopolitical consequences of the activities of supranational corporations" examines the effects of actions of supranational organizations in the process of globalization, on the basis of contemporary sociological literature. In the first two chapters I assess the process of globalization itself and its most important aspects. The third chapter inspects the supranational corporations, their development, functioning and characteristic attributes and then presents the consequences of these actions. The final chapter focuses on socially responsible behavior.
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Labour market changes in the era of globalization
Stočková, Eva ; Kopecký, Martin (advisor) ; Šerák, Michal (referee)
This thesis introduces issues of globalization in the context of work (not only employment) and education. Further, it follows up the impacts of globalization processes on forms of work and on (working) individuals. The topic of globalization is examined in more detail in the first part of the thesis with emphasis on different concepts and approaches to globalization. At the same time this part defines the contemporary globalization. Work as such is introduced by historical excursion and by a list of changes of work in modern society. There are also presented some of the experts' solutions or recommendations for the labour markets including solutions through long-life education and learning. In most cases the "pros and cons" of changes of work and the submitted solutions are confronted. Main findings of this study are: globalization brings contradictory conclusions which provide advantages and disadvantages to various people and groups; there is a link between globalized economy and working individuals; and at the same time that the link between globalization processes and education is in such a sense that changes in education are often derived from the ideas of economics.
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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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Transnational Actor and the Nation State. The Case of American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic
Zímová, Aneta ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kučerová, Irah (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to analyze the role of the transnational actor at the national level in particular case of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic. The study is divided into two main parts. The first, theoretical part focuses on three theoretical strands. The first chapter focuses on the development of theoretical perceptions of non-state actors in international relations since the 1970s. The goal of the first chapter is to examine concept of interdependence, global governance, the new transnationalism and transnational private governance. The second chapter focuses on multinational corporations. The analysis emphasizes the dynamics of research and development of transnational corporations and their relationship with the nation state. The goal of the third theoretical chapter is to explore the process of interest representation within the nation state. Attention is drawn to obstacles and conditions that transnational actor needs to overcome in order to successfully penetrate the process of interest representation and pursue its goals within the state. The second part of the thesis investigates activities of the American Chamber of Commerce in the Czech Republic that were carried out in an effort to amend the Public Procurement Act from 2010 to 2012. The hypotheses...
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Leading Multicultural Teams. Case Study of XYZ.
Zemanová, Daniela ; Pauknerová, Daniela (advisor) ; Šulcová, Eliška (referee)
The main objective of the thesis is to analyze the topic of leading multicultural teams, with a specific attention to the particular example of the company XYZ; and answer the research questions with the gathered data and construct recommendations. The theoretical part provides a comprehensive overview of the concepts of multinational corporations, teams, multicultural teams and leadership. The assumptions derived from the theory serve as a base for the following empirical part, where the theoretical research is completed with a qualitative study. The qualitative study was conducted in cooperation with the company XYZ and professionals working directly in the multicultural teams were interviewed. By combining the findings from both theoretical and empirical part, many of the assumed benefits, especially the increased creativity, of the multicultural teams were confirmed. However, the negative aspects were identified as well, with the more difficult communication above all.
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Effective Integration of Employers in Intercultural Company
Macek, Jiří ; Kubátová, Zuzana (referee) ; Rašticová, Martina (advisor)
This diploma thesis is dealing with integration of employees in multicultural environment. It defines terms related to the subject: culture, company culture, working group, intercultural communication and intercultural integration. It contains analysis of real multicultural environment, represented by one team of IBM office in Brno. In the end, this thesis offers some improvements for better efficiency of intercultural integration in this team.
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Usage of software applications in the field of project management in transnational corporations.
Osúch, Marek ; Kubálek, Tomáš (advisor) ; Dobrotka, Jozef (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with software applications used in project management in transnational companies. The goal of the thesis is to analyse these software applications and to apply gained knowledge via case study in which a certain company will be examined. The thesis is divided into two parts. The first part contains theoretical basis of the examined field. It deals with project management and applications used in this field. The practical part (the case study) includes the characteristics of the company examined, the development process and methodology of in-depth interview, analysis of the current state of the way project management applications are being used within the company, solution proposal, and solution implementation.
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The determinants of the sino-sudanese relations in 2000-2010
Dudová, Sabina ; Knotková, Vladimíra (advisor) ; Volenec, Otakar (referee)
The thesis deals with the identification of the main determinants of the sino-sudanese relations from 2000 to 2010. The first part focuses on the motivational factors which lead the People's Republic of China to the Sudanese territory. The remaining parts then deal with the particular determinants which are following: energetic dimension of the mutual relations, external actors, the Darfur conflict and Chinese development aid.
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Comparative analysis of organizational architecture of czech and foreign multinational companies (on the example of companies Coca Cola, Pepsi Cola and Kofola)
Jurka, Petr ; Malý, Milan (advisor) ; Theodor, Michal (referee)
The thesis explains the theoretical concepts of multinational corporation, organization, different types of organizational structures and indicators used for the analysis of organizational structures. In the practical part, the author describes the structure of Coca Cola, PepsiCo and Kofola, analyzes the selected indicators for individual companies and also focuses on similar and different features of the organizational structures of these companies. In conclusion, the author establishes the general conclusions and recommendations for companies that want to expand into foreign markets, or already doing business in these markets and are considering a change in organizational structure. Organizational structure of analyzed multinational companies may pose an inspiration for them.
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