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Cultural differences of doing business in Latin America
Mejdrová, Jana ; Lhotáková, Markéta (advisor) ; Müllerová, Frantriška (referee)
This bachelor's thesis focuses on business practices in Latin America. It's aim is to analyze factors which affect the individual components and overall progress of negotiations with business partners from Latin America. Understanding underlying cultural norms is a necessary requirement in order to establish promising business relationships. The thesis is divided into five chapters. The first chapter discusses the general characteristics of Latin America, which includes geographical information, history, and the current political and economic situation. The second chapter examines potential barriers to successful business negotiations. The third chapter deals with the various cultural differences and typical character traits of Latin American businessmen. The fourth chapter describes the overall conduct of business practices from the initial phase to the signing of a contract. The final chapter is based on Geert Hofstede's research of cultural dimensions and compares his conclusions with previous findings.
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Interests of USA and Latin America in the project of FTAA
Lukašík, Tomáš ; Hnát, Pavel (advisor) ; Stuchlíková, Zuzana (referee)
The economic development of American continent, which presents an area full of contrasts, led after bad phenomenon in the 80's and 90's to such spirited projects as the Free Trade Area of the America's (FTAA), mostly supported by the USA. The author of this work is trying to find those economic levels that are common for both United States and Latin American states and thus would provide certain space for an agreement. The object is to gather possible interests of these two blocks in establishing a free trade area among American countries and to show how much similar those interests are. Mentioning current progress and views on the regional cooperation of both sides, the final prognosis of possible future trend is concluded. The current concept of FTAA is anyway unacceptable for all states together.
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Analysis of the development of the foreign economic relations of the Czech Republic and latinamerican countries
Vančura, Jan ; Petříček, Václav (advisor) ; Bolotov, Ilya (referee)
This work deals with trade and economic relations of the Czech Republic and Latin America, focusing on priority countries - Brazil, Mexico, Argentina and Chile. The first chapter describes in general, historically and economically the Latin American region. In the next two chapters I focus on the priority countries, its recent economic development and then to the development of the trade with the Czech Republic, contracts, the structure of exported and imported goods, strong and weak sides of the local markets and opportunities for the Czech importers. In the last part I deal with possible future developments in the region and prospects of economic relations with those countries.
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The Status of Peru in the Andean community of nations
Jančík, Jan ; Pavlík, Petr (advisor) ; Sudliankou, Aliaksandr (referee)
This work describes current economic situation in Peru, which is illustrated by selected macroeconomic indicators. It describes the evolution of the Inca empire, through the Spanish conquest, independence struggle and briefly deals with the policy over the past 20 years. Peruvian industrial structure, main exported commodities and major trading partners are also mentioned. The second chapter includes a description of the Andean Community of Nations since its foundation in 1969 until the present, describes its development goals, which were initially very ambitious and beyond realistic options of the member countries. The work also mentions the crises, which has the Community passed, and finally achievements in the field of international cooperation, liberalization of trade and deepening the integration. The last chapter analyzes the status of Peru, among other Member States and compares them based on macroeconomic data and social indicators. Peruvian exports to the countries of CAN are only 5% of its total exports and trade balance with countries of CAN is consistently negative. Therefore it is important for Peru to trade without tariff barriers with the other countries of CAN and to benefit from the political leverage in international trade agreements.
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The participation of women in high politics in selected countries of Latin America: current trends
Rada, Tomáš ; Němec, Jan (advisor) ; Školkayová, Marta (referee)
The main theme of this bachelor thesis is political emancipation of women in Latin America. The first part presents the issue of women in politics, arguments in favor of and against more engagement of women. Generally analyzes two important factors that influence women's representation in parliament: the electoral system with its particular components and the gender quotas. The second part analyzes, based on the acquired knowledge, the contemporary situation in Latin America, specifically in three countries: Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. The ambition of this thesis is to identify contemporary trends that occur in these countries.
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The economic integration of Venezuela in the context of the new regionalism
Vršovská, Jitka ; Hnát, Pavel (advisor) ; Steinmetzová, Dana (referee)
Today's world is characterized by continuous globalization and increasing initiatives of states to unify in bigger units in order to face up to the world-wide competition. This bachelor thesis deals with the integration process in Venezuela. The aim of the thesis is to estimate future efforts of Venezuela concerning the formation of new regional integrations and, as well, to reveal the conditions of these attempts. The analysis of the economic situation of Venezuela being the matter of the first chapter serves as groundwork for given investigation. The description of foreign trade and political-economic relations with the other states of the world are the object of the second chapter. The third chapter focuses on the outline of Venezuela's position in the most relevant integration entities in the territory of Latin America. Venezuela is a very interesting country for such study because of its specificity in many ways. Oil industry is a powerful mover of the entire economy and it significantly influences the economic state of the country. Last but not least, the current president Hugo Chávez's policy plays a crucial role because he determines direction in which the country is about to turn and all this is carried out in his individual way.
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Foreign Trade Development between the Czech Republic and those Latin American countries to which the CR attributes territorial preferences
Mísařová, Jitka ; Kalínská, Emílie (advisor) ; Lukáš, Zdeněk (referee)
This Master's Degree Thesis is devoted to the study of Foreign Trade Development between the Czech Republic and those Latin American countries to which the CR attributes territorial preferences, i.e. Brazil and Mexico. International trade has gained a lot on importance in the past century, distances became shorter and the world globalized. Businesses search for new markets, new challenges and new clients. Czech companies are following the same trends. Mexico and Brazil are becoming important partners. Over the years of existence of the CR the mutual exchange with these two countries increased eight times and there are still a lot of unexploited possibilities. Brazil and Mexico are two fast growing countries with more than 100 million inhabitants. Even though they rank among poorer countries, the level of life of their inhabitants is rising and the effective demand as well. Czech products have a very good reputation in these areas, still leveraging the advantage of the well-perceived label "Made in Czechoslovakia", which has always been considered a guarantee of quality. Currently Czech products are considered as having good price-quality rapport, the best combination the client can wish. In this thesis, I am characterizing the political and economical situation of Brazil and Mexico, taking insight into the development of trade exchange between the CR and these two countries, mentioning fairs and other actions to support Czech products in the Brazilian and Mexican markets, introducing the reader to the culture of those regions and describing the situation of actual Czech companies present on the Brazilian market. I am convinced that the possibilities of collaboration between the CR and these two countries aren't yet fully exploited and that there will be a continuous growth in mutual trade exchange.
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The role of the MERCOSUR in the economic integration of Latin America
Švecová, Petra ; Hnát, Pavel (advisor) ; Steinmetzová, Dana (referee)
This Bachelor thesis deals in particular with the Mercosur integration, its history and progress which he went gone through the time. In the first chapter is Mercosur presented together with its Association Agreement, i.e. the agreement with states, with which is Mercosur trying to build functioning mutual relations. The most important part is presentation of a new member State - Venezuela - as a major factor, which strongly affects the inside affairs of Mercosur. In the second part is analysed trade between Mercosur and the selected countries, which is located on the continent of Latin America.
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The position of MERCOSUR in international trade
Zaujecová, Ľubomíra ; Černá, Iveta (advisor) ; Taušer, Josef (referee)
MERCOSUR is the Latin American integration grouping consisting of the five member countries, five associated countries and one observer state. The first chapter deals with the establishment, objectives, basic principles and the economic situation of member countries and the second discusses the trade of individual members as well as the entire cluster. The aim of the bachelor thesis is analysis and assessment of the status of MERCOSUR in the international trade.
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