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The position of inland water transportation in the international trade
Zajíčková, Šárka ; Němečková, Iveta (advisor) ; Hinčica, Vít (referee)
The inland water navigation plays an important role in terms of transportation, although through time it was outperformed by the means of transport associated rather with roads or railways. This paper analyses the position of inland water transportation in the international trade, focused mainly on the European Union. The paper itself is divided into six parts. First three chapters follow the river navigation through the history and the changes in its position in the international trade, the types of classification of goods and also the vision of the European Union about the way the inland water transportation may develop in the future. The aim of chapter four is to focus on volumes and types of goods transported internationally within the European Union. The way the Czech Republic takes part in this transportation is also characterized there. The fifth chapter describes the benefits and drawbacks this particular means of transport brings. The last, sixth chapter aims at the subjects active in the field of inland water navigation in the Czech Republic and the problems they are to overcome.
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Franchise networks operating in the Czech market in business services
Meruňka, Pavel ; Němečková, Iveta (advisor) ; Hinčica, Vít (referee)
This bachelor's thesis introduces a franchising as a modern and promising form of business that in the context of globalization of the world economy has a great future. There are explained the principles on which the franchising is based and all the advantages and disadvantages for both contractual partners. It provides some pieces of information about different forms of franchise cooperation, legal and other requisites in the creation of a franchise system and the world development of franchising focusing on the current situation in the Czech Republic and its use in coming years. The second part presents the franchising in practice. It's based on personal interviews with leading representatives of the two franchise companies providing business services. The goal of this part is to acquaint with the principles of running these organizations and to analyze their beginnings and the subsequent implementation in the Czech market. The final section summarizes the author's survey which was supposed to find out the awareness and knowledge of the franchising among young people.
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Companies entry forms into foreign markets
Tichá, Dominika ; Němečková, Iveta (advisor) ; Olšanová, Květa (referee)
The current period of globalization, still greater liberalization of business environment and growing competition put companies in a difficult situation. To succeed, they are expanding business to an international environment. Multinational companies are expanding into the markets, where they do not yet have their own effects. Entrepreneur or company can use several forms of entry, from export and import operations, through capital-saving forms of market presence, for example licensing, franchising or industrial cooperation, to capital inputs, that can be realized through portfolio or foreign direct investment. On the one hand, entrepreneur's interest to invest is affected by the economic situation of the country, but the effects of using ICT are crucial as well. One of these factors is the high-speed mobile internet access. Mobile network operators can meet demand due to holding of specific frequencies in different bands. Nowadays, the Czech Republic has initiated new selection procedure -- auction to divide frequencies. This Auction is used to attract new mobile operators and also offer new forms of entry for them. Mobile operators need to grant permits, licenses to operate different networks. Significantly for them is entering through strategic alliances of large companies, since it is the area of telecommunications, which requires a lot of money on research and development, innovation and development of telecommunications infrastructure. The first part presents different types of expansion from export and import operations through capital-saving investments to the most complex capital inputs. The second part focuses on the current mobile service providers operating on the Czech market, and their entry into the Czech Republic. The third and last part presents a new selection procedure -- an auction to obtain radio frequencies. There are outlined some new possibilities of entering mobile network operators on the Czech market with telecommunication, which brings this auction.
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The Role of Maritime Transport in International Trade
Babinec, Jan ; Němečková, Iveta (advisor) ; Hinčica, Vít (referee)
The thesis deals with issues of maritime transport and its role in international trade. The first chapter focuses on the characteristics of maritime transport and compares maritime transport with other transport sectors. The second chapter describes the topical situation in seaborne trade. It also presents territorial and commodity structure of seaborne trade. The final chapter focuses on topical problems in maritime transport.
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National assistance for Czech companies in international trade
Karas, Ladislav ; Němečková, Iveta (advisor) ; Cenkl, Přemysl (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the current government services offered to Czech exporters and to make a summary of running projects. Attention is paid to the export strategy. There are described specific products, which can Czech exporter achieve and its institutional arrangements. The author of this work focuses on Ministry of Industry and Trade, Czech Export Bank, Export Guarantee and Insurance Corporation and Czech Trade Promotion Agency. In conclusion, offered assistance is evaluated and changes and improvements, that could help to improve the government services, are suggested.
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Current Practice of Financing and Risk-Hedging in the Export of Investment Units
Kolář, Šimon ; Němečková, Iveta (advisor) ; Pavlík, Zdeněk (referee)
The thesis concerns trade risks and trade finance focused on investment units. The author starts with the definition and characteristics of an investment unit. Than moves on to describe the particular types of trade risks and identifies their specifics in terms of the chosen industry. He further briefly deals with the methods of risk management and risk hedging as well as financing risks from the bank's perspective. A principal part of the thesis is dedicated to long-term trade finance. In particular, it describes the distinctive financing models: supplier credit, buyer credit, pre-shipment finance as well as other, more complicated types, such as project financing, local cost financing or financing from capital markets. A case study of a trade finance operation, prepared in a close cooperation with professionals, is included.
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Analysis of Canadian business environment
Kán, Matěj ; Machková, Hana (advisor) ; Němečková, Iveta (referee)
The goal of this thesis is to provide a thorough analysis of Canadian market that would make Czech entrepreneurs familiar with characteristics of Canadian business environment. Thesis formulates arguments which would provide a sufficient motivation for conducting investments in Canada. The essential goal is to use conclusions of PEST analysis to identify sectors and regions that appear to be of the highest perspective for Czech companies. A brief theoretical introduction on marketing environment is followed by a key and longest part of this thesis which revolves around PEST analysis of Canada. Chapter six clarifies Czech-Canadian business relations. The last chapter is dedicated to characteristic of Canadian investment climate.
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Motivace a stabilizace zaměstnanců ve finančním sektoru
Němečková, Iveta ; Dvořáková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Kleibl, Jiří (referee) ; Vokálek, Roman (referee)
The dissertation thesis looks into motivation and retention of employees in the financial sector (banks and investment companies) of the Czech Republic. The first part of the dissertation thesis defines motivation and introduces theories of work motivation from the very beginning, through classic theories until contemporary theories of motivation and modern approaches towards it. Further, it explores employee motivation, motivational processes a factors influencing productivity of work. It also analyses intrinsic and extrinsic motivation and motivation of work behaviour, it introduces motivation programs as a part of motivational strategies. It the following part, the dissertation thesis introduces the subject of employee retention and sets reasons why retention of employees is necessary, what factors impact it and it also describes programs of retention. The second part of the dissertation thesis is dedicated to a comprehensive empiric research of work motivation and retention of employees in the financial sector, which has been executed in a form of survey attended by 119 respondents from various banks and investment companies active in the Czech Republic. The respondents were working in different working positions in their company's hierarchy. The survey was on top of that supported by discussions around round tables attended by 23 respondents. In this part of the dissertation thesis, there were set goals of the research and hypotheses, verification of which served to achievement of the goals. The first goal was to investigate presence of commonalities in employee motivation and retention in the financial sector, their identification and description of key components. The other goal was to make a comparison by the research identified key components of motivation and retention from the point of importance for the employees and compare what importance they had for the employees in the period before and during the global depression and predict their development in the period of recession. A partial goal of this thesis is its contribution to both scientific-pedagogic and business area. A goal for application in the business area is to introduce work motivation and retention subject to managers on all levels of management as a useful and necessary tool for management of people not only in financial enterprises but all subjects acting in the market economy. This dissertation thesis wishes to become inspiration and partial guidance for managers at all management levels in their daily personnel work and show what tools should be used by financial companies for employees motivation and retention not only now but also after the depression is over. There are also described research methods and research data processing methodology in this part. The third part of the dissertation thesis presents a detailed evaluation of research results. They are summarized to clearly arranged graphs and shown according to different viewpoints. Further, the dissertation thesis contains a summarized evaluation of results, hypotheses verification and recommendations for science and further research, very specific and detailed recommendations for business practice as well as for education of students in the field of employee motivation and retention at schools and universities. The entire dissertation thesis is inspiration for managers not only in the financial sector but anywhere, where it can assist as a guidance for managers at all levels of management in their daily work related to employee motivation and retention. There are summed up results of the set hypotheses and evaluated the goals at the end of the thesis.
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