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Innovation in small and medium enterprises
Ehrenberger, Marek ; Strielkowski, Wadim (advisor) ; Hausenblas, Václav (referee)
This thesis provides insight into factors that influence the innovation activity of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech Republic. Its key part analyzes a survey conducted among over eleven hundred Czech SMEs. A model of determinants of innovations is constructed and estimated. Own R&D is identified as a key driver of innovations for the firms. Other important factors include investment into technology, improvement of quality of a product or service or presence on foreign markets. Barriers to innovations and external factors with negative impact as perceived by the firms do not prove to constitute a real inhibitor of innovative activities. Keywords: SME, innovation, entrepreneurship, small and medium enterprise Author's e-mail: marek.ehrenberger@gmail.com Supervisor's e-mail: strielkowski@fsv.cuni.cz
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Strenghtening European Commission's external actorness through internationalisation of SMEs: An institutional analysis of Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP), 2002-2009
Trnka, Jan ; Šlosarčík, Ivo (advisor) ; Kasáková, Zuzana (referee)
European Union faced several external challenges in the beginning of the 21st century. Its enlargement to 24 member states led to a state of dissimilar and not well interconnected economies in need of a new model of external competitiveness. Finding the model and, more importantly, delivering it on community level, was a new task of the European Commission, especially after re-launch of the Lisbon strategy in 2005. Yet, there was another challenge for EU that was not so easy to address by the Commission: the relative weakening of EU's external economic action comparing to new increasingly assertive policies of other international players, especially BRICs. Was it possible for the Commission focus only on supporting EU competitiveness without any external action, as was expected by articles of the Treaty of Nice? As the thesis argues, indeed there was an external action of the Commission before the Lisbon treaty, through its public support of SME internationalization within the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP). A neoinstitutional analysis of the issues on two levels is carried out: Firstly on the level of European institutions (motives, relevant contexts and institutional rules), secondly, on the level of secondary actors (SMEs, NGOs, CIP executive agency EACI), where the...
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Media image of the Ukrainian crisis in selected newspapers of the Czech and Slovak Republic
Šrámková, Zuzana ; Šafařík, Petr (advisor) ; Zilynskyj, Bohdan (referee)
Bachelor thesis "Media image of the Ukrainian crisis in selected newspapers of the Czech and Slovak Republic" aims to analyze articles concerning the Ukrainian crisis in four national newspapers within the period from 23rd November 2013 to 21st February 2014. The first part of the paper is theoretical and describes the method and the terminology used by the author. It also briefly summarizes the historical context of the outbreak of Ukrainian crisis with regard to the Russian-Ukrainian relations after the Soviet collapse. The second part is analytical and contains a detailed analysis of selected articles, the analysis results and comparison of its particular aspects. Within the comparison, newspapers were compared at two levels - national (Czech Republic vs. Slovakia ) and political (right vs. left oriented newspapers). Work will also focus on the impact of geographical proximity of Slovakia and Ukraine on the higher frequency of reports on the subject of the crisis in the Slovak dailies in comparison with their Czech counterparts. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Bankruptcy Prediction Modelling in the Manufacturing Industry
Tichá, Barbora ; Bartoš, Vojtěch (referee) ; Karas, Michal (advisor)
This diploma thesis deals with the issue of bankruptcy prediction of small and medium-sized enterprises operating in the manufacturing industry in selected Central European countries. The theoretical part of the thesis defines the concepts related to the prediction of bankruptcy and methods of model creation. The analytical part of the work includes testing the accuracy of selected bankruptcy model by other authors and creating a new bankruptcy model. The accuracy of the newly created model is then compared with the accuracy of selected models by other authors.
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Economic and Financial Evaluation of Investment Project
Chalabala, Martin ; Bártů, Dominik (referee) ; Hromádka, Vít (advisor)
The master thesis deals with the economic and financial evaluation of an investment project. The work will identify financial and economic evaluation methods, which will be applied to a specific project to acquire a laser cutting center. The work compares the possibility of acquiring a machine by conventional methods using own and external resources with a variant of acquiring a machine with a subsidy for a small business.
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Přínos zavedení modelu manažerského účetnictví pro SME zabývající se zemědělskou činností
Pešková, Markéta
The diploma thesis deals with creation of a model of managerial accounting in agriculture and evaluation of the benefits from it. The theoretical part deals with the essence and functions and describes the general procedures for creating the management accounting model. In the next part, the literary research deals with the specifics typical for agriculture and small and medium-sized agricultural holdings. The research of inhouse accounting in the agricultural enterprises follows the theoretical part for the practical. The practical part of the thesis is based on research and a suitable model for agricultural production. Within the application part, the model is verified on a typical production enterprise characteristic for the Olomouc Region. The suitability of the model is verified after the application together with the quantification of the potential costs. The benefits for the accounting unit and the general benefits are assessed as well.
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Online marketing strategy of an SME
Žáček, Trevor
This bachelor thesis focuses on the online marketing strategy of an SME, namely the company T-shock. Attention has been paid to the current online marketing strategy of the company, its weak points, identification of space for improvement, and suggestions of how to improve the performance of the current strategy.
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LOGI - Logistic method for SMEs in culture (museums and libraries)
Dostál, Petr ; Pernica, Petr
Hlavním cílem metodiky je přínos k úsporám času a k hospodárnosti prostřednictvím řešení logistických problémů v rámci vlastní nezávislé činnosti subjektů sektoru kultury. Metodika je prvé řadě vedena snahou pomoci v řešení aktuálních logistických problémů těm subjektům kultury, pro něž tyto problémy nemají v rámci jejich vlastní nezávislé činnosti marginální postavení. Dílčím cílem metodiky je zvýšení úspěšnosti projektů, a to jejím využitím při přípravě kroků, jež předcházejí podání projektů, anebo budou následovat po jejich udělení, a prokazatelně vedly nebo povedou k lepšímu hospodaření se získanými prostředky. Zřizovatelům může metodika sloužit k podpoře kontroly racionality procesů probíhajících v těchto organizacích.
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Complex of methods for effective entrepreneurship of SMEs in the cultural sector
Dostál, Petr ; Kislingerová, Eva ; Pešek, Ondřej ; Horný, Stanislav ; Surynek, Alois ; Jarošová, Eva ; Srpová, Jitka ; Misař, Jan ; Svobodová, Ivana ; Boukal, Petr ; Vávrová, Hana ; Scholleová, Hana ; Mullerová, Jana ; Sieber, Patrik ; Sieber, Martina ; Vondra, Zdeněk
Základním cílem předloženého souboru metodik je poskytnout sektoru kultury nástroje, které umožní zlepšit řídící činnost především malých a středních organizací, ale zároveň se zlepší i možnosti trvalého a systematického rozvoje a transparentnost v komunikaci kulturních organizací, památek, orgánů státní správy a samosprávy, donorů a dalších, které jsou cílovými skupinami metodiky.
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SME financing
Haloun, Marek ; Dvořák, Petr (advisor) ; Jablonský, Petr (referee)
The bachelor thesis focuses on current issues regarding financing of small and medium enterprises. The first chapter thoroughly defines the SME segment. There is also an analysis of the development of small and medium-sized enterprises in the Czech Republic and the comparison of individual indicators with the average values of the European Union. The second chapter of the bachelor thesis describes the general ways of financing the business activity. The conclusion of the theoretical part deals with the characteristics of banking products for financing the operational and investment needs of the company. In the practical part, the theoretical knowledge is gradually applied to the manufacturing company A and the business enterprise B. Based on financial due diligence, these enterprises are analyzed and evaluated. In the last part of the bachelor thesis, specific model situations are created for selected companies and the best financing option is proposed on the current offer of loan products of selected banks.
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