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Social Enterprise-Centered Varieties of Capitalism: How does the variant of capitalism impact the social enterprise sector?
Lopinski, Justin James ; Schwarz, Jiří (advisor) ; Baxa, Jaromír (referee)
Sociální podniky představují způsob, jak využít již existující instituce a trhy k řešení sociálních potřeb, které nejsou dostatečně pokryty soukromým sektorem nebo státem. Sociální problémy, které se snaží řešit, jejich institucionální rámec a trhy na kterých operují jsou jedinečné v rámci svého národního nebo dokonce regionálního kontextu. To vytváří problémy s rozšiřováním a implementací úspěšných modelů do nových komunit. Tato diplomová práce definuje tyto institucionální kontexty pomocí teoretického rámce odvozeného z literatury o Modelech kapitalismu na základě srovnání ukazatelů ekonomické koordinace a vládní intervence v různých zemích. Pomocí regresních technik nejmenších čtverců na průřezovém souboru dat ze 49 zemí byly posuzovány následující tři výzkumné otázky. Zaprvé, má model kapitalismu vliv na sektor sociálních podniků? Za druhé, mají cílené snahy zaměřené na podporu podnikání vedlejší účinky, které prospívají sociálnímu podnikání? Za třetí, poskytují společnosti ve kterých převládají postmaterialistické hodnoty příznivější prostředí pro rozvoj sociálních podniků? Výsledky této analýzy ukazují, že zatímco komerční podnikatelská aktivita je pozitivně ovlivněna ekonomickou koordinací a negativně ovlivněna vládní intervencí, neexistuje důkaz, že by podobný vztah existoval i v případě...
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Attitudes Towards Free Movement of Workers from the Perspective of Welfare Regimes
Janáková, Šárka ; Young, Mitchell (advisor) ; Rovná, Lenka (referee)
This Master's Thesis studies the connection between welfare regime clusters, their institutions and public attitudes towards the free movement of workers in the European Union. It aims to analyse, whether welfare regime clusters can serve as a useful tool for understanding the cross- national differences in public opinion on intra-EU labour migrants. To do so the Thesis uses the institutional theory and looks at three dimensions of welfare state institutions - the universality of the welfare state, economic inequalities and job opportunities. The study is conducted on the case of eight (former and current) EU member states, which are divided into four pairs, each representing one of the welfare regimes - conservative, liberal, social democratic and Southern European. The Thesis concluded that neither clustering into welfare regimes, nor institutional dimensions represent a sufficient tool to explain the variations in attitudes between the chosen countries. Insufficiency of clustering was shown in the case of some countries, that are part of the same welfare clusters but show different levels of support for free movements of workers. Additionally, countries with the positions in the studied institutional dimensions which should lead to the most positive attitudes do not reach the predicted degree of...
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Definitions of Art
Mikešová, Marcela ; Kulka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kubalík, Štěpán (referee)
The thesis deals with George Dickie's institutional theory (IT) of art. Dickie provides a definition of art which relates art to cultural, social and historical conditions. His definition is based on realizing the contextual framework of so-called Artworld. The thesis maps the intellectual background of Dickie's theory, analyzes its form, and provides a critical reflection of its shortcomings. In the first part we introduce several authors, whose work forms the theoretical background for the Dickie's theory, including anti-essencialism. We will outline the basic principles of the IT and, finally, we will point out the major problematic issues of his relational theory of art. Keywords artworld, institutional analysis, conferring status, candidate for appreciation
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The Labour Market in Traditional and Light Industry in Pre-modern and Modern Japan
Klička, Petr ; Labus, David (advisor) ; Sýkora, Jan (referee)
In this thesis I focus on the Japanese labour market in agriculture, traditional, semi-traditional and modern light industry between the 1730s and 1950s. In the first chapter I introduce institutional theory and path dependance theory which serve as my conceptual frame. In the second chapter I present a broad definition of the modern period based on Kito's demographical periodization of Japanese history. In the third and fourth chapter I analyze the institutional structure of agriculture and by-employments that dominated the modern labour market. In conclusion I discuss the connection of this structure to heavy industry and its implications for the current dual labour market.
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Agencies and the client system of mediating work for migrants from SNS and Ukraine in Czechia (pros and cons)
Kniazeva, Anastasiia ; Drbohlav, Dušan (advisor) ; Schroth, Jan (referee)
1 Abstract International migration has an impact on the economy in both the receiving and the sending countries due to the fact that foreign workers will 'reinvest' the financial remittances in their home country and support the domestic economy in the source state while fulling the demand for work in the receiving country and improving the financial climate in the host state. Work agencies and the client system are some of the most important details of this system that allows migrants to get a job and often facilitates participation and provides additional services to organize their stay in the host country. The theoretical basis of this thesis is the migration network theory and also the neoinstitutional theory with its concept of limited human rationality as well as a concept of institutional "limitations" in the context of created institutional rules. In the theoretical part of this work the agency and the so-called client system, which performs the same duties on an illegal level, - were explored as institutional units in their historical, real, social dimensions. Basic qualitative research examines the concept of the migration network theory and the concept of limited choice of institutional theory on the example of nine migrants from the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Ukraine with...
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Conceptualism as an aesthetic problem
Ohrádková, Veronika ; Kubalík, Štěpán (advisor) ; Kulka, Tomáš (referee)
The aim of the bachelor's thesis is to present questions raised by the emergence of conceptual art in the wider field of fine arts. Conceptual art, where the idea is considered the most important aspect of a work, signifies a radical departure from traditional fine arts. My goal is to analyze the influence of its dematerialized form on its aesthetical value and position in fine arts. In the first part of work, I describe its characteristic properties, focusing on researching its un- aesthetical nature, the low priority of material form and its philosophical character. The main sources are texts produced by anglo-american aesthets, published in Philosophy and Conceptual Art, edited by Peter Goldie and Elisabeth Schellekens. The second part is concerned with the problem of defining and evaluating conceptual art. I introduce the debate between institutional and functional definitions of art, which are both theories that could explain the artistic essence of conceptual art. Keywords conceptual art, institutional theory, functionalism, the problem of value, dematerialisation, anglo-american aesthetics, art as an idea
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The Visegrad Group as a Tool of Stimulating Interests in the Field of Natural Gas - Ilustrated on the Czech republic and the Republic of Poland
Štolba, Ondřej ; Weiss, Tomáš (advisor) ; Svoboda, Karel (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the influence that the Ukrainian crises in 2006 and 2009 had on the use of the Visegrad Group as a tool for promoting the interests in the sphere of natural gas. This research is based on institutional theory that provides an explanation of the importance of regional cooperation. The impact of both crises on cooperation is then presented on two Member States - the Czech republic and Poland, which provides a framework for an overall assessment. The upholding of interests in the gas area during the years is reflected in the strengthening of the Visegrad Group. The work follows the development of the pre-crisis period to the Polish Presidency of the Visegrad Group in 2012. Thus, it observes the initial efforts to coordinate gas politics, the influence of the European Union on the development of gas agenda within the Visegrad Group and its contribution to the energy security of monitored countries. The thesis evaluates the dynamic development of the Visegrad Group and individual results in reducing dependence on Russian gas. Moreover, there are also noted the remaining limits in the functioning of this group which may block the enforcement of national and Central European interests.
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Czech Migration and Integration Policies in the Perspective of Mongolian Migration
Jelínková, Marie ; Kotrusová, Miriam (advisor) ; Drbohlav, Dušan (referee) ; Muhič Dizdarevič, Selma (referee)
In the period between the years 2006 and 2008, a significant increase in the migration of Mongolians to the Czech Republic could be seen. The Mongolians came to the Czech Republic mainly through formal and informal intermediary agencies and most of them worked as unskilled labor. With a few exceptions, they originally arrived to the CR with work and residence permits, yet a large part of them lost their permits during their first two years of stay. Even those who managed to live and work in the CR legally faced frequent violations of their rights. The research on Mongolian migration presented in this doctoral thesis was carried out as a case study. By looking at this specific problem area, fundamental problems posed for Mongolian migrants by the set-up of the Czech migration and integration policies could be analyzed. This work does not address these policies only and the ways they are set up, but also the manner of implementation and the specific impact of these policies on the life of the monitored migrants. It shows that major problems in the way migration policy is set up and regulated are encountered already by the visa applicants still in Mongolia. The results of the research also show that Czech migration policies put a large part of the Mongolian respondents into positions of dependency on...
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Definitions of Art
Mikešová, Marcela ; Kulka, Tomáš (advisor) ; Kubalík, Štěpán (referee)
The thesis deals with George Dickie's institutional theory (IT) of art. Dickie provides a definition of art which relates art to cultural, social and historical conditions. His definition is based on realizing the contextual framework of so-called Artworld. The thesis maps the intellectual background of Dickie's theory, analyzes its form, and provides a critical reflection of its shortcomings. In the first part we introduce several authors, whose work forms the theoretical background for the Dickie's theory, including anti-essencialism. We will outline the basic principles of the IT and, finally, we will point out the major problematic issues of his relational theory of art. Keywords artworld, institutional analysis, conferring status, candidate for appreciation
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The Labour Market in Traditional and Light Industry in Pre-modern and Modern Japan
Klička, Petr ; Labus, David (advisor) ; Sýkora, Jan (referee)
In this thesis I focus on the Japanese labour market in agriculture, traditional, semi-traditional and modern light industry between the 1730s and 1950s. In the first chapter I introduce institutional theory and path dependance theory which serve as my conceptual frame. In the second chapter I present a broad definition of the modern period based on Kito's demographical periodization of Japanese history. In the third and fourth chapter I analyze the institutional structure of agriculture and by-employments that dominated the modern labour market. In conclusion I discuss the connection of this structure to heavy industry and its implications for the current dual labour market.
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