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Strategy of automotive suppliers in Central and Eastern Europe
Mohelský, Lukáš ; Machková, Hana (advisor) ; Malý, Josef (referee) ; Materna, Petr (referee)
The main goal of the thesis is to analyze the development of the automotive industry on both the global and the European level from the strategic perspective and to assess the impact of the identified trends on the position of the automotive suppliers within one of the emerging centers of the industry on the European continent. The auxiliary aims of the thesis include the identification of the main reasons, which have led to the current position of the automotive industry within the Central and Eastern European region, and the forecast of the expected future development. The thesis attempts to fill the gap in the existing literature both in the Czech Republic and abroad by presenting new findings in all of the above mentioned fields.
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Importance of Transnational Corporations in the Global Economy with Emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe
Fikarová, Šárka ; Neumann, Pavel (advisor) ; Karpová, Eva (referee)
This thesis deals with the analysis of problems of transnational corporations. It is defined which positive and negative effects can transnational corporations have on the host country mainly in economic and political terms and to what extend and in what ways can the national states regulate their activities. This work presents the largest non-financial transnational corporations in the world and in the developing countries and the largest financial transnational corporations in the world. They are weighted by their size, geographical and sectoral distribution. A special attention is paid to the region of Central and Eastern Europe. At first this thesis deals with FDI flows that are associated with the mentioned region. In addition, it focuses on the reasons of entry of corporations from the West to the region and on the effects of their action. Space is also given to the transnational corporations with the headquarters in the monitored region.
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Risk management of multinational banks operating in CEE
Sroka, Martin ; Taušer, Josef (advisor) ; Žamberský, Pavel (referee)
Multinational banks dominate the banking sectors in Central- and Eastern European countries and are an important partner for the domestic real economies. The aim of this paper is to examine the risk-return variations of these financial institutions in different macroeconomic stages in and around the global financial and economic crisis. The capital adequacy ratio (CAR) is used as a representation of the overall risk a bank is exposed to. The question is if a change in GDP growth implies a reciprocal change in CAR of a bank and if a change in CAR leads to a reciprocal change in net income. In addition, it will be tried to assess the consistency of the risk strategies of different subsidiaries of the same banking group. To conduct the research CAR is firstly derived as a suitable holistic risk measure in the theoretical part of this paper. Then, in the empirical part a case study is carried out that comprises the Czech and Slovak subsidiaries of four multinational banking groups and that is designed for the time horizon from 2008 to 2010. Qualitative as well as quantitative methods are applied.
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Risk capital in entrepreneurship
Ježková, Slávka ; Sato, Alexej (advisor) ; Beníček, Milan (referee)
The diploma thesis describes and defines in theoretical part the entire venture capital system, analyzes the individual elements and inner flows. The thesis contains chapters where the reader can meet the term of venture capital, its history and specifics, and various possible types of investment, subjects at venture capital maktet and the investment process. The second part of the thesis focuses on the issues of the venture capital market in Central and Eastern Europe and in detail in the Czech Republic with particular accent on the last period and the changes caused by the financial crisis and includes the limiting factors for the development of this market.
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Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe at the Beginning of New Millenium
Mezerová, Veronika ; Karpová, Eva (advisor) ; Němcová, Ingeborg (referee)
Thesis is focusing on trends in foreign direct investment flows and stocks in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia break down by country and activity. The main data analysis is for years 2000 - 2006. Recent trends from 2007 till H1 2009 are mentioned only in terms of total flows and stocks.
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University graduates on the labour market of Central and Eastern European countries
Mizerová, Eva ; Kleibl, Jiří (advisor) ; Švůgerová, Anna (referee)
The diploma thesis is focused on the situation of university graduates in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The main objective of the thesis is to analyse opinions, attitudes and expectations of today's university graduates in the CEE region, with focus on the Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, and then, based on this analysis, to define recommendations for companies. This analytical part is preceded by a general definition of relationship between university graduates and companies, concentrating particularly on their recruitment, as well as description of labour market and system of tertiary education in CEE countries. Furthermore, education policy of European Union and its influence on development of tertiary education systems in the region is also mentioned.
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