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Global value chains after the Great Recession: main challenges for advanced and developing countries
Tsyrulnik, Alexandr ; Bolotov, Ilya (advisor) ; Černá, Iveta (referee)
The industrial revolution made great industrial powers out of North America and Western Europe. Hundred years after, ICT revolution and offshoring of production processes paved the way for intense economic growth of the developing countries. Following breakdown of the Soviet Bloc, market oriented reforms in China together with other circumstances have gradually changed balance of powers in favour of the developing world. However, developed economies have been keeping a competitive advantage consisting in activities associated with creativity and know-how, while the newly industrialized countries have been using mainly extensive growth model based on cheap labour and repetitive activities. These processes have been taking place across highly advanced and sophisticated global value chains. Our goal is to look deeply into the impact of the smiling curve and the evolution of the shares of value added for both developing and developed countries, before and after the Great Recession, across three industries: textile, electronics and automotive, and find out, whether developing countries are situated in a so-called low value added trap, in other words their shares for a longer period have either been stagnating or declining, while shares of developed countries have been constantly growing.
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Global IT Outsourcing - Analysis of Trends, Contracts, Decisions and Their Results
Osipova, Anna ; Vacek, Pavel (advisor) ; Čornanič, Aleš (referee)
Informational technology outsourcing has been increasing in popularity over the last decades. It became a trend to transfer IT related processes and activities to an external provider, often located not only in a different country, but on a different continent. Outsourcing IT porcesses to an external provider is an appealing prospect, since the firm can transfer the resources from IT to more important processes. Moreover, since provider can be chosen from virtually anywhere in the world, there is a valid chance of significant IT costs reduction. All those benefits, however, are far from guaranteed. This thesis briefly describes the theory of IT ousourcing, presents current trends in outsourcing of information technologies, lists the common dangers by the decision making process concerning IT outsourcing, presents particular examples of large IT outsourcing contracts and finally introduces analysis of various aspects of IT outsourcing decisions and their results followed by econometric analysis, which examines possible patterns between the particular decisions and their results.
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Utilization of Shared Service Centers in Accounting Areas
Janasová, Barbora ; Müllerová, Libuše (advisor) ; Procházka, David (referee) ; Kovanicová, Dana (referee)
This dissertation thesis examines key aspects of a shared service center concept within an accounting area. Based on the theoretical framework, it provides a comprehensive assesement of various aspects of decision making process (why, what, how, where and the outcome) and establishes hypotheses related to types of accounting services suitable for provision by service centers, locations, ownership and financial outcome. Empirical study was conducted and statistical methods had been applied to test those hypotheses. Thesis aims to provide a guidenace for managers of companies who consider to start using shared service centers or who already use them and would like to further improve this model in accounting areas.
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Shared Service Centers as a form of sourcing
Klímová, Barbora ; Dvořáček, Jiří (advisor) ; Seneši, Karol (referee)
This Master Thesis is focused on the concept of outsourcing and Shared Service Center (SSC) as a tool for reducing operational costs. Outsourcing will be defined along with the various types with advantages and disadvantages of each. Further, the work is focused on process of establishing SSC. The main objective of this thesis is to identify and assess the most important factors for establishing a Shared Services Center. The primary target is divided into the sub- goals. These goals include identifying key factors for locating SSC, assessing the financial benefit of establishing SSC and revelation in which parts of the company savings are highest. Next sub-objective is to evaluate various stages of implementation and progress. The last objective is to evaluate using KPIs as a tool for measuring effectiveness of SSC. For achieving these goals online research, evaluation interviews with executives of Vodafone and internal materials are used. For evaluating of locality are also used methods of managerial decision-making. Theoretical part is followed by a case study. I chose an example of establishing Vodafone SSC in Budapest. On this example my knowledge
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Structural Analysis of Offshoring
Markl, Jiří ; Dvořák, Jiří (advisor) ; Hajdíková, Taťána (referee)
Off-shoring is a wide-spread instrument for strategic management of companies. According to OECD, 60% of global trade is carried out among subsidiaries of multinational companies. This thesis describes possibilities and methods of using off-shoring which are supported by examples of real companies. The thesis does not deal with off-shoring in the form of production transfer to another state, but with off-shoring in the form of earmarking certain activities, such as purchasing, sale, financing, intellectual property, which are the ways to real cost reduction by means of tax optimisation. Tax savings can thus be used for reducing direct production costs in situations when the production cannot be transferred or when investment costs of such transfer would be too high. It can be also used for off-shoring the production activity.
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Návrh modelu vybudování Centra sdílených služeb
Vlček, Jiří
VLČEK, Jiří. Model of shared service centre set up. Brno, 2013. Diploma thesis. Mendel university Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics. The subject of the diploma thesis is to propose model of shared service centre set up. Diploma thesis is using analysis, application and modification of management techniques and application of primary data, gathered from multinational companies from various sectors. Final model is composed from 5 phases, including economical point of view.
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Offshoring to CEE
Sobotková, Magda ; Pernica, Petr (advisor) ; Jirsák, Petr (referee)
The Master Thesis deals with offshoring and its logistic requirements. The first part of thesis characterizes terms as outsourcing, offshoring and offshore outsourcing. The main reasons for foreign production are seeking of resources (typically low cost labour) and expansion into new markets. Benefits and risks of offshoring are analyzed in the thesis, as well as criteria for selection of suitable host destination. Often overlooked impacts of globalization on integrated supply chain are also considered in this thesis. Central and Eastern Europe is one of important offshoring regions. CEE offers relatively cheap and qualified labour. However, its main benefit is its small geographical distance from Western Europe. The costs of servicing markets at Western Europe from CEE are much lower compared to servicing these markets from Asia.
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