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Nowak, Ondřej. "Správa společností, teorie sítí a prolínající se řízení v České republice." Doctoral thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2009. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165948.
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The goal of this dissertation thesis is to expand the current knowledge in the area of corporate governance in the Czech Republic. The document consists of several parts. First, a brief introduction to the field of corporate governance is provided. The introduction is followed by the analysis of the data sample in the context of corporate governance, and the search for a potential relationship between the implementation of the principles of corporate governance and financial performance of companies. The next part offers a theoretical introduction to the theory of networks with an emphasis on social and economic networks. In the final part, the empirical network of interlocking directorates in the Czech Republic is presented. The discussion is focused on the structure of the network and its comparison with structures in real business environment in the Czech Republic, and with similar networks from other countries.
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Bygate, Siobhan Carolyn. "Inherited networks, economic embeddedness and developments in corporate governance : post-communist Czech and Slovak Republics with supporting evidence from Eastern Germany." Thesis, Loughborough University, 1998. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/33131.
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Žulavský, Jaroslav. "Image a Identita společnosti Telefónica Czech Republic, a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-200189.
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The objective of the thesis is an impartial definition of elements that make up the image and identity of the Telefónica Czech Republic, a.s. company. The work is divided into theoretical and analytical part. Introduction of the theoretical part clarifies concepts such as company image and company identity within various factors of management of profit-making organizations. The theoretical part of the thesis seeks to draw on available, especially foreign literature. The subsequent analytical part is exclusively devoted to the central theme of the thesis, i.e. detailed analysis of corporate identity and corporate image of the Telefónica Czech Republic, a.s. company with the emphasis on their mutual differences. After several chapters, followed by a part focusing on active research with the help of a questionnaire survey. Here, the thesis analyses and consequently summarizes data obtained from the questionnaire survey of the scope of image and identity of Telefónica Czech Republic, a.s.. The partial objective of the analytical part is also a comparison within the competitive telecommunications market in the Czech Republic. The main aim of the thesis is to try to find possible activities leading to continuous positive development of the image and identity od Telefónica Czech Republic, a.s..
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Štalmachová, Ivana. "Firemná kultúra spoločnosti Vodafone Czech Republic a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-75234.
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Corporate culture is considered as an important idicator of firm's long-term performance. It represents a collection of values, norms and attitudes that are shared in people in organization and that control the way they interact with each other and with stakeholders. First part of the thesis describes corporate culture from theoretical point of view, concretely definition, characteristics and typology of corporate culture, its relation to company's control processes and its changes. Second part of the thesis concentrates on analysis of corporate culture of Vodafone Czech Republic a.s. I paid attention to linkage between corporate culture and company strategy, elements of corporate culture and to its manifestations in internal communication and employees questions. Corporate Social Responsibility issue as an inseparable part of company's culture is analyzed as well. Final part of the thesis belongs to a review of Vodafone's corporate culture with focus on its strength and pros and cons implied.
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Bogdan, Marek. "Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility at 3M Czech Republic." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-77042.
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The aim of this thesis is to present the top management of 3M Czech Republic with a comprehensive solution to their CSR implementation task. The thesis starts by giving the reader an insight into the today's forms of business ownership including corporations and by covering the issue of governance explains why corporations need a solution like CSR. Subsequently, the theoretical foundations of CSR are presented, followed by an explanation of the actual business tool. Additionally, a generic implementation roadmap is devised together with key success factors of this process identified. Based on this generic roadmap, a tailored solution for 3M Czech Republic including specific recommendations on measures and key performance indicators is developed.
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Ježková, Ivana. "Analýza CSR společnosti T-Mobile Czech Republic,a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-74232.
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The Master's thesis deals with a question of corporate social responsibility. The thesis is divided into two main parts. The theoretical and methodological part explains main terms related to CSR, introduces important organizations oriented on CSR and describes standards of corporate social responsibility that can be followed. The first part is also supplemented with interesting data gained in public opinion research on the theme of CSR and its public perception. In the practical part, there are analyzed CSR strategies of two companies: T-Mobile Czech Republic, a.s. and IBM Czech Republic, spol. s r.o. Individual activities are classified into three basic pillars of corporate social responsibility. Approaches of these two companies are compared and in the conclusion of the thesis there are recommended steps to make corporate social responsibility of the two companies more effective.
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Hercik, Marek. "Společenská odpovědnost firmy DHL Express (Czech Republic) s.r.o." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-254254.
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This master’s thesis deals with corporate social responsibility of company DHL Express (Czech Republic) s.r.o. and its impact on corporate image. The work is primarily focused on the characterization and analysis of the CSR activities of this logistics company. The first part describes the corporate social responsibility from a theoretical perspective. Subsequently in the second part is analyzed which CSR tools are used by DHL Express and how are they perceived by customers. Attention is paid to the global and local activities of the company and feedback
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Kmeťová, Michaela. "Application of equal opportunities in firms in the Czech Republic." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-77830.
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This Master's thesis is focused on application of equal opportunities for women and men in firms in the Czech Republic. The purpose is to define the concept of corporate social responsibility as well as equal opportunities. The thesis also introduces the Czech legislation that deals with discrimination and the advantages for companies of complying with equal opportunities for men and women. It is concluded with a research of application of equal opportunities in firms in the Czech Republic and it summarizes the results and introduces recommendations.
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Formánková, Tereza. "Hodnocení podnikového systému vzdělávání ve společnosti Iveco Czech Republic, a.s." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-201727.
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The thesis is focused on corporate learning system. The aim of this thesis is evaluation of corporate learning system in the company Iveco Czech Republic, a.s., and proposing of corrective arrangements on the basis of theoretic knowledge that will lead to increase of the efficiency of education process in the company. This thesis is divided to theoretic part and practical part. Theoretic part is focused on definition of basic terms, environment, factors and relationships relating to corporate learning systems. Theoretic part solves systematic education. The practical part contains the characteristic of corporate and analysis of learning system in the company Iveco Czech Republic, a.s. This system has got 4 parts: identification of learning needs, planning of training courses, realization of training courses and evaluation. This part includes of corrective arrangements to improve of learning systems in the Iveco Czech Republic, a.s.
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Jelínková, Markéta. "Measuring Impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility - Case Study on Financial Literacy in the Czech Republic." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-125065.
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This thesis aims to ascertain which method is the most appropriate to measure impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility and also specifically Corporate Community Investments as a part of Corporate Social Responsibility. Various methods were used in the Master's Thesis, such as analysis, comparison, several personal as well as phone interviews or questionnaire. Section 1 provides overview of Corporate Social Responsibility from various perspectives. Sections 2 and 3 focus on measuring impacts of Corporate Social Responsibility and particular measurement methods. Section 4 provides a comparison of existing methods. In section 5, Case Study on projects of ČSOB regarding Financial Literacy in the Czech Republic is being solved, including analysis of Financial Literacy in terms of "Need" and "Supply" as well as the application of measurement methods. As of the results, Global Reporting Initiative proved to be the most appropriate method to be used for Corporate Social Responsibility/sustainability measurement in general while London Benchmarking Group methodology is the most suitable within Corporate Community Investment. However, both methods should be supplemented when being applied as they are not exhaustive.
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Liu, Zhanglin. "An analysis of corporate governance in the developmentof company law in the People's Republic of China." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2008. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444375.
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Stahlavsky, Jan. "The Win-Win Promise of Carbon Trading? : Discursive Analysis of the European Union Emissions Trading System in the Czech Republic." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Miljöförändring, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-146252.
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This thesis is using the idea that climate change is a product of discourses. It puts focus on the knowledge creation of particular climate change governance. This thesis aims to identify the discursive articulations of carbon trading in the Czech EU ETS. Environmental discourses, informed by M. Foucaults governmentality concept, have an impact on how climate change is rendered governable. Discourse analysis of the Czech EU ETS uses governmentality lens to detect fields of visibility, technical aspects, forms of knowledge and formations of identities of the particular environmental discourse to uncover, how the EU ETS is translated into the national level and how does it hold together.
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Hoff, Jenny van Sten-van't. "The evolution of corporate governance and management control in a post-socialist society : the case of a Czech textile company." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.307489.
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Chytil, Václav. "Společenská odpovědnost malých firem v ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-223066.
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Olsson, Mikael. "Ownership reform and corporate governance : The Slovak privatisation process in 1990-1996." Doctoral thesis, Uppsala : [S. Academiae Upsaliensis], 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb400167769.
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Balharová, Lucie. "Společenská odpovědnost podnikání - srovnání anglické a české společnosti." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2008. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-221985.
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Hrubý, Martin. "ENERGY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY FOR SUSTAINABLE REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT." Doctoral thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta stavební, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-390247.
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Energy Management strategy for sustainable regional development has been selected as the topic of my research due to the fact that energy demand alongside with energy dependency have been continuously growing from a long term perspective. Sustainable development is defined by three imperatives – energy efficiency, ecology and security. Review of the current state and analysis of historical trends in Energetics at global and regional level are covered in this research. Results of the Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis introduce a set of implications and recommendations for Energy Management strategy in the Czech Republic.
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Rakićová, Anna. "The Economics of Bankruptcy - International Perspective." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-136220.
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Presented work deals with the issues of bankruptcies in pre-selected countries: Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Serbia and Croatia, both from an economic and legal viewpoint. First four chapters are devoted to more detailed analysis of insolvency (bankruptcy) laws of each country with regard to their development and current practice. At the end of each chapter is described a current "bankruptcy situation" on the markets of individual economies. The sixth chapter deals with bankruptcies in Europe (Western Europe and Central and Eastern Europe). Part of this chapter is also devoted to the development of selected economies in terms of their GDP. The seventh chapter highlights the economic aspects of bankruptcy and the eighth chapter analyzes the data obtained. The work focuses only on corporate bankruptcies and is completed with appropriate graphs and tables both in the text and in the appendices.
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Rozgoňová, Veronika. "Komparace účetních a daňových souvislostí podnikání obchodní společnosti ve Slovenské a v České republice." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-162245.
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This thesis is focused on the comparison of the accounting and tax aspects of a limited liability company, which is the most common type of business company in the Czech and the Slovak Republic. Introductory chapters are devoted to a brief comparison of the business environment, characteristics of a limited liability company and the possibilities of its establishment in both countries. The main part of the thesis describes and compares the accounting regulation and analyzes the financial statements. The last part deals with the tax aspects, especially corporate income tax and health and social security.
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Hyršová, Tereza. "Komparace korporátní daně v České republice a v Německu pro vybranou společnost s ručením omezeným." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2019. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-401998.
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The thesis is focused on corporate income taxation, namely limited liability company. There is a comparison of the corporate tax between the Czech Republic and Germany in order to define the procedure for calculating the tax liability for both countries. For the purpose of the thesis, a Czech limited liability company is selected for which the tax liability is calculated and proposals for the future are drawn up.
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Alexandrová, Adéla. "Komparace zdanění firem ve vybraných zemích." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-360527.
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The diploma thesis is focused on comparison of company tax in Czech Republic, Austria and Germany. It is deeply focused on corporate income tax of the legal entity and its construction parts. The aim of the work is to acquaint the reader with differences during setting the tax amount at mentioned countries and evaluate tax competition between countries as mentioned above. First part of this thesis is focused on basic concepts and introduction of statutory income tax treatment in the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany. Next section of this thesis is focused on comparing elements of the corporation tax with highlighting country differences and calculation of the income tax at a sample company.
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Tomšů, Hana. "Srovnání účetní a daňové problematiky České republiky a Finska." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2016. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-264571.
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The thesis is focused on an accounting and a tax field of the selected countries, the Czech Republic and Finland. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the accounting and tax system of the chosen countries and its reciprocal comparison. The present form of the financial accounting in both countries was influenced by their economic and political development and by other elements through many years. These factors and their impact on the accounting field are described and reviewed in the first part of the thesis. The second part is focused on the comparison of the tax field of both states which is related with an accounting. Among others, the characteristics of the tax system influence the behaviour of people (persons, entities) in connection with their international (and domestic) business activities. The most suitable indicator chosen for comparison of the tax burden between the Czech Republic and Finland is the consolidated tax quota. Due to the interaction to the accounting, there was an emphasis on the differences in the structure of corporate income tax in connection with the comparison of the tax systems.
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Medková, Alena. "Cesty a nástroje utváření pozitivní image firmy T-Mobile a.s. Česká republika." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165560.
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The content of this work is to focus on the concept of corporate image and its analysis of the selected company, which is in this case T-Mobile Czech Republic a.s. Analysis of the company's image comes from the first analysis of its identity and elements of corporate identity, which consists of finding and subsequently image perceived by employees and consumers in the Czech market through questionnaires. It is shown by a comparison of some elements of the main competitors in the industry. Finally was given some recommendations for improvement of certain activities of the company, which in turn may positively affect the company's image.
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Štěpánková, Zuzana. "Komparace zdanění zisků korporací v ČR a Velké Británii." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2017. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-359111.
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This master thesis deals with the comparison of corporate taxation in the Czech Republic and the United Kingdom. In the first chapter, the terms tax and tax system are described and the Czech and the UK tax systems are analysed and compared. The second chapter deals with corporate taxation, its history and current trends. It is deeply focused on the corporate taxation in the observed countries. In the third chapter the deferred tax is explained and the impact of corporate taxation rules on deferred tax is analysed. The crux of my thesis lies in the evaluation and comparison of both systems of the corporate taxation.
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Turňová, Karolína. "Rozdíly v účetní konsolidované závěrce sestavené podle vybraných národních legislativ." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-444247.
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The thesis deals with the analysis and comparison of the consolidation of financial statements between the Czech Republic and Italy. The theoretical part describes the Czech and Italian bases for the preparation of consolidated financial statements, outlines the financial analysis and take comparison of corporate taxation in both countries. The practical part contains model examples created to show all consolidation methods in both countries. For the purposes of international comparison and analysis of results, financial analysis is used here, in its elementary form.
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Felipe, Fernandez Emma. "L’avenir de la gouvernance d'entreprise en Chine. Une réflexion liée à l'internationalisation des entreprises chinoises." Thesis, Pau, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PAUU2002/document.
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L’objectif de cette étude est de définir le mode de gouvernance d’entreprise (GE) le plus adapté pour accompagner les entreprises chinoises dans leur développement économique international. Dans la première partie, nous présentons une étude approfondie de la littérature existante sur la gouvernance d’entreprise. Dans un deuxième temps, la deuxième partie étudie la situation de la GE dans onze pays (États-Unis, Japon, Allemagne, France, Royaume-Uni, Italie, Brésil, Canada, Russie, Inde et Espagne) afin de mettre en évidence les éléments fondamentaux de ce type de problématique. Dans la troisième partie la situation de la Chine est analysé, du point de vue de son contexte général et de sa GE en particulier. Enfin, une analyse critique du concept de GE est proposé, ainsi qu’une étude comparative et synthétique des douze cas de GE sélectionnés (dont la Chine). Cette éude est complétée par trente entretiens de hauts dirigeants des différents pays concerné (principalement d’entreprises cotées) en vue de mieux comprendre le contexte opérationnel de la GE. L’éude met ainsi en relief la situation particulière de la Chine : Ses spécificités et ses limites sont établies et des recommandations pour l’adaptation et l’améioration de sa GE, conçue comme un mécanisme d’accompagnement de son internationalisation, sont proposésThe aim of this study is to define the model of corporate governance (CG) best suited to assist hinese companies in their international economic development. In the first part, a comprehensive review of existing literature on corporate governance is presented. The second part examines the state of CG in eleven countries (USA, Japan, Germany, France, UK, Italy, Brazil, Canada, Russia, India and Spain) to extract the fundamental elements of this type of problem. Then, the situation of China is analyzed (in terms of context and CG). Finally, a critical analysis of the CG’s concept is proposed, and a comparative study of twelve cases and synthetic CG is selected (including China). This study is complemented by thirty interviews of senior executives from various countries (mainly listed companies) to better understand the operational context of the CG. This study also highlights the particular situation of China. Its specificities and limits are set and recommendations for adapting and improving CG in China are proposed
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Šimůnková, Lucie. "Zdanění příjmů členů statutárních orgánů obchodních společností." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-198997.
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The thesis concerns the income taxation of statutory bodies and their members of the companies in respect of performng responsibilities in a commercial-law relationship. The aim of this thesis is to compare the taxation of statutory bodies in different companies. The majority of the thesis focuses on statutory bodies and their members in the Czech Republic and the remainder on statutory bodies of companies in Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Canada, the USA and Australia.
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Christophová, Pavla. "Aplikace konceptu společenské odpovědnosti podniku v České republice." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-165822.
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The thesis is focused on the evaluation of the application of corporate social responsibility concept in Czech Republic. The main aim is to make an analysis of the impact of activities from social pillar of CSR to enhance employee loyalty. The theoretical part provides an interpretation of the corporate social responsibility concept and also a description of the evaluation methodology KORP. During the solution social pillars of corporate social responsibility are evaluated by KORP and by using description method in three selected Czech companies. The results are compared by using comparative analysis with the results of a questionnaire survey among employees of selected companies. The conclusion of the thesis provides further opportunities for improvement in CSR application in order to strengthen employee loayalty to his company.
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Veselá, Lucie. "Náklady na reprezentaci z pohledu daně z příjmů právnických osob." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-164060.
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The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the current legislation concerning the entertainment costs which are treated as tax non-deductible expenses in the Czech Republic. Further, this thesis compares these costs with promotion and sponsorship costs which are frequently interchanged in practice. After evaluation of the existing legislation in this area, I focus on the question whether these expenses should be treated as non-deductible expenses from the tax point of view while I base my opinion on the current state of Czech legislation, literature, case law and law of Germany and the United Kingdom.
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Kopalová, Markéta. "Společenská odpovědnost obchodních řetězců se zaměřením na potraviny v ČR." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-136246.
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The aim of this thesis is to depict specifics of Corporate social responsibility in food retailing in European perspective. The empirical part provides an analysis of CSR strategies of eight major food retail chains in the Czech Republic. Responsible actions are summarized according to the level of CSR to: minimize risks, enhance business and generate innovations. Survey was conducted in order to obtain consumers' perceptions towards CSR actions in food retailing and image of analyzed retailers.
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Cieslarová, Andrea. "Analýza vývoje sazeb DPH a zdanění příjmů ve vyspělých zemích." Master's thesis, Vysoká škola ekonomická v Praze, 2011. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-114679.
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This thesis is dealing with development and analysis of value added tax rates and income tax rates in developed countries. Developed countries are member states of European Union and member states of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Standard value added tax rates are analysed during period 1971 till 2011 for both formations with following comparison. The development of corporate tax rates is observed from 1981 to 2011 again for both formations with comparison afterwards. For the same period of time are analysed free marginal rates of personal income tax but only within OECD. Next can be found analysis and comparisons of rates mentioned above from seven chosen states including the Czech Republic. In the final part, the development of tax rates in chosen states with respect to the development of GDP in these states is presented. The development in chosen states is surveyed for the period 1981-2011.
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Juřenčáková, Jana. "Srovnání podmínek podnikání v zemích EU - ČR, SR, Lotyšsko." Master's thesis, Vysoké učení technické v Brně. Fakulta podnikatelská, 2007. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-221467.
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This master´s thesis deals with the juxtaposition of current situation in a business conditions for corporations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Latvia from the viewpoint of principle economical aspects and of statute income tax, statute of value added tax, the trades licensing act, workscode and businesscode. On the basis of findings, the work includes comparison of business conditions for corporations in Czech Republic, Slovakia and Latvia.
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MARKIEWICZ, Olga. "Local markets, global rules : different pathways to capital market standardization in Poland and the Czech Republic." Doctoral thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/25200.
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Examining Board: Professor László Bruszt, European University Institute (Supervisor); Professor Sven Steinmo, European University Institute; Professor Milada Vachudova, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Professor David Levi-Faur, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Defence date: 11 December 2012
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This thesis seeks to explain the variation in pathways to the convergence with transnational standard in capital market governance in two countries from Central and Eastern Europe / Poland and the Czech Republic. Although markets for shares in these countries are now governed in similar way and in line with transnational principles, their openness to external governance model varied, and they adopted it at different speed and accuracy. While in Poland the transfer of rules was voluntary and preceded the opening of market, the Czechs resisted the standard solutions. This thesis shows that theoretical approaches which focus on the mechanisms of transnational norm taking cannot fully explain why two countries which shared many similarities and were under the influence of the same external actors acted so differently when it came to organizing capital market governance. Membership incentives offered by the European Union were not necessary to elicit convergence in one case and they were not sufficient in another. At the same time transnational capital market community, which diffused capital market governance standards, had a profound effect on one country eliciting deep and sustainable convergence, and negligible impact on another. By distinguishing between different degrees of convergence and focusing on the interplay of domestic and external factors, this thesis finds that variation in the pathways to the adoption of a standard capital market governance regime is a function of domestic vulnerability and external intervention. Vulnerability refers to the constellation of factors, both political and economic, that endanger an elite’s hold on power. External intervention refers to coercive and non-coercive tools of influence used by different types of external actors: the transnational community and transnational hierarchy. This thesis demonstrates that a substantial and sustainable convergence with transnational standards in capital market governance could be attained by both the transnational hierarchy and transnational community, provided that the level of domestic vulnerability is extremely high. When the level of domestic vulnerability is low both types of transnational actors can attain only limited convergence / a situation in which transnational norms are adopted in selective manner, or are fully adopted but not observed.
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Ibrahimpašić, Tihana. "Corporate Governance Index for the Prague Stock Exchange and Zagreb Stock Exchange Listed Companies." Master's thesis, 2012. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-304748.
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I | P a g e Abstract This thesis primarily focuses on the construction of a firm-specific index measuring the quality of corporate governance in the most liquid Czech and Croatian companies. The index is made by following OECD recommendations on construction of composite indicators. It allows comparison of best practices implementation on the overall level, and it also provides with a comprehensive analogy in terms of various governance domains performance. These domains are represented by four sub-indices: Board, Conflict of Interest, Shareholders' Rights, and Transparency and Disclosure. Initial assumption, stating that the Czech companies should have higher overall Corporate Governance Index score than the Croatian companies, is approved. Moreover, the Czech companies have stronger performance in three sub-indices: Board, Conflict of Interest, and Transparency and Disclosure, whereas the Croatian companies have negligible advantage solely with regard to the Shareholders' Rights Sub-index.
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Presnall, Aaron. "Governance in regulatory transition telecommunications and banking in the Czech Republic, Portugal, and Serbia /." 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/dissertations/fullcit/3362874.
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Li, Manjiang. "Exploration of Corporate Governance between Developed Nations and The People's Republic of China." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1807/25760.
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This article explores the corporate governance in the developed countries and China from a comparative perspective. Following the analysis of principal-agent model, this article examines the dispersion-to-concentration ownership span to explore its influence on the majority/minority ownership and the shareholder/manager conflicts. It compares the positive and negative edges of concentrated shareholding with empirical analysis of Canada, the U.S., and China, and finds the different roles of institutional shareholders in various countries. This article then turns to two-tier agency model which is another way to enhance corporate governance. Compared with the vertical construct with the vanguard of Germany, it illustrates that the supervisory board in china is situated parallel to the board of directors and loses the supervising purpose. This article finally explores the independent director system which has obtained credits in the developed countries. While in China, it lacks legal protection and is not effective as expected.
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Xiansheng, Duan. "Ownership, control, and performance of international joint ventures the case of the People's Republic of China /." 1998. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/44073074.html.
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Poon, Kai Cho. "Corporate legal advisers of state-owned enterprises in the People's Republic of China: the developing watchdogs." 2010. http://repository.unimelb.edu.au/10187/8525.
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This thesis critically assesses the design and operation of the corporate legal adviser (“CLA”) system for state-owned enterprises (“SOEs”) in the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”).The study of in-house legal advisers (commonly known as corporate counsel) in Western jurisdictions has developed as its own subfield of studies of the legal profession. That literature shows that the roles that in-house legal advisers in Western corporations should and can play is heavily influenced by their corporate environments, corporate policies and attitudes of the corporate leaders with whom they work. There are a range of complex organizational and ethical issues faced by Western corporate counsel in discharging the functions of effective gatekeepers, advisers and preventive law practitioners. However, as compared with the abundant published works on corporate counsel in the era of post-Enron corporate America, there is little academic literature on in-house legal advisers in China.
In the face of the challenges and risks caused by the intensifying economic reforms in the PRC since the early 1990s, and China’s entry into the WTO in 2001, the PRC Government has been attempting to strengthen measures to preserve and protect those state assets that are managed and operated through SOEs. The supervisory body for SOEs is the powerful and well-known State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (“SASAC”) which is directly under the control of the State Council.
SASAC has perceived that corporate counsel in Western corporations have been playing a critical role in corporate risk management and decision-making, and have been accorded a high status within their organizations. Therefore one of the measures implemented by SASAC under its risk management framework for SOEs is the CLA system. The CLA system requires SOEs to engage licensed CLAs as part of the corporate governance and risk management system. Pursuant to the Administrative Measures for State-owned Enterprise Corporate Legal Advisers (2004) (the SASAC document governing the system), the role, rights and obligations of CLAs are set out. The policy objective is to ensure that SOEs are managed and operated in compliance with law and with proper legal advice.
SASAC leaders have claimed that the CLA system in SOEs has made great achievements in improving the risk management performance of SOEs. However, this thesis finds that SASAC has not properly addressed the ethical and role dilemmas commonly faced by Western corporate counsel. On the basis of the Western literature on corporate counsel and analysis of SASAC’s policies and the practice of SOEs, this thesis identifies the following key concerns with the CLA system of SOEs: the status and independence of CLAs, the qualification system for CLAs, the legal and professional regulation of CLAs, and the management structure and corporate culture of SOEs where CLAs work. Finally, the inherent problems caused by the power structure in SOEs, especially the role of senior cadres of the ruling Chinese Communist Party in SOEs, has not been resolved.
This thesis concludes that CLAs as corporate watchdogs in SOEs are still at the developmental stage. More empirical research of CLAs of SOEs is warranted to better understand how China, as an emerging world economic power, is to play on the international stage.
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Spisto, Michael Paolo. "Legal aspects of corporate governance in the republic of South Africa: towards a possible model for improved stakeholder relations within the corporation." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/1969.
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Faculty of Commerce, Law and ManagementTraditionally, company law assumes that the directors’ role is to run the company for the benefit of its shareholders alone and to maximise profits for them. It can be argued, however, that this view is too narrow and outdated; that is, company directors should have regard to the rights and interests of a broader range of corporate stakeholders. Hence, the question is whether we should change our perception of the company or corporation from one run by directors dedicated exclusively to serving the interests of shareholders to that of a corporation whose main purpose is to bring benefit not only to its owners and creditors, but also to its employees, the community and the environment. Given that reforms of directors’ duties in light of the above considerations have found their way into legislation across the globe, this thesis examines how and to what extent legal rules and policies should develop in South Africa to place directors under a positive duty to take account of the interests of bodies other than shareholders. Current South African company law does not contain clear rules regarding corporate governance issues and the duties and liabilities of directors. These matters have been left to the common law and Codes of Corporate Practice. Thus, there is no extensive statutory scheme in South Africa, which covers the duties, obligations and accountability of directors. The focus in this thesis is on the rights and interests of employees and the premise that is defended is that it is valuable to corporations to provide employees with an institutionalised voice at board level. It is argued that there is global evidence that where employees participate in the decision-making processes of the company, performance is generally enhanced. This, in turn, directly impacts upon and improves economic productivity, generating a ‘win-win’ situation. The question of the duties of company directors and managers is attracting much attention in South Africa. With rapidly developing and changing labour legislation in South Africa, it is essential to consider the extent to which the country should reassess its traditional principles of company law and corporate governance policies in order to encourage participatory roles for employees in the workplace. It is argued that if South Africa is to improve corporate productivity levels with its re-entry into international markets, management and labour must find improved ways of dealing with one another. The main purpose of this thesis, therefore, is to propose and formulate a workable corporate governance model for South Africa – one that would be advantageous to all stakeholders, especially the employees. This is achieved by comparing and contrasting international models of corporate governance and by applying the best features of each to the unique South African corporate system of values, structures and traditions. It is suggested that the current unitary board structure operating in South Africa has become outdated and does not provide employees with rights enabling them to engage in the decision-making processes of the corporation with their employees at an adequate level. In its place, a two-tier board system of corporate governance is proposed. The economic success of a company will bring about social benefits to many stakeholder constituencies. This will not happen if the company is a financial failure. The issue of obliging directors to act primarily for the benefit of shareholders alone is questioned. Corporate governance reforms were undertaken in many parts of the world in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. This reform process questioned whether the interests of the company should be managed for the shareholders alone or for the other corporate stakeholders as well. There are many views that strongly support the idea that corporate governance should be seen as a system by which corporations are to be governed for the benefits of all stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, creditors, suppliers and the community. In this way, companies should be run as communities in partnerships with all their stakeholders. Thus, this thesis proposes that the success of a company is inextricably intertwined with a consideration of the rights and interests of its employees and other stakeholders.
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Neofitov, Alexander. "Selective adjustment to EU regulatory provisions in new member states : the case of electricity market liberalization in Bulgaria and Czech Republic." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-321951.
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The present work aspires to provide a comprehensive analysis of the policy developments through which European-level prescriptions regarding the liberalization of national electricity markets have been accommodated within the domestic policy contexts of two new member states of the European Union: Bulgaria and Czech Republic. Despite being subjected to uniform demands, adaptation to community regulatory provisions in the two countries has prompted divergent patterns of policy change, resulting in full compliance in the Czech Republic and a failure to meet EU objectives in Bulgaria. In order to address the observed inconsistency the envisaged research identifies a causal link between the outcomes of regulatory compliance and the influence of utility regulation as a sector-specific EU governance pattern on the dynamics of resource re-distribution at the domestic level. A major concern of the research is how contextual factors, such as incumbent power balances across actor populations in the target policy area condition the impacts of EU inputs on domestic policy decisions. In this respect the work hypothesizes that due to transition "sediments" in the new EU member states external rules may be selectively applied in order to match the existing realities and lead to outcomes that diverge from the...
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Song, Ming. "Lending Structure, Risk Management and Performance of Joint-Stock Commercial Banks and City Commercial Banks in China: A Corporate Governance Perspective." Thesis, 2018. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/37824/.
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Lending structure, risk management and corporate governance (CG) are important
banking management issues and pertinent to banks’ performance in terms of
profitability and operating efficiency. Although existing research has demonstrated the
link between CG, lending structure, risk management and bank performance, limited
studies have established such a relationship among fast-growing joint-stock
commercial banks (JSCBs) and city commercial banks (CCBs) in China.
This study investigated two sets of relationships between lending structure, risk
management, CG and the performance of Chinese JSCBs and CCBs from 2007 to 2014.
The two relationships were: (i) between CG factors (identities of influential
shareholders, ownership structure, board of directors, CEO duality), lending structure
of banks and bank risk management, and (ii) between CG factors, risk management and
performance of banks.
The CG mechanisms employed in this study examined the structure and composition
of boards, as well as ownership structure. The variables employed were board
independence, board size, political connection of boards, CEO duality, nature of
influential shareholders, ownership concentration, state ownership and foreign
ownership. Lending structure was measured via lending asset allocation in industrial
loans, commercial loans and real estate loans. The following variables were also
employed to measure bank risk management: (i) capital adequacy ratio (CAR), (ii)
loan-to-deposit (LTD) ratio and (iii) non-performing loan (NPL) ratio. Performance of
banks was measured using return on average asset (ROAA) ratio, return on average
equity (ROAE) ratio and cost-to-income (COI) ratio to reflect the profitability and
operating efficiency of JSCBs and CCBs in China.
The data used in this study were manually collected from the disclosed annual financial
reports of JSCBs and CCBs. The sample covered 49 JSCBs and CCBs from 2007 to
2014. The two sets of relationships were expressed in a structural model that was further
developed into six simultaneous equations. The equations were estimated using both an
ordinary least squares (OLS) approach and a generalised method of moments (GMM)
approach in EViews. This study reports and discusses the GMM estimation results
because of their robustness against the problem of endogeneity.
The estimation results demonstrated that among the CG mechanisms, political
connection of boards, ownership concentration and state ownership have a significant
effect on bank performance represented by all three measures (CAR, NPL ratio and
LTD ratio), while board size does not affect any of the bank performance variables.
However, no CG mechanism had a consistent effect on all three risk management
variables, with board independence having no effect on any of the risk management
variables. In addition, the lending structure variables had a limited effect on the LTD
and NPL ratios, while CAR was not affected by any of the lending variables.
The following potential policy implications arise from this study. First, JSCBs and
CCBs should focus on strengthening the function of board of directors through a more
meritocratic recruitment process based on required expertise and experience. As part of
this recommendation, there should be fewer government-appointed directors of JSCBs
and CCBs. Second, the government should be cautious about dispersing shares held by
government agencies because of the positive effect of government shareholding on
bank performance. Third, the public listing of JSCBs and CCBs should be encouraged
to promote their performance. Fourth, government and foreign investor block
shareholding should be retained to enhance the performance of JSCBs and CCBs, while
block shareholding by state-owned enterprises (SOEs) should be discouraged.
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Svoboda, Václav. "Konkurenční právní transplantáty pro dozorčí radu a samostatné jednatele v čínském právu." Master's thesis, 2014. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-340156.
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Hájek, David. "Prosazování principu flexicurity otevřenou metodou koordinace z pohledu teorie víceúrovňového vládnutí a z pohledu sociologického institucionalismu - případová studie ČR." Master's thesis, 2013. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-321911.
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This diploma thesis is a single-case study analyzing promotion of the concept of Flexicurity principle in the CR through the Open Method of Coordination (OMC). The concept of flexicurity began raising European integration actors' awareness since early 2000s. That was due to considerations how to strenghten competitiveness of the EU Member States' economies during growing expansion of more liberal markets such as China, and in the same time to maintain the European social model based on the concept of welfare state. In 2007, there was adopted EU's definition of Flexicurity. Flexicurity began to be promoted by the OMC. This thesis responds to the lack of studies analyzing the influence of the OMC in specific policy areas. Tha author analyzes literature, relevant laws as well as thier explanatory reports, National Reform Programmes, Czech government's policy statements, and interviews with representatives of tripartite actors who take part in social dialogue. The study explores how does the OMC work in the case of Flexicurity promotion. The aim is to find out which of the selected theories is more suitable for describing the process of Flexicurity promotion through the OMC. Selected theories are the theory of Multi-Level Governace (MLG) and the theory of Sociological Institutionalism (SI). The author...
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Kratochvíl, Martin. "Další vzdělávání a profesní rozvoj příslušníků Policie České republiky." Master's thesis, 2021. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-446478.
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This diploma thesis focuses on problematic of further professional education and development of Czech Republic police officers. The theoretical part of the diploma thesis deals with lifelong education, professional development and further education. In this part of this thesis basic terms and definitions are defined. Furthermore, in the theoretical part the diploma thesis analyzes competency profile and professional requirements for police officers of Czech Republic. Next part of the thesis analyzes educational institution of Czech Republic Police and also Conception of lifelong education of Czech Republic police officers. Marginally the theoretical part also discusses lifelong education of The County Police Headquarters of Prague. Lastly the theoretical part focuses on comparison of police officers in different countries around the globe. The practical part of the diploma thesis focuses on motivation and effectiveness of further professional education of Czech Republic police officers. In this part hypotheses are formulated. These hypotheses are either proven true or false by evaluation of questionnaire survey. Research has been done in police district of District Directorate for Prague III on local police departments and at Office of Service of Criminal Police and Investigation. One of the...