Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, 2011 (vol. 19), issue 3
Financing of Innovation Activities in V4 Countries through Structural Funds of the European Union
Emília Spišáková
Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2011, 19(3):3-28 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.332 
The article deals with monitoring the use of financial resources from EU Structural Funds to support innovative activities in the Slovak Republic, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary not only in the present, but also in the previous programming period (2000-2006). It describes the areas to which financial resources from the EU Structural Funds flow. It also indicates the operational programmes and their priorities that deal with the promotion of innovation and innovative activities in the countries, the total amount of financial resources allocated to support those activities, the numbers of proposed projects and numbers of projects approved for...
Czech Republic's Development Co-Operation with Post-Socialist Asia
Petr Kment, Lucie Kocmánková
Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2011, 19(3):29-41 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.333
In this study, we deal with both the development co-operation among the Czech Republic and nineteen post-socialist Asian countries and sending of remittances as an alternative to development co-operation. The share of mentioned beneficiaries (developing countries) in the total Official Development Assistance (ODA) provided by the Czech Republic was approximately one quarter. Afghanistan and Iraq receive substantial amounts of ODA from the Czech Republic; however, post-war reconstruction is the reason for this fact. Development projects in Mongolia as well as other countries (such as Vietnam, Georgia and Yemen) are successfully implemented in the long...
IS/IT Risk Management in Banking Industry
Vlasta Svatá, Martin Fleischmann
Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2011, 19(3):42-60 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.334
The paper makes a survey of current trends in business risk management focusing on IS/IT risk management in financial institutions. Special attention is paid to frameworks and regulations available for both financial and non-financial risk management and their relation to IS/IT risk management. The relationship and common and different features between IS/IT risk management and operational risk management are discussed on the basis of a short introduction to the specifics of risk management in financial institutions. The advantages and challenges of those different frameworks are summarized together with the possibility to incorporate some IT/IS risk...
Organizational Culture Management and Transfer. Case Study of an International Retail Company Present on the Czech Market
Přemysl Průša
Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2011, 19(3):61-73 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.335
This paper deals with the problems of organizational culture management and transfer. Current theoretical concepts of organizational culture are discussed in the first part, so that they can be used in the application part. The second part of the article is based on the results of a case study of an international retail company currently present on the Czech market. Primary qualitative research has been carried out as part of the case study in order to analyze several aspects of the organizational culture of the respective company and try to answer questions such as how the organizational culture is formulated, managed and transferred from the home...
The Influence of English on German Business Language
Lenka Kalousková, Ivana Musilová
Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2011, 19(3):74-78 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.336
When the relevant unit or structure of both languages is the same, linguistic interference can result in correct language production called positive transfer. However, language interference is most often discussed as a source of errors known as negative transfer.The interferential mistakes adopted into German from English as the first acquired foreign language are a new linguistic phenomenon among our students at the University of Economics in Prague. Frequent interlinguistic mistakes caused by mechanical adoption of the English language have been sorted out in several groups according to their lexical, grammatical and orthographical features,...