Acta Oeconomica Pragensia, 2009 (vol. 17), issue 4

Modelling of Income Distribution of Czech Households in The Years 1996-2005

Jitka Bartošová, Vladislav Bína

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2009, 17(4):3-18 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.275  

After the 1989 Velvet Revolution, the transformation to a market economic system, and mainly the formation of new income sources and the process of a significant differentiation in wages, has caused crucial changes to the income distribution. There have been systematic changes in the model parameters as well as changes manifesting the increasing numbers of discrepancies between empirical and theoretical income distributions: these have caused a contamination of the model. This paper concentrates on the verification of the validity of the statistical model of income distribution used in the Czech Republic at present. In order to consider as precisely...

Strategic Business Alliances: Qualitative Analysis of Specific Factors of Business Clusters

Marek Jemala

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2009, 17(4):19-33 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.276  

Global corporations and companies with international portfolios increasingly concentrate their activities not only on the international expansion of their products or services and global diversification of their capital portfolios, but also on an effective integration in the global value chain in all areas of their activities. This article focuses on the specific analysis of strategic business alliances, which are built on the principles of cluster organization in order to obtain higher synergic effects. This analysis is based on the intensive literature review and several case studies of an organization of different clusters with various specialisations...

The Role of Women in International Business World and in the Czech Republic

Zuzana Křečková Kroupová

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2009, 17(4):34-41 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.277  

This article describes the presence of women in the top corporate positions in the developed countries of Europe, U.S.A. and the Czech republic. The article compares the women representation with the cultural dimensions of Geert Hofstede. The author also describes the situation in the Czech republic, naming companies with the most favorable programs of equal opportunities.

Impact of the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act in Bolivia: Analysis of the Current Status

Shirley Consuelo Banús Vidal

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2009, 17(4):42-61 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.278  

Bolivian exports to the United States (US) market in 2005, without counting natural gas, constituted 22 % of the total exports, making this country the main destination market especially for the manufactured goods that Bolivia offers. The increased importance of the US market for Bolivia lies in the fact that it (the US market) represents a different profile of specialization, since the domestic Bolivian exports to the US market, in contrast to those that are made to the rest of the world, show a relatively high proportion of manufactured goods. Bolivia sends 55% of these goods with high value incorporated, as opposed to raw materials, which is a typical...

What to Do? Impact of the Nazi and the Soviet Control Models on the Post-War Restoration of the Future "Communist" Czechoslovakia

Antonie Doležalová

Acta Oeconomica Pragensia 2009, 17(4):62-83 | DOI: 10.18267/j.aop.279  

The study deals with the question of how much the post-war development of Czechoslovakia was affected by the Nazi central control model and the theory of Marxism-Leninism. The study searches for an answer through analysis of two questions: Could a different economic concept have been applied at all? Was the theory of Marxism-Leninism internally consistent and was it strong enough to solve the post-war restoration tasks? The author reaches her conclusion that Czechoslovakia's transfer to socialism was not based on the Marxist theory as a peculiar economic theory offering a new control concept, but, contrary to that, she believes that the key circumstance...