Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Emília Spišáková
Title: Financing of Innovation Activities in V4 Countries through Structural Funds of the European Union
Abstract: 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 implementation. The actual use of financial resources from the EU Structural Funds and the State Budget is also described in each section. The article includes a description of which areas are the most supported by the EU Structural Funds in the current programming period (2007-2013) and a description of the support to the area of "Research, technological development, innovation and entrepreneurship".
Keywords: innovation, development, research, Operational Programme, Programming
Classification-JEL: G00, O31
Pages: 3-28
Volume: 2011
Issue: 3
Year: 2011
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Petr Kment
Author-Name: Lucie Kocmánková
Title: Czech Republic´s Development Co-Operation with Post-Socialist Asia
Abstract: 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 term and the amounts of ODA received have been steadily increasing. Among the countries of interest, Mongolia receives the highest ODA per capita from the Czech Republic.
Keywords: Czech Republic, migration, Official Development Assistance, post-socialist Asia, remittances
Classification-JEL: F35
Pages: 29-41
Volume: 2011
Issue: 3
Year: 2011
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Vlasta Svatá
Author-Name: Martin Fleischmann
Title: IS/IT Risk Management in Banking Industry
Abstract: 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 management tools and methods into operational risk management in practice. Basel II is the main framework covering the area of operational risk management, therefore the paper focuses on the assessment of the impact and integration of the Basel II framework with IS/IT risk management ones.
Keywords: IS/IT risk, operational risk, Basel, COSO, Risk IT
Classification-JEL: M15
Pages: 42-60
Volume: 2011
Issue: 3
Year: 2011
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Přemysl Průša
Title: Organizational Culture Management and Transfer (Case Study of an International Retail Company Present on the Czech Market)
Abstract: 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 to the host country and how it is perceived by employees, mainly front line employees. A discussion about the specific retail macro culture is performed over the example of the examined company. Even if the results of this case study cannot be generalized, they can serve as a continuation of the research work already performed by Elke Pioch and thus this case study can be compared to similar studies carried out in other retail markets such as in the UK and Germany.
Keywords: Organizational culture, organizational culture management, international retailer, primary qualitative research
Classification-JEL: M12, M14, M16
Pages: 61-73
Volume: 2011
Issue: 3
Year: 2011
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Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Lenka Kalousková
Author-Name: Ivana Musilová
Title: The Influence of English on German Business Language
Abstract: 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, analyzed and described in detail. The output is a set of exercises which is published under the title "German after English". It is an exercise book with a set of interactive exercises on a CD-ROM. Our purpose is to eliminate common mistakes which make communication difficult. The most important aspect is the necessity of a comparative approach to teaching languages, which can help eliminate or avoid such mistakes.
Keywords: lexical and grammatical interference, transfer, anticipation and correction of mistakes, comparative approach, German business language
Pages: 74-78
Volume: 2011
Issue: 3
Year: 2011
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