Publisher: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství

17.30 €

Corporate competitiveness: empirical results

Konkurenční schopnost podniků: výsledky empirického výzkumu

Author(s): Ondřej Částek,Jana Pokorná / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Corporate competitiveness; Business economy; firm competitiveness; Business research;

The book you are holding in your hands is concerned with the phenomenon of competitiveness, namely examining its factors. It builds on a number of previous publications supported by the Research Centre for Competitiveness of Czech Economy and Specific Research conducted in the Department of Corporate Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University. It summarizes the current findings of the research project running since 2005 and still ongoing as the project of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. The presented research “branch” relies particularly on empirical surveys carried out in 2007 with the sample of 432 enterprises, and in 2009 with the sample of 261 enterprises. Given that each business was described by up to nearly 700 variables, an extensive database which could provide data fora number of analyses was established.

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The Collected Works & Commissioned Biography of Edward Perry Warren: Volume I

The Collected Works & Commissioned Biography of Edward Perry Warren: Volume I

Author(s): / Language(s): English

Keywords: Edward Perry Warren; biography; notes; translations; English literature; novel; poetry; philosophy;

These volumes provide scholarly editions of Edward Perry Warren’s works (all, save one, never before re-issued), augmented by a biographical introduction, extensive notes, translations, illustrations, and appendices. For the first time, Warren’s voice is heard in full—through his correspondence and other residues that constitute his commissioned Edward Perry Warren: The Biography of a Connoisseur, through his conversation, captured in Osbert Burdett’s An Imaginary Conversation, through his novel A Tale of Pausanian Love (published here for the first time) and his collection The Wild Rose: A Volume of Poems, through his fairy-tale The Prince Who Did Not Exist and his scholarly article The Scandal of the Museo di Villa Giulia, through his pamphlet Classical & American Education and his retelling of three Greek legends in Alcmaeon, Hypermestra, Caeneus, and through his magnum opus, the apologia A Defence of Uranian Love.

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Modern analysis of biological data: 2. Linear models with correlations in R

Moderní analýza biologických dat: 2. díl. Lineární modely s korelacemi v prostředí R

Author(s): Stano PEKÁR,Marek Brabec / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Linear methods; analysis of data with temporal - spatial or phylogenetic correlations; statistical tools; freeware R; statistics;

Po třech letech přicházíme s dalším dílem Moderní analýzy biologických dat. Tento díl představuje modely a metody, které jsou dalším rozšířením obecného lineárního modelu a kteréumožňují efektivně modelovat korelovaná (statisticky závislá) data. Dle našich zkušeností jsou korelovaná data v biologických, medicínských, ale i jiných oborech velmi častá. Proto jevelká i motivace pro použití výše zmíněných modelů a na nich založených metod statistické analýzy. Někdy bohužel až přespříliš. Jejich korektní použití vyžaduje přece jenom určité úsilí a alespoň základní přehled o tom, jak fungují, jaké jsou jejich předpoklady, co přesněříkají a na co odpověď naopak nedávají. Pokoušet se pracovat „naslepo“, bez takovýchto znalostí, tedy jen metodou „pokusů a omylů“ je samozřejmě zcela nevhodné.

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Regional elections in 2012

Krajské volby 2012

Author(s): Stanislav Balík,Andrea Smolková,Monika Dvořáková,Michal Pink,Vít Šimral,Alena Macková,Miloš Gregor,Otto Eibl,Michal Nový,Vlastimil Havlík,Petr Voda,Petr Gongala,Kamil Gregor,Lenka Hrbková / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Regional elections; 2012; Czech politics; National government; voters; Political parties; electoral process; Regional politics;

Regional (Kraj) elections in 2012, unlike the elections to the Chamber of Deputies in 2010 or 2013, certainly did not indicate a reversal in Czech politics. On the other hand, 2012’s elections were hardly boring, uninteresting affairs, where everything ran according to plan. Seen from the perspective of second-order elections theory, we had an opportunity to confirm that voters punished parties in the national government and rewarded the opposition, depending on the issues that dominated – whether it was for inappropriate reasons, such as salient, but national-level topics, or for appropriate, but boring, regional reasons. These and the entire gamut of other topics may be understood by arange of reasons. Superficially, through blanket “impressionism“, by way of individual independent case studies, or by pursuing a complex and deeper understanding of causes and effects. Using the format of this monograph focused on a single election (though necessarily with comparisons to previous ones) allows the topic to be investigated with the latter method. This is exactly what the authors of this book have attempted. The structure of the book corresponds to the logic of the electoral process, combining descriptive as well as interpretive and analytical methods.

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Musical and Literary Dictionary. Compositions Inspired by Literary Art. Czech Composers. Part I. of the Trilogy.

Hudebně-literární slovník. Hudební díla inspirovaná slovesným uměním: Světoví skladatelé. I. díl slovníkové trilogie

Author(s): Vladimír Spousta / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Music-literary dictionary; Czech lexicographic literature; Music; Verbal arts; literary works;

The music-literary dictionary of world’s composers is a contribution to Czech lexicographic literature as it brings a new perspective on the world’s music. It exclusively focuses on composers who were inspired by verbal arts. Deep correspondence between music and literary work is often hidden or is considered as a mere coincidence. It is therefore praiseworthy that the author systematically emphasises and records this interconnection. The dictionary serves as a remarkably plentiful source of information for every admirer of art.

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Language corpus in teaching and research DaF / DaZ

Sprachkorpora in Unterricht und Forschung DaF/DaZ

Author(s): Tomáš Káňa / Language(s): German

Keywords: corpus linguistic knowledge; teachers and learners; Learning German language; German lexical units;

Was können nun Sprachkorpora den Deutschlernenden bringen? Diese Frage stand als Impulsgedanke für diese Publikation und wurde hoffentlich zumindest teilweise beantwortet. Die Beschreibungen im Abschnitt IV und V können aufgrund der stetigen technischen und graphischen Entwicklung des jeweiligen Instruments bereits zum Zeitpunkt des Erscheinensdieses Buches veraltet sein. Vieles musste hier natürlich nur in Andeutungen bleiben, die entworfenen Forschungsfragen müssten in eigenständigen Studien tiefgreifender angegangenund detaillierter behandelt werden. Dies war jedoch nicht das Ziel dieser Arbeit. Vielmehr sollte die Breite der Nutzungsmöglichkeiten gezeigt werden, obwohl auch diese für DaF undDaZ viel breiter sind als der Platz in diesem Buch.

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14.88 €

Conference of Hispanists / Encuentro de hispanistas Brno 2012

Setkání hispanistů / Encuentro de hispanistas Brno 2012

Author(s): / Language(s): Spanish

Keywords: Conference of Hispanists; Romance languages and literatures; Masaryk University; Hispanic linguistics and literature; translatology; Hispanic culture;

Proceedings of the Czech and Slovak Conference of Hispanists “Setkání hispanistů / Encuentro de hispanistas Brno 2012”, held at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures of Masaryk University from 30th November to 1st December 2012. The proceedings contain 16 papers presented by Czech and Slovak Hispanists and PhD students dealing with the latest research carried out in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in the fields of Hispanic linguistics, literatures, cultures, and translatology.

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Armed Conflicts after the End of World War Two

Ozbrojené konflikty po konci studené války

Author(s): / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Cold War; Armed Conflicts; Peace and conflicts; International Relations; World War II; International law; Criminal law;

Did the Cold War, or rather the end of it, represent any kind of fundamental milestone in armed conflicts? Answering this question became the central research focus of a project undertaken by a group of specialists from the Department of International Relations and European Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University as part of the grant funded project “Armed Conflicts in International Relations after the end of the Cold War”. The project was supported by the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic. To a certain extent the team of authors attempted to summarize the research that has so far been conducted in this field and to present a more complex picture of the kind of changes that have actually occurred within armed conflicts over the last two decades and what the reasons for and consequences of these changes are. What is certain is that the end of the Cold War did not put an end to armed conflicts as such. On the contrary, latent tension which manifested itself through fractional armed conflicts, mostly on the periphery, had many more opportunities to develop after 1990 and grew into conflicts which a number of powers became involved in. Europe – the continent in which the Iron Curtain was located, but which had been spared open armed conflict throughout the entire duration of the Cold War – in the early nineties was to witness the most extensive violence to have occurred there since the end of World War II.

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With Gender at the Market: Decision on Further Education of the 15-year Old

S genderem na trh: Rozhodování o dalším vzdělávání patnáctiletých

Author(s): Martina Hynková,Klára Janoušková,Lucie Jarkovská,Tomáš Katrňák,Kateřina Lišková,Iva Šmídová,Marie Valentová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: gender; education; labor market; Czech Republic; qualitative research;

The book focuses on the interconnected systems of education and labour market. This qualitative research conducted in families and schools of fifteen years old girls and boys is set in the context of contemporary research of gender aspects of educational systems and the paid-work sphere. It deals with the problem of choosing secondary school and future vocation at the end of the elementary school. The findings of the research are grounded both in sociological theories (emphasising the connection between the social structure and the behaviour of individual actors) and in feminist approaches (emphasising the necessity of social change towards a fair and just society).

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Alternatives in Biography: Writing Lives in Diverse English-Language Contexts

Alternatives in Biography: Writing Lives in Diverse English-Language Contexts

Author(s): Stephen Hardy,Martina Horáková,Michael Matthew Kaylor,Kateřina Prajznerová / Language(s): English

Keywords: Biography; biographical writing; life writing; autobiography; English language; pastoral biography;

Alternatives in Biography focuses on texts that draw into question fictional, personal, and academic genre conventions, foregrounding the multiple ways lives are written and selves are constructed. Each of the four chapters examines a particular type of transgressive auto/biographical writing, namely versions of Uranian/fictionate autobiography, bioregional biography, pastoral biography, and Indigenous collaborative life writing. American, Australian, British, Canadian, and Northern Irish perspectives are explored. Key writers are A. Newman (1854–1932), Forrest Reid (1875–1947), Emily Carr (1871–1945), Emma Bell Miles (1879–1919), John Berger (1926–), Peter Ackroyd (1949–), Paul Carter (1951–), Rita (1921–1996) and Jackie Huggins (1956–), and Kim Scott (1957–) and Hazel Brown (1925–).

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Impacts of selected public policies on regional development in the Czech and Slovak Republics: Scientific Proceedings

Dopady vybraných veřejných politik na regionální rozvoj v České a Slovenské republice: Vědecký sborník

Author(s): / Language(s): Slovak,Czech

Keywords: Public policy; regional development; Czech Republic; Slovakia; public sector; financial sector; public administration;

The proceedings include partial results from the second year of the research in both fields, i.e. the public sector and the financial sector. The results were presented at a seminar held in Šlapanice on 24 and 25th November 2011. Compared to the last proceedings, in which the main topic was the public sector, this year’s outputs focused on the financial sector.

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33.00 €

The 2013 Election to the Chamber of Deputies

Volby do Poslanecké sněmovny 2013

Author(s): Otto Eibl,Miloš Gregor,Lenka Hrbková,Tomáš Maceček,Roman Chytilek,Peter Spáč,Vlastimil Havlík,Michal Nový,Kamil Gregor,Michal Pink,Petr Voda,Eva Kneblová,Jakub Šedo / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Parliamentary elections; 2013; political parties; Czech Republic; voters; elections; Campaigns;

This paper offers a comprehensive look at the early parliamentary electionsof 2013. Analyzing the platforms of the individual political parties reveals increasing areas of commonality in their platform statements. This raises the question of whether it is still worthwhile to create and read such platforms. This is particularly true in view of the documented weakness of the relationship between Czech voters and political parties in general. Equally interesting is the contradiction between the meaning still accorded the platforms by voters, who may consider them an important factor in their decision-making process, and the details of the individual platforms themselves. It would appear that people tend to expose themselves only to those ideas with which they agree a priori. The level of exposure may then even end up strengthening their existing views (and this is also true for the opposite case: a confrontation with information which contradicts the original viewpoint may paradoxically strengthen that viewpoint).

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Destination Management as a Tool of Regional Tourism Policy

Destinační management jako nástroj regionální politiky cestovního ruchu

Author(s): Andrea Holešinská / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Destination management; tourism; regional tourism policy; tourism management; regional development;

The monograph deals with the theoretical-methodological basis of destination management as a specific form of managing that is applied in the field of tourism. The monograph is based on the premise that tourism is a major factor in regional development and therefore it covers the tourism policy issue concerning the institutional instrument of regional tourism policy which is able to provide effective tourism development in a region. Besides the theoretical base, the monograph presents results of several researches that prove the application of destination management into practice. Foreign experience in destination management is analyzed and is used as a comparison to the conditions in the Czech Republic.

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The Quality as a Factor of Competitiveness of an Enterprise

Kvalita jako faktor konkurenceschopnosti podniku

Author(s): Petr Suchánek,Milan Sedláček,Jiří Špalek,Petra Štamfestová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Czech companies; quality of products; product quality monitoring and control; financial performance; competitiveness of an enterprise;

The publication is the result of a three-year observation of Czech companies’ relation to quality, particularly their awareness of the fact that the quality of their products is a factor of competitiveness of the entire enterprise. The research was carried out using a questionnaire survey in companies in selected sectors. Based on the research of relevant specialized literature, research questions were formulated in the field of product quality, product quality monitoring and control, degree of customer satisfaction, and competitive advantages and disadvantages. Partial analyses were carried out from 2008 to 2010, and only those questions that remained completely unchanged in the individual reporting periods were subjected to mutual comparison. In addition to the survey, the financial indicators of the individual participating companies were analyzed in each year. This enabled the authors to monitor the situation of the company not only in the context of issues of quality, but also relate the results of this survey to their actual financial success. To split the businesses into two groups according to their financial performance five indicators selected on the basis of the research literature and experience with previous similar studies on a similar subject were used.

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20.66 €

Quality and Efficiency of Industrial Enterprises

Kvalita a výkonnost průmyslových podniků

Author(s): Milan Sedláček,Petr Suchánek,Jiří Špalek / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Industrial enterprise; quality; efficiency; quality management; product quality; quality monitoring and checking; corporate economy;

The aim of the publication is to identify the level of quality in industrial enterprises, including the level and method of management quality and determining the factors of quality and quality management factors that impact on business performance. One of the outputs of the publication is a framework concept which in general is characterized by factors that with a direct impact on the quality (product) establishment and management but also on its performance. The publication is based on the research that was carried out in industrial enterprises (in selected areas) in the Czech Republic. Performed research was a part of a specific research at the Department of Corporate economy, Masaryk University.

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Masaryk University in Brno: The Story of Education and Science in Central Europe

Masarykova univerzita v Brně: Příběh vzdělání a vědy ve střední Evropě

Author(s): Lukáš Fasora,Jiří Hanuš / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Masaryk University; History of Education; Higher Education; Czech Republic; Brno; 1919-2009;

This publication has two objectives: to contribute to the 90th anniversary celebrations of the founding of Masaryk University, while at the same time opening up a specialist debate about the traditions and conditions of higher education in the context of modern Czech history, and the prospects for its future development. In the first chapter, entitled “The Journey Towards a Second Czech University,” the authors examine the events leading up to the establishment of Masaryk University in 1919. Particular attention ispaid to three factors which played key roles in its inception: (1) the condition and development of higher education in the western part of the Habsburg monarchy, which not only involved universities (traditionally those in Prague, Cracow, Vienna, Innsbruck, Lviv, and later Černovice), but also colleges of higher education (in Olomouc and Štýrský Hradec); (2) the conditions particularto Brno, with disagreements between German and Czech elements, which constituted only one facet of the question of nationality in the middle of a multi-ethnic and multi-religious empire; and lastly, (3) the position of the city of Brno and its civic politics, which were codetermined by industrial and cultural developments. In this part of the text the emphasis shifts from an academic and political view of the establishment of the new university to how it was viewed by the public. From this perspective the foundation of the university can be seen as a “revolutionary act.”

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NATO and Armed Conflict Resolution: Comparison NATO engagement in Kosovo and Libya

Severoatlantická aliance a řešení ozbrojených konfliktů: Komparace angažmá v Kosovu a Libyi

Author(s): Zdeněk Kříž / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: NATO; security alliance of democratic states; military policy; international law; humanitarian crisis; Kosovo; Libya;

The following conclusions may be drawn from the analysis of cases in which NATO, as a security alliance of democratic states, proactively engaged in armed conflict through the use of military force, and in which its policies sparked controversy with regard to perceptions of international law. The Alliance employs military force in situations where an extensive humanitarian disaster is ongoing, impending, or anticipated, and where the international community exhibits strong expectations that NATO should address the escalating crisis. Both of the examined cases involved humanitarian disaster; however, both crises proved less severe than anticipated by the international community at the time of NATO’s military engagement.

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24.70 €

Reporting of Corporate Social Responsibility

Reportování o společenské odpovědnosti podniku

Author(s): Klára Kašparová / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility; Czech Republic; corporate practice; Business economy; quantitative content analysis;

The Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (hereinafter called “CSR“) is not totally unknown. Even in the Czech Republic it has become a subject ofa number of researches, nevertheless majority of them remain at the stage of research of awareness and understanding of the concept. Implementation of CSR in corporate practice brings many advantages, though many of them start to affect the company only after publication of its CSR activities. Until that pointthe business gains only limited benefits in form of savings, or it runs just the philanthropy activities – in best case the strategically target ones. This finding constitutes the ground for this monography´s concentration on the area of CSR reporting. Analysis of previous researches has revealed that only a little number of them deals with determination of the state of CSR reporting in post-communist countries and the evaluation is often limited to selected displays of CSR reporting. For this reason, the target of the research presented here in was set as identification of integrating approach to integration of CSR information within their Annual Report in the Czech Republic. The approach was evaluated from several perspectives, which, based on the study of available literature, had been selected as the most frequent when evaluating displays of CSR reporting. The annual reports were selected not only due to their significance and certainty of occurrence of information at least on some CSR themes but also due to growing trend of integration of CSR information in this very type of reports.

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27.30 €

Modern Analysis of Biological Data: Generalized Linear Models in R

Modern Analysis of Biological Data: Generalized Linear Models in R

Author(s): Marek Brabec,Stano PEKÁR / Language(s): English

Keywords: Biological data; Linear models in R; Biology; R Environment; Data analysis; Statistical modelling;

This book is meant especially for students and scholars of biology, i.e. biologists who work in natural science, at agricultural, veterinary, pharmaceutical and medical faculties or at research institutes of a similar orientation. It has been written for people who have only a basic knowledge of statistics (for example, people who have attended only a Basic statistics/Biostatistics course) but who need to correctly analyse the data resulting from their observationsor experiments.

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Non-profit Organisations: Theories and Myths

Neziskové organizace: teorie a mýty

Author(s): Vladimír Hyánek / Language(s): Czech

Keywords: Non-profit organizations; non-profit sector; government; non-profit economics; public policy;

The roles and functions of non-profit organizations have been transforming in the last few decades; massive change is occurring in the non-profit sector and its organizations. Their position have progressively shifted, their traditional philanthropic and associational roles are being supplemented by other functions, missions and goals. Non-profit organizations are increasingly becoming competitors and collaborators with private firms and government agencies; they also represent important economic forces. The role of non-profit institutions in the modern world is certainly considerable and worthy of study. This book is focused on those above mentioned issues: non-profit organizations behaviour and the way particular theories and definitions reflect the non-profit phenomenon. The basic and favoured theories are being examined and confronted with real manners of the non-profit subjects. The attention is being paid especially to the basic concepts of the non-profit economics. The analysis of the particular theories and concepts serves as a base for the recommendations for the public policies towards the non-profit sector.

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