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PHERP Business Management in the Czech Republic

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Spring 2009

Extent and Intensity

2/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).

Teacher(s)

Ing. Ondřej Částek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Michael Doležal (lecturer)
Ing. Lukáš Gottwald (lecturer)
Ing. Lenka Jaterková (lecturer)
Ing. Alena Klapalová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Ing. Petr Suchánek, Ph.D. (lecturer)
doc. Ing. Radoslav Škapa, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Ing. Eva Štěpánková (lecturer)
Ing. Petr Valouch, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Supervisor

doc. Ing. Petr Suchánek, Ph.D.
Department of Corporate Economy - Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Vlasta Radová

Timetable

Wed 17:10–18:45 P3 (KPMG Hall)

Prerequisites

General knowledge of business administration on bachelor level.

Course Enrollment Limitations

The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 80 student(s).
Current registration and enrollment status: enrolled: 2/80, only registered: 0/80, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/80

Fields of study the course is directly associated with

• Business Management (programme ESF, B-EKM)
• Business Management (programme ESF, M-EKM)

Course objectives

The course consists of several lectures, each analyzing a particular segment of Czech business environment. At the end of the course, students should understand general trends of development of Czech companies in the transition process from central planning to market economy in the context of political and social changes. The other aim is to provide students with the current overview of the Czech business environment. The course is specific of its micro-economic and branch-level points of view.

Syllabus

• 1 Economic transition of corporate sector: from central planning to market economy
• 2 Consumer’s Rights in the Czech republic
• 3 The Czech National Quality Program
• 4 Czech Retail and its development
• 5 Advertising in the Czech Republic
• 6 Mobile commerce in the Czech Republic
• 7 Environmental Management
• 8 The Czech accounting system and its relationship with IAS (IFRS)
• 9 Strategic partnerships
• 10 Innovation management
• 11 Multistage decision-making
• 12 The Development of FDI in the Czech Republic

Literature

• SUCHÁNEK, Petr, Radoslav ŠKAPA, Ondřej ČÁSTEK, Michael DOLEŽAL, Eva ŠVANDOVÁ, Alena KLAPALOVÁ, Lenka JATERKOVÁ, Petr VALOUCH and Eva ŠTĚPÁNKOVÁ. Business Management in the Czech Republic (Business Management in the Czech Republic). 2. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2008. 133 pp. Skripta ESF MU, 2. ISBN 978-80-210-4662-7. info
• HAVRYLYSHYN, Oleh and Donal MCGETTIGAN. Privatization in transition countries : lessons of the first decade. Washington: International Monetary Fund, 1999. iii, 16 s. ISBN 1-55775-831-. info
• HABERMAS, Jürgen. The structural transformation of the public sphere : an inquiry into a category of bourgeois society. Translated by Thomas Burger - Frederick Lawrence. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. xix, 301 s. ISBN 07456-0274-6. info

Assessment methods

The course takes form of lectures and finishes in written test.

Language in which the course is taught

English

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught annually.

Listed among pre-requisites of other courses

• BPH_BMCR Business Management in the Czech Republic
  !PHERP  

The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2002, Autumn 2002, Spring 2003, Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Autumn 2007, Spring 2008, Autumn 2008.

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