MANAGER'S ASSESSMENT OF ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE Slavica Mitrović, Leposava Grubić-Nešić, Stevan Milisavljević, Boban Melović, Zuzana Babinková Transformation of totalitarian and centrally regulated society to democratic and free market one initiated, two decades ago, large changes involving all spheres of the society. In the economic area, the transformation to a more efficient market system started, following its deformations which were the result of the forty years of collective ownership and centrally planned economy that had led to lagging economic performance, efficiency and productivity behind developed countries. THE COMPETITIVE ENVIRONMENT AMONG COMPANIES IN THE CZECH PART OF EUROREGION NEISSE-NISA-NYSA Jaroslava Dědková, Klára Blažková The competitive environment in the global economy of the 21st century is highly-complex, demanding and full of competitive opportunities and threats. An effective strategy of company management can help companies improve their performance when faced with simultaneous competition in a turbulent and unpredictable environment. Each and every entrepreneur must be aware that his customers and his own business are not alone on the market – he must know his competition. DOES ECONOMIC INTERVENTIONISM HELP STRATEGIC INDUSTRIES? EVIDENCE FROM EUROPE Anita Maček, Rasto Ovin Inward FDI should stabilize domestic income fluctuations and help investment risks in the domestic economy to disperse, at the same time enabling access to modern technology and financial sector development. Thus they support a typical classical argument for international capital flows liberalization. COMPLEX AGENT-BASED MODELS: APPLICATION OF A CONSTRUCTIVISM IN THE ECONOMIC RESEARCH Vladimír Bureš, Petr Tučník Economies constitute complex and dynamic systems, which have been studied from multiple perspectives and with various tools, techniques and methods. They encompass behavioural patterns, interaction among particular subjects, or several functional principles. CONCEPT OF THE COMPUTER SCIENCE COURSE AND SOME ASPECTS OF ICT INTEGRATION INTO EDUCATION Pavel Rosman, Ladislav Buřita In today's dynamic world, there have been major changes in the requirements made on education and professional training. Some branches are emerging and disappearing, and the demand for a certain range of experts is changing. Knowledge is the current source of competitive advantages; managers have to realize that until they don’t start managing the knowledge process of their company, they are living in the information economy which is already part of the past. THE ISSUE OF INCOME REDISTRIBUTION Beáta Mikušová Meričková, Renáta Halásková One of the conditions for an operating economy is the social appeasement. Massive income disparities can have negative impact on economy. The social appeasement must be obtained by the income transfers between members of society realised in through the public finance system. EMPIRICAL STUDY OF INTANGIBLE ASSETS IN ROMANIAN MUNICIPALITIES Ovidiu Constantin Bunget, Rodica Gabriela Blidisel, Liliana Feleaga, Irimie Emil Popa Nowadays technology provides tools with enormous intangible benefits to entities. While the multitude changes in the economic world challenges the financial stability, the importance of the information disclosed becomes essential in order to be taken good decisions. It is widely recognized that a key driver in the new world is knowledge. SEQUENCE DETERMINING OF CONSTRUCTION OF THE OFFSHORE WIND FARM CONSTRUCTION APPLYING PERMUTATION METHOD Vygantas Bagočius, Edmundas Kazimieras Zavadskas, Zenonas Turskis The world oil crisis of the seventies has lead to important changes regarding energy resources and their exploitation. In the nineties, there was an increased focus on reducing the negative effects that the massive and uncontrolled use of the fossil fuels had on the environment. The beginning of the 21st century brought along new technologies in the green energy. DESTINATION ATTRACTIVENESS OF SLOVAKIA: PERSPECTIVES OF DEMAND FROM MAJOR TOURISM SOURCE MARKETS Kristína Pompurová, Ivana Šimočková According to World Travel & Tourism Council, in 2011, tourism generated 9.1% of global GDP and its total impact of 8.3% of world employment makes it the world’s leading job sustainers with almost 255 million jobs created. Despite a considerable tourism potential of Slovakia, its economic benefits are significantly lower (tourism generated 6% of GDP and 5.8% of total employment, which ranks it at 71st place from 181 countries according to WTTC). THE FUNCTIONALITY COMPARISON OF THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS BY THE ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS METHOD Vincent Šoltés, Beáta Gavurová Hospitals are the weakest segment of the Slovak health care system. Their basic problems are evident in outdated material-technical base, demotivation of physicians, lack of care for the chronically and severely ill patients, regulated and non-competing system of health insurance companies, dysfunctional system of trainings for physician and health professionals. Health care providers (HCP) assess the current health care system as completely unstable. DETERMINANTS OF PUBLIC EXPENDITURES FOR MEDICINAL PRODUCTS IN NON HOSPITAL CONSUMPTION IN SLOVENIA Romana Kajdiž, Štefan Bojnec With an aging of the population, the population's needs for health services have increased in the European Union (EU-27) as well as in Slovenia. Because of this increases the burden on the country’s local public health services and care have increased. SCENARIOS AND THEIR APPLICATION IN STRATEGIC PLANNING Emil Vacík, Jiří Fotr, Miroslav Špaček, Ivan Souček The impetus for the origin and development of scenarios or scenario thinking were failures of many strategic decisions based on one projection of the future, specifically on values of fundamental factors which influence consequences of these decisions. A great deal of attention has been paid to scenarios since the 70s of the past century. THE COSTS AND REIMBURSEMENTS FOR LUNG CANCER TREATMENT AMONG SELECTED HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC Jana Šimrová, Miroslav Barták, Radovan Vojtíšek, Vladimír Rogalewicz Lung cancer is the most frequently diagnosed oncologic disease worldwide. It is annually diagnosed in nearly 1.4 million patients. It is also the most frequent cause of cancer related deaths. In the Czech Republic, lung cancer occupies a leading position both in the rate of incidence and the mortality rate.