scholarly journals Traditional and Developing Segments of the Sharing Economy from the Point of View of Customers

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 469-483
Author(s):  
Libena Tetrevova ◽  
Martina Jelinkova ◽  
Simona Munzarova
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Passenger Transportation ◽  
Level Of Use ◽  
Communist Countries

The sharing economy represents a phenomenon which is increasing in importance as time goes by, even from the point of view of less developed countries. The aim of the study is to evaluate the knowledge of traditional and developing segments of the sharing economy and their platforms and to analyse and evaluate the level of their use employing the example of customers (the younger and the older generation) in one of the post-communist countries – the Czech Republic. Data was collected on the basis of a questionnaire survey (N=614). This was processed using descriptive statistics tools. The study shows that respondents are the most familiar with forms of sharing not only from traditional segments (passenger transportation and accommodation) but also from the financial segment. The best-known platforms include Uber, Airbnb and Zonky. Platforms from traditional segments are used the most. The younger generation has better awareness, both about possible forms of sharing and also about the existing platforms. However, the study did not prove any differences in the level of use of platforms between the younger and older generation.

scholarly journals Do Sociodemographic Characteristics in Waste Management Matter? Case Study of Recyclable Generation in the Czech Republic

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 2030 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristyna Rybova
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Situational Factors ◽  
Sociodemographic Characteristics ◽  
Spatial Effects ◽  
Waste Generation ◽  
The Czech Republic

The generation of recyclables in the Czech Republic has long been under the European average, but the proportion from municipal waste as a whole has been growing over the past few years. Previous research in the Czech Republic mainly focused on organizational or situational factors explaining recycling performance in municipalities. This study focuses on individual characteristics that are connected, among other things, to ongoing demographic changes. Currently ongoing sociodemographic development in the Czech Republic, as well as other developed countries, influence a broad range of aspects of social life, including waste generation and its structure. This paper aims at quantifying the relation between the sociodemographic characteristics of municipality inhabitants and recyclable generation. For this purpose, 13 variables describing inhabitants, households, and housing in 4897 Czech municipalities were selected that could influence the generation of recyclables according to foreign studies. Data were analyzed using multidimensional linear regression. Even though the resulting model only explains 9%, it is statistically significant and implies that sociodemographic variables can help explain recyclable generation. From this point of view, important variables are average household size, share of tertiary educated people, share of family houses, purchasing power per person, percentage of people employed in agriculture, and sex ratio. To increase the explained variability and emphasize local differences in recyclable generation, we also used geographically weighted regression (GWR). GWR results show that, to understand waste generation (at least in the Czech Republic) on a municipal level, it is necessary to also consider spatial effects and regional specifics.

scholarly journals Results of analysis of organisational culture in organisations in the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (7) ◽  
pp. 433-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hana Urbancová
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Organisational Culture ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Similar Survey

The article deals with issues concerning organisational culture and its maintenance in existing conditions in organisations in the Czech Republic. The importance of the topic lies in the fact that organisational culture is a reflection of human dispositions in work activities and strengthens one’s attitude to work and regulates relationships between employees and the management of the organisation. The aim of the article is to identify the importance of organisational culture and to determine the process of its development and its maintaining in organisations in the Czech Republic. Data has been obtained through a questionnaire survey carried out in organisations in the Czech Republic and evaluated using the tools of descriptive statistics. Primary data was evaluated using the tools of descriptive statistics and also the methods of comparison, induction, deduction and synthesis were applied. The results have been compared with the outcomes of a similar survey which took place in the Slovak Republic. At present, the theme of development and maintenance of a suitable organisational culture for the purpose of ensuring the required level of organisations’ performance and gaining a competitive advantage is highly relevant and significant in terms of its possible application in both scientific and practical activities.

scholarly journals Czeska oral history w perspektywie globalnej. Podobieństwa i różnice

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 161-173
Author(s):  
Miroslav Vaněk
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Historical Interpretation ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
First Time

The article aims to highlight the specific route of Czech oral history in comparison with developed countries, where oral history has been an age-old tradition. Czech oral history, same as oral history in other so called post-communist countries, did not experience that with oral history in 1960s and 1970s, oral history was totally unknown in the then Czechoslovakia (as well as in other countries of the so called socialist block). In the Czech Republic, oral history was used in the mid-1990s for the first time; but it took much more time before it stopped being ignored and criticized. Boom of oral history started in the end of 1990s, same like in South America or South Africa, and of course at the post-communist countries. An increased interest in oral history, however, also brings along some problems and risks related with this new trend. I will examine some cases of journalistic work which passes itself off as oral history and which is often ideologically motivated. Mastering the method and a good knowledge of the historical context are, in my opinion, essential requirements for a valid historical interpretation, and lack of these can be crucial.

scholarly journals The Economic Value of the Ecosystem Services of Beekeeping in the Czech Republic

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 10179
Author(s):  
Pavla Vrabcová ◽  
Miroslav Hájek
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Common Reason ◽  
State Support ◽  
Demographic Development ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Important Benefit

Beekeeping is an important part of the bioeconomy. Throughout its existence, it has been one of the fields of human endeavour that contributes to sustainability. It has significant benefits for society, both economically and environmentally. Most (90%) of honeybees’ benefit to humankind lies in their pollination capacity, and only 10% lies in bee products (honey, propolis, wax, etc.). The research presented was carried out in the conditions of the Czech Republic in the first half of 2020 through a questionnaire survey within a Google Form, which was aimed at beekeepers. The aim of this paper is, based on a questionnaire survey, to evaluate ecosystem services of beekeeping from the perspective of beekeepers, including the valuation of selected types of ecosystem services. The results show that in the Czech Republic, the most common reason for beekeeping is as a hobby (34.18%). As expected, the demand for pollination is very low compared to other countries (11.6%). From the point of view of the benefits of ecosystem services, the questionnaire survey showed that the most important benefit is the pollination of cultivated and other plants (54.7%) and honeybee products (24.8%). The value of all selected ecosystem services totals 3,646,368 CZK. The results show that state support is needed, which should address the negative demographic development of beekeepers and thus ensure the production of ecosystem services.

scholarly journals PERSONAL BANKRUPTCIES FROM MACROECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan KUBÁLEK ◽  
Dagmar ČÁMSKÁ ◽  
Jiří STROUHAL
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Statistical Tools ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Government

Personal bankruptcies are traditionally discussed from legal, microeconomic or social point of view. This paper focuses on the development of personal bankruptcies in the Czech Republic during the time period 2008-2016 and aims to connect performance of economy and the development of personal bankruptcies. As statistical tools there are used descriptive statistics and regression and correlation analysis. For the economy performance are used the measures of GDP, unemployment rate, household indebtedness and share of debts in default. Based on the results of the analysis there shall be said that lower economic performance influences increasing number of personal bankruptcies. This conclusion has significant consequences for the government and its politics, banks and other financial institutions.

scholarly journals INCOME TAX ASPECTS OF CRYPTOCURRENCIES – LEGAL AND YOUNG ECONOMISTS’ VIEW IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Filip Hampl
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
Income Tax ◽  
Ordinal Regression ◽  
Income Taxes ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Factors Influencing

Cryptocurrencies are used not only as a payment instrument but also as a speculative and investment instrument. In the context of their use, the question arises of how and whether they should be taxed. The aim of the paper is to analyse and to assess the taxation of income from the cryptocurrency operations from the perspective of a non-business natural person in compliance with the Act on Income Taxes in the Czech Republic, concurrently to find out the attitude of young future economists familiar with cryptocurrencies to this tax issue and to identify socioeconomic factors influencing their attitude. For this purpose, an online questionnaire survey was conducted among economists aged 19-35 years in May 2019. A total of 269 responses were obtained and evaluated using descriptive statistics and ordinal regression. While, according to the effective law, income from all cryptocurrency operations is to be taxed, the results show that most of the respondents (44.98%) would tax the income depending on how cryptocurrencies are used.

scholarly journals Institutionalization of Metropolitan Areas as Possible Solution of Agglomeration Externalities in the Context of Urbanization Development in the Czech Republic

2014 ◽  
Vol 62 (6) ◽  
pp. 1451-1463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petr Šašinka ◽  
Jan Zvara
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Metropolitan Areas ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Point ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Agglomeration Externalities ◽  
Functional Regions ◽  
Specific Factors

The acceleration of urbanization in developed countries in the 20thcentury has become during last 50 years a global phenomenon bringing many challenges. Relations between city and its surroundings have been consequently evolved by many essential changes. In post-socialistic countries the development of urbanization was affected by specific factors which influence – on the basis of historical memory – creating of functional regions. The subject of this paper is to discuss that the formal or informal institutionalization of metropolitan areas in the Czech Republic (covering the delimitation of metropolitan area or a consequent anchoring of metropolitan areas in the process of spatial planning), may be advantageous even from an economic point of view for all stakeholders.

scholarly journals Post-military areas as space for business opportunities and innovation

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 153-168
Author(s):  
Jan Hercik ◽  
Zdeněk Szczyrba
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Original Function ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Business Opportunities ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
Industrial Zones ◽  
Transformation Processes

One of the characteristic features of the transformation processes taking place in the post-communist countries of Central Europe is the emergence of unused buildings and sites – so-called brownfields. These can be divided into several kinds, according to their original function. One of these is also the so-called military brownfield. Most of such areas were transferred, after the most necessary clean-up, to municipalities, which approached and still approach their further utilization highly individually, in connection with the character of the site as well as that of the municipality itself. Equally individual is the respective successfulness or unsuccessfulness of the revitalization of post-military areas as measured by differing indicators. The functions which revitalized former military areas have acquired are varied. One of the most common is the production function (e.g. industrial zones), residential function (housing zones), production-residential (a mix of production and housing) and production-servicing (a mix of production and services). The following contribution will first analyze demilitarization in the Czech Republic from the point of view of systemic changes in the Czech military doctrine; in the second part case studies are introduced, illustrating the transformational changes in selected settlements, caused by the loss of their military function.

scholarly journals Personal Bankruptcies from Macroeconomic Perspective

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 78-88
Author(s):  
Jan Kubálek ◽  
Dagmar Čámská ◽  
Jiří Strouhal
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Financial Institutions ◽  
Economic Performance ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Statistical Tools ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Time Period ◽  
The Government

Abstract Personal bankruptcies are traditionally discussed from legal, microeconomic or social point of view. This paper focuses on the development of personal bankruptcies in the Czech Republic during the time period 2008-2016 and aims to connect performance of economy and the development of personal bankruptcies. As statistical tools there are used descriptive statistics and regression and correlation analysis. For the economy performance are used the measures of GDP, unemployment rate, household indebtedness and share of debts in default. Based on the results of the analysis there shall be said that lower economic performance influences increasing number of personal bankruptcies. This conclusion has significant consequences for the government and its politics, banks and other financial institutions.

scholarly journals Attitude to plagiarism in different European countries

2012 ◽  
Vol 60 (7) ◽  
pp. 71-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomáš Foltýnek ◽  
František Čech
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Questionnaire Survey ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Student Effort ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Communist Countries ◽  
Financial Impacts

Plagiarism is an important and frequently discussed issue, which may have severe financial impacts for higher education institutions across Europe. However, there are different attitudes to this topic in different countries. Whereas ECTS aims to provide an objective measurement of student effort allowing students to spend part of their studies at different institutions and even different countries, the penalties for plagiarism and other types of cheating may be different. Even the definition of plagiarism may be understood differently in particular European countries. One of the aims of the project IPPHEAE is to identify these differences and try to find common solutions for related problems.The aim of the paper is to present results of research focused on attitudes to plagiarism in Great Britain, Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Cyprus and Bulgaria. A questionnaire survey was conducted in these countries among students and teachers. The results are interesting and inspiring and show huge differences in attitude to plagiarism between western and post-communist countries, surprisingly including the Czech Republic in the group of western countries.

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