Frantisek Sudzina

• Professor at Aalborg University

Purpose: The aim of the paper is to investigate whether use of shared mobility could be explained by an attitude towards risk while controlling for sex and age on a sample of Czech university students. Methodology: An online questionnaire was used to collect data. There were 529 respondents. Ordinal regression was used to test an effect of risk-ave...

While credit and debit cards have been used since mid-20th century, the first contactless credit card was available only since late 2007. Major supermarket chains in the Czech Republic were equipped for contactless payment since around 2015. Nowadays, also smartphones, smartwatches, and similar wearables facilitate contactless payments. The aim of...

The objective of this paper is to examine the value-added tax gap in relation to the quality of governance in selected Central and Eastern European countries. The tax gap is caused mainly by tax evasion and tax avoidance of the value-added tax (VAT) and is calculated as a share, in percent, of VAT total tax liability. The Worldwide Governance Indic...

Numerous studies recently have explored how personality traits, risk attitudes and gender interact, with ambiguous results for different environmental and cultural contexts. To contribute to the existing literature, this study tests the relationship of individual risk attitudes with personality traits, and other variables, in the Czech Republic usi...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of carousel fraud on the average price of goods, as one of the negative economic aspects of carousel fraud. Design/methodology/approach This paper is primarily based on the description of selected legal cases and the modus operandi of carousel fraud, the analysis of legal texts (legislati...

There is a growing interest in cryptocurrencies. While for the first several years, it was virtually only tech-savvy enthusiasts who used cryptocurrencies mostly mined by themselves, current users are more diverse, use traditional currencies to buy cryptocurrencies and there is no clear personality profile of them. This article attempts to fill the...

Health behaviour among young people has a social gradient, and tends to be skewed in terms of gender as well. Young men in vocational educational settings are an example where the inequality in health is apparent. Addressing this problem requires an understanding of health behaviour and its determinants in the target group in order to be able to de...

Background: Socioeconomic background has traditionally been the most important determinant of an individual's social advantage. Studies have used social class and opportunities based on parental income and education to predict such advantage. There is limited evidence that stratification mechanisms other than socioeconomic background can play an i...

In order to investigate the impact of parental socioeconomic background on university students’ body image and social attachment, in this article we explore to what extent this relation is reinforced or modified by a third variable: overweight and obesity. For this purpose, the study draws on a cross-sectional data set (n = 980) of university stude...

Obesity is a growing public health problem and the increased prevalence calls for preventive measures. Choice architecture and dual brain process thinking has been suggested as a promising strategy. One of the behaviors that are of significant public health nutrition concern is the intake of sugar sweetened beverages (SSB’s) of young people. An int...

Public authorities and administrations in the developed world are trying to reduce air pollution through the introduction and promotion of public transport. Typically, passengers are charged flat fares. However, with passenger numbers rising, this flat rate pricing model ceases to be sustainable, and a new trend arises—to charge more during traffic...

A number of positive and negative trends are becoming more prevalent, along with the widespread use of information and communication technologies in everyday life—negative ones being virtual offences such as stalking, bullying, identity theft, scamming and abuse or harassment. The article discusses the relations between demographic factors, the occ...

People use calendars for a long time but stand-alone electronic calendars came along only with personal computers, while shared online calendars are here only for less than two decades. The paper investigates impact of personality (following the Big Five Inventory framework) on use of shared online calendars. Data were gathered in the Czech Republi...

Governments rely on income from taxes to function. Tax evasion therefore affects them directly. Although tax compliance has been studied, the literature does not exhaustively elucidate the factors that affect tax compliance and tax morale. The article contributes to closing the gap by investigating whether personality is a factor influencing tax mo...

Interest in university efficiency increases as pay for performance becomes more accepted also in public administration. Universities are expected to produce bachelor, master, and PhD students and to conduct research. Although positive social benefits of these activities are obvious, it would be hard to come up with market prices for the activities....

Monitoring and managing customers’ satisfaction are key features to benefit from today’s competitive environment. In higher education context, only a few studies are available on satisfaction and loyalty of the main customers who are the students, which signifies the need to investigate the field more thoroughly. The aim of this research is to meas...

Due to digital transformation and its derivative effects on tasks, it is essential to investigate the connection between task and technology in an e-government setting. This paper examines how task compatibility affects web-enabled Business Intelligence's (BI) success in the public sector. BI success is measured based on use, user satisfaction, and...

The focus of the presented research is attitude and loyalty to two brands of beer produced by the Carlsberg Group – Tuborg and Carlsberg. Both beers are lagers. The Carlsberg Group markets Tuborg as a more premium brand, and it also aims to promote it to women. Unlike in the Netherlands with one brand – Heineken and unlike in the Czech Republic wit...

Today's students are considered as digital natives that grew up digitally. They use smartphones and services like social media on a regular basis. The aim of this paper is to analyze if gender and personality traits (Big Five Inventory-10) influence self-perceived tech savviness of Slovak business students. The tech savviness is investigated in two...

Trust as a concept found its way to business literature and it became a widely-used variable. Societal trust is systematically measured since 1960s. Later, it was discovered that two statements, which were used as opposite ends of dichotomous questions, are not truly opposite. The aim of this article is to investigate if gender and personality trai...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Perspectives in Business Informatics Research, BIR 2017, held in Copenhagen, Denmark, in August 2017. This year the BIR conference attracted 59 submissions from 23 countries. They were reviewed by 45 members of the Program Committee, and as a result, 17 full papers and 3...

On-line gaming became widespread in the last couple of years. The aim of the research presented in the paper is to figure out to what extent does game playing helps to strengthen weak ties and what additional factors influence this process. The approach is rather exploratory – some factors are grounded in theory, some are new. These factors are age...

Educational on-line games are promising for new generations of students who are grown up digital. The new generations of students are technology savvy and spend lots of time on the web and on social networks. Based on an exploratory study, this article investigates the factors that influence students’ willingness to participate in serious games for...

The past decade has shown mammalian genomes to be pervasively transcribed and identified thousands of noncoding (nc) transcripts. It is currently unclear to what extent these transcripts are of functional importance, as experimental functional evidence exists for only a small fraction. Here, we characterize the expression and evolutionary conservat...

This study develops a framework for understanding user intentions and behaviors within a virtual world environment. The proposed framework posits that the intention to participate in virtual world is defined by a person's 1) social identity, 2) attitude ...

Based on a literature review, it can be stated that there had been very little research published focused on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems post-implementation period. This paper tries to contribute to filling in this gap in theory. The aim of this paper is to analyze whether a significant difference in the impact of ERP systems impleme...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to outline the anatomy of firms which adopt comprehensive performance measurement (PM) systems in order to gain an understanding of how internal (organisational capabilities) and external (perceived environmental uncertainties) factors shape performance measurement practices. Design/methodology/approach – Thi...

Flexible query conditions could use linguistic terms described by fuzzy sets. The question is how to properly construct fuzzy sets for each linguistic term and apply an adequate aggregation function. For construction of fuzzy sets, the lowest value, the highest value of attribute and the distribution of data inside its domain are used. The logarith...

Based on a literature review, it can be stated that there had been very little research published focused on enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems post-implementation period. This paper tries to contribute to filling in this gap in theory. The aim of this paper is to analyze whether a significant difference in the impact of ERP systems impleme...

Different approaches on implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERPs) systems exist. In this article, we investigate relationship between factors influencing selection of implementation approach and companies' ability to stay within budget when implementing ERPs. The question is: do factors, which influence the implementation approach in an...

This article investigates Enterprise Resource Planning absorption in transition and developed economies in Central and Eastern Europe. Using absorptive capacity theory and data envelopment analysis, we view organizational transformation in Enterprise Resource Planning absorption as an economic production process. Despite converging Enterprise Resou...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems became a de facto standard for organizations of different sizes. Many large companies began with ERP systems implementation at the end of the 20th century in order deal with the year 2000 bug in their legacy systems. A rather recent issue in the ERP systems domain is open source development of ERP systems....

The chapter proposes a possible model of criteria for ERP system selection. The proposed model consists of four groups of ERP system selection criteria: the ERP systems benefits criteria, the system quality criteria, the vendor related criteria and the ERP system package criteria. The data was collected in companies in Slovenia. Research results ha...

Otázky, ktoré súvisia s regionálnymi disparitami, patria medzi najviac pertrakto¬vané otázky tak v rámci Európskej únie, ako aj v medzinárodnom meradle. V tomto kontexte existuje celý rad dôležitých aspektov výskumu regionálnych disparít, medzi ktoré patria nasledovné:  Aké sú príčiny regionálnych disparít v čase a priestore?  Prečo finančné pros...

Companies worldwide are faced with an increasingly volatile business environment. This leads to frequent changes in business requirements. The research described in this paper looks at the software development process for the supporting ERP System, standard software, which is generally available through specialised ERP software vendors. We argue th...

Purpose This paper aims to discuss a new tool for requirements gathering in the Web 2.0 era. It seeks to investigate the features that this kind of tool should have in order to be as widely applicable and useful as possible. Further, it aims to explore the extent to which business requirements for enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems can be c...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems are still more and more common in companies, not only in large ones but also in small and medium enterprises. Although virtually nobody really doubts their importance for running business, there is a sentiment regarding their implementation – both in terms of time and cost. We focus on the latter in this p...

This chapter presents the importance of ERP system selection criteria for SMEs. Altogether, 28 ERP selection criteria were investigated. The criteria were grouped into the ERP benefits criteria, ERP system quality criteria, ERP vendor-related criteria and ERP package criteria. The main purpose of the study was to identify the current situation of E...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have evolved over time and in some cases, they provide even more functionalities than users actually require. Some authors describe it as a "toocloseness" problem. Offer of information, which is not necessary, increases information load of a user and may lead to distraction, confusion, etc., i.e. decreased...

Cieľom predkladanej publikácie je poskytnúť objektívne ohodnotenie stavu a príčin medziregionálnych disparít v Slovenskej republike a odhadnúť perspektívy ďalšieho vývoja v najbližších rokoch. Východiská uverejnených článkov boli prednesené na vedeckej konferencii v Banskej Bystrici usku-točnenej 6. novembra 2009. Organizátormi konferencie boli Eko...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss new approaches for managing personal knowledge in the Web 2.0 era. The paper questions whether Web 2.0 technologies (social software) are a real panacea for the challenges associated with the management of knowledge. Can Web 2.0 reconcile the conflicting interests of managing organisational knowledge...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems attract a high attention and open source software does it as well. The question is then if, and if so, when do open source ERP systems take off. The paper describes the status of open source ERP systems. Based on literature review of ERP system selection criteria based on Web of Science articles, it discus...

This research report provides preliminary results in terms of ERP system selection criteria across five European Union countries based on empirical studies. The paper provides a structured list of decision making criteria considered in ERP decisions and contrasts weights as well as achievement levels across countries. Research was guided by the Del...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have become more and more common in enterprises, not only in large enterprises but also in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Although virtually nobody really doubts their importance for running a business, some even consider ERP systems to be a de facto price of entry for running a business, as th...

The current focus of knowledge management initiatives in organizations is one of identifying and sharing knowledge more widely. Companies explore new ways to cultivate and exploit knowledge sharing with customers, suppliers and partners (Mentzas et.al. 2007). They try to exploit a richer form of knowledge assets, including blogs, wikis, and social...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to further build up the knowledge about reasons for small and mid‐sized enterprises (SMEs) to adopt open source enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Design/methodology/approach The paper presents and analyses findings in articles about proprietary ERPs and open source ERPs. In addition, a limited investi...

The article discusses a problem of identifying requirements of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems. Although ERP vendors offer best practices in their packages, these are not necessarily applicable to all companies or not even to all companies within one industry. At the end of the paper, we offer a model for requirements gathering, dividing...

Due to the phenomenon of the technological paradox, much research has concentrated on measuring the impact of information systems and information technology (IS/IT) on performance of companies. The methods and the focus of research gradually evolved as the economy shifted from industrial to post-industrial, with rapid expansion of IT. The methods a...

Motivation for this paper are classification problems in which data can not be clearly divided into positive and negative examples, especially data in which there is a monotone hierarchy (degree, preference) of more or less positive (negative) examples. We use data expressing the impact of information systems on business competitiveness in a grade...

The goal of this article is to extend data envelopment analysis by reverse envelope, worst coefficients and identification of outliers. Reverse data envelopment analysis solves the problem whether there are weights which, if applied to all units, would make the selected unit the worst efficient. In other words, whether it is possible to choose comm...

The article presents opinions of full-time students of Slovak business and economic faculties on the European Union (EU) and its subsidies into the agriculture, on the Slovak Republic accession to the EU and its economic effects. There was a research conducted in 2003, 2004 and 2005 on a sample of 228, 386 and 413 students respectively. Answers wer...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system selection process is an important step in ERP adoption, since inadequately selected ERP may affect companies' market share and implementation time, effort and cost. Choosing appropriate ERP selection criteria is not trivial. Literature suggests that very little had been written about ERP selection criteria...

Implementation, in the form of deployment, of enterprise resource planning (ERPs) systems is both complex and costly. Implementation of ERPs could be done in different ways, in this paper we categorize these different ways into three different approaches for implementation of ERPs: slow phased, pilot project and big bang implementation. An interest...

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system implementation is probably the most laborious and rather costly part of the ERP system life-cycle. The paper provides a percentage structure of total cost of implementation (TCI) from end-user company's perspective. It should be of interest to companies planning to implement ERP systems, since literature su...

Implementation of enterprise resource planning (ERPs) systems is probably the most laborious and rather costly part of the ERP system life-cycle. In the paper, we provide a percentage structure of total cost of implementation (TCI) from the end-user company's perspective. Having a grasp over TCI should be of interest to companies planning to implem...

The paper offers a framework for partitioning articles in legal documents pertaining to value added tax (VAT) into categories suitable for subsequent integration in computerized systems for automatically deriving VAT rates. The importance of an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system supporting VAT is not that it is required by a definition but b...

Barter is not something that was present only before invention of money. Even Fortune 500 companies are involved in barter. The most common bartered goods and services are media and travel. As the amount of barter increases even in the U.S., it is worth investigating the reasons why organizations use barter. The paper provides a literature review o...