Josef Polák

• The College of Regional Development and Banking Institute – AMBIS

Food insecurity is not a new phenomenon even in leading European economies, but this complex problem area is facing new global challenges. This article traces the research gap in addressing food insecurity by focusing on the role of food retail chains in the former “Eastern Bloc” in light of unprecedented food price inflation and the resulting scal...

Část druhá: Finanční projekt

Financial literacy affects numerous economic decisions of peo­ple on a daily basis, as well as the strategic financial management of corpo­rations. In several previous studies, the authors confirmed a significant dif­ference in the level of financial literacy between full-time and combined stu­dents. Based on these results, they hypothesized that p...

Financial literacy is becoming one of the key competencies in the 21st century. In its absence, it is virtually impossible to navigate the market for financial products and services and thus ensure financial stability throughout a whole life. This fact is all the more important given the threats arising from the effects of the pandemic crisis. Than...

Corporate social responsibility in the food production and distribution sector in Europe is currently mainly linked to the activities of food banks. Food banks in the current form provide their services free of charge, however, these activities are closely associated with support from public budgets and volunteering. Currently, there is a growing t...

Under changing consumer preferences towards the need to increase qualitative side of food consumption,the level of meeting EU food safety and quality standards can be discussed as a specific factor of competitiveness for food manufacturers. The EU member countries use an information exchange instrument named Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RA...

Financial literacy belongs to the most important competences of all members of the modern 21-st century society. The authors present results of the research based on the personal finance index that is recently developed an innovative measure of knowledge. The questionnaire research that has been conducted among the students of two universities in t...

The startup ecosystem in the Czech Republic falls far below the level of the developed economies of its Western neighbors. The startup map of the Czech Republic shows 1,717 continuously operating startups. And yet they have yet to receive priority attention in the academic realm. The primary goal of this article is to define the key factors of star...

Publikace Zahájení podnikání (právní, ekonomické, daňové, účetní aspekty) tematicky navazuje na knihu Ukončení podnikání. Je ideální pomůckou pro každého, kdo se rozhodl podnikat, případně může dobře sloužit i odborníkům, kteří se o danou problematikou zajímají, nebo studentům vysokých škol. The publication Business start-up (legal, economic, tax,...

Liquidity and working capital management belongs to one of the fundamental tasks of short-term financial management. However, in the context of net working capital, the issue of management of current assets and liabilities significantly overlaps with long-term financial management, in which the effects of various decisions have long-term consequenc...

The presented article engages in exploring the differences in working capital between exporting companies and non-exporting ones with particular interest in Chinese economy as the target export country. The article is built on microeconomic regression function that differentiate between companies with and without the exporting activities and by thi...

In present, innovations are spoken as an engine of the world economy because the innovations are transforming not only business entities but the whole industries. The innovations have become a necessity for business entities in order to survive on floating challenging markets. This way, innovations are driving force of companies’ performance. The p...

Currently, innovations are perceived as a life blood of businesses. The inevitable fact is that even if the innovations have a potential to transform the companies or all the industries, the innovations are high risky. Even though, the second fact is that in order to companies’ development and their survival on the markets, the innovations have bec...

Currently innovations are necessary elements of economic growth and competitiveness of companies as well as they are necessary elements of global sustainable development. Even though it is possible to find a wide rouge of definitions of innovation but every one of them is based on different requirements. The aim of submitted article is to compare d...

Risk is the one of basic and inevitable characteristics of every human activity. In connection with business activities, it is the factor that is not possible to entirely eliminate. The fact that it is possible only to minimize a risk, respectively to minimize its negative consequences at certain conditions fulfilment is one o the risk specificatio...