Lea Kubíčková

• Head of Department at Mendel University in Brno

Food waste is a major global challenge with profound environmental implications. As urban populations continue to grow, effective waste management strategies will become increasingly important. This study aims to quantify food waste generated within mixed municipal waste from residential buildings and to analyze its seasonal variations. It examines...

This paper is devoted to the cognitive biases of decoy pricing, which has become the subject of interest of retail companies in recent years. The paper analyses the principles of the decoy effect with regard to consumer behaviour in the Czech Republic (which represents customers of the Eastern Europe). The analytical part of the paper focuses on ex...

The study is based on primary questionnaire research, conducted using the CAWI method (N = 1332), and it determines the factors influencing the sorting of food waste (FW) in Czech households. By employing exploratory factor analysis, fourteen key areas were identified, including the availability of sorting options, handling of FW, and financial mot...

The EU, where nearly 57 million tonnes of food waste are generated annually, has set a target to halve this amount by 2030. However, the amount of food waste produced varies greatly between EU countries. While several EU countries are far from reaching this target, the Czech Republic already meets it. Despite this, little to no attention is paid to...

The aim of the study is to describe factors influencing the feeling of safety which significantly influences also the subjective well-being and life satisfaction among Czech seniors. The sample consisted of seniors in the age 55 and above, the total number of respondents was 3,071. In the beginning of presented study two crucial questions were aske...

The issue of food waste is a problem that affects the whole society. Food is wasted throughout the food chain. Households are great contributors to the problem. A detailed analysis of municipal waste from the production of 900 Czech households was performed. These datasets allowed for comprehensive insides. The analyses of mixed municipal waste wer...

The article deals with the implementation of Industry 4.0 elements in Czech engineering companies in connection with the impact of this trend on the relationship between supplier and customer. The implementation of Industry 4.0 elements can have a positive effect on the relationship between supplier and customer through higher labour productivity,...

We estimate the influence of various factors on life satisfaction of Czech seniors in a large survey sample. We find that good health, more education and awareness of voluntary work participation, employee satisfaction and being currently employed are the main factors that contribute to being satisfied with the current quality of life in the group...

The aim of the paper is to identify factors influencing feelings of safety among Czech seniors. The sample consisted of seniors in the age 55 and above, the total number of respondents was 3071, the total number of complete observations for the quantitative analysis was 2931. To identify the important factors that positively or negatively affect th...

Majority of developed countries exhibit changing transition towards older population structure. This explains why nowadays, the so–called active ageing – a policy focus to help people remain in charge of their own lives as they age and to promote their continuing contribution to the economy and society – is so frequently discussed. In the context o...

In the past ten years, meat and meat products consumption has changed dramatically. It has been caused by price and non-price factors. This article gives a brief recapitulation of the development of the consumption of meat and meat products and identifies the key factors which, in the past ten years, have had a major impact on this development. Thi...

Apart from the indisputable importance of SMEs to the national economy, they also provide social and economic benefits for regions they operate in. In this context, the rural areas seem to be interesting because currently there can be seen a reappraisal and emphasizing of their importance. Between 2015 and 2016 there were carried out surveys in two...

The aim of this paper is to define the specifics of the internationalization process of Czech small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the food industry. The food industry is the largest manufacturing sector in the EU which consists mainly of SMEs. However, in the Czech Republic it has to face increasing imports of foreign food products because...

Tento dokument popisuje metodiku, jejíž tvorba byla hlavním cílem projektu č. TD03000366 „Tvorba metodiky pro implementaci, evaluaci a efektivnost realizace Národního akčního plánu podporujícího pozitivní stárnutí“. Smyslem je navržení metodického postupu pro hodnocení Národního akčního plánu podporujícího pozitivní stárnutí pro období let 2013 až...

Seniors belong to the segment, whose share in the population has been annually increasing. The object of the article is a detailed analysis of the standards of living of Czech seniors in various aspects of material and immaterial nature. With the use of data from the database EU-SILC it was made effective monitoring, in-depth findings of Czech seni...

Foreign competition in domestic markets is still strengthening and for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) internationalization may be one way to deal with this growing rivalry. Pangarkar (2008) states that for SMEs the benefits of internationalization outweigh its disadvantages and that with the increasing degree of involvement in the intern...

Agriculture in Europe is under the increasing pressure of globalisation, which is moving toward production standardisation based on economic competitiveness. In this light the Europe 2020 strategy promotes the idea of sustainable, innovative agri-food sector based on resource efficiency, and rural development promoting social inclusion and job crea...

Enterprises’ competitiveness can be seen as the ability to compete in the markets and to maintain or gain market position. Thus, internationalisation, which leads to the acquisition of new markets, can be one of the factors influencing the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). However, despite the considerable amount of atte...

The aim of this paper is to scrutinize some aspects of the Uppsala model whose applicability for SMEs' internationalisation is often questioned. This model explains internationalisation as a sequential process based on learning in which an enterprise increases its international commitment in incremental steps (Johanson and Vahlne, 1977). The assump...

Purpose of the article: It is evident that demographic transition results in population ageing in all European societies, but on a different scale. Life expectancy is rising almost in all European countries, mortality rates are falling in many countries. It is clear that the group of older people in these countries is under focus of politicians wit...

The aim of this paper is to identify the key risk factors of the internationalization process of Czech SMEs operating in the textile industry. To reveal the key risk there was conducted the survey (2011- 2012) among 803 Czech SMEs operating in the textile industry, 161 responses were processed. The obtained data were analyzed by statistical methods...

The aim of this paper is to define the specifics of the internationalization process of Czech engineering small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Based on primary data collection among Czech engineering SMEs there were defined the main motives of the internationalization. There were also identified the factors subjectively considered by SMEs as...

The ability of small and medium-sized enterprises, which account for 99% of all economic entities in the Czech Republic, to involve in the internationalization process is an often discussed topic. Apart from finding the key motives for entering a foreign market, the aim of this paper is to determine whether there is some dependence between motives...

Internationalization process of small and medium sized enterprises is examined often in an effort to get detailed description of particular stages of this process. There are many authors who deal with the internationalization process theories. The most popular theory is so-called Uppsala Model (Johanson, Vahlne, 1977). Very popular is also a group...

In context of discussions about the Czech foreign trade development, questions of the Czech enterprises' ability to participate in the internationalization process are often considered. The main aim of this article is to present various points of view on the globalization and enterprise internationalization process with a special accent on the anal...

At the present time characterized by globalizing market, increasing competition, accelerating change and the occurrence of many risks it is necessary for businesses, which want to remain competitive, to be able to respond fl exibly to the changes in a timely manner and to identify and manage risks. Companies try to diversify business risks, such as...

The importance of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the national economies of EU countries has been always growing. For these reasons, the increasing attention is paid to small and mediumsized enterprises also in the Czech economy. The paper is focused on the globalization of small and medium enterprises, in particular, identifying the key suc...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are an important part of the Czech economy, they significantly contribute to the job and GDP creation, they are the source of innovation and technological progress. The paper is focused on the internationalization of SMEs, specifically in the wine sector, which is a specific sector closely linked to the specific...

The paper is focused on the draft of the method for quantification of the factors, which determine the success of the SMEs in foreign markets. In the proposed method the multidimensional assessment of indicators of success of SMEs in foreign markets are used, ie. not only the proportion of sales from exports is observed, but also the profitability...

The paper deals with evaluating the success of small and medium-sized companies in internationalization process. The process of internationalization is defined in the literature in a many ways; there is a countless variety of different approaches and models of internationalization process of firms. Like all processes in the firm also the internatio...

At the time of increasing globalization and homogenization of the global markets, the development of information infrastructure technology and world market becomes accessible not only to large multinational companies but also for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This has resulted in increasing competition in the domestic market which dome...

The paper presents theoretical resources for determination of spatial areas of hypermarkets. Czech literature doesn't provide a comprehensive summery of this problem and therefore the authors of the paper have decided to present models, which may be applied when determining the spatial areas of hypermarkets in the area of Brno-city.

The paper deals with the analysis of the situation in a sector of small and middle-sized businesses (SMEs) in the Czech Republic, above all the analysis of SMEs in trade. Small and middle-sized businesses are considered to be the base of national economics EU countries. In the Czech Republic 992 132 SMEs was registered in the end of 2004 and in thi...

Internationalization can be crucial to the long-term success of small and medium sized enterprises (SME) in the increased globalization. The objective of this paper is determination of the specifics internationalization process of SMEs, presentation various aspects of internationalization process of SMEs and explain this issue – why do some SMEs in...

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