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This study aimed to analyse the impact of digitalisation on good governance with respect to selected local public administrations during the COVID-19 lockdown in the spring of 2020. The overriding assumption made is that agile values mediate the relationship between digitalisation and good governance on this level of public administration. Data wer...
The purpose of the contribution is to present a newly designed training programme for public administrators in ethics and integrity. The programme was developed based on a broad empirical research among public administrators at the central and local levels of public administration aiming at identification of core values, major ethical issues, attit...
This article introduces the results of the first survey of Czech civil servants specifically targeting the domain of public ethics. The survey serves a double purpose: to provide data relevant for the development of a tailor-made ethics training programme for public officials, and to answer two research questions: (1) What are the main factors infl...
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reshaped administrative relations and put emphasis on the digital transformation of public administration that is urgently needed to support a sustainable recovery from the pandemic crisis and future sustainable development in the post-pandemic era. This paper presents a comparative study on the ways the firs...
The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly reshaped administrative relations and put emphasis on the digital transformation of public administration that is urgently needed to support a sustainable recovery from the pandemic crisis and future sustainable development in the post-pandemic era. This paper presents a comparative study on the ways the firs...
This paper brings an outline and preliminary results of a 2-year project aiming at assessing the social effectiveness of public policy institutions. The effectiveness of public institutions is an important indicator of the success and prosperity of a country. It is usually measured indirectly via data such as public officer numbers, the quality of...
Tato metodika je výsledkem řešení výzkumného projektu č. TD03000258 s názvem «Metodika hodnocení společenské efektivnosti institucí vykovávajících veřejné politiky» programu OMEGA Technologické agentury ČR.
Social effectiveness is a complex concept which encompasses such components as
coherent policy making addressing public needs, coordination of conflicting goals,
empowerment, motivation and satisfaction of public servants, creation of public value and participation and satisfaction of citizens with the public service outcomes. For the purpose of ou...
The purpose of this paper is to present the methodology for assessing social
effectiveness of institutions executing public policies and discuss its first results. This methodology developed within a research project1 supported by the Technological Agency of the Czech Republic extends the conventional paradigm of measuring efficiency by including s...
The article presents principal features and three main pillars of an effective ethical policy, i.e. instruments, processes and structures. Under instruments, mainly ethical codes, risk management and whistleblowing are introduced. The part dealing with processes focuses on four areas: Conceptualisation and design, communication and implementation,...
Our Associate Editor, who is head of the Center for Ethics in Economics and Business, CERGE-EI, in Prague, writes of a macabre case of brand copying as one illustration of the difficulties of achieving fair competition in the CR.
Despite the social, economic and ethical problems facing government in the Czech Republic, there are positive signs of a growing concern for ethical business, including the development of codes of conduct and a striking example of new corporate social responsibility. Dr Bohatá is a member of the Economics Institute of the Academy of Sciences, Polit...
This study provides information on trends and role of the Czech outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) and evaluates the effects of the OFDI on parent companies. The analysis of trends is based on Czech National Bank data; the effects are evaluated through a unique set of data gathered through a sample survey. The stock of OFDI has grown slowly b...
This paper is based on an empirical analysis of corporate governance in the Czech Republic (its model, its structures and the functioning of boards) . Simultaneously, an effort is made to add a business/economic ethics perspective to this analytical view. The approach to ethics is primarily institutional: it refers less to actions than to instituti...
CERGE-EI Prague, 11 November 1998,
conference & workshop organized by CERGE-EI, CPA, CSEE, ESCE/WSMO,
HST, TI-CH, TI-CZ,
report of June 1999,
31 pages, presentations and speaches
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
This study examines the history of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia): the influence of SMEs in pre-war Czechoslovakia, their gradual liquidation under the communist regime, and their influence in reestablishing a market economy in the Czech Republic/Czechoslovakia after the Velvet Revolution of 1989. The cor...
The modern theory of economic systems employs three criteria for the definition of an economic system:
Criterion of ownership and control: who participates in the process of economic planning, decision-making, as well as controlling production, distribution and consumption?
Criterion of information and coordination: with the help of which system of...
This article focuses on the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech Republic (Czechoslovakia) after the Velvet Revolution in 1989. It starts with the approach to SMEs at the early stages of economic transformation aiming at the reestablishment of a market economy and further deals with the systemic policy of the Czech...
The paper focuses on the conditions influencing the diffusion of technological innovations and R&D strategies in the CR. First it deals with the main principles of the transformation of R&D and of the legal framework. Attention is paid especially to privatization and the reform of R&D financing. Using evidence from case studies, companies innovatio...
This article focuses on the way Czech joint stock companies are governed and monitored. At first, it analyses implications of voucher privatisation for corporate governance and then explains the main features of its model applied in the Czech Republic (CR). It summarises results of an empirical research and a survey among 77 board members of large...
This year the European Business Ethics Network celebrates the tenth anniversary of its founding by holding its Annual Conference in Prague. We are happy to print this announcement from the Organizing Secretary of the Conference Planning Committee.
This report characterizes the state of affairs in the field of business ethics in Central and Eastern Europe. It reveals the major problems and challenges brought about by the profound reforms to these societies and economies. It also offers some results of surveys looking at public opinion on morals and ethics, as well as on current business pract...
The emerging negative phenomena in Central and Eastern Europe underlines the importance of the need for an ethical infrastructure of emerging markets to be built. Logically, the first step must be a formal, e.g. legal infrastructure, which is also, for obvious reasons, under principal reconstruction. The challenge here is not only that the new law...
This paper deals with macroeconomic indicators and trends in the Czech foreign trade in the transformation period and focuses on impediments to exports on both the demand and the supply side. On the basis of empirical research, it generalises typical enterprise efforts to tackle impediments to exports. Attention is paid also to governmental policie...
In the framework of the economic reform implemented in the CSFR since 1990, the re-establishment of the private sector has been a key element. The role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) - because of their ability to increase competitiveness of production and consequently the export performance, to adopt new technologies, to modernise the...
The aim of this paper is to analyze the ongoing effects of macroeconomic policy and changes in both the institutional arrangements and the market environment upon the structure and performance of manufacturing industries in the CSFR and the Czech Republic. Restructuring processes are analyzed from the point of view of reallocation of resources, as...
Political changes at the end of 1989 meant not only the collapse of communist power in the CSFR, but at the same time the fall of ideological barriers on the way to the market economy The course was approved by the new parliament at the programme of government and the scenario of the economic reform on July 1990. It is obviously an extremely diffic...
European statistics is recognised as a brand for high quality statistical information. However, in reality, individual quality dimensions, such as timeliness, reliability, accuracy etc. may well vary between statistical products, given that they have been defined in relation to their use. Likewise, for a given statistical product, they may change o...
