Milan Jan Půček

• PhD., associate professor
• Researcher at Ambis

The monograph entitled „Risk Management Human Resource Management CSR (Case Studies and Examples in Research Conducted with Students)“ is a comprehensive study on risk management, human resourcemanagement and corporate social responsibility. This publication has been produced as part of student research at AMBIS College, Inc. through the analysis o...

Evropská unie stejně jako celý svět v současné době čelí velkému problému spojenému s poškozování životního prostředí a tím spojené devastaci planety. Ač by se mohlo na první pohled zdát, že se jedná pouze o ekologický problém, jeho důsledky se dotýkají i dalších oblastí včetně oblasti ekonomické. V rámci této studie byl na základě analýzy bibliome...

Using a new and innovative approach to investigating corruption, the present article discusses whether changes have been recorded in corruption in the Czech Republic over the last hundred years. Drawing on a historical-evolutionary view of corruption, the article seeks to cover a research gap in the legacies of corruption in post-communist economie...

The museum plays an important social role. It collects and cares for museum collections and performs important functions and tasks. The perspectives that can be used to look at collections are mainly financial – value for the visitor and researcher. The differences between museum and private collections are discussed. The chapter identifies three a...

The methods and results of financial management have a significant impact on the activities of museums. Museums must deal with a number of negative financial impacts caused by the crisis. It is essential for museums that the finances are sustainable and sound, which is described in principle 3E. The budget process serves to ensure that funds are ra...

Effective management is necessary to meet the goals of a museum. Features that characterize effective management are discussed. A key prerequisite for successful management is planning and setting goals. The result of the planning process is the establishment of a strategic plan; a method for effective strategic planning is presented. The establish...

Museum management must respond to potential threats and opportunities, two possible approaches to the monitoring of which are described here. UNESCO research is presented, which has identified the main challenges in society, and to which the authors attribute other challenges. Among the challenges, it is possible to mention changes in customer pref...

The chapter presents five case studies. The first deals with threat assessment, building on the theory in Chap. 1.3, including a museum threat assessment. Threats were classified into various areas, such as financial, organizational, legal, etc. The second case study resembles a threat assessment but focuses on the threat of corruption. The threat...

Along with other postcommunist Central and East European countries, the Czech Republic continues to exhibit alarming levels of corruption. The present article draws on unique stakeholder interviews and document analysis to explore the evolving perceptions of corruption by Czech actors who had intimate knowledge of how this practice was occurring in...

The article analyzes the influence of particular instruments of the New Public Management reforms on the performance of Czech museums. We examine the impact of administrative decentralization, management autonomy, and performance management tools, using a survey, two-stage data envelopment analysis, and focus groups. Using these methods, we have be...

This article analyzes the impact of devolution on the efficiency of regional museums in the Czech Republic, a country with a more than 40-year communist history. According to our results, devolution in the Czech Republic did not lead to increased efficiency, contrary to what the general theory of decentralization assumes. In our opinion, this situa...

This book centers on museum management with particular focus on risk management. It sees the museum as a modern institution that, in addition to its classical heritage function (collections management), also provides an educational function and implements this education through experience (the experiential function of the museum). It represents a c...

At present, completely new risks and threats are emerging in the field of museums, to which the museum’s management must respond effectively even without prior knowledge or predictability. Methods are presented that are focused on risk assessment or elimination of negative impacts of risks, etc. However, it is necessary to examine risks and opportu...

This part of the book contains starting points and approaches to museum research. Using semantic analysis, the term “museum” is defined. There are characterized individual approaches to the study of museums. Starting points for how to effectively manage the opportunities and threats facing current museums are formulated. The stability of systems is...

This paper deals with the analysis of the impact of the autonomy of museums founded by municipalities in the Czech Republic on selected performance areas. On a sample of 180 museums founded by municipalities, comparisons were conducted for the period 2010-2016 on the performance of museums which are autonomous entities and museums that are part of...

In this chapter we present short characteristic of local self-government, politico administrative structure, history, current situation, main challenges and fiscal decentralization data about Poland. The core analytical part countries deliver the evaluation of the quality of local democracy, assessed on the basis of the compliance of the situation...

In this chapter we present short characteristic of local self-government, politico administrative structure, history, current situation, main challenges and fiscal decentralization data about Romania. The core analytical part countries deliver the evaluation of the quality of local democracy, assessed on the basis of the compliance of the situation...

This chapter is dedicated to the introduction into theory of decentralization. We reviewed past and current theories of decentralization from the classical theories of Oates and Tiebout to the current approaches of the second generation of fiscal federalism and provide a summary of the main results. We linked decentralization with the issue of loca...

In this chapter we present short characteristic of local self-government, politico administrative structure, history, current situation, main challenges and fiscal decentralization data about Slovenia. The core analytical part countries deliver the evaluation of the quality of local democracy, assessed on the basis of the compliance of the situatio...

In this chapter we present short characteristic of local self-government, politico administrative structure, history, current situation, main challenges and fiscal decentralization data about Bulgaria. The core analytical part countries deliver the evaluation of the quality of local democracy, assessed on the basis of the compliance of the situatio...

In this chapter we discuss how to improve the efficiency of decentralization reforms. There is potential in the area of politicians’ and civil servants’ accountability and also in the effective implementation of ideas dealing with efficient management of public administration. We also must deal with information asymmetry and rational inattention.

In this chapter we present short characteristic of local self-government, politico administrative structure, history, current situation, main challenges and fiscal decentralization data about Czech Republic. The core analytical part countries deliver the evaluation of the quality of local democracy, assessed on the basis of the compliance of the si...

In this chapter, we presented an empirical case study of small municipalities in the Czech Republic. The research confirmed that there are significant efficiency differences between small and large municipalities. The largest room for efficiency improvement exists in the smallest municipalities. Empirical analysis has shown a significant impact of...

In this chapter we present short characteristic of local self-government, politico administrative structure, history, current situation, main challenges and fiscal decentralization data about Hungary. The core analytical part countries deliver the evaluation of the quality of local democracy, assessed on the basis of the compliance of the situation...

This chapter delivers a comparative analysis based on the data collected as well as extra sources. As the specific output, we try to find links between the “quality” of decentralization and the performance of the public administration systems for the selected countries.

In this chapter we present short characteristic of local self-government, politico administrative structure, history, current situation, main challenges and fiscal decentralization data about Slovakia. The core analytical part countries deliver the evaluation of the quality of local democracy, assessed on the basis of the compliance of the situatio...

This paper presents an analysis of the impact of performance management tools on the performance of public sector institutions in the Czech Republic. The findings open a new dimension in public performance management research. Existing studies have analysed the links between the use of performance instruments and the real performance of public orga...

Budget is the tool through which governments decide how much to spend on what, limiting expenditures to the revenues available, and preventing overspending.

This book examines the impacts of fiscal decentralization reforms on the efficiency of local governments in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. By offering a comparative perspective and by applying econometric methods and regression models, it analyses various reform trajectories and their effects on individual CEE countries. Furthermore,...

This paper deals with the analysis of risks which threaten the future sustainability and operations of agricultural museums in the Czech Republic. In the section on methodology, an applicable risk model has been proposed regarding the condition of museums in the Czech Republic. Using this model, the directors of agricultural museums can assess the...

The topic of the article is the issue of risk regarding municipalities. For the purpose of this article, we understand the risk as a risk of occurrence, which may adversely affect the achievement of the stated objectives. The basic objective of the municipality is to nurture the development of its territory, the quality of life of its inhabitants a...

Public procurement refers to the process by which public authorities, such as government departments or local authorities, purchase work, goods, or services from suppliers.

The paper deals with the issue of overpricing of public procurement in low-performing EU countries. It examines a uniquely large sample of public procurement in 11 Central and Eastern European countries. Hierarchical regression is used to analyze the factors that influence public contract. Our results indicate that institutional factors have a grea...

The article deals with the issue of the length of procedure in public procurement. Our analysis focuses on construction contracts in 2010-2015. We apply hierarchical linear regressions to these data to identify factors that affect the length of procedure. According to our results, the duration of a public contract does not affect the standard contr...

This paper presents a comparative study of the impact of devolution on institutions in the area of cultural heritage in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Both states had formed a previous federation. After the break-up of the federation, public administration reforms with different trajectories took place in each state. In the Czech Republic, part of...

The article focuses on risk assessment of individual and systematic corruption at the municipal level in the Czech Republic and Bulgaria. For this purpose, it uses the method of Corruption Risk FMEA, which is based on the classic Fault Mode and Effect Analysis used mainly in production. The model views corruption as an individual action, the applic...

The article analyses the post-contractual behaviour of actors dealing with public tenders on a sample of 200 randomly selected public works contracts. In this sample, we examined public contracts awarded in 2013, for which it was possible to trace information regarding the final price. Using an econometric model, we have tried to find the factors w...

The article deals with an empiric analysis of behaviour of contracting authorities when tendering public contracts. In the context of theories dealing with rational, imperfectly rational and rationally inattentive behaviour of agents, it tries to describe the problem of avoiding risk by the contracting authorities in further detail. Theories observ...

This article analyses the current state of strategic management in museums in the Czech Republic, especially in relation to modern management methods which have their theoretical foundations in the theory of New Public Management. Reforms in the spirit of New Public Management greatly influenced the establishment of the public sector in the Czech R...

This paper analyzes and discusses the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of museums run by municipalities. It tests the hypothesis that municipalities with higher levels of income self-sufficiency can more efficiently manage museums than municipalities with lower levels of financial self-sufficiency. For our analysis, we used finan...

This study tests whether decentralized leadership influences the efficiency of running selected cultural institutions, specifically museums in the Czech Republic. For the analysis, data from 2015 from 187 museums spread around the whole Czech Republic are used. The method for the evaluation of efficiency is data envelope analysis, and for identifyi...

This paper deals with a comparative analysis of the relative efficiency of museums founded by the central authorities in the Czech and Slovak Republics. Through the DEA method, we evaluate data for all 22 Czech and 42 Slovak institutions for 2015. For these purposes, we chose a group of indicators that are available in both countries and where muse...

Limited public resources confront public administration bodies with the question of how to handle them in an economically rational manner. Audit of public expenditures necessitates an ongoing creation and modifi cation of an effective control system. Such a system is made up by subsystems of a formal (accounting and documentation) and economic cont...

The article analyses the problems of strategic governance and strategic management of the Czechoslovak Government, as well as the Government of the Czech Republic in the years 1989-2016. It seeks the causes and factors that have caused the low levels of strategic governance and strategic management at the level of the ministries of the Czech Republ...

Our study offers additional insight into the Office for Protection of Competition. It examines the Office for Protection of Competition in terms of an input-process-output model, defines the inputs needed for its activities and examines the outputs of its control activities. It also identifies external factors (in the environment) that affect the p...

The article examines the impact of decentralization factors on the efficiency of public procurement. We analyzed the influence of these factors using an econometric model applied to data on public procurement purchases of gas for the years 2013-2014. In the context of the available data, this tender procedure is with a relatively homogeneous subjec...

The paper presents the results of empirical research (April-June 2013) regarding the employees of ministries in the Czech Republic (N = 1351 respondents) who deal with analytical, conceptual, strategic, planning, project, programming, strategic and managerial activities. From the current perspective, it regards workers who fall under the regime of...

This article examines the impact of selected factors of public contracts on the efficiency of public procurement with an emphasis on decentralization. We analyzed the influence of these factors using an econometric model applied to data on public procurement, specifically on pubic construction contracts for 2013 – 2014. To achieve a higher degree o...

This article examines the impact of selected factors of public contracts on the efficiency of public procurement with an emphasis on decentralization. We analyzed the influence of these factors using an econometric model applied to data on public procurement, specifically on pubic construction contracts for 2013 - 2014. To achieve a higher degree o...

The article deals with the empirical verification part of the hypothesis of "bureaucratic safety" applied to the example of public procurement in the years 2010-2014. We presume that the contracting authorities are trying to minimize the risk of conflict and therefore are entrusting the administration of contracts to external authorities, or perhap...

The article analyzes the efficiency of a specific section of Czech culture; specifically, in the areas of museums, galleries, and monuments. Based on a literature review we can state that apart from one project on performance indicators designed for benchmarking, evaluations of efficiency and effectiveness in this area have not been fully exploited...

The article deals with an evaluation of the efficiency of the use of inputs in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary. For evaluating the efficiency of the use of inputs, we utilized the data envelopment analysis (DEA) method. The results show that the prison system in the Czech Republic did not operate effectively in 2013-2014, relative...

The article deals with the influence of decentralization and other factors on the quality of public procurement. The quality of public procurement in our concept is indicated by the odds ratio that the Office for the Protection of Competition will find a violation by the contracting authority. The basic tool of our analysis is the logit model which...

The article analyzes post-contractual behavior on a sample of 200 randomly selected public works contracts, awarded in 2013, where it was possible to trace information about the final price. The study looks for factors, which have a statistically significant effect on the ratio between the actually paid price and tendered price. The findings are co...

The article analyzes post-contractual behavior on a sample of 200 randomly selected public works contracts, awarded in 2013, where it was possible to trace information about the final price. The study looks for factors, which have a statistically significant effect on the ratio between the actually paid price and tendered price. The findings are co...

The article is based on the analysis of the microeconomic foundations of corruption (especially principal –agent theory) and is dedicated to the use of FMEA for the risk analysis of corruption in public administration with a focus on cities. The study proposes how to evaluate corruption risks based on modifications to the standard methods of FMEA....

The first part of this article surveys the current experience with the use of benchmarking at Czech universities specializing in economics and management. The results indicate that collaborative benchmarking is not used on this level today, but most actors show some interest in its introduction. The expression of the need for it and the importance...

Benchmarking is most often referred to as a tool for the improvement of processes and performance of organizations. Therefore, it was also in the framework of reforms in the spirit of New Public Management which was implemented in the public sector. Regarding the theory of benchmarking, many authors have pointed out that in addition to the actual i...

PŮČEK, M., KOPPITZ, D. Strategické plánování a řízení pro obce, města a regiony. Vydání 1. Praha: NSZM, 2012, 196s

This article describes the use of benchmarking in universities in the Czech Republic and academics’ experiences with it. It is based on research conducted among academics from economics schools in Czech public and private universities. The results identified several issues regarding the utilisation and understanding of benchmarking in the Czech edu...

The paper aims to carry out a comparative analysis of heating of school facilities under the administration of municipalities in Macedonia, Moldova and Kosovo and to test the factors that affect the heating costs of school facilities. For a definition of the theoretical fundament parts of the theory of fiscal federalism are used. Subsequently five...

This article deals with applying modern methods of management, particularly benchmarking and system dynamics, to the area of waste management for the city Znojmo. Within the analysis, we focus on the following specific aims: (1) carry out an analysis of waste management utilizing benchmarking, (2) analyze the produced amount of biodegradable waste...

Public procurement may be examined from different perspectives. Using the Czech Republic as an example, this study is devoted to examining the impact of decisions made by the contracting authority regarding a public tender on the tender process itself and on the outcomes of the tender. The contracting authority addresses a number of decision-making...

In accordance to the principle of decentralization, local governments play important role in the economy and public administration since 1990 in the Czech Republic. The country belongs to countries with the most territorial fragmentation of municipalities (with Slovakia, Hungary or Austria). In this context, there is the relationship between econom...

In recent years, the necessity to allocate resources in economically rational ways has been amplified in the context of budget austerity measures and the overall tendency for balanced public budgets. Under these long-term circumstances, political leaders and public sector managers will be motivated to allocate available resources in economic, effec...

Elements associated with modern approaches towards public management have been gain:ing ground in various forms in the Czech public administration, especially in the last decade. They reflect the priorities of the public administration reform and the enhanced opportunities for co-financing the implementation of new management tools from European fu...

This paper has two objectives: (1) to propose an approach to corruption risk assessment with the FMEA (Fault Mode and Effect Analysis) method and verify it on a case study (taking decisions on monument protection in the Czech Republic), and (2) to find out whether higher salary expenditures per civil servant reduce corruption risk. The paper works...

This paper has two objectives: (I) to propose an approach to corruption risk assessment with the FMEA (Fault Mode and Effect Analysis) method and verify) it on a case study (taking decisions on monument protection in the Czech Republic), and (2) to find out whether higher salary expenditures per civil servant reduce corruption risk. The paper works...

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