Agricultural Economics, 2006 (vol. 52), issue 3

Knowledge and strategic management

J. Hron

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(3):101-106 | DOI: 10.17221/5001-AGRICECON  

The article summarizes recent developments in the field of knowledge management and its vital influence on strategic management. Knowledge has become a resource of key importance with regard to the competitive advantage of a business. It thus strengthens the resource-based view of competitive advantage and develops it further by providing guidelines for developing, storing, and sharing knowledge within a business with the use of the concept of organisational learning. Tacit and explicit knowledge is distinguished in order to differentiate their contribution towards the competitiveness of a business. Based on these developments major trends affecting...

Knowledge based higher education

J. Havlíček, J. Hron, I. Tichá

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(3):107-116 | DOI: 10.17221/5002-AGRICECON  

While data and/or information based education was built on pedagogic, psychology, philosophy of science and didactic disciplines, the new dimension of knowledge based education will involve new disciplines such as Knowledge Management, Epistemology, Systems Theory, Artificial Knowledge Management Systems, Value Theory and Theory of Measurement. It is often assumed that data, information and knowledge are depicted as a pyramid. The data, the most plentiful type, are at the bottom, information, produced from data, is above it and knowledge, produced from information through the hard work of refining or mining, above it. This schema satisfies specific...

Human capital and modelling of its development

J. Tvrdoň

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(3):117-122 | DOI: 10.17221/5003-AGRICECON  

The paper deals with the relation between education, as pivotal characteristics of capital, and efficiency of school work-places with use of production modelling. A starting analytic tool is a determination of school facilities efficiency according to an efficiency matrix from which it results that also schools with a lower volume of resources per a student can significantly contribute to human capital development. Transformation of these sources into knowledge is expressed by a production function of education in which results of students are an endogenous variable in dependence on school resources, qualification level of students' families, school-mates'...

Is valuation of property a real science?

J. Ryska, A. Valder

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(3):123-127 | DOI: 10.17221/5004-AGRICECON  

The evaluation of property is one of the basic human professions that have accompanied the human race ever since money was first used. At the time of the formation of modern science, this discipline was not included among the economic sciences. The stipulation of the value of property was based not only on theoretical knowledge of the economics, knowledge of goods, technology, agriculture and law, but also practical skills, knowledge of markets and the art of correctly assessing the requirements of customers. This situation continued until the end of the last millennium, when the evaluation of property stood apart from official science and was presented...

Structural changes of incomes of agricultural producers based on knowledge approach

I. Boháčková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(3):128-132 | DOI: 10.17221/5005-AGRICECON  

The paper is focused on the actual problems of agricultural producers' incomes. Currently these become one of the monitored descriptors of maintaining of social stability in agriculture and in the countryside. There is not judged the height and the income development in the article, but the attention is paid to their structure. Concretely, the relation between incomes, which come from the entrepreneurial activity of producers, and the supports, which farmers get in the frame of the Common Agrarian Policy, is monitored. The aim is to draw attention to the possibility of a certain future disproportion towards strengthening of subsidiary means in the...

The negotiation position amid member states of the EU

P. Michálek, P. Rymešová, L. Müllerová, H. Chamoutová, K. Chamoutová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(3):133-137 | DOI: 10.17221/5006-AGRICECON  

The European integration process is very important and it has been paid attention to for the last 15 years. The abstract deals with the negotiation field and position in the structure of the current expanded EU. For better orientation in this equivocal situation, a modern cartography method of relationship in the arbitrary group called dynamic sociometry was used. The method is based on classical sociometry Morena and furthermore it uses the instrument of fuzzy set, typology and structural analysis. The output of this method is a sociomap. The map holds information on the relative closeness or the distance of individual elements, their configuration...

Software and data quality

J. Vaníček

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(3):138-146 | DOI: 10.17221/5007-AGRICECON  

The paper presents new ideas in the International SQuaRE (Software Quality Requirements and Evaluation) standardisation research project, which concerns the development of a special branch of international standards for software quality. Data can be considered as an integral part of software. The current international standard and technical report of the ISO/IEC 9126, ISO/IEC 14598 series and ISO/IEC 12119 standard covert the whole software as an indivisible entity. However, such data sets as databases and data stores have a special character and need a different structure of quality characteristic. Therefore...