Agricultural Economics, 2006 (vol. 52), issue 6

The influence of intangible forms of capital on farms

M. Lošťák

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(6):251-262 | DOI: 10.17221/5022-AGRICECON  

Intangible issues, which are often very difficult to be quantified become more and more the field of interest of social sciences. There are many research works demonstrating that various types of knowledge, institutions, social networks, and social relations have a great influence on human activities as for efficient achievement of the actors' goals. This paper relates expert knowledge (shaping professional qualification) to human capital and tacit knowledge (understood as a broader, general, and contextual knowledge) to cultural capital. Both forms of capital exist in their primary form only in concrete individual persons. Concerning collective persons...

The co-operation of rural municipalities - chance or condition of achievement

R. Perlín

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(6):263-272 | DOI: 10.17221/5023-AGRICECON  

Czech settlement structure as well as the structure of public administration on municipal level is extremely disintegrated. Besides a great number of very small villages - small settlement units - there exists a big share of very small municipalities with self-government. Those municipalities can and often do cooperate in voluntary associations, which can transfer some of their competencies by a specific municipal treaty. This paper is focused on the discussion of possibilities and limits of cooperation among rural municipalities. Different forms of existing collaboration are discussed and possibilities of new forms of municipal collaboration are drafted,...

Regional differentiations of rural villages in the Czech Republic

Z. Bednaříková, Z. Trávníček, V. Vávra

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(6):273-280 | DOI: 10.17221/5024-AGRICECON  

Rural villages are the sole subjects in rural area which integrate all elements acting in the rural area to one functional whole. They can be therefore taken as the pivotal element of rural development. The research was done in 2004 and was based on the search for rural villages' characteristics and exploration of the elements of regional differentiation. The project results from the presumption of difference between the rural villages given by their size, location in specific areas or on exposed roads, distance from civic centers etc. It is supposed that these characteristics have specific and significant connections with such phenomenon as the level...

The impact of structural social capital on farm income in the Czech Republic

A. Wolz, J. Fritzsch, J. Pencáková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(6):281-288 | DOI: 10.17221/5025-AGRICECON  

The change of the economic system from the socialist central planning system to the market economy required the reorganisation not only of agricultural production, but also of the organisations supporting it. In the Czech Republic, agricultural production is characterised by a dualistic structure, i.e. private farmers on the one side and corporate farms on the other. However, among both groups some had been economically more successful than others. In general, a varying adoption of production factors, i.e. land, labour and capital is identified as being of influence. Namely, their ability to collaborate with other farms which is discussed under the...

The significance of the personality of knowledge: its contribution in creating and utilizing the system of knowledge in organization

M. Polišenský

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2006, 52(6):289-300 | DOI: 10.17221/5026-AGRICECON  

How does an organization utilize knowledge for the reproduction of its culture in innovations, it was a key-point of the question for an approach based on the methodology of social process in the recent past. Then the formation of knowledge was considered a process of power politics with the consequences for knowledge management. In the framework of those projects, attempts were made in organizations to extract the knowledge from experts and specialized professionals that it might be codified and saved in extensive databases; only then the remainder of employees ought to have possibility to consult them and add the results of their own ideas to these...