Agricultural Economics, 2007 (vol. 53), issue 7

The bonsai management

P. Tomšík

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(7):291-297 | DOI: 10.17221/1150-AGRICECON  

Management can be understood as a "bonsai" integrating its roots in long-term bases with the trunk of general management growing from it supporting a cultivated treetop branching out in the real time. Managers need to develop a new understanding of the management process that will respond to global trends in the world's economy. More precisely it needs to create more progressive management styles. Management will be successful if it is based upon people's own knowledge and their development. In addition it has to look beyond the confines of the company and even of the country and to take into account the on-going and permanent development of technology....

Knowledge-management in managerial work of business management

E. Svoboda

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(7):298-303 | DOI: 10.17221/1152-AGRICECON  

The paper presents the results of the research projects with their applications in enterprise practice, in the sphere of strategic control of enterprise management focused on the methods of decision-making enabling an enterprise to respond to changes in the entrepreneurial environment. Rapid changes, principally in the external environment, require the business management to select new approaches and methods of decision-making and to have a well conceived algorithm enabling a flexible response to customers' wishes using findings of knowledge management. The paper presents the results of applying the methods of BSG and SPACE analysis, namely during...

Analysis of selected demand factors of wine market of the Czech Republic

T. Pyšný, Z. Pošvár, S. Gurská

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(7):304-311 | DOI: 10.17221/1151-AGRICECON  

This paper analyzes the data on the development of the main factors of the demand for wine and wine consumption in the Czech Republic. The average annual wine consumption, one of the wine demand factors, grew between1991 and 2005 from 14.8 l to 17 l per capita. Following this trend, we can expect the average annual wine consumption 17.4 l per capita in year 2010. However there are critical factors in the development of the demand for wine demand here. Specifically it is the daily feasible ratio of alcohol in wine and other alcoholic drinks, especially beer that we can treat as the substitute of wine. The ethanol consumption in beer accounts for 50%...

The competitive strength factors of the company

H. Chládková

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(7):312-317 | DOI: 10.17221/1154-AGRICECON  

PATRIA Kobylí, Inc. is one of the traditional wine-growers and producers of quality wines based in southern Moravia. Farming on 152 hectares, PATRIA Kobylí supplies the market with more than 1 million litres of wine per year. It offers an assortment of 14 whites and 6 blue wines. The company focuses on wines designed for gastronomes and distributed to selected specialized wine-merchants. But since 2003, the sales of the company's wines have been declining. The sales in the individual months of 2006 were the lowest for the last 6 years. But the aim of the company will not be to increase the sales volume but the wine quality and services and sales techniques...

Buying behaviour of households in the Czech Republic

M. Foret, P. Procházka

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(7):318-324 | DOI: 10.17221/1153-AGRICECON  

The paper analyses results of an inquiry performed in the Czech Republic on the turn of 2005/2006. The objective was to discover how households buy foodstuffs, clothing, shoes, and home appliances and which factors influence this behaviour. The obtained results showed that quality was the most important factor when buying foodstuffs and home appliances. When buying clothing and shoes, above all the product properties (i.e. de facto also its quality) were preferred. Price was mentioned less frequently as a factor influencing the buying behaviour. Although it was not mentioned as a priority, there were also some differences, which depended mainly on...

An impact of direct payments on production decisions in agriculture

V. Bečvářová

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(7):325-332 | DOI: 10.17221/1156-AGRICECON  

The paper deals with the employment of decoupled direct payments as the model of targeted lump-sum financial transfers to the farmers. It considers whether decoupled payments may alter producers' resource allocation over time and lead to effects on production. Decisive topics of influence through which decoupled payments as an instrument of income redistribution could affect production through recipient' decisions in both short and long time horizons are bringing to the attention as follows: wealth and investment effects, sector consolidation and payment basis effects in the framework of agricultural policy.

The economic impact of EC procurement policy

R. Jurčík

Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2007, 53(7):333-337 | DOI: 10.17221/1155-AGRICECON  

The economic impact of the EC procurement policy is an important aspect of public procurement in the most areas of industry and agriculture. There exist some studies about the economic impact of the EC procurement policy. The first major study was the one commissioned by the European Commission and published in 1997 as a part of a broader evaluation of the European single market. This dealt with the period from 1987 when the directives were substantially revised, to 1994. In February 2004, the Commission published a new summary analysis of the economic impact of the EC rules covering the period 1995-2002. A report on the functioning of public procurement...