Agricultural Economics, 2008 (vol. 54), issue 2
Determination of management capacity
J. Hron, T. Macák
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2008, 54(2):49-55 | DOI: 10.17221/271-AGRICECON 
This paper deals with the creation of a procedure to make it possible to evaluate the adequacy of the span of control (number of immediate subordinate staff). The maximum span of control depends on the complexity of the coordinating mechanism. In developing this procedure, information theory (more precisely - law of necessary variety) will be used. This paper contains a brief review of information theory and of the conventional approach, before moving on to the application part, to develop a method of determining the optimum for the managers' span of control.
Intellectual capital reporting
I. Tichá
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2008, 54(2):57-62 | DOI: 10.17221/270-AGRICECON
The changing context within which businesses today compete requires deployment of intangible assets in order to achieve competitive position on the market. The growing importance of intellectual capital has been challenging the traditional financial reporting system, which is not capable to meet the information needs any more. The article provides an overview of various intellectual capital reporting systems and highlights their key concerns. The selected list of intellectual capital reporting practices serves as an information basis for business leaders to raise the awareness, to consider pros and cons of intellectual capital reporting and to facilitate...
Global problems of the world - structure, urgency
V. Jeníček
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2008, 54(2):63-70 | DOI: 10.17221/269-AGRICECON
Global problems are very different. The division of global problems into three big groups: Inter-social global problems usually included the problems like the problem of diverting world wars, nuclear, eventually other conflicts connected to the problematic of armament (the problem of war and peace). At present, there gains in importance also the fight towards terrorism. The problem of the social and economic backwardness of developing countries, eventually the whole North-South relationship also belong there, as well as the problem of solving global debts, the relationship of the indebted and creditors. The problem of the international relationships...
Human resources development in rural areas of the Czech Republic
L. Svatošová
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2008, 54(2):71-76 | DOI: 10.17221/268-AGRICECON
Regional development strategy has to be designed with knowledge of human resources' development trends. Monitoring of this factor is of concern namely in rural areas where disfavourable demographic situation may occur. Leaving this problem unsolved would constitute depopulation of certain endangered regions. The paper is focused on analysis of human resources' condition and development granding groups of settlements by size.
The price transmission in pork meat agri-food chain
L. Čechura, L. Šobrová
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2008, 54(2):77-84 | DOI: 10.17221/272-AGRICECON
The paper deals with the analysis of price transmission in pork meat agri-food chain. The analysis is aimed at the determination of the type of market structure in the chain based on the derived theoretical model and fitted reduced model of price transmission in the form of VECM. Then, impulse-response analysis and decomposition of variance of fitted VECM show the system's reaction to innovations and the interaction between variables for longer forecast horizons. The results imply that processing stage may exercise oligopsonic power, i.e. the market structure has the type of oligopsony. Impulse-response analysis shows that the system approaches relatively...
Coordinated change within the branch with the help of strategic alliances
I. Vajčnerová, K. Ryglová
Agric. Econ. - Czech, 2008, 54(2):85-92 | DOI: 10.17221/273-AGRICECON
The paper focuses on the problematic issues of tourism, namely on the area of relationships among travel and tourist agencies and their clients. It analyses the current situation and defines key problems that emerge from the insufficient legislative adjustments in the area of tourism entrepreneurship regulated by the Act 159/1999 of the Collection that concerns some conditions of tourism business, as well as by the amendment of this law from year 2006. The ambiguous interpretation of the law concerning the conditions of entrepreneurship in tourism area and other facts that emerge from this, such as the rise of asymmetrical information, untransparency...