ArticleZdeněk Caha
Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017
DOI: 10.36708/LS.2017.I01.001
This paper focuses on an analysis of the financial resources that companies in the Czech Republic deploy for corporate training purposes. The sample set consisted of 607 companies. The companies were divided into four ca…
ArticleValeria Galvan
Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017
DOI: 10.36708/LS.2017.I01.002
In response to a strong anticommunist campaign in the Western World in the 1950s, the USSR started a counter-propaganda campaign directly aimed at Eastern European émigrés living abroad to persuade them to return to Sovi…
ArticleXiaobei Huang, Jianming Zheng
Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017
DOI: 10.36708/LS.2017.I01.003
This paper investigates the effect of analysts´ forecasts on management earnings forecasts in the unique Chinese forecasting environment. The empirical results show that: a pessimistic bias in analysts´ forecasts encoura…
ArticlePavla Kačmárová
Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017
DOI: 10.36708/LS.2017.I01.004
As soon as the Social Democratic Party (SPD) won the elections to the Federal Diet (the Bundestag) in 1969, negotiations on forming a possible coalition government commenced. In the autumn of that year an agreement was r…
ArticleOleksandr Kushch, Olena Malykhina, Jan Gregor
Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017
DOI: 10.36708/LS.2017.I01.005
This paper describes and analyses the results of experimental courses designed to improve the role played by cognitive processes in the development of the literary and creative talents of young school children. It was pr…
ArticlePetra Martíšková, Roman Švec
Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017
DOI: 10.36708/LS.2017.I01.006
This paper deals with customer feedback given to e-shops by Czech B2C customers. There are three aims: (1) to find out whether respondents have already given their feedback to an e-shop, (2) to investigate the nature of …
ArticlePavol Minárik
Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017
DOI: 10.36708/LS.2017.I01.007
This paper examines the significance of the institutional environment on agricultural production in post-communist Central European countries. It adds to the extensive research conducted into agricultural production func…
ArticleAleš Rod, Jonáš Rais
Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017
DOI: 10.36708/LS.2017.I01.008
This article presents an analysis of income and profitability indicators for the banking sectors of six post-communist countries and compares them with a group of eighteen OECD countries without a “communist” past. The a…
ArticleJiří Semrád, Milan Škrabal
Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017
DOI: 10.36708/LS.2017.I01.009
This paper focuses on the motivation of secondary school students to take part in (professional) creative activities and the influence their environment, both the school and family environment, has on this. This study is…
ArticleAmbuj Sharma, Anna Dunay
Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017
DOI: 10.36708/LS.2017.I01.010
One of the biggest challenges for a person with disabilities is to find decent employment in order to be independent and economically active. This paper presents the professional inclusion of people with disabilities at …
ArticleRadek Soběhart
Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017
DOI: 10.36708/LS.2017.I01.011
The study focuses on the issue of the land reform in the Eastern part of Germany, which was occupied by the Soviet army after 1945. The land reform was a key part of future collectivization in the German Democratic Repub…
ArticleWang Shu-ping, Wei Xiao-meng
Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2017
DOI: 10.36708/LS.2017.I01.012
bstract: This paper investigates the relationships between exchange rates, economic growth and foreign direct investment through a time-variant parameter VAR model using monthly data from China for the period 2001-2016. …