Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: P. Bielik Author-Workplace-Name: Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovak Republic Author-Name: J. Pokrivčák Author-Workplace-Name: Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovak Republic Author-Name: V. Jančíková Author-Workplace-Name: Slovak University of Agriculture, Nitra, Slovak Republic Title: Micro-economic analysis of households restructuring in the pre-accession period to the EU Abstract: Transformation process and restructuring of the existing enterprises started in the Slovak Republic in 1990, what influenced all companies alike as well as rural households. Business companies and private farms were established. Private activity in agricultural sector became a dominant source of income for many rural households. In 2000, there were 21 thousands private farms registered in Slovakia with the average size of 10.4 hectares. There is also significant group of unregistered farms that get part of their income from agriculture. Keywords: restructuring, households, cooperatives, individual farms Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 49-54 Volume: 48 Issue: 2 Year: 2002 DOI: 10.17221/5287-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5287-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200202-0001.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:48:y:2002:i:2:id:5287-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: L. Bervidová Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Labour productivity as a factor of sustainable economic development of the CR agriculture Abstract: A basic presumption of sustainable economic development of every branch is an efficient use of production factors. As a decisive production factor, it is possible to consider labour which actives other production. In such a way, labour creates sources for reproduction and improvement of other production factors; i.e. it creates sources for sustainable economic development. Efficiency of labour use as a production factor is generally evaluated by the level of labour productivity. To express its level, various indicators are used. Using the indicator of gross agricultural production per one worker, labour productivity grows, even with the decrease of production. The growth factor is there the decreasing number of workers. Using the indicator of value added per one worker, resp. per 1 CZK of labour costs, labour productivity decreases. Market factor lowers labour productivity on both input and output sides. The contribution issues from solving of the institutional research intention CEZ: J03/98: 411100013 "Efficient integration of Czech agrarian sector into the frame of European structures - presumption of sustainable development". Keywords: labour, production, value added, labour productivity, sustainable development Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 55-60 Volume: 48 Issue: 2 Year: 2002 DOI: 10.17221/5288-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5288-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200202-0002.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:48:y:2002:i:2:id:5288-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: L. Rolínek Author-Workplace-Name: University of South Bohemia, Èeské Budìjovice, Czech Republic Author-Name: M. Doktorová Author-Workplace-Name: University of South Bohemia, Èeské Budìjovice, Czech Republic Title: External and internal entropy assessment on farms in relation to their competitiveness Abstract: Internal and external entropy are indicators of evaluation of the success of the firm management. The evaluation of the file of the chosen agricultural firms shows, that the level of internal and external entropy is not too high for the future dynamics and development. Competitiveness of the evaluated firms can be influenced especially by problematic level of their interior social situation (it means social subsystem measured with the help of the internal entropy) that is connected with a not very efficient management of the human resources. Keywords: entropy, management, agriculture, competitiveness Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 61-64 Volume: 48 Issue: 2 Year: 2002 DOI: 10.17221/5289-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5289-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200202-0003.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:48:y:2002:i:2:id:5289-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: P. Římovská Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Formalised risk identification and evaluation models application in the conditions of agricultural enterprises Abstract: Recently we can mention in the CR a step by step enterprise number increase in the area of production, transport services, services and financial organisations, which practically apply internal departments of controlling or audit into their managerial structures. That is why it is required to dedicate a wider publication space to the information on the role and principles of managerial instruments, which are provided by controlling and Internal Audit for business administration and financial management. The goal is to ensure a higher quality of preparation or response on the still emerging forms of our enterprises co-operation with foreign business subjects and to match step at the level of building and in particularly in effectiveness of business informational systems usage for managerial process (especially for planning and decision making procedures control) in all areas of business functions. Internal controlling instruments application and using results of risks evaluations by internal audit simultaneously contributes to the improvement of level and effectiveness of intra-enterprise monitoring as a modern conception of control usage in business management. Management level increase and increase of management competency are the conditions of ensuring our enterprises competitiveness. Keywords: business management instruments, planning and decision making process, control, risk evaluation, risk factors, critical point analysis, controlling, internal audit Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 65-75 Volume: 48 Issue: 2 Year: 2002 DOI: 10.17221/5290-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5290-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200202-0004.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:48:y:2002:i:2:id:5290-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: T. Doucha Author-Workplace-Name: Research Institute of Agricultural Economics, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Globalisation and concentration in the Czech agro-food sector Abstract: The processes of globalisation and concentration have been also penetrating into the Czech agro-food sector and market. Utilising information from foreign sources and developed countries, the paper tries to present a complex view on the Czech situation from the structural and institutional aspects. Based on limited Czech information sources, the market structure in the individual links of the food chains is presented, together with the hypothesis about the sequence of the market power in the present Czech agro-food sector: input suppliers and retailers - farmers - processors. The paper also implies possibilities of the state to suppress negative effects of globalisation and concentration, especially as regards the adjustment of the Czech market regulations to the EU ones. Keywords: agro-food sector, agro-food market, globalisation, concentration, market power Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 76-80 Volume: 48 Issue: 2 Year: 2002 DOI: 10.17221/5291-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5291-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200202-0005.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:48:y:2002:i:2:id:5291-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Ľ. Bartová Author-Workplace-Name: Slovak Agricultural University, Nitra, Slovak Republic Title: Globalisation and poverty Abstract: Transitional process in Central and Eastern European countries has been affected by globalisation. Evaluation of poverty and inequality become an integral part of economic thinking a few years ago. The importance of this topic is documented in the 2000 World Bank Report. In comparison with living standards of developing countries (especially Africa, South Asia, partially Latin America), Slovakia does not belong to the group of countries with the highest absolute poverty and according to the World Bank Report, the Slovak Republic is one of the countries with the lowest level of inequality. The paper presents an assessment of poverty and inequality in the Slovak Republic and a comparative analysis of indicators of selected countries. From 1992 the poverty in the Slovak Republic was evident, lasting and befalling more and more inhabitants. Household living costs were affected by price liberalisation. Inequality increased too. In 1996, inequality was correlated with the size of settlements and reached the highest level in settlements with over 50 thousand inhabitants. The share of population under poverty line has been increasing as well. Poverty assessment depends on the poverty line, which changes over time and across the regions. Distribution of household income in the Slovak Republic by the size of settlements (Microcenzus 1996) is shallow and densely concentrated around the poverty line. Therefore high sensitivity of poverty incidence, its depth and severity is observed. Contrary to the situation in developing countries, where the highest share of poor is observed in rural areas, the share of the Slovak Republic population under the poverty line was the highest in the settlements with 5 thousand to 10 thousand inhabitants in 1996. Keywords: spatial analysis, income inequality, poverty, Slovak Republic Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 81-86 Volume: 48 Issue: 2 Year: 2002 DOI: 10.17221/5292-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5292-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200202-0006.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:48:y:2002:i:2:id:5292-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: V. Jeníček Author-Workplace-Name: Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic Title: Globalisation and regionalisation Abstract: What regards the vision of the future relationship of the global and regional liberalisation, two variants are offered. According to the first, multilateralism will go on perpetually around the present trajectory and gradually will, supported by the processes of internationalisation and interdependence, accelerated by the condensing net of trans-national corporations and their activities, suppress regionalism. According to the second, regionalism will, closely connected to multilateralism, spread territorially into the shape of several macro-regions as a transitive stage to the unified liberalised world economy. In both cases, it regards of course the visions of a system and not matter-of-fact type. In the frame of each region, there will further exist different comparative advantages, which will influence the volumes and structure of production and trade, as well as certain specific fields of economic policy. However, that changes nothing of the fact, that namely multilateralism contributes to a considerable extent to reaching a higher equilibrium, adaptability and coherence of the world economy as a whole, even if reaching of this state is connected with considerable, mostly, however, short-time, costs. The contribution characterises globalisation and regionalisation: its contents, types and dimensions, TNC, unequality of the globalised economic development. Keywords: globalisation, regionalisation, world economy, TNC Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 87-92 Volume: 48 Issue: 2 Year: 2002 DOI: 10.17221/5293-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5293-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200202-0007.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:48:y:2002:i:2:id:5293-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: S. Hubík Author-Workplace-Name: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic Title: Social and cultural logic of regionalism Abstract: Research into the globalisation processes leads to establishing the set of concepts with the relative heuristic, methodological, and theoretical effectiveness as well as consequent practical effectiveness. Yet, a simple analysis shows this set of concepts as dependent on certain political programmes and projects. Scientific research is not a prirori limited by any other language - except its own, i.e. scientific language. To accept the language of non-scientific discourse means (mostly) to accept the non-scientific logic, too. Scientific establishment of region, community or similar social unit is a matter of logic different from the logic of political programmes or projects. Scientific research seeks logic of a subject (region, e.g.) from outside as well as from inside. That is why ideas and principles of social constructivism would have to play an important role among the scientific research tools. These principles and ideas are not a part of simple language and logic of political programmes and projects. Substitution of scientific language and scientific logic by political ones could lead to a fatal error. A region is the result of social construction, yet the scientific construct of a region is only one dimension of this complex process. This process can be called a social and cultural cartography process and could be based on parallel or complementary research methodologies - on standard methodology (working by means of standard descriptive and analytical quantitative research tools) and on social constructivism methodology (social and cultural cartography). Such complementary research is capable of overcoming relatively naive language and logic of political programmes and projects as well as limited heuristic possibilities of a standard scientific approach. Keywords: regionalism, social cartography, simulations, social construction of region Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 93-96 Volume: 48 Issue: 2 Year: 2002 DOI: 10.17221/5294-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/5294-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200202-0008.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:48:y:2002:i:2:id:5294-AGRICECON