Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: P. Tomšík Author-Workplace-Name: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic Title: The bonsai management Abstract: 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. With particular regard to technology, man should be seen as a bearer of knowledge, regarded as an investment and seen as a source of long-term profit. Keywords: management bonsai, human resources, knowledge Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 291-297 Volume: 53 Issue: 7 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/1150-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1150-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200707-0001.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:7:id:1150-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: E. Svoboda Author-Workplace-Name: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic Title: Knowledge-management in managerial work of business management Abstract: 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 the years 1998-2006. The sphere of business of the company is also analysed using the correlation-table analysis method. All actions are focused on obtaining and maintaining the competitive advantage of the firm. Keywords: company management, strategic management, methods of decision-making, competition, marketing Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 298-303 Volume: 53 Issue: 7 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/1152-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1152-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200707-0002.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:7:id:1152-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: T. Pyšný Author-Workplace-Name: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic Author-Name: Z. Pošvár Author-Workplace-Name: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic Author-Name: S. Gurská Author-Workplace-Name: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic Title: Analysis of selected demand factors of wine market of the Czech Republic Abstract: 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% of the total ethanol consumption in alcoholic drinks in the Czech Republic. The negative influence on wine demand growth has been the price of other alcoholic drinks, especially beer that is the cheapest form of ethanol. Keywords: wine, wine consumption, beer consumption, alcoholic drinks, daily admissible ration of alcohol Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 304-311 Volume: 53 Issue: 7 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/1151-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1151-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200707-0003.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:7:id:1151-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: H. Chládková Author-Workplace-Name: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic Title: The competitive strength factors of the company Abstract: 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 and so to maintain its position in the market. The company started to analyze its strengths and weaknesses and extended its portfolio of Saint Martin wine and special wines and sparkling wines. Keywords: competitive strength, strengths, weaknesses, BCG model, success factors Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 312-317 Volume: 53 Issue: 7 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/1154-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1154-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200707-0004.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:7:id:1154-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: M. Foret Author-Workplace-Name: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic Author-Name: P. Procházka Author-Workplace-Name: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic Title: Buying behaviour of households in the Czech Republic Abstract: 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 the incomes of individual households. In contrast to foodstuffs, which were preferably purchased in discount shops, supermarkets, hypermarkets, and shopping centres, clothes, shoes and home appliances were purchased mostly in specialised outlets. As the purchase of home appliances is more complicated, the majority (85%) of customers looked for information in different sources of data, especially in different catalogues. Keywords: buying behaviour, foodstuffs, clothing, shoes, home appliances Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 318-324 Volume: 53 Issue: 7 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/1153-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1153-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200707-0005.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:7:id:1153-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: V. Bečvářová Author-Workplace-Name: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic Title: An impact of direct payments on production decisions in agriculture Abstract: 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. Keywords: agricultural policy, competitiveness, economic costs, decoupled payments, income redistribution, investment, wealth Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 325-332 Volume: 53 Issue: 7 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/1156-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1156-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200707-0006.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:7:id:1156-AGRICECON Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: R. Jurčík Author-Workplace-Name: Mendel University of Agriculture and Forestry, Brno, Czech Republic Title: The economic impact of EC procurement policy Abstract: 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 markets in the EU: benefits from the application of the EU directives and challenges for the future (EC 2004). This confirms a much greater importance of the indirect cross-border activity as compared with the direct cross-border binding activity, and also indicates that this form of trade in public markets has increased further. The above mentioned studies in relation to the Economic Impact of the EC procurement Policy are the object of this article. Keywords: public procurement, economic impact of EC procurement policy, industry and agriculture Journal: Agricultural Economics Pages: 333-337 Volume: 53 Issue: 7 Year: 2007 DOI: 10.17221/1155-AGRICECON File-URL: http://agricecon.agriculturejournals.cz/doi/10.17221/1155-AGRICECON.html File-Format: text/html X-File-Ref: http://agriculturejournals.cz/RePEc/caa/references/age-200707-0007.txt Handle: RePEc:caa:jnlage:v:53:y:2007:i:7:id:1155-AGRICECON