There are only little doubts that territorial competition related to attracting new investments is getting increasingly severe. This competition is closely connected with the wide spectrum of ...location factors that bear economic as well as social and environmental dimensions. While some of these factors are barely manageable, majority of them can be actively shaped via policies of different kinds and scales. Not surprisingly, intense differentiation applying to both time and spatial perspectives is concomitant to afore mentioned factors. The main objective of this article consists in the analysis and assessment of location factors and mechanisms offered by the managements of Czech towns to potential investors. At the same time, we will examine which location factors and mechanisms these towns regard as important for individual investors. As it turned out, the investment environment in Czechia cannot be considered entirely standard from international perspective, which subsequently rises transaction costs involved in investment location.
This article is motivated by the specific and largely dissatisfactory state of the application of modern conceptions of local and regional development in post-transformation countries of Central and ...Eastern Europe. The same holds true for cultural industries, which became a buzzword and a sign of socioeconomically more successful places and regions. The main objective of this paper is to examine selected issues related to the application of cultural industries in Central and Eastern Europe. Conceptions characterizing cultural industries have been born in advanced countries in the West. Subsequently, their applications consider standard Western economic-institutional milieu that evolved naturally and in the longer run. Nonetheless, history matters and economic-institutional settings in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, for which numerous developmental discontinuities are symptomatic, are far from the Western ones. This raises many question marks on the applicability of cultural industries in specific and still-developing economic-institutional conditions in places and regions in Central and Eastern Europe. The primary perspective adopted in this article is a theoretical one with a wide utilization of qualitative approaches.
Agriculture represents one of the most important economic activities that co-creates the qualities of landscapes. While topics such as food production, land utilization, or the development of rural ...regions are typically taken into account when analysing agriculture, regionally differentiated media portrayals of agriculture constitute a largely innovative approach. The main objective of this paper is to analyse and interpret agriculture-oriented news about individual self-governing regions in Czechia that were broadcasted in the framework of the national TV reporting. The paper is conceived as a historical study of the creation of the image of agriculture in the period from 2004 to 2011, which we define as the period of adaptation of Czech agriculture to the EU. The article includes both quantitative and qualitative dimensions. In summary, the media portrayals of agriculture largely differ from real conditions in Czech self-governing regions. Important themes, such as common agricultural policy or organic farming, have been mostly ignored within regionally focused national TV coverage. On the contrary, TV news is typically focused on one or a few phenomena of unusual or negative character, which is consistent with the gatekeeping conception.
Location processes are constitutive for the formation of economic landscape. Largest enterprises represent one of the most important units of territorial economies. Their role is palpable mainly in ...the sphere of employment, technological level, value chains, competition as well as overall economic power. It is far from surprising that the weight of enterprise headquarters is higher than that of their affiliates. Therefore, the main objective of our article is to analyze and assess the development of spatial organization of one hundred largest enterprise head offices in the Czech Republic from both quantitative and qualitative perspectives. Due to data limitations, size of the enterprise is measured by its turnover. Spatial distribution of one hundred largest Czech enterprises and its development over time represent the focal point of our evaluation from quantitative point of view. The analysis was based upon annually published top 100 databases. Qualitative assessment is underpinned by the results of the questionnaire, which was focused on particular location factors accentuated by largest enterprises. Consistency analysis and exploratory factor analysis provide us with useful instrument for the evaluation of qualitative dimension of the issue and help us to conceptualize location preferences of largest enterprises in the country.
The article deals with the spatial structure of the Czech banking sector. Bank headquarters and other banking activities affect the variation in economic power of different parts of the country. The ...advocated thesis is that spatial concentration of bank headquarters in the Czech Republic are only one of the manifestations of national centralisation, which corresponds to the traditional model centre-periphery.
Članek obravnava prostorsko strukturo češkega bančnega sektorja. Bančna središča in druga področja bančništva vplivajo na različno ekonomsko moč različnih delov države. Zagovarja se teza, da je ...prostorsko zgoščevanje bančnih središč v Češki republiki samo ena od oblik centralistične ureditve države po tradicionalnem modelu središče-obrobje.
The aim of this study is to investigate the significance of perceived geographical and organisational mobility determinants among scholars affiliated with research centres in Brno, Czech Republic. ...Utilizing a quantitative methodology (written questionnaire through an electronic record sheet), the analysis draws upon the input from 128 respondents, predominantly researchers employed at three scientific centres of excellence. The findings indicate that institutional factors—such as the scope and diversity of the research topic, the quality of the research team, technological accessibility, and the level of compensation or research grant allocation—play a pivotal role in influencing mobility decisions. Conversely, researchers assert that contentment with local attributes surpasses satisfaction with institutional factors influencing researchers' mobility. The findings suggest that to influence crucial institutional factors, over which the city has limited control, collaborative efforts of city with scientific institutions are imperative.
•Institutional factors are the key for researchers in their decisions about job mobility.•Image of the research institution is much more important mobility factor than the image of the city..•The city must create a strategy distinguishing researchers for permanent incentives and those for shorter mobility stays.•Two thirds of EU and other foreign researchers plan to leave Brno.•Researchers most frequently cited low salary, limited career progression and fixed-term contract as reasons for leaving.
Media, and particularly TV media, have a great impact on the general public. In recent years, spatial patterns of information and the relevance of intangible geographies have become increasingly ...important. Gatekeeping plays a critical role in the selection of information that is transformed into media. Therefore, gatekeeping, through national media, also co-forms the generation of mental maps. In this paper, correspondence analysis (a statistical method) combined with cloud lines (a new visual analytics technique) is used to analyze how individual major regional events in one of the post-communist countries, the Czech Republic, penetrate into the media on a national scale. Although national news should minimize distortions about regions, this assumption has not been verified by our research. Impressions presented by the media of selected regions that were markedly influenced by one or several events in those regions demonstrate that gatekeepers, especially news reporters, functioned as a filter by selecting only a few specific, and in many cases, unusual events for dissemination.
Corporate headquarters, which occupy the top of enterprise organizational hierarchies became the subject of an increased interest in last three decades. Until now, posttransformation economies suffer ...from a distinct cognitive gap in this respect. The main objective of this paper is to analyse and interpret the development of the spatial pattern of top 100 biggest companies in the Czech Republic. Both quantitative and qualitative dimension of this issue will be investigated in the frame of this article. The basic territorial level we examine is constituted by self-governing regions. Finally, particular managerial and regionally-orientated recommendations for both largest enterprises and public administration will be formulated.
The period of the global financial crisis can be characterized by the spillover of negative innovations among stock markets worldwide. Stock markets in Central Europe were not excluded as they are ...not isolated from global stock markets. Recently published scientific studies dealing with this theme were mainly focused on the integration of the new EU members´ stock markets with the eurozone only. Hence, this paper aims to investigate, compare and interpret integration among stock markets of selected new EU member states in Central Europe (the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland), the global stock market and the eurozone equity market within 2004-2018. The added value of this article consists especially in using a wider spectrum of econometric tools (cointegration, VAR model, Granger causality, variance decomposition) and comparison of changes of mutual relationships in three different testing sub-periods to study the dynamics in time. Our research is accomplished via usage of data on daily frequency. Delivered results showed that the degree of integration of Central European stock markets with the US stock market and eurozone significantly increased during global financial crisis. Moreover, stock markets in Central Europe are more integrated with the global stock market than the euro area.
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