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Determinants of Gratuity Size in the Czech Republic: Evidence from Four Inexpensive Restaurants in Brno

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Kvasnička M., Szalaiová M.

Review of Economic Perspectives

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2015

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vol. 15

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issue 2

121-135

EN

The paper presents the results of the first study exploring what factors influence tipping in restaurants in the Czech Republic. It shows that the tipping norm evolved here into a form that has some features similar to the tipping norms known in the USA, Canada, and Israel, but there are also striking differences. As in the three countries, the gratuity increases with the bill size but the gratuity as percentage of the bill is much lower here. The bill size explains here a lower part of the gratuity variability too. Also, the service quality results in customers being more generous with their tips, and though the increase in gratuity seems to be small, it rises with a group size. Strikingly, the regular patrons tip significantly less in the Czech Republic and they stiff more often. This supports the hypothesis that the relationship between the customer frequency and the gratuity size is an artifact of a missing variable, and the regular patrons tip differently because they belong to a different social group than occasional customers. Also, the customers paying by card stiff more often here and the interaction between the amount on the bill and use of payment card is statistically insignificant. The group size lowers the percentage gratuity, which supports the diffusion of the responsibility hypothesis. There are differences between genders: Male customers leave bigger tips than female customers, and female waitresses earn more than their male colleagues. The time spent at the table, consumption of alcoholic beverage, and smoking do not change the gratuity size but it may be affected by the weather conditions. The customers tip less and stiff more often when they order a lunch special. They round the total expenditures, not the gratuities, which creates the magnitude effect.

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Cooperate or Not To Cooperate? Czech Municipalities’ (De)Motivation as Experience for Other Countries with Space for the Intensification or Professionalisation of IMC

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Daněk J., Hrůza F.

Studia Regionalne i Lokalne

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2022

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vol. 4

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issue 90

7-18

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Inter-municipal cooperation is a specific phenomenon in local public administration across the world. It is a concept that has been applied globally, particularly in countries with more fragmented local government. Often its implementation helps to solve problems or challenges associated with the existence of fragmented public administration in the delivery of public services. From the existing investigations dedicated to this specific issue carried out in the Czech Republic, it appears that this model of local public administration is very often mentioned in this country; however, its real use in the territory by public administration even after a long period of its existence in this country still has a great potential for development and use even in comparison with how it is abroad. The aim of this article is to identify and characterise the motivation and willingness of municipalities in the country to cooperate in order to meet the current conditions.

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Gravity Models of Internal Migration – the Czech Case Study

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Jandová M., Paleta T.

Review of Economic Perspectives

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2015

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vol. 15

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issue 1

3-14

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In this paper, the models of internal migration flows between regions (NUTS 3) in the Czech Republic in time series from 1991 to 2012 are tested. The paper aims to find out how size, distance and economic variables explain migration flows between Czech regions. Several versions of an extended gravity model were used for testing, where economic factors which are frequently mentioned in literature on migration were used as regressors (i.e. average wage, registered unemployment rate, job vacancies and job vacancies per applicant). Internal migration flow is the dependent variable. In comparison to the pure gravity model, the extending of models with the economic variables improves the results of the models only slightly. The results show that the highest explanatory value of migration is given by models with rates of the variables tested.

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Relationship between legislation and accounting errors from the point of view of business representatives in the Czech Republic

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Paseková M., Kramná E., Svitáková B., Dolejšová M.

Oeconomia Copernicana

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2019

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vol. 10

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issue 1

193-210

EN

Research background: Previous studies have demonstrated that providing relevant information to users is positively affected by higher quality of accounting standards and adhering to ethical rules and accounting principles by accounting professionals. On the other hand, there are a lot of cases when the law was broken. The most common reason for committing financial statement´s fraud include in-creasing stock prices, getting loans from bank or avoiding payment of taxes. Purpose of the article: The aim of this paper is to evaluate both the relationship between using of legislation and accounting errors rate in the financial statements as well as the possible using of creative accounting from the point of view of enterprises and non-profit organizations in the Czech Republic. Methods: Among the quantitative research methods the questionnaire was used. The questionnaires were sent out to randomly 201 selected enterprises and non-profit organization. The survey was conducted from September 2017 to the end of January 2018. The data were analyzed by means of the tools of descriptive statistics and the chi-square goodness of fit test. The research questions sought to investigate whether Czech Accounting Standards helped in all areas of accounting and reporting and avoiding of errors in financial statements, and whether the respondents encountered fraudulent procedures in compiling financial statements. Findings & Value added: The results indicated that using Czech Accounting Standards was perceived as a useful tool in solving all situations in areas of accounting and avoiding accounting errors. Moreover, it was proved that the volume and frequency of errors were not significant in financial statements.

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Trávení volného času v České republice ve srovnání s evropskými zeměmi

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Šafr J., Patočková V.

Naše společnost (Our Society)

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2010

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vol. 8

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issue 2

21-27

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The article focuses on leisure activities in the Czech Republic. After the introductory part defining leisure and its functions, data from the international research ISSP 2007 Leisure and Sport are analyzed. Frequencies of 13 leisure activities and perceived functions of leisure are described and the Czech results are briefly compared with the average of 18 European countries. Then attention is paid to the structure of leisure activities in the Czech society. Three main leisure clusters, i.e. types of lifestyle, were identified: (1) cultural and sporting activities outside home, (2) “female” culture (shopping, watching TV, reading books and visiting relatives), (3) “home-loving” style of life (doing handicrafts and do-it-yourself). The main sociodemographic characteristics of their followers are delineated using multinominal logistic regression.

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Politics and Institutions in the Reforms of Health Care in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

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Sitek M.

Polish Sociological Review

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2008

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vol. 161

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issue 1

39-54

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The article discusses main developments in the organization and financing of health care in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. These countries exemplify different approaches to health care reform and different processes of institutional change of health care systems. The article charts main policy developments and offers explanation of dynamics of changes. It emphasizes the role of politics and broadly understood institutions, which are often neglected in the literature on health care reform in the region. It is argued that political institutions, party politics and rivalries within the governments influenced the scope and timing of policy changes. Institutional changes were also affected by the patterns of interest representation and organizational and normative developments that resulted from decisions and non-decisions taken in the past.

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Śląsk i Czechy oczami magnata litewskiego. Osiemnastowieczny diariusz podróżny starosty wiłkomierskiego Benedykta Tyzenhauza

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Ziober A.

In Gremium. Studia nad Historią, Kulturą i Polityką

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2015

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vol. 9

65-74

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Travels through Europe among the nobility and magnates of the Crown and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania experienced its heyday in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. They had a various character: educational, therapeutic, or diplomatic. Many Lithuanian magnates by virtue of its financial resources decided on a long expeditions through the old continent and left after them travel reports rich in interesting descriptions of the surrounding reality. Such an example may be unknown until now the memories of the peregrination through Silesia of starost of Wilkomierz Benedict Tyzenhauz. He set out on his journey in the mid-eighteenth century, and came to Wroclaw, about which left an interesting description on the pages of his memories. From the capital of Lower Silesia he went towards Prague, along the way describing the encountered village, which he visited. Particular interest of magnate aroused churches, palaces and gardens. His relationship of the journey ends with the description of Prague where, most likely, magnate returned to the grounds of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

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Convict criminology: nový směr vězeňského výzkumu?

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Dirga L.

Česká kriminologie (Czech Criminology)

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2017

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vol. 2

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issue 1

1-10

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The aim of this paper is to introduce a relatively new and controversial perspective in the field of criminology to Czech readers; the Convict Criminology (or also called the New School of Convict Criminology). Convict Criminology represents especially the work of convicts or ex-convicts, in possession of a Ph.D. or on their way to completing it. After introducing the Convict Criminology, the author discusses methodological possibilities of Convict Criminology in relation to a general level of prison research. Paper is also focused on different kinds of prison researchers and on research collaboration between “inside” and “outside” observer.

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Piwo i gospoda w kulturze czeskiej – polskie widzenie zjawiska

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Dębicki M.

Sprawy Narodowościowe

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2012

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issue 41

83-98

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The article aims at outlining the most distinctive features of two elements of the Czech national culture: beer and the places where it is customary consumed. Specifically, the text focuses on characteristics of the position which beer occupies among Czechs, as well as on a social dimension of the “traditional” provincial and village local pubs (specific ambience, a type of service, guests, etc.), which makes the article embedded in the cultural context. A special attention was paid to the restaurants located at the Czech railway stations, too. The analysis was carried out from the Polish perspective, that is why the article includes a range of references to the peculiarities of the Polish culture of drinking. Additionally, the observations were gathered during a number of visits the author paid in the Czech Republic. It all means that the selection of the phenomena presented in the text and the way they were valued might be different if some other national approach were employed here.

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MEDICAL THERAPIES AS A PREVENTIVE MEASURE UNDERTAKEN TOWARDS VICTIMS AND OFFENDERS OF SEXUAL CRIMES. EXPERIENCES OF THE SLOVAK AND CZECH REPUBLICS

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Dworzecki J., Nowicka I.

Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej

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2017

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issue 4

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The paper highlights the issue of sexual crime in the Slovak and Czech Republic. Also selected activities related to prophylactic and therapeutic initiatives undertaken in the above–mentioned countries towards victims and offenders of sexual crimes are discussed. The text was created on the basis of the Slovak and Czech subject literature. The following material can be of interest for those who professionally and scientifically deal with crime, for students of faculties of criminology, law, psychology, internal security as well as to any other readers to whom the issue of public security in European Union countries is particularly close.

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A comparative study of deaf children’s family resilience

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Shenglin L., Potměšíl M.

Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Psychologica

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2012

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vol. 5

28-43

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This study compares families’ adaptation to childhood deafness in China and the Czech Republic. A sample of 160 families with deaf children were studied; 107 from China, 53 from the Czech Republic. The results showed that (1) overall, both family groups demonstrated resilience when facing the risk of childhood deafness by accepting the children’s deafness, functioning normally, and expecting a good future for their children; (2) Chinese families and Czech families did not demonstrate significant differences in the overall outcome of positive adaptation but displayed apparent differences in adaptiv patterns; (3) Chinese families were impacted more severely than Czech families by childhood deafness due to the lack of adequate social support, but cohesive family relationships and more positive changes in family belief such as optimism, altruism and tolerance toward differences might mediate the adverse impact caused by children’s deafness.

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No Prejudice-Free Society Means no Prejudice-Free Teachers, but Better Times Are Coming: Teachers and Cultural Diversity

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Leix A.

Human Affairs

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2015

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vol. 25

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issue 3

302-316

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Multicultural education tends to be automatically associated with pupils but in practice it places demands on all those involved in the teaching process. Of these the most predominant role is allocated to the teacher who mediates multicultural competence. Pupil attitudes towards foreigners and cultural diversity are not only influenced by multicultural education but also by teachers’ beliefs-and teachers’ beliefs are largely influenced by personal opinions and attitudes. The author presents the results of qualitative analysis performed on the unrestricted responses of 86 Czech teacher trainees and teachers on the topic of their experiences of foreigners. The analysis indicates their personal attitudes to foreigners, foreign cultures and diversity generally, the level of reflection in relation to cultural diversity, and discusses the results in relation to the wider sociocultural context.

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Kurdská komunita v České republice

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Murad M., Mareš M.

Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)

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2015

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vol. 102

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issue 1

75-96

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In the Czech Republic are also foreign communities, which were not traditional in Central Europe, however became part of the Czech Republic ethnic spectrum and we can assume their further development. One of these communities is the Kurdish community; it is not very large (it has only about 200 members), but this community is certainly interesting. The Kurdish Community seeks to promote organized interests, they are linked to the wider Kurdish Diaspora on other countries and to their home countries as well, and therefore we are able to identify their transnational activities.

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Dějiny a kultura slezských dominikánů v nové historiografii

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Zouhar J.

Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)

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2014

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vol. 112

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issue 2

287-294

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This contribution offers a perspective on the works relating to the history and culture of the Dominican Order in Silesia, which were written after World War II. They involve the works written by Polish, yet also Czech and Slovak historians.

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The Uncompleted Revolution? The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia in the Post–Communist Reality

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Czyżniewski M.

Polish Political Science Yearbook

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2016

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vol. 45

60-72

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The change of the political regime in Czechoslovakia, called the Velvet Revolution, is considered as a success story of transformation after 1989. However, in nowadays Czech Republic, the Communist Party still exists – this is the only such case among democratic countries of Central Europe. It makes us ask the question: is the Velvet Revolution completed? The author treats the activities of the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia as a criterion for the assessment of changes in the Czech Republic after 1989 and wonders how strong for the assessment of the transformation influences the relics of the former regime. He stresses that transformation in the Czech Republic can’t be assessed on a comparative scale, because pace and effects of changes were different in different countries, as different was the nature of the previous regimes. The author concludes that the existence of the Communist Party is the natural element of contemporary political reality of the Czech Republic, which negates the achievements of transformation in no way.

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Special operations with respect to witness protection in the Czech Republic

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Dworzecki J.

Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Finansów i Prawa w Bielsku-Białej

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2018

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issue 1

48-54

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The paper addresses the issue of special witness protection in the Czech Republic with respect to legal proceedings, organisational and tactical forms of protective actions implemented by the Police and the Prison Service towards persons admitted to protection programmes. The most significant legal acts regulating protective actions and operations adopted under the institution of an anonymous witness, special institution of witness protection and short-term protection have been drawn forward. Actions described in the paper constitute basic instruments of operational, exploratory and investigative work used by the Czech Republic Police in their fight against organised crime. The paper was written within the frame of a research project called “Understanding of Dimensions of Organized Crime and Terrorist Networks for Developing Effective and Efficient Security Solutions for First-line-practitioners and Professionals” (TAKEDOWN, H2020-FCT-2015, No: 700688).

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Polish Treaty Policy towards Czech Republic in 1993–2011

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Galewska I., Kopcewicz G., Olszanecka N., Urbański D., Piechowiak-Lamparska J., Bryc A., Bojarczyk B., Jorgensen F. A. E., Niedziołka D., Pacześniak A., Potorski R., Wincławska M., Włodkowska-Bagan A., Jeran A., Mol A., Solsbery A., Dąbrowska I., Głodkowski M., Kopcewicz G., Olszanecka N., Piechowiak-Lamparska J.

The Copernicus Journal of Political Studies

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2012

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issue 1 (1)

PL

The article contains an analysis of the treaty policy of the Republic of Poland and the Czech Republic. A properly executed treaty policy is a condition of good mutual relations and, as a part of a foreign policy, is responsible for ensuring the best possible conditions on the international arena for the development of a state in all possible directions. In other words, good neighborly relations between the Republic of Poland and the Czech Republic depend on a reasonable treaty policy. The article presents a few areas of bilateral cooperation, including borderline agreements, agreements on national minorities, security and defense, economic agreements, agreements on cultural and cross-border cooperation, and the agreements on legal issues in 1993–2011. The article presents also the agreements that are part of succession of the treaty policy that the Republic of Poland concluded with the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic and also analyses international agreements that were ratified both by the Polish and the Czech states. The thesis on the Polish involvement in developing the treaty base with the Czech Republic is validated.Full text: http://bazhum.muzhp.pl/czasopismo/589/?idno=14761

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Znovuzrození Českého časopisu historického

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Pánek J., Pešek J.

Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)

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2014

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vol. 112

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issue 4

605-623

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This current study highlights the re-stablishment and development of a leadingCzech historical magazine: The Czech Historical Review (Český časopis historický)after the Czechoslovak “Velvet Revolution” of 1989 until 2002. The Reviewwas published from 1895 until 1949 but in 1953 the Communist regime replacedit by the highly ideological Czechoslovak Historical Review. Professor František Šmahel, the eminent personality of Czech Medieval Studies from the 1960s onwards, though proscribed in the 1970s, took over the management of the Institute of History of the Czech Academy of Sciences in 1990 and thanks to his huge personal involvement and commitment this traditional periodical of the Czech historical community was restored. In addition, he promoted it and was editor- -in-chief until 2002. This study shows the re-establishment and development of the contributor base and the editorial background of the Review; it characterizes its contents profile, international outlook as well as its role as a mirror reflecting transformations of the Czech post-Revolution historiography.

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Uwarunkowania prawne działalności gospodarczej w Czechach

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Hudský J.

Studenckie Prace Prawnicze, Administratywistyczne i Ekonomiczne

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2017

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vol. 22

63-70

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There are two designations connected with business activity in Czech commercial legislation — business activity (hospodářská činnost) and živnost. Despite that the definitions of these terms are identical in substantive elements, the živnost is a narrower concept. The types of the živnost function in accordance to the rules indicated in the law. There are some types of business activities listed in the law, which are indicated as activity but not a živnost. For example, medical activity, activities of lawyers, activities of sworn translators, or agricultural activity. Czech legislation also distinguishes two main types of business activity in terms of živnost. Namely, notified business activity (ohlašovací živnost) and licensed activity. If an entity wishes to pursue a živnost business activity in the Czech Republic, there are two requirements: full legal capacity and no criminal records on business.

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Český časopis historický s Jaroslavem Pánkem

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Pešek J.

Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)

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2017

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vol. 115

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issue 1

7-24

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This article analyzes the Czech Historical Review in the years 2003-2016 when the author, together with Jaroslav Pánek, has been its editor.Focusing on Pánek´s specific contribution to the review, he indentifes the major challenges the journal had to face during this period; due to the impact of the internet and new, government-based evaluation system of the humanities it witnessed a dramatic change in publishing culture. In consequence, despite maximum efforts by the editors to ensure continuity, the content structure of the review changed visibly: moving away from traditionally strong Middle Ages, many more articles nowadays are focusing on the modern period. The review thus reflects the strong topical fragmentation and narrowing horizon of modern -day Czech historiography in general. Pánek´s main success as editor, therefore, is to have succeeded in broadening and strengthening the review´s international relations and its structural modernization.

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Determinants of Gratuity Size in the Czech Republic: Evidence from Four Inexpensive Restaurants in Brno

Cooperate or Not To Cooperate? Czech Municipalities’ (De)Motivation as Experience for Other Countries with Space for the Intensification or Professionalisation of IMC

Gravity Models of Internal Migration – the Czech Case Study

Relationship between legislation and accounting errors from the point of view of business representatives in the Czech Republic

Trávení volného času v České republice ve srovnání s evropskými zeměmi

Politics and Institutions in the Reforms of Health Care in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland

Śląsk i Czechy oczami magnata litewskiego. Osiemnastowieczny diariusz podróżny starosty wiłkomierskiego Benedykta Tyzenhauza

Convict criminology: nový směr vězeňského výzkumu?

Piwo i gospoda w kulturze czeskiej – polskie widzenie zjawiska

MEDICAL THERAPIES AS A PREVENTIVE MEASURE UNDERTAKEN TOWARDS VICTIMS AND OFFENDERS OF SEXUAL CRIMES. EXPERIENCES OF THE SLOVAK AND CZECH REPUBLICS

A comparative study of deaf children’s family resilience

No Prejudice-Free Society Means no Prejudice-Free Teachers, but Better Times Are Coming: Teachers and Cultural Diversity

Kurdská komunita v České republice

Dějiny a kultura slezských dominikánů v nové historiografii

The Uncompleted Revolution? The Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia in the Post–Communist Reality

Special operations with respect to witness protection in the Czech Republic

Polish Treaty Policy towards Czech Republic in 1993–2011

Znovuzrození Českého časopisu historického

Uwarunkowania prawne działalności gospodarczej w Czechach