The thesis is called The Factors of Competiveness of Companies in Engineering Industry. I deal with the current situation in engineering, meaning of innovations in companies, the aspects which stimulate them and on the contrary limit them and the possibilities of various kinds of cooperation. The thesis explains the importance of regular analysis of situation of companies on the market, careful determination and fulfillment of the strategy and the operational effectiveness. According to the used resources the factors of competitiveness were determined. In the practical part I analyzed four companies from the surroundings of Ústí nad Orlicí which produce radiators, fittings, machines for textile industry and buses. From acquired information it is possible to say that these companies are competitive and they focus on innovations. I discussed the factors of competitiveness with the managers of engineering companies and I created the summary of the factors which influence prosperity of the engineering companies.

Contemporary literature says that women are less competitive than men. In this thesis I find out if this is the case even in an environment of elite Czech distant runners. Statistical and econometric methods applied to the data from the years 2006-2013 reveal significant differences between the sexes across all distances from 1 500 meters to marathon. These are the highest in the longest distances when Czech men run marathons five times faster than Czech women. Furthermore, I show that the gender gap in competitiveness remains constant on the track races, but in the road racing is declining. And because the acceleration among women occurs primarily in the lower ranks of the elite, it is concurrently valid "biological-predisposition" hypothesis, which is based on a constant differences between men and women due to biological differences, and "economic-incentive" hypothesis, according to which the differences is decreasing due to increasing returns of success in the form of the same financial rewards for winning. Completely fastest women act according to the first-mentioned, next best female runners according to the second. Finally, I suggest that growing quantity of women in road races plays substantial role in the women's approaching to men.

Master's thesis "EU agreements with South Korea and Japan and their impact on the European market" analyzes the impact of trade agreements between the European Union and South Korea and Japan on the EU industrial competitiveness. The impact is evaluated in terms of the development of trade flows with chemical, food, textile and automotive products and also in terms of the existence and reduction of non-tariff barriers. The study also includes trade balances developments between the respective countries. The results of the analysis showcase the overall positive impact of the agreement with South Korea on the EU industrial competitiveness and predict the impact of the agreement with Japan.

The music industry worldwide is rapidly evolving as a result of commercial, technological and demographic developments. The magnitude of the strategic impact of these developments on the South African music industry is evaluated in terms of internal and external factors, such as the intrinsic industry growth levels, ability to adapt to change, the consumer buying power, audio-visual piracy and counterfeiting, literacy, employment and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. Collected data from public domain and proprietary music industry sources are transformed and presented in terms of the competitiveness of the South African music industry, from which key points for strategic leverage are identified. These key points of strategic leverage include education and training, relevant music industry research, the formalisation of the music industry strategy process and the development of alternative marketing, sales and distribution channels. In comparison to specific benchmark countries, the South African music industry has significant technological and socio-economic challenges and opportunities that need to be addressed in order to become a competitive co-evolutionary participant in the world music industry. South Africa, as an emerging world player, is ideally positioned for the development and implementation of new technological and commercial systems, such as the download distribution channel. This however, requires the collaborative participation of government departments, educational institutions, public and private enterprises. In particular, in-depth research on the local music industry is needed, which should include the collection of relevant statistical data. This study presents suggestions for some strategic interventions, including an application of the Porter DNA-model. / Dissertation (MMus (Music Technology))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Music / MMus / unrestricted

It is globally recognized the group of advantages and differential competitive generated by the adoption of the work methodology developed by Toyota, and denominated, in the occident, Lean Thinking. The group of tools that composes this methodology is applied broadly and it has vast bibliography proving its effectiveness in the great organizations, especially in the automobile industry, however its applicability in small organizations, manufacturer or not, with continuous flows or intermittent it should be equally productive, although it is still more lacking of studies. The case study presented in this work focuses planning aspects, implementation, control and measure of the acting attributed to the Lean Thinking in an industry global leader in technology of control of movements. It possesses dozens of production cells in the studied unit, it operates at a market of great competitiveness, sazonalidade and of constant technological evolution, demanding a combination of abilities to have flexibility, speed, reliability, quality and good costs. It is made an evaluation of the program of implantation of the methodology Lean and their results, confronting them with some available studies in the world literature. The analysis of the methodology used by the company in the implantation of its program offers as a model proposal for implantations in similar environment. / É mundialmente reconhecido o conjunto de vantagens e diferenciais competitivos gerados pela adoção da metodologia de trabalho desenvolvida pela Toyota, e denominada, no ocidente, Mentalidade Enxuta. O conjunto de ferramentas que compõe esta metodologia é largamente aplicado e dispõe de vasta bibliografia comprovando sua eficácia nas grandes organizações, notadamente nas automobilísticas, porém sua aplicabilidade em pequenas organizações, manufatureiras ou não, de fluxos contínuos ou intermitentes deve ser igualmente produtiva, embora ainda seja mais carente de estudos. O estudo de caso apresentado neste trabalho enfoca aspectos de planejamento, implementação, monitoramento e medida do desempenho atribuídos à Mentalidade Enxuta em uma indústria líder global em tecnologia de controle de movimentos. Possui dezenas de células de produção na unidade estudada, opera em um mercado de grande competitividade, sazonalidade e de constante evolução tecnológica, exigindo uma combinação de habilidades para se ter flexibilidade, rapidez, confiabilidade, qualidade e bons custos. É feita uma avaliação do programa de implantação da metodologia Lean e seus resultados, confrontando-os com alguns estudos disponíveis na literatura mundial. A análise da metodologia utilizada pela empresa na implantação de seu programa oferece-se como uma proposta de modelo para implantações em ambientes similares.

Genom tidigare studier kan det konstateras att det råder problematik kring entreprenörskap i modebranschen vilket avsaknaden av rätt resurser, främst brist på affärskunskap, ligger tillgrund för. För att få hjälp med detta söker sig många startup-bolag till inkubatorer vars uppgift är att ge stöd i grundandet och utvecklandet av ett företag genom att bidra med just resurser. Grundat i detta syftar denna studie till att undersöka inkubatorsprocessen från företagens perspektiv, med fokus på vilka resurser företagen upplever saknas hos inkubatorn. Fortsättningsvis undersöks även vad avsaknaden av resurser beror på, samt hur denna avsaknad påverkar företagens konkurrenskraftighet. Studiens teoretiska ramverk utgörs av Barneys (1991) teoretiska modell the Resource BasedView, RBV, och senare forskning som är grundat utifrån modellen. RBV används i studien för att kategorisera de resurser som nämns i empirin, samt för att kunna analysera och förstå hur de avsaknande resurserna påverkar företagen ur ett konkurrenskraftigt perspektiv. Genom ett kvalitativt förhållningssätt genomfördes studien som en fallstudie på Borås INK, Sveriges främsta inkubator för textil- och modeföretag. Empiri samlades in genomsemistrukturerade intervjuer i kombination med dokumentstudier, där dokument relaterade tillinkubatorverksamheten studerats, för att få en bild av den process Borås INK använder sig av. Intervjuerna har genomförts dels med en informant från Borås INK, dels med informanter frånföretag som genomfört inkubatorsprocessen. Resultatet från empirin påvisar att företagen saknar flera resurser hos inkubatorn. Närmare bestämt identifieras elva avsaknader av resurser, där de främsta avsaknaderna är relaterade tillhumana och organisationella resurser. Vidare identifieras en upplevd variation blandinformanterna som förklaras av en variation av handledare. Det argumenteras därför för att det kan finnas ett samband mellan de olika resursavsaknaderna, då en del av de avsaknade humanaresurserna eventuellt faktiskt finns i inkubatorns organisation, men den organisationellaf örmågan att hantera resurser saknas. Vad som avslutningsvis konstateras i denna studie är att en avsaknad av humana och organisationella resurser hos inkubatorer kan resultera i att företagspotentiella konkurrenskraftighet inte blir fullt nyttjad. Således lämnar studien ett teoretiskt bidrag genom ökad förståelse om inkubatorer samt hur avsaknader av resurser hos inkubatorer skulle kunna påverka inkuberade företagskonkurrenskraftighet. Dessutom ger studien ett praktiskt bidrag till inkubatorsverksamheter genom att identifiera förbättringsmöjligheter. Denna uppsats är skriven på svenska. / Through previous studies, it can be stated that there are problems regarding entrepreneurship in the fashion industry which the lack of the right resources, mainly the lack of business knowledge, is the basis for. To get help with this, many start-ups seek out incubators whose task is to provide support in founding and developing a company by contributing resources. Based on this, this study aims to examine the incubator process from the companies perspective, with a focus on what resources the companies think are lacking within the incubator. Furthermore, it is investigated what the lack of resources is due to, and how the lack of resources affects companies' competitiveness. The study's theoretical framework consists of Barney's (1991) theoretical model Resource-Based View, RBV, and more recent research that is based on this model. RBV is in the study used to categorize the resources mentioned in the empirical data, and to be able to analyze and understand how the lack of resources affects companies from a competitive perspective. Through a qualitative approach, the study was conducted as a single case study at Borås INK, Sweden’s leading incubator for textile and fashion companies. Empirical data were collected through semi-structured interviews in combination with document studies, where documents related to the incubator were studied, in order to get an idea of the process Borås INK uses. The interviews were conducted partly with an informant from Borås INK but also with informants from companies that carried out the incubator process. The results from the empirical data show that companies lack several resources within the incubator. More specifically, could 11 themes be identified, the main shortcomings of which are related to human and organizational resources. Furthermore, a perceived variation among the informants is identified, which is explained by a variation of supervisors. For that reason, various resource shortages may be explained by the incubator’s organizational deficiency in managing these resources, despite the fact that they potentially exist within its organization. What is concluded in this study is that a lack of human and organizational resources within incubators may result in companies' potential competitiveness through other resources not beingfully utilized. Thus, the study makes a theoretical contribution through an increased understanding of incubators and how lack of resources within incubators could affect the competitiveness of incubated companies. In addition, the study makes a practical contribution to incubators byidentifying opportunities for improvement. This paper is written in Swedish.

With the increasing importance of service trade in the economy, the development of service trade among China, Japan and South Korea, as the three largest economies in East Asia, cannot be ignored. This paper mainly analyzes the competitiveness and complementary relationship of service trade between China, Japan and South Korea through RCA and TC index. The degrees of competition between China, Japan and South Korea is not intense since their complementarity is high and stable. With the signing of RCEP, the future liberalization of service market in China, Japan and South Korea will be improved, and China should make full use of the complementarity of service trade with Japan and South Korea to strengthen the exchange and cooperation with Japanese and Korean service enterprises in several industries to promote the development of service trade between China, Japan and South Korea. Keywords ： Services Trade, Complementarity, Competitiveness, China, Japan, South Korea, Regional Economic Cooperation

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo principal, determinar la relación entre el liderazgo y la competitividad de las pequeñas empresas en el sector de minería cuprífera en la zona sur costera del Perú en el 2019. Desde el inicio se pretende resaltar la zona de estudio que en específico es Ica y Arequipa. En este sentido, los aspectos metodológicos tomados en cuenta para el desarrollo del presente estudio fueron de tipo básica, de nivel relacional, además de un diseño no experimental con un tipo de corte transversal. La principal herramienta utilizada fue una encuesta a trabajadores de pequeñas empresas del sector minería cuprífera en la zona sur costera a 128 colaboradores que pertenecen a 128 pequeñas empresas del sector minería cuprífera en la zona sur costera, a quienes se les aplicó un cuestionario como técnica de recopilación de datos. Finalmente, los autores concluyeron que existe relación de 76.4% entre el liderazgo y la competitividad de las pequeñas empresas en el sector de minería cuprífera en la zona sur costera del Perú en el 2019, además se determinó la existencia de relación entre el liderazgo transformacional y la competitividad en un 78.1%, también se determinó la existencia de relación entre el liderazgo transaccional y la competitividad en un 71.9%, al igual que el liderazgo pasivo – evitador y la competitividad en un 71.6%. / This research entitled “The influence of leadership on the competitiveness of small businesses in the copper mining sector in the southern coastal area of ​​Peru in 2019”, had as its main objective, to determine the relationship between leadership and the competitiveness of Small companies in the copper mining sector in the southern coastal area of ​​Peru in 2019. Likewise, the methodological aspects taken into account for the development of this study were of a basic type, of a relational level, in addition to a non-experimental design with a type of cross section. As for the sample, it was constituted by 128 small companies of the copper mining sector in the southern coastal zone and 128 workers who were applied as a data collection technique to the survey with their instrument the questionnaire. Finally, the author concluded that there is a 76.4% relationship between the leadership and competitiveness of small businesses in the copper mining sector in the southern coastal area of ​​Peru in 2019, in addition the existence of a relationship between transformational leadership and competitiveness in 78.1%, the existence of a relationship between transactional leadership and competitiveness in 71.9% was also determined, as was passive-avoidant leadership and competitiveness in 71.6%. / Tesis

The main aim of this thesis is to describe the issue of diversification of the Tertiary Education in the Czech Republic and to highlight the difference of the tertiary education of the Czech Republic and the tertiary education in developed countries. Therefore this thesis has sought to compare the system of tertiary education of the Czech Republic with the systems of tertiary education of developed European countries, those whose rates in the competitiveness report were very high, Denmark and the Netherlands. This work is based on the characteristics of systems of tertiary education of all three countries which were analysed to learn the extent to which the systems of their tertiary education are diversified. The goal of this thesis is to answer the main research question which is: To which extend is the diversification of tertiary education of the Czech Republic comparable with the diversification of the tertiary education of developed countries, those that rate in the competitiveness reports high. The results of the comparison of the case studies of the countries show that the system of the tertiary education of the Czech Republic is not sufficiently diversified, due to the lack of the professional study programs, which currently represent in the European Western countries an important sector of...

The diploma thesis is focused on utilization of development concepts of the brand of Air Bank for strengthening the competitiveness. Based on the theoretical knowledge and methodology according to Ko Floor, the current situation of the company is assessed. Subsequently, analyzes are made to determine the brand position on the market. Results of these analyzes set out proposals for solutions to support brand development.