The thesis deals with disputes concerning hormone treated beef. The first, theoretical part describes the dispute settlement process under the World Trade Organization. The second part deals with causes of disputes, main participants and development of the process. The last chapter is devoted to retaliatory sanctions and impacts for bilateral trade of countries involved in disputes.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to evaluate the role of the United Nations Organization in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It describes the positions of both the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization in the United Nations. The thesis furthermore assesses reactivity and objectiveness of UN in this conflict. There are no doubts that the conflict has always been in the centre of interest of the United Nations. However, the importance of UN is perceived to be decreasing since the 70's. This paper evaluates whether UN is still contributing to the resolution of the conflict and if yes, in what particular fields. In the first chapter I discuss the main conflict resolution instruments available to UN. The second chapter describes the origins and the course of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict throughout the 20th century leading to the current situation. The last three chapters present an analysis of three levels of UN activities in the conflict - political, security and humanitarian.

The goal of the thesis Internal Audit and Risk Management is to analyze Internal Audit in the selected company, to form the process for implementation of Risk Management System and to evaluate software solutions for Internal Audit and Risk Management in the company. The thesis is focused first on the historical development and the Standards for Internal Audit and Risk Management and on the interdependence of these disciplines with Corporate Governance. In the practical part is analyzed Internal Audit and Risk Management function and there are outlined possibilities of the software solutions in the company.

The thesis is focused on two main fields: first one is financial analysis as a possibility of predicting a stringency of a company, second one being insolvency resolution from legal and accounting points of view. The theoretical part of the thesis describes the importance and the content of financial analysis, the crisis of a company and further on it deals comprehensively with insolvency proceedings. The practical part is mainly focused on performance analysis of the financial situation of a selected company, it sets problems in the field of financial management. It also gives an opinion on the possibility of the company's bankruptcy and demonstrates an insolvency proceedings in accounting.

The goal of this thesis is to investigate the effects of different hotel response strategies to negative user-generated electronic word of mouth on online travel guide sites and subsequently to identify managerial implications that would lead to an effective online review management in the hotel industry. Three basic response strategies to a negative review were identified: no-response strategy, defensive response strategy and accommodating response strategy. An experimental research method with 240 respondents proved that accommodating response to a negative review has positive impact on customer's perception of a hotel. The most negative perception was observed by the defensive response strategy. The results of this experimental research were confirmed in a Mann-Whitney U-test.

The main idea of this thesis is to find an optimal Business Intelligence solution for monitoring and analysis of petrol stations, which would be provided as a complementary product to the current production system, and would aim to contribute both to the business of the customer, and provider of this software. Main goal is to design the solution, as well as to develop consequent marketing strategy, all the while taking many factors into consideration. These factors are e.g. status of current production system, competitive environment, customer requirements and many others. In order to fulfill the goal, extensive research of relevant literature and academic publications has been performed. Main areas of interest in this research were marketing strategy development methodologies, licensing and pricing policies, IT project management methodologies and Business Intelligence theory. Thesis also uses a lot of company's internal information, such as the data structure and quality of the database, or prevailing needs and requests of current customers. Contribution is the sole demonstration of combining various internal and external factors, taking into account whilst designing the solution. The thesis demonstrates, that Business Intelligence in its broader definition, may for certain groups of customers result in an original and non-conventional solution. Non-conventional both from the perspective of features and components, as well as the tools and development environments used to implement it. Thesis begins by researching given sources. The research is followed by the theoretical part, describing general Business Intelligence principles relevant to the topic. Fourth chapter foreshadows the current status-quo, informing about features and architecture of current production system, data sources and also about a current business strategy of the company providing Europos software. Current status-quo in relation to the external environment is described in the next chapter, where competitive and market analyses are conducted. The sixth chapter sums up the facts from previous chapters, and transforms them into concrete customer requirements regarding the form and content of future solution. Based on those requirements, conceptual design of the solution is made in chapter seven, which also includes the solution's increment delimitation. Chapter eight describes selected tools for the solution, and refines the design by more specific physical data model diagrams. Final solution is depicted and described in chapter nine. Finally, the thesis ends with chapter eleven, where all categories of marketing mix are designed, therefore there is a clear vision of how, and for how much would the product be offered and sold to the customer.

The submitted thesis deals with Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), particularly mediation activities. The aim of this thesis is to introduce mediation as an alternative method of conflict resolution, that is still relatively neglected in the Czech Republic, through a summary of theoretical knowledge in terms of its practical operation. Particular attention is paid to the recent regulation relating to mediation in civil matters and certain essential institutes that are affected by the new Mediation Act. The work is divided into five chapters. The first chapter defines the general concept of ADR and outlines the different types of ADR. The next part of the thesis presents in detail the mediation, a mediator and requirements for the performance of this function. There is also clearly described the course of mediation process. The third chapter deals with the regulation of mediation in the EU, which is the starting point for each national system. The fourth chapter is devoted to the regulation of mediation in the Czech Republic. It describes the situation that prevailed during the period without comprehensive regulation of mediation in civil matters, the legislative process of preparation and adoption of the Mediation Act, newly enshrined institutes and there is also a definition of the obstacles that could hinder penetration of mediation into wider practice. Finally, there is a comparison of the situation in the Czech Republic with the application of mediation activities in the USA and in some EU countries.

This thesis is focused od testing, test data, most frequent test data issues and solutions of these issues. The theoretical part of thesis explains testing, test data, test data management. This thesis focuses on categorizing of testing by type, class and a way of testing and cetgorizing test data. There are also introduced differences between manual and automating testing. The practical part of thesis introduces the survey questionnaire and realization of most frequent test data issues and solutions of these issues survey. In this part of thesis is survey description, goals formulation and evaluation od survey included. The contribution of this thesis is integrated view to testing, test data a their importance at whole testing domain and obstacles, which testing workers have to deal with. This thesis also contributes resume of test data issues solutions and ways to prevent or handle these test data issues.

The civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, which took place between 1992 and 1995, is perceived as the most tragic conflict in Europe since the Second World War. The process of postconflict reconstruction has been running there for 17 years and there have been numerous actors involved. But still, the process has not been finished. The diploma thesis deals with the question of the role played by particular involved actors in the process of postconflict reconstruction. In the first part of the thesis the theoretical framework of postconflict reconstruction is presented. In the second part the contemporary situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Dayton Peace Agreement are outlined. The third part fully focuses on the analysis of particular groups of actors. Three groups of actors are analysed: the international community, the local ruling elite and the international and local nongovernmental organisations. The aim of this work is to identify the objects of those actors in the process of postconflict reconstruction and consequently to evaluate their opportunities to achieve those goals. The SWOT analysis is applied to analyze the role of the actors.

For the centuries, the old Silk routes in hinterland Eurasia were connecting the Eastern and Western empires and served as a channel for exchange of goods and ideas between the two different worlds. Over the past decades, the international trade between Europe and Asia has rapidly increased and reflected more than 10 million TEU transported by container ships annually. As far as the silk, spice and other traditional goods have been gradually replaced by laptops, tablets and car components, the new transport solutions have been tested to meet the altering nature of logistic demands. Nowadays, the company DB Schenker Rail is the European leader in the rail freight market and needs to sustain the leading position. However, DB Schenker Rail attempts to be not only the best choice on European rail, but further with the first pioneer back and forth rail freight activities between Europe and Asia tries to capitalize on the new business opportunities. On that account the company has raised the question: What are the rail freight customer needs today and what he will need tomorrow in relation to the logistic processes between Europe and Asia? As a result, several customer tailored logistic solutions have been described to meet the altering nature of rail freight demands.