The main goal of this diploma thesis is to map the development of China's competitiveness in the period from 1970's to the present and to outline the development of the economy in the next 2 decades. The simplified view of the Chinese competitiveness is used in the thesis, which means that we can identify 2 strategies aimed at the development of the Chinese competitiveness. The first chapter contains a definition of term competitiveness and introduces the way of its measurement. The first strategy was applied in China in the period 1978-2005 and is described in the 2nd, 3rd and the 4th chapter. The main goal of these 3 chapters is to describe the reforms adopted by the government and to evaluate the impacts of these reform measures on pillars of the Chinese competitiveness. The latest strategy is described in the last chapter and a special attention is paid to the reform measures aimed at boosting China's innovation performance.

The thesis deals with corporate social responsibility. The subject of investigation is the CSR strategy of the chosen company. The theoretical part describes the corporate social responsibility from a historical and a current perspective. Above all, the thesis puts emphasis on the social pillar, namely the activities of the company in relation to its stakeholders, particularly employees and volunteering. Volunteering is an important part of corporate social responsibility. The questionnaire and subsequently its statistical evaluation answers the question whether the students currently studying in two economic universities consider SAP as a responsible company and how they relate to volunteerism.

Today, globalization, new technologies and modernization bring a lot of negative influences on our environment and society we live in, compared to the positive effects they create. And that is the reason why so many companies are embarking on socially beneficial goals, rather than profit. The aim of the diploma thesis is to explore and evaluate a concept of corporate social responsibility at Rossmann. In the theoretical part of the thesis I familiarize the reader with corporate social responsibility, dealing with the main characteristics of the concept and actual situation in the Czech republic. The second chapter deals with the characteristics of Rossmann and its activities in the CSR field. The practical part consists of two parts. The first one focuses on internal and external analysis of the company`s environment with regards to CSR. The second practical part is concerned with the empirical research, that was realized by the questionnaire investigation. Following the gained knowledge I will answer the fundamental question: How is the corporate social responsibility part of the company strategy? I will propose measures that will lead to increasing awareness of CSR and the advantages that using CSR brings to the company more effectively.

The main addressed question of this thesis is whether international experiences indicate that private pension pillar contributes to the profitability and stability of pension system and economic development. Firstly, global private pension pillar is characterized. Its long term return is estimated from derived virtual portfolio. Following Aaron-Samuelson principle, it is calculated notional return of global public pension pillar. Comparing returns of both pillars, there is slightly higher return of private pension pillar, but considering variability, entailing risk, the public pension pillar becomes favorable. Moreover, combination of both pillar doesn't seem to be effective since both returns are well correlated. Next section of the thesis deals with economic effects of private pension pillar on labor market. Simple correlation doesn't proof a positive linking of private pension pillar's contribution magnitude and labor activity, expressed as an average annual working time of population in productivity age. Subsequent analysis of private pension pillar's outlook in selected countries illustrates unfulfilled expectations of participants in private pension pillars. Reflecting all particular findings, it wasn't confirmed that private pension pillars substantially contribute to profitability and stability of pension system and performance of economy.

My diploma dissertation concerns the theoretical introduction of the retirement system, economic theories and the cause of the retirement reform in the first part. The second part represents the analysis of so-called small retirement reform and is focused on the retirement system since the beginning in 2013 with the accent to newly established retirement saving. The aim of my diploma dissertation is the evaluation of the existing functioning of the second pillar and the reasons of the low interest of the inhabitants. The comparison with the chosen states where the retirement saving already operates is a part of the second pillar analysis. Slovakia and Hungary are the European representatives with the similar schema of the retirement system and Chilean system is based on the fund financing. The opinion of the population was checked with the questioning. The pivotal part of my diploma dissertation and its main goal is the analysis of the second pillar accession availability from the age, income, family situation, investment strategy point of view and other criteria. The strategy with the low earning is suitable for the higher incomes only as resulted from the calculation. The more aggressive investment strategy with higher earning is convenient for the younger people with lower income and the older the more suitable access contingent on the higher income. As there is no interest in the second pillar participation the goal of my diploma dissertation is the proposal of alternative methods as investment or saving products of the bank institution for the old age security.

Visegrád countries were forced to adopt a widespread pension reform due to demographic facts. This reform led to the creation of the 2nd pillar. This thesis deals with this new funded pillar, which should facilitate the financing of the PAYG system (1st pillar). Using comparative analysis I reveal why all of Visegrád countries reduce 2nd pillar after several years of its functioning. The most common reason for this reducing was an effort to improve the unsatisfactory situation of public finances. The abolition of 2nd pillar actually leads to a certain improvement of public debt and deficit, but this positive effect is only short-term. More specifically I focus on the arguments of the Government for the abolition of the funded pillar in the Czech Republic, which I consider largely baseless. I also discuss the possible impacts of the reducing of the 2nd pillar. Currently, the countries of V4 try to save their pension systems using the 3rd pillars, however the current form of this supplementary pillar cannot provide a sufficient financing of the PAYG system.

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The thesis External dimension of CSR social pillar in Škoda Auto: company's activities and local community deals with the company's activities, which have an impact on the community of Mladá Boleslav. Particular focus is given to external dimension of social pillar of CSR. However the other activities, which are not declared as part of CSR.but have some impact on the local community, are also described in the thesis. One of the main goals of the thesis is to find out how the local NGOs percieve these activities and if they are trying to actively influence the CSR strategy of the company. The research is based on contemporrary theories in CSR, moreover the concept of cross-sectoral partnership is used. The output of the thesis is the evaluation of external dimension of CSR social pillar in Škoda Auto and proposal of new strategy, based on the collaboration with the local stakeholders using the topics suitable to cross-sectoral partnership.

Pillar[n]arenes are a class of macrocycles with outstanding properties given by its electron rich and symmetric cavity, and facile functionalization that allows to tune its solubility and host-guest properties. In this work, the versatility of pillar[n]arenes for the design of porous materials is studied. Pillar[n]arenes are stable to guest removal, giving solvent-free phases and thus resulting in permanent porous structures. From simple ethyl pillar[5,6]arenes, nonporous adaptive crystals are obtained and studied for the recognition and separation of butanol isomers. The cavity size of the pillar[n]arene hosts and the linear or branched characteristic of the butanol isomers influences the assembly of the pillararene to selectively adsorb an isomer. Then, an A1/A2 benzaldehyde-functionalized pillar[5]arene is used as a building block for the synthesis of an imine porous organic cage, which would result in material with intrinsic and extrinsic porosity. Finally, a lipoic acid modified pillar[5]arene is implemented as ligand for nanoclusters, improving their stability. Taking advantage of the cavity of the pillar[5]arene, a host-guest complex is formed, enhancing the optical properties of nanoclusters.

In single storey industrial buildings, the most common material used for the load-bearingsystem is steel. The load bearing system can be designed in different ways. The two mostcommon load-bearing systems of steel industrial buildings are portal frame and thetruss/pillar-system. The benefit of using these systems is the possibility of having largespan structures. These systems have also a high load capacity in function of its weight.Geometrical parameters like width, height, length, and roof slope of the building effectsthe design and the selection of which load-bearing system will be more suitable.The purpose of this thesis is to compare the two systems in terms of weight of steel, priceand global warming potential (GWP) and to see how the load-bearing systems differ. Tofulfil the purpose, it is necessary to find the geometrical parameters to design an optimalportal frame system and use the same parameters in order to design the truss/pillarsystem. By using the same geometrical parameters, the two systems can be comparable.The results of this thesis show that the truss/pillar system has less weight, lower price andlower global warming potential than the portal frame.As conclusions of this parametrical study, it was seen that the truss/pillar system isperforming better than the portal frame system. In general, it is not possible to say that thetruss/pillar-system is better. This is because this thesis work did not consider amongstithers the bracing system, foundation, connections, mounting or fabrication. But it ispossible to say that the differences between the two systems are not major.