My diploma thesis is about social entrepreneurship in the banking sector. The thesis has two parts - theoretical and practical. In the theoretical part I examine the social entrepreneurship in general, i.e meaning of altruism in entrepreneurship. The ambit of my interest is interesting also because for-profit and non-for-profit organizations operate or operated on the same market. The practical part contains several case studies of "social banking" institutions. Concretely, I chose charitable banks in Italy and Spain emerging in 15th century, furthermore kampeličky and Raiffeisen cooperatives, microcredit and P-to-P lending. I try to answer the question whether the "social banking" is a meaningful concept and whether we can find in history some development leading to the current form of microcredit.

Zugl.: München, Univ., Diss., 2007

Diss. Stockholm : Handelshögskolan i Stockholm, 2008.

Zugl.: Regensburg, Universiẗat, Diss., 2009.

My intention about diploma thesis is to focus on the Czech workers from the Czech organization People in Need (PIN), who are fully involved in participating in the mission in Ethiopia or whom were given the possibility to join the working team of PIN in Ethiopia. I focused on the non-governmental organization People in Need, because it belongs to the biggest NGO in the Czech Republic and has the stable mission in Ethiopia. My intension is to analyze Czech workers of PIN, who are working on the mission in Ethiopia and who spent a longer period (at least 12 months) working in Ethiopia. My research questions are focused on obstacles of these workers in the sense of integration to different culture such as Ethiopia, transnational practices and the level of connectedness to the World, society and country of origin etc. For the theory framework, I have chosen the theory of transnationalism.

This work is focusing on questions of for-social behavior and altruism of nurses. For-social behavior is an important social phenomenon, such an antipole of non-provoked agresivity and probably of all other bad behavior (asocial, antisocial) . It is such behavior that keeps social bindings and that makes us closer one another. For-social behavior is characterized by acts done in favor of others without expectation of reward (financial, material) or social approval. In the first part of the diploma paper, there is outlined question of for-social behavior at theoretical level. Here is defined the term of for-social behavior, altruism, empathy with effort to answer the question why we help others, under what conditions, circumstances and to whom. The intention of this work consists in exploration-description of for-social behavior of nurses. The work deals with scale of empathy, altruism and affiliation of nurses in comparison with women non-working in helping professions. Furthermore, there is investigated the ability of nurses to cope with stress and that is measured by means of optimism scale. I did four hypotheses, all of which proved to be right. I used a method of questionnaire in terms of quantified research. Each hypothesis was based on its own separate questionnaire in question form. It was 200 question forms in total, 100 forms for nurses and the same for women non-working in helping professions as a control group. 174 filled forms were given back. The basic group was formed by 88 nurses and the control group by 86 non-nurses. The outcome of questionnaire research is that nurses show higher measure of empathy, altruism and affiliation than women non-working in helping professions. The nurses were also proved to be less adaptable to stress than non-nurses.

This thesis deals with the differences in the degree of altruism between men and women, with varying degrees of information. In three rounds of the dictator game experiment, the dictators decided how to redistribute the money between themselves and the recipient. The differences in altruism among the sexes were already dealt with, for example in the works by Andreoni, Vesterlund (2001), Dufwenberg, Muren (2004) or Eckel, Grossman (1998), whose experiments served to inspire the creation of the experimentation in this work. However, the differences in behaviour of men and women in all the observed rounds proved to be statictically insignificant, in this work. The results of this work do not support the hypothesis of a higher degree of altruism in the situation when the dictator has the information about the sex of the recipient, compared to the situation where he does not have it. Male dictators, as well as female ones, behaved equally altruistically to female and male and anonymous recipients.

The diploma thesis analyzes market in human reproductive cells - men's sperms and women's eggs for use in assisted reproduction. The topic of this diploma thesis arises from the increasing infertility and urgency of the assisted reproduction in the modern society. This paper is divided in two parts. The first part of this paper describes a historical development of assisted reproduction and than economic theory that is applicable to the human reproductive cells market namely the theory of the prohibition and the theory of the price regulation. Second part analyzes three different reproductive cells markets -- American, British and Czech market. Second part also discus arguments and criticism of the free human organ markets included human reproductive cells market. This paper brings integrated summary based on arguments evaluating free trade with human sperms and eggs.

The objective of this theses is to explore the development of gift-giving in Czech Republic after the velvet revolution in 1989. First part of the theses deals with the theoretical basis of altruism and philanthropy. The gift-giving explored in the theses is viewed as a specific case when the beneficient does not know the beneficiary. This specific case is then discussed with the theoretical aspect of altruism and philanthropy. Further on the civil society and its connection to the gift-giving is observed and the role of the foundations in czech society reflected. The analysis of the gift-giving is provided in the second part of the theses, based on the financial history of four czech foundations. A clear cut trend is not obvious, thus some other aspects coming out of the analysis are accented.

This thesis describes the situation on the human organ black market. It is aimed at countries that are most affected by this phenomenon, despite the illegality of the entire process in these countries. The aim of this thesis is the analysis of the market, identification of groups of people affected by this phenomenon and analyze global legalization of financial compensation. The theoretical part describes the areas of the world where this market is the most developed. Thesis summarizes the situation in India, Pakistan and also analyzes the current Iranian and Australian system of financial compensation. Impacts of selling organs to poor donors are analyzed from the perspective of economic and psychological, emotional and social impacts. Organ sales paradoxically lead to a large proportion of cases the overall deterioration donors from all these perspectives. The practical part is focused on the economic situation description of the human organ market and for its amendment in the event of the introduction of financial compensation. The financial compensation provided for lost wages during surgery and undergoing medical risk is a possible way to increase the supply of donors in developed countries. In this thesis are used the individual examples and data which are collected from a small number of respondents (because of the difficulty in acquiring data due to the illegality of the process). There are used data published by the World Health Organization, The World Bank and also data from surveys directly collected from places that are affected by this issue.