SVKPHDA Businesses in Economic History of Czechoslowakia and of the Czech Republic

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Summer 2008
Extent and Intensity
12/0/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lubomír Nenička, Ph.D.
Departament of Economics and Public Administration – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The intention of the course is to present to the students the positive and negative experience from the history of business activities analyzed in wide context of economic, social and historical development, with a special view to the period of the 1st Republic, 1918-1938. The course shall explain forms and results of business activities in various branches and present the most important Czechoslowak business enterprises and their major representatives. The commentary shall also target on the basic features of development of the centrally-managed economy after the Second World War and adumbrate the basic features of the economic transformation after the year 1989.
Syllabus
  • 1. Business as a way to economic self-fulfillment and their development under the conditions of Czech State after the year 1918.
    2. Freedom of trade and rules of economic competition during the interwar period.
    3. Status of banks in business activities during the period of the 1st Republic.
    4. Industrial enterprises and crafts during the years 1918-1938.
    5. Business activities during the interwar period.
    6. Public ownership during the period of the 1st Republic.
    7. The most considerable Czech businessmen in the interwar period.
    8. Business cycles of the Czechoslovak economics during the interwar period.
    9. Business activities under the conditions of Nazi occupation regime.
    10. Interferences of the state power into the economic and market mechanisms.
    11. The beginnings of centralized command economy after February 1948 and dissolution of private businesses.
    12. Reformation of the economy from the 2nd half of the 60s and return to centrally-managed economy during the forthcoming decades.
    13. Basic trends of free market economy development after the year 1989.
Literature
    required literature
  • STEINER, J., KROL, J. Kapitoly z hospodářských a sociálních dějin Československa 1918-1989. Karviná: OPF SU, 1997. ISBN 80-85879-80-8. info
  • STEINER, J., GERŠLOVÁ, J. Kapitoly z dějin podnikání v Československu, I. období do roku 1938. Karviná: OPF SU, 1995. ISBN 80-85879-80-8. info
  • GERŠLOVÁ, J. Kapitoly z dějin podnikání v Československu, II. období po roce 1945. Karviná: OPF SU, 1995. ISBN 80-85879-06-9. info
    recommended literature
  • STARZYCZNÁ, H., STEINER, J. Průmyslové podniky v Československu v letech 1945-1989. In Sborník výzkumných prací Ústavu malého a středního podnikání. Díl 3. Karviná: OPF SU. ISBN 80-7248-035-9. info
  • PRŮCHA, V. A KOL. Hospodářské a sociální dějiny Československa 1918-1992: I. díl období 1918-1945. Brno, 2004. ISBN 80-7239-147-X. info
  • STARZYCZNÁ, H., STEINER, J. Maloobchod v českých zemích v proměnách let 1918-2000. Karviná: OPF SU, 2000. ISBN 80-7248-084-. info
  • LACINA, V. Zlatá léta československého hospodářství (1918-1929). Praha: Historický ústav AV ČR, 2000. ISBN 80-7286-000-3. info
  • SEKANINA, M., GERŠLOVÁ, J. Zrození nové doby. Stručné hospodářské dějiny českých zemí (od poloviny 19. století do konce 80. let 20. století). Ostrava-Valašské Meziříčí: VŠB TU, 1999. ISBN 80-7078-729-5. info
  • FALTUS, J., PRŮCHA, V. Všeobecné hospodářské dějiny 19. a 20. století. Praha, VŠE, 1996. ISBN 807079-931-5. info
  • GERŠLOVÁ, J. Podnikatelské osobnosti 19. a první poloviny 20. století. OPF SU, 1994. ISBN 80-85879-01-8. info
  • STEINER, J. Hospodářský vývoj českých zemí 1780-1945, sv. II. Opava, 1991. info
  • LACINA, V. Formování československé ekonomiky. Praha: Academia, 1990. ISBN 80-200-0199-9. info
Language of instruction
English
Further Comments
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
Seminar work with presentation, the final examination: oral. Condition of the approach to the examination is 70 % presence on seminars.
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2007, Winter 2008, Summer 2009.
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