EVSPPHD Entrepreneurship in Economic History of Czechoslovakia and Czech Republic

School of Business Administration in Karvina
Winter 2016
Extent and Intensity
2/1/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Lubomír Nenička, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Mgr. Lubomír Nenička, Ph.D. (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
Mgr. Lubomír Nenička, Ph.D.
Departament of Economics and Public Administration – School of Business Administration in Karvina
Contact Person: Dr. Ing. Ingrid Majerová
Prerequisites
None.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
Course aim is to provide students positive and negative experience of business history of economic, social and political development with an emphasis on period of the First Republic 1918-1938. The course shows business results by sectors and presents the most significant Czechoslovak enterprises and its main representatives. It also includes basic features of centrally planned economies development after Second World War, and outlined basic features of economic transformation after 1989.
Syllabus
  • 1. Business as a form of economic human self-realization and his development in terms of Czechoslovakia after 1918
    2. Free enterprise and competition rules in the interwar period
    3. The role of banks in the business of the First Republic
    4. Industrial enterprises and craft production in 1918-1938
    5. Commercial business in the interwar period
    6. State-owned enterprises in the First Republic
    7. The most significant Czech entrepreneurs in the era of the First Republic
    8. Economic cycles of Czechoslovak economy in the interwar period
    9. Business in conditions of the Nazi occupation regime
    10. Power intervention into Czechoslovak economy and market mechanism 1945-1948
    11. Start of five-year plans and the destruction of private enterprise
    12. Economic reforms of the second half of the 60th years and a return to the centrally planned economy in the coming decades
    13. Basic development trends of market economy in 1989
Literature
    required literature
  • TEICHOVÁ, A. Czechoslovak Economy 1918-1980. New York-London, 2010. ISBN 0415609461. info
  • 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, 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. Opava, 1991. info
  • LACINA, V. Formování československé ekonomiky. Praha: Academia, 1990. ISBN 80-200-0199-9. info
Teaching methods
Skills demonstration
Seminar classes
Assessment methods
Test
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
Teacher's information
attendance in seminars 70 %, seminar paper, defence of seminar paper, final exam
The course is also listed under the following terms Winter 2014, Summer 2015, Winter 2015, Summer 2016, Summer 2017, Winter 2017, Summer 2018, Winter 2018, Summer 2019.
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