Projects
Current projects
EDUCating for Positive Management (EDUC Management)
Project period: 9/2020–8/2023
Digital revolution has led to a new universe empowering people through better information and more transparency. However, consumers remain in a position of “illusion of knowledge” and our consumption patterns are difficult to change even if we know that our current environmental impacts don’t meet the limits of the planet. This position implies the mainly development of communication strategies that are still coherent with current wealth indicators as GDP and contribute to mismatched solving the social and environmental challenges. For example, a lot of firms have the growth of product sales as an objective, even if we know that we have limited resources. We also need to change the management sciences teaching to better face environmental and social issues of the XXI century.
Digital revolution provides new tools that could help us to develop new business models, as a functional economy, which objective is to sell the use instead of the product. It will help the circular economy to be efficiently achieved.
The major objective is to improve the contents of fundamentals in management including social and environmental issues.
The research in Information System Business Value (IS BV) prevalently focuses on the relationship between IT investments and firm performance. However, only very few studies investigate how firm performance influence the decision about IT investments. We will use a complex mixed method research design which will result in an integrated closed-loop model of IS BV. More precisely, we will use the aspiration-performance gap theory to explain how and to what extent companies invest in IT assets and how these IT assets consequently create value through which the firm increases its performance. In order to meet the research objectives, we will use quantitative panel data analysis, longitudinal multiple-case study research, and confirmatory structural equation modelling.
Resource-efficient Circular Product-Service System(ReCiPSS)
Project period: 6/2018–5/2022
The project’s objective is to establish the first industry-driven large-scale demonstrators of circular manufacturing systems in two key industries with a strong potential for closing the loop: white goods and automotive spare parts. These demonstrators will demonstrate how the reuse, remanufacturing and recycling of discarded products, at the end of their first useful life, can create new value streams, reduce costs and build greater business resilience, with the goal to increase the amount of discarded products that are reused, remanufactured and/or recycled from 15% to 50%.
The project aims to contribute to the current knowledge of the level and nature of quality and knowledge management in companies which have a direct impact on the potential elimination and reduction of reverse flows through the implementation of feedback from consumers to the continuous improvement.
Vzdělávání 2.0 - Rozvoj klíčových kompetencí prostřednictvím podpory vzdělávání zaměřeného na cíl
Project period: 2016–2018
Cílem projektu je rozvoj kompetencí učitelů z fakult vzdělávající učitele a učitelů škol nižšího stupně vzdělání prostřednictvím podpory společenství praxe. Cílem je zlepšit kvalitu vzdělávání a výsledků žáků v klíčových kompetencích. Projekt je mimo jiné zaměřen na podporu společenství praxe pro rozvoj klíčových kompetencí, gramotností, průřezových témat a mezipředmětových vztahů v tématu sociální a občanské kompetence v ZŠ a SŠ napříč předměty. Cílem je propojení kateder.
In its work, the Institute builds on a number of earlier projects:
Reverse Flows Management as a Means of Value Creation
Project period: 2013–2015
The volume and importance of reverse flows (RF) has been constantly growing in many industries, which also increases the need for their effective management in terms of regaining values that RF contain. Therefore, it is important to find answers to complex questions of why, how, when and where RF occur, how they are managed within enterprises (or among enterprises), what influences the management as well as efficiency and effectiveness of performance management of RF, why the rate of interest in this issue is different in companies, and what are the manifestations of effective or ineffective RF-management. The objective of the research was to supplement the international professional discussion with knowledge of insufficiently explored topics, i.e. to deepen the knowledge of the existence of company management causal relationships, which affect the nature and especially the efficiency of the RF-management system; the objective also includes analysing the existing performance measurement and management systems of RF as well as exploring the specifics of RF-management in services.
Research of selected aspects of reverse flows management
Project period: 2013
Předložený výzkumný záměr měl za cíl prozkoumat a popsat část faktorů, které jsou příčinou stávající úrovně řízení zpětných toků v českých podnicích a které by dle teorie i zahraničních empirických poznatků mohly přispět ke zvýšení efektivity řízení zpětných toků tak, aby se zvýšila orientace tohoto systému na tvorbu dodatečné hodnoty, a vznikla tím v ideálním případě další podniková konkurenční výhoda.
The essence of the proposed project stems from the assumption that the corporate performance is influenced by joint (not particular) causation of more factors. Methods applied on these tasks nowadays (e. g. correlations, test of means or test of variance) simplify the reality excessively. They limit the number of examined variables (potential factors), require prior model included in the data or especially do not respect complex mutual relationships among the variables. The proposed project aims to find solution overcoming simplifications just stated. The project should result in theoretical and methodological development of advanced feature selection in statistical pattern recognition adapted for the corporate economics theory, leading to the implementation of a tool for recognizing the potential of companies to be high-performing and competitive.
Research Centre for the Competitiveness of the Czech Economy
Project period: 2005–2011
The Research Centre for the Competitiveness of the Czech Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Administration at Masaryk University is engaged in research into the component growth performance and stability, focusing on two principal areas. In the area of macroeconomics the section is concerned with identifying factors in economic growth, on both the supply and demand side. The growth in output is broken down into the contributions made by individual production factors. The effect of technological progress is analysed in terms of an international comparison. In respect of demand, the research focuses on macroeconomic figures influencing private consumption, disposable income, the level of household savings, consumer prices, etc. The analysis monitors the structure and dynamics of these figures in terms of an international comparison. The focus of this component lies in a study of monetary policy and its effect on a small, open, inflation-directed economy.