The chemical industry accounts for less than 1 % of the Czech Republic's industry, and this percentage has been decreasing due to the growth of other industries. Despite this, it has an important position, especially in terms of input producer for other areas of industry and agriculture. The percentage of employees and their wages in the chemical industry has been increasing recently. In the period of economic growth, the growth of the chemical industry has been recorded in all important indicators -value added, profit, sales and investment. Foreign trade in chemical products has a long-term negative balance in the Czech Republic. The article discusses the situation in the chemical industry of the Czech Republic over the last eight years from the economic point of view compared with the industry as a whole, the outputs of the financial analysis of the chemical industry compared with the manufacturing industry. There are also described the challenges and problems the chemical industry is currently facing. These include slowing economic growth, the emergence of new technologies known as Industry 4.0, the lack of workers in the labour market, the changing demands of workers and the increasing demands for accountability and sustainability of business activities.
The reasons leading companies to the servitization strategy have recently been supplemented with society-wide global trend of striving for sustainable development. To be successful on the current markets, companies invest into services to increase the added value for the customer, diversification, and new income; to ensure the lock-in effect; to use the opportunity to grow and environmental burden reduction. These targets can be achieved by implementation of a strategic approach to servitization. In this paper, a research hypothesis that the manufacturers' strategic approach to servitization has a significant potential to affect achievement of sustainable development in a positive way has been constructed and discussed. The paper outcomes were drawn up based on the analysis, comparison, and synthesis of the information obtained (i) from a targeted professional literature review (ii) from an outcomes of the conducted electronic questionnaire survey. The questionnaire identified the level of the currently provided services related to their products and their expectations concerning an increased interest in services by their management, their customers, and their competitors. The outcomes should then help to direct companies in the Czech Republic to more extensive application of the servitization business model as a strategy supporting sustainable development.
Chert, quartzite, and steatite source areas have been documented in the Upper Green River Basin of western Wyoming. Riparian processes and glacial action have transported materials and modified the distributions of some deposits, producing a range of primary (in situ geological strata) and secondary (re-deposited) source areas that were popular at different times. The results of characterization methods used to identify local and non-local (e.g., obsidian and ignimbrite) lithic raw materials in the region are summarized in order to discuss native mobility, exchange, social interaction, and resistance strategies to colonization.
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