The paper provides a general approach to explore the suitability of business excellence models (BEMs) to include corporate sustainability (CS) and on examples of awarded organizations in national quality awards (NQAs) found the synergic approach in deploying issues of BEMs and sustainability. The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of the BEMs approach in the Czech Republic and found the relevance with the issues of corporate sustainability. As an example was involved the Czech organizations awarded in NQAs in the area of excellence and sustainability in 2016. Based on a reflection of the current situation, there is a clear lack of organizations' approach to principles or strategic management tools that are suitable for implementation to enhance organization excellence including corporate sustainability. Then, an analysis is deployed in order to identify common synergy between BEMs and issues of corporate sustainability. This study is based on information gathered through an extensive literature review using print media and research databases like Emerald, EBSCO, Pro-Quest and we also employed the available sustainable reporting for awarded companies. The study is expected to help in reviewing national business excellence strategies and overview of the collected samples of organizations may help other entities to effectively process reports to use of the synergy of the criteria of the BEMs and corporate sustainability within the relevant NQAs or to target on appropriate stakeholders.
Business excellence develops and strengthens the management systems and processes of an organization to improve performance and create value for stakeholders. Business excellence models frameworks can help to an organization to focus thought and action in a more systematic and structured way leads to increased performance. The paper focuses on the business strategy of Czech enterprises in the context of business excellence models. The objective of the paper is to identify the relationship between business strategy and international performance of Czech enterprises. The enterprises included in the study are 490 enterprises established in the Czech Republic. The primary data collection method was a questionnaire-interview. The results demonstrate that the business knowledge of managers and company resources significantly correspond with the business strategy of Czech enterprises on international markets.
Although the Czech Republic ranks among the most industrialized countries in Europe, it is not prepared for the coming of technological changes. For a country to take advantage of emerging technologies and the GDP growth and jobs they bring, it must be highly digitalized. Therefore, the chapter is intended to provide the Czech Republic Industry 4.0 approach with the latest issues to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The chapter aims not only to point out possible directions of development, to define proposals for measures that can support the economy and industrial base, but also to help prepare the stakeholders from the public and private sector for technological change. This chapter is based on information gathered through extensive documents using print media and research databases of European Commission focused on digital economy and society, and we also employed the available Digital Transformation Scoreboard, Digital Transformation Monitor, Europe's digital Progress Report, Digital Index of Roland Berger, and Czech strategic digital transformation documents to systematize a research agenda of Industry 4.0. The chapter is expected to help in reviewing national digital performance strategies, and an overview of the collected outputs may help other entities to the process digitizing a society efficiently.
The main goal of the paper is to focus on relationship between business cycle under regional entrepreneurial culture. Many of the trends found were less than positive, although there were some new positive trends that could be identifi ed as a source of sustainability in the area of the connection between the sector of small and medium sized enterprises and the local entrepreneurship environment as well as a source of entrepreneurial culture. Moreover, the frequency of co-operational activities with local government was investigated. Questionnaire-based research was undertaken within 194 organizations of various legal forms operating in the area of the Moravian-Silesian Region. The main factors, which had an infl uence on their current business stage (49.5% in the growth stage, 9.8% in stagnation, 31.96% in decline and the other 0.52% in crisis), were the locality in the region, the quality of the labour force, cooperation with local public bodies and the business relationships between suppliers. Finally, we have defi ned the current stage of the entrepreneurial culture as the "Sandbox".
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