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Applications for English-taught Programmes for Academic Year 2026/27 Are Open!

Starting November 1st, 2025, you may submit your e-application to English taught bachelor and master study programmes offered at the Faculty of Business Administration. You may choose from two bachelor and three master programmes: Bachelor of Business Administration Economics of Markets and Organizations Master in International Management/CEMS Master in Management Master in Sustainability Management We wish you […]

Applications for English-taught Programmes for Academic Year 2026/27 Are Open!

Doctor of Business Administration application deadline /30.11. 2025/

If you are a manager or a professional with several years of experience, interested in developing your knowledge and applying it to business practice, you may be interested in our DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) Program. The application deadline for the DBA program is on November  30, 2025 (start of studies: February 2026). The DBA is a […]

Doctor of Business Administration application deadline /30.11. 2025/

Management Summary Research Study „Factors influencing the perception of transactions as gifts or bribes in an online vignette experiment“

The study examined how people decide whether a transaction—such as giving money or a gift—is perceived as a genuine gesture of appreciation or as a bribe. Participants evaluated scenarios varying in relationship type, gift value, and form of transfer. Findings show that high-value, monetary gifts between people in strictly professional relationships are most often seen […]

Management Summary Research Study „Factors influencing the perception of transactions as gifts or bribes in an online vignette experiment“

Management Summary Research Study “Culture-bound heuristics”

This paper argues that culture fundamentally shapes decision processes (heuristics) and how well they work (rationality, biases), and that the importance of culture has been underappreciated because of research norms that remove it from consideration. It first discusses content- and context-impoverished norms in how judgments and decisions have been modeled, along with criticisms of those […]

Management Summary Research Study “Culture-bound heuristics”

Management Summary Research Study “A heuristic based on transparently false likelihoods improves gamblers’ expected value in the wild”

Casino blackjack players learn a simple heuristic that helps them decide when to take additional cards. The heuristic assumes that all upcoming cards will be 10-value cards, even though that assumption is true fewer than one in three times. The heuristic results in systematic error, but it is also adaptive: it is easier to learn […]

Management Summary Research Study “A heuristic based on transparently false likelihoods improves gamblers’ expected value in the wild”

Management Summary Research Study „Consumer confidence: economic fundamentals and noise, or more than that? A case of EU countries“

This paper contributes to the discussion about the nature of the variability of consumer confidence that is unexplained by economic variables. This unexplained part of consumer confidence is understood as either a reflection of animal spirits or a mere result of changing expectations. In either case, the interpretation assumes that it reflects irrationality on the […]

Management Summary Research Study „Consumer confidence: economic fundamentals and noise, or more than that? A case of EU countries“

Management Summary Research Study „Delving into the interplay among market-driving strategy, dynamic capabilities, transformational leadership, and firm performance“

The current research’s objective is to explore the interplay among market-driving strategy (MDS), dynamic capabilities (DCs), transformational leadership (TL), and their impact on firm performance. The study adopts a quantitative methodology (online survey with 300 firms from the technological sector). Findings show strong positive influences of MDS on DCs, TL, and firm performance. Furthermore, DCs […]

Management Summary Research Study „Delving into the interplay among market-driving strategy, dynamic capabilities, transformational leadership, and firm performance“

Management Summary Research Study „‘Each to one’s own‘: Albín Bráf’s Czech school of national economy”

This paper explores the development of Czech economic thought within the context of the nineteenth-century Czech National Revival. Influenced by Classical Political Economy, the German Historical School, and Austrian economics, Czech economists faced the challenge of advancing economic development for a nation without a state. Key issues included lending difficulties, a lack of entrepreneurship, and […]

Management Summary Research Study „‘Each to one’s own‘: Albín Bráf’s Czech school of national economy”