L10 - Market Structure, Firm Strategy, and Market Performance: GeneralReturn

This article deals with business performance. The aim of this article is to identify performance factors, ie. factors that should have an impact on performance in long-term horizon, analyze these factors and their relationships, and based on this analysis to create a complex model of business performance. First sub-goal is to identify internal factors affecting the performance of companies in the new economy and next sub-goal is to verify the influence of the potential factors of performance on the business performance in terms of both market and financial performance in the manufacturing companies in the Czech Republic. It means to confirm or refute the findings on the impact of these factors on business performance of the companies in the Czech Republic. The article examines the importance of quality, human capital, customer capital and information technology on business performance through a questionnaire survey and the use of statistical methods.

The paper is concerned with the economic theory of George Stigler. First part outlines the life of George Stigler. Second part examines his dissertation "Production and Distribution Theories" (1941). Third part discusses his textbook "The Theory of Price" (1946). Forth part is devoted to his "Essays in the History of Economics" (1965). Fifth part analyzes the work "The Organization of Industry" (1968). Sixth part explains "The Theory of Economic Regulation" (1971). Seventh part discusses Stigler's book "The Citizen and the State" (1975). Eighth part presents his autobiography "Memoirs of an Unregulated Economist" (1988). Stigler has become famous thanks to articles "Economics of Information" (1961) and "Theory of Economic Regulation" (1971), which says that interest groups and other political participants will use the regulatory and coercive powers of government to shape laws and regulations in a way that is beneficial to them.

This article is oriented on the analyses of the development of the mergers and acquisition process. The author shows the main reason and motivations of expansion MA and its influence on the globalization of the world economy. This activity is (in the time and the territory) very different and heterogeneous. The leading players of his process are the multinational corporations, however, the value of deals of SME's is going up, too. In the last years these activities concern to the change of strategy of MNC's, first of all to the supporting of cooperation among them. The latest period is under the increasing pressure of the development of the international production sharing and production cooperation. The final result of this process is creating to a new sharing of the economic power in the worldvide framework, as a whole and influencing all regions, the emerging markets not shows off.