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Volume 5 (2014): Issue 2 (June 2014)

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Volume 5 (2014): Issue 2 (June 2014)

Judges as Fiscal Activists: Can Constitutional Review Shape Public Finance?

Jarosław Kantorowicz
The judicialization of politics, or alternatively, politization of the judiciary has been much discussed over the last twenty years. Despite this, the way judges influence fiscal policy outcomes remains, to a large extent, unexplored. This paper attempts, at least partially, to fill this research gap. A judicial (constitutional) review constitutes...
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Volume 5 (2014): Issue 2 (June 2014)

Challenges to Professional Football Companies and their Answers with Particular Regard to Organisational Changes

Éva Bába Ms Bács
Professional football has been going through a period of unprecedented economic growth since the ’90s. Football ventures are increasingly becoming medium-sized companies. There have also been organizational changes, reflected in changes in the legal forms of professional football clubs, and in the use of modern controlling, planning, risk and...
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Volume 5 (2014): Issue 2 (June 2014)

Socially Marginalized Environments, Unemployment and Media

Oto Moravčík, Jarmila Vidová
In any society, regardless of its homogeneity and heterogeneity, there are minority groups, or those that require special attention and treatment because of their social and cultural characteristics, physical appearance, or because they have a lifestyle which differs from the dominant group and this causes them to be allocated the social status of...
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Volume 5 (2014): Issue 2 (June 2014)

Development of Concepts and Models of Performance Evaluation from the 19th Century to the Present

Jana Hornungová
The main aim of this paper is to provide a framework of concepts and models from the area of performance measurement. Due to the fact that the business environment is con-stantly changing, changes also occur in the trends relating to performance. Traditional financial performance measures have been highly criticized and the need identified to...
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