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    Impact of Digitalisation on Companies' Performance During COVID-19
    (Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, 2024-06-30) Talíř, Milan; Chytilová, Ekaterina
    The main objective of this paper is to investigate how different digitalisation measures have affected business performance in Czech companies during the pandemic. A questionnaire survey of Czech companies from various business sectors was used for data collection. The sample was defined randomly based on voluntary completion. For testing the hypotheses, the instruments used were one-factor ANOVA, Pearson Chi-square test. The study determines the digitalisation measures used and the change in the level of digitalisation of business processes. It provides an overview of the short-term impact of the measures on business performance. It confirmed the link between the growth in the level of digitalisation of external communication and the business sector (for industrial enterprises). Confirmed the association between the digitalisation of product offerings and service measures) and the level of digitalisation of marketing, the level of the website, the education and training of staff (measures), and the level of external communication. The association between the measures taken and the enterprise's financial situation during the pandemic was not confirmed. The results are limited to the Czech environment and the pandemic period. Due to how the sample is defined, insights regarding the wholesale and retail sectors are inconclusive. The study does not take into account long-term follow-up of changes.
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    Assessment of Cybersecurity in Organizations: An Empirical Study of Czech and Slovak Organizations
    (Institute of Eastern Europe and Central Asia, 2024-06-05) Petrová, Kateřina; Špatenka, Jan; Václavík, Lukáš
    The purpose of this research is to evaluate how companies approach cybersecurity, which measures the companies set, and how it is reflected in relation to organizational learning. A questionnaire was distributed electronically among 124 IT and IS professionals working in companies based in the Czech and Slovak Republic. Hypotheses were tested using the chi-square test of independence, the Mann–Whitney U test, and the Pearson correlation coefficient. The results depict that cybersecurity is a fundamental topic for most companies. Unless companies declare the importance of cybersecurity, they do not tend to set and use security rules unless they are not under security laws. Research shows that costs for cybersecurity are variable, not fixed, and are in correlation with the size of the company and the turnover.
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    Impact of digital procurement on economic resilience of enterprises during COVID-19
    (Centre of Sociological Research, 2024-05-03) Chytilová, Ekaterina; Talíř, Milan; Straková, Jarmila; Dobrovič, Ján
    The main objective of this paper was to determine whether digital procurement positively affected the economic resilience of firms in the manufacturing industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, qualitative research was conducted in Czech industrial enterprises by means of a questionnaire survey in 2021. Based on the research question, 3 hypotheses were formed, which focused on the impact that investing in digital procurement had on the economic resilience of enterprises in selected industries. The parametric two sample one-factor ANOVA and Pearson's Chi-squared test were used to test the hypotheses. The findings rejected the association between investment in digital procurement and the economic performance of the firm during the pandemic. They also failed to confirm the association between digital purchasing and economic resilience of businesses during the pandemic. Another important result was also that digitization of purchasing did not have a greater impact on the economic resilience of firms in the manufacturing industry compared to firms in the construction and agriculture sectors. The research results can be practically implemented in determining the expected benefits of digitizing procurement. The research implications are limited by the fact that it only investigates companies from the manufacturing industry in the Czech Republic and focuses exclusively on the period of the COVID-19 pandemic. © 2024, Centre of Sociological Research. All rights reserved.
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    The use of products with a monitoring system for remote bee detection in beekeeping in Czechia
    (Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 2024-03-30) Kaňovská, Lucie
    The use of modern technology is becoming part of both industry and agriculture. These technologies can also be used in beekeeping, where they can help to monitor the operation of the hive remotely. Beekeepers can remotely monitor the weight of their hives, their temperature, humidity, and other parameters. The aim of this paper is to map the beekeepers in the use of products with monitoring system for remote bee detection in beekeeping in Czechia. To map the issue, qualitative research using semi-structured interviews was conducted with beekeepers, manufacturers/providers of smart devices in beekeeping, and other entities involved in beekeeping. The findings showed that the interest of manufacturers and sellers to offer these smart devices is significant, but the interest of beekeepers is rather less, due to e.g., the purchase price, weaker IT knowledge, traditional beekeeping practices, higher age of beekeepers and the joy of being personally with bees. The novelty of the paper is not to look at the provision of ICT in beekeeping from a technical perspective, but from the perspective of users (beekeepers) and manufacturers of these technologies. Through interviews with beekeepers as well as others in the apiculture sphere, a comprehensive view of the issue is developed. Moreover, this is the first piece of research on this area in Czechia.
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    The Relationship Between Digital Performance and Production of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in EU Countries: Correlation Analysis and ANOVA Method
    (Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 2023-03-30) Hornungová, Jana; Petrová, Kateřina
    Agricultural activities produce the significant amounts of greenhouse gas emission. The importance of an ever-changing climate means that digital technologies and their environmental impact are more frequently discussed in the context of the 5th Industrial Revolution. It is important to minimize environmental threats and reduce production waste on the way to a sustainable path. The main scientific aim of the paper is to examine, based on correlation analysis and ANOVA method, the relationship between two variables, digital performance of individual EU countries expressed by the indicator Digital Economy and Society Index and production of Greenhouse Gas Emissions, specifically how digital technologies affect the environment and how to transform digital technologies to supporting the European Green Deal and accelerate sustainable growth. The reasons are that digital technologies can play an important role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. According to the results, it has been proven that exists a positive correlation between two variables regarding as a weak correlation between DESI and GHG emissions. Analysis of variance indicates the highly significant differences between variables. Countries with the higher DESI index produce more Greenhouse gas emissions as well but in a weak manner.