Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis, 2022 (vol. 25), issue 1
Business ethics as a lever of development in business administration and management
Ioannis Koukoumpliakos, Petr Řehoř
Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2022, 25(1):1-6 | DOI: 10.32725/acta.2022.0031050 
The purpose of this article is to highlight, present and evaluate business ethics practices. A separate purpose of the article is to submit proposals for improving corporate ethics. The methodological tool used is based on bibliographic research, text analysis and secondary sources. The research question concerns business ethics and whether it contributes to the development of companies and the better management of business human resources. We will assume that business ethics helps significantly in the development of businesses and the fuller utilization of human resources and we will try to verify this hypothesis. The expected results of the investigation...
Revisiting the Relationship between Corporate Governance and Firm performance: Evidence from British Manufacturing Firms
Sameer Al Johani, Adnan Atm
Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2022, 25(1):7-32 | DOI: 10.32725/acta.2022.0021837
This research looked at the link between corporate governance (CG) proxies and corporate financial performance (CFP) in the post financial crisis period for FTSE 350 enlisted firms while also revisiting the relevance of the agency theory to corporate governance mechanisms in the United Kingdom. OLS regression, Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) and Hausman test were applied to panel dataset of 230 FTSE 350 UK manufacturing firms over the period 2014-2018. The findings reveals that, with the exception of CEO duality and Firms growth where the Tobin's Q and Return on Asset (ROA) were the dependent variables respectively, other corporate governance...
Economocracy versus capitalism
Constantinos Challoumis
Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2022, 25(1):33-54 | DOI: 10.32725/acta.2022.0011037
This work is an analysis of the Economocracy and Representative Economocracy. A reformed economic system is required for the transformation of global grown debt to sustainable levels. The challenge to avoid economic worldwide deadlock yields the emerging need for economocracy as a premium democracy, serving with that way social stability. The economic system of Economocracy is based on the free market but simultaneously faces all disturbances from wars, depressions, economic crises, and interest rates. Economocracy is the proportional system of Democracy in a political view, in the case of the economy. It is the only economic system that supports pure...