Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis, 2020 (vol. 23), issue 1
Corporate Social Responsibility as a Source of Employees' Job Satisfaction in the Hospitality Industry
Petra Jarkovská
Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2020, 23(1):1-12 | DOI: 10.2478/acta-2020-00011017 
The hospitality industry has been continuously struggling with high employee turnover and a significant "within" and "out of industry" labour mobility, regardless of the phase of the business cycle, time or geographical region. Additionally, as in any other service industry, employees' performance is frequently the only way how to differentiate among otherwise almost identical outputs and the only way how to build and attain customers' satisfaction, trust, and loyalty. Thus, employees' motivation plays a significant role in stipulating hospitality industry employees' work performance, where job satisfaction (JS) often plays a mediating role between...
Influence of Russian Sanctions on Agricultural Trade between Russia and the European Union
Stanislava Kontsevaya, Luboš Smutka
Acta Univ. Bohem. Merid. 2020, 23(1):13-26 | DOI: 10.2478/acta-2020-00021146
The European Union is Russia's largest agricultural trading partner, and this cooperation has a long history. The imposition of sanctions on certain product groups in 2014 significantly affected trading relations. A gravity model helps us to understand and evaluate the characteristics of agricultural trade between countries. The aim of the research is to compare the agricultural trade flow between Russia and the European Union for the period 2000-2017, find some regularity, and estimate the influence of Russian sanctions using regression models for each European country and for particular types of agricultural products. The dataset sample consists...