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Concept of Corporate Social Responsibility requires balanced consideration of environmental, economic, ethic, philanthropic and social issues. The companies’ effort to present relevant responsible activities can be considered as ones of the most meaningful reporting goal with strong impacts on important stakeholders as well as on the broad society. Presentation of economic and environmental information via regular reports and static companies’ web pages can be considered as a common company practice, but social, p...

Small and medium sized companies (SMEs) play a vital role in the securing and building a sustainable and responsible business environment of a particular region. SMEs approach to the surroundings may be based on completely different activities than large enterprises apply. The paper aims to evaluate the possibilities of implementation of social responsible activities in a selected Czech SME. In an effort to increase the continued low level of ethical character of the Czech business environment, it is SMEs that can...

This paper deals with the concept of the social area of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Directed interviews conducted in a few large chemical enterprises in the Czech Republic discovered an interesting fact concerning perception of social activities within corporate social responsibility. What is surprising is the fact how often statutory employee care is confused or identified with above-standard care in corporate practice. It is also obvious that employees take a number of above-standard employee benefits...

This paper deals with proposing and implementation of a localization model as the basis for making corporate decisions if and where to build a new warehouse for reverse flows of dangerous waste intended for further reprocessing and returning back to production through the central warehouse of the company. The issue is to add a new warehouse to the existing network of already established regional warehouses to optimize the transport costs and to enhance services provided to the given part of the market. A suitable ...

The paper focuses on inventory management in a distribution company, particularly on modeling and optimizing stock level of purchased and sold goods. Inventory theory consists of different optimization models, however, it turned out that their application in specific situations is not simple and needs to be more or less modified. The paper presents new designed inventory optimization model that modifies theoretical models. The goal of the paper is first to present the modified inventory optimizing model and second...