European Journal of Business Science and Technology, 2020 (vol. 6), issue 2
The Role of Computer Skills on the Occupation Level
Brian Fabo, Martin Kahanec
European Journal of Business Science and Technology 2020, 6(2):87-99 | DOI: 10.11118/ejobsat.2020.006 
This paper explores the question of computer skills applicability on individual occupation level in the Netherlands using two web-based data sources: the WageIndicator online survey and job vacancies posted online. The aim of this study is to explore these innovative data sources and compare the information obtained from them with the computer skill requirements inferred from the ISCO occupation classifications. Using the WageIndicator survey, we found a very high incidence of computer use reported by the holders of nearly all office occupations and a substantial degree of computer use by the holders of skilled manual occupations. With a partial exception of...
Institutional Quality and Income Inequality: Evidence from Post-Soviet Countries
Radek Náplava
European Journal of Business Science and Technology 2020, 6(2):100-112 | DOI: 10.11118/ejobsat.2020.007
This paper focuses on identifying the relationship between institutional quality and income inequality in chosen post-Soviet countries during the period 2002–2017. Using panel analysis is found a nonmonotonic relationship between institutional quality and income inequality. Increasing institutional quality is associated with growing income inequality, but only to a certain extent; from a certain level, higher institutional quality leads to a reduction in income inequality. The growing institutional quality leads to a deepening of income inequality between the richest social class compared to the poorest and middle class. Role in this process...
Measuring the Public Perception of the European Integration Process: Evidence from the United Kingdom and Germany
Daniel Pastorek
European Journal of Business Science and Technology 2020, 6(2):113-126 | DOI: 10.11118/ejobsat.2020.012
This paper investigates a new method of measuring public perception of European integration policies. The methodology is based on a monthly frequency of news generating a negative attitude toward the EU integration process in newspapers from 2010:1 to 2018:12. The studies concerning similar topic are mostly based on survey data, which does not allow measuring dissatisfaction with individual political acts. The newly constructed indexes show that the identified spikes correspond to all major European integration events and can capture public disagreement attitude with the implementation of individual policies on a European or national level. The results...
Contemporary Opinions on the Importance of Entrepreneurial Competencies
Petr Řehoř, Martin Pech, Michaela Slabová, Ladislav Rolínek
European Journal of Business Science and Technology 2020, 6(2):127-137 | DOI: 10.11118/ejobsat.2020.008
When starting a new business, entrepreneurs used the acquired experience, skills, and competencies. The paper aims to determine opinions on the most important competencies that entrepreneurs need to start their business. The research is based on the questionnaire to survey entrepreneurs and students of economics. We try to determine the differences in their opinions. We assume that the views of entrepreneurs already running a business near reflect the competencies’ real usefulness. We used the questionnaire as an instrument for data collection. When comparing entrepreneurs and students, statistically significant differences are in most competencies....
Influencer Impact on Brand Awareness: A Mixed Method Survey in the German Fashion Segment
Kai Dominik Renchen
European Journal of Business Science and Technology 2020, 6(2):138-153 | DOI: 10.11118/ejobsat.2020.009
This study evaluates the impact of influencer marketing on consumers. Although online influencers are long established in German B2C markets, research in the field is scarce. Marketing managers are unsure how influencer marketing strategies should be drafted and which influencers should be recruited in order to maximize their marketing efforts at the consumer level. Based on a review of previous theoretical and empirical literature, a mixed method empirical study comprising semistructured interviews with three German fashion influencers and a consumer survey (N = 385) among the followers of these influencers are conducted to evaluate the impact...
Quality of Word Vectors and its Impact on Named Entity Recognition in Czech
František Dařena, Martin Süss
European Journal of Business Science and Technology 2020, 6(2):154-169 | DOI: 10.11118/ejobsat.2020.010
Named Entity Recognition (NER) focuses on finding named entities in text and classifying them into one of the entity types. Modern state-of-the-art NER approaches avoid using hand-crafted features and rely on feature-inferring neural network systems based on word embeddings. The paper analyzes the impact of different aspects related to word embeddings on the process and results of the named entity recognition task in Czech, which has not been investigated so far. Various aspects of word vectors preparation were experimentally examined to draw useful conclusions. The suitable settings in different steps were determined, including the used corpus, number...