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The process of rapid IT development affects the world of business and management. In recent years, businesses have applied new technologies to their management. One of the modern technologies is Enterprise Social Network. The primary aim of the paper is to identify the use of Enterprise Social Network at present and to compare the data with the results of 2014. Secondary research is to find out how many businesses use information systems in internal communication, and then determine if these systems are sufficient. The methodology of the paper is based on a controlled interview with representatives of companies at the University of Pardubice meeting, called Contact. The paper publishes summary information of entrepreneurs about the interest and experience with Enterprise Social Networks, and about the tools used for internal communication. The discussion of the paper addresses the current concerns and wishes of entrepreneurs. The paper seeks to highlight the rapid development of information technologies and the adaptability of entrepreneurs to gain greater competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a crucial change in the German financial system and listed corporations: The influence of the financial markets has grown in both fields. Subsequently, shareholders can enforce their interests more efficiently than other stakeholders (e.g. affiliates, NGOs, political communities, and employees). In the paper, diverse explanations for this development are presented and evaluated: disintermediation, financial market capitalism and 'financialization'. Afterward, the topic is discussed in the perspective of theological ethics. Catholic Social Teaching features no financial ethics, but it includes some thoughts that offer an orientation for economic policy, the concept of an economy in service of the common good, the idea of a cooperation between state, market and civil society and socially anchored entrepreneurship as well as the conception of a serving financial economy. In conclusion, action perspectives are described. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]