Business Environment Quality Index in the Sme Segment

Čepel, Martin; Stasiukynas, Andrius; Kotásková, Anna; Dvorský, Ján

doi:10.7441/joc.2018.02.02

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“…For this reason, planning new approaches or advancing new procedures that can support SMEs to boost their efficiency and productivity is not only of use to SMEs but also to the economy as a whole (Dobeš, Kot, Kramoliš, & Sopková, 2017;Cepel, Stasiukynas, Kotaskova, & Dvorsky, 2018). In the recent international scientific literature, many researchers (Alshamaila, Papagiannidis, & Li, 2013;Gupta, Seetharaman, & Raj, 2013;Sultan, 2011;Balcerzak & Pietrzak, 2017) claim that the digital technologies and ICT are used to improve the decisionmaking process for businesses.…”

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Determinants of Cloud Computing Adoption by Romanian Smes in the Digital Economy

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Journal of Business Economics and Management

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The purpose of this paper is to explore the process of Cloud Computing adoption within Romanian Small and Medium sized Enterprises in the digital age. Most of the scientific papers related to this topic examine the general outlook of cloud computing implementation in Romania and focus on the use of the afore-mentioned technologies by large scale companies. In order to identify the factors that have an influence over the choice of Romanian SMEs to adopt cloud computing technology, a conceptual model has been set forth. The model's dependent variable is the choice of the company's management to implement cloud computing technologies. Five different independent types of variable structures which have an effect on the adoption of cloud computing within SMEs were identified. The five categories of variables are competition & government, ICT providers & firm departments, employee, manager and technological factors. Each of these categories of determinants encompasses at their turn two or more constructs. An online survey tested the model based on the responses of managers and directors from 198 Romanian SMEs from the cities of Bucharest and Cluj. The validity of the model was performed by completing factor analysis and reliability tests of the data; a logistic regression analysis was deployed to test the research hypotheses. The results emphasized that the managers' know-how on cloud computing and the perceived costs of implementing the technology represent the main components influencing the spreading of cloud computing among Romanian SMEs. This study makes a valuable contribution to the academic environment but to businesses as well. The model can be used to examine the implementation of different innovative applications. Companies which offer cloud computing services could take advantage of the outcomes of this study to expand the degree of cloud service introduction among SMEs.

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Determinants of Cloud Computing Adoption by Romanian Smes in the Digital Economy

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“…In this context research results according Cepel et al (2018) brought interesting findings. The aggregated Business Environment Quality Index in the Slovak Republic reached the value of 0.460, which was higher than that of the Czech Republic (0.418).…”

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Impact of the state on business environment - sectoral analysis

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The main aim of the paper is to research the differences in perception and evaluation impact of the country on macroeconomic business environment on the basis of a sector in which the entrepreneur is running a business. Differences in perception and evaluation of entrepreneurial support from the state on the basis of a sector, in which the company is established, are analyzed using the cases of the Slovak and Czech Republic. Correspondence analysis is applied, while exploratory technique has been designed to examine the data with the aim to reduce dimensionality. Correspondence analysis provides a measure of correspondence between the explored dimensions-the categorical variables. This technique is widely applied incases when graphical output is clearer than

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“…To obtain this objective, it is necessary to ensure appropriate conditions for the business environment in which the tax system of the country significantly contributes [11,18,27,28]. It is important to emphasize that, in addition to economic (tax system) factors, social, cultural and other factors are important for the creation of a quality business environment that is essential to economic development [12,29].…”

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The Main Performance and Effectiveness Factors of Sustainable Financial Administration Reform Using Multidimensional Statistical Tools

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The tax system reform is a part of Slovakia’s comprehensive tax and levies reform. The reform should contribute to improving and making public finances more efficient. Its implementation into practice, however, is problematic due to attitudes and problems on the part of both the professional public and business entities. The aim of the paper is to help public authorities, and also tax policymakers and business entities to understand the perception of the tax system reform focusing on the most important and key factors of its sustainable effectiveness and performance in the context of its non-macroeconomic especially social, technological and process aspects. The analysis reveals the differences in perceptions of key factors from the viewpoint of the three studied groups. The paper is based on the information of the main actors of tax reform. In extensive empirical quantitative research (N = 1500), the data was obtained through the questionnaire survey carried out in four main districts of Slovakia. The data obtained during six months of 2018 using the questionnaire method were processed by basic statistical methods of descriptive statistics, followed by an analysis of major components and the factor analysis using more sophisticated multidimensional statistical tools. The factor analysis is crucial to the present paper as it has identified five significant indicators of the reform assessment and the functioning of the tax system after tax reform. Subsequently, a correspondence analysis has been applied to the item “electronization/computerization—great user comfort” to find out the differences in its perception by the respondents. The article thus provides a new scientific view on the evaluation of the reform of the financial administration’s management system in the Slovak Republic as well as its functioning in the context of its sustainable effectiveness and performance. The research results offer important and exciting implications and also motives for further investigation on the issue.

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Business Environment Quality Index in the Sme Segment

Cited by 63 publications

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Determinants of Cloud Computing Adoption by Romanian Smes in the Digital Economy

Determinants of Cloud Computing Adoption by Romanian Smes in the Digital Economy

Impact of the state on business environment - sectoral analysis

The Main Performance and Effectiveness Factors of Sustainable Financial Administration Reform Using Multidimensional Statistical Tools

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