Significant Attributes of the Business Environment in Small and Meduim-Sized Enterprises

Belás, Jaroslav; Bartoš, Přemysl; Habánik, Jozef; Новак, Петр

doi:10.14254/2071-789x.2014/7-3/2

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“…Research by Belás, Bartoš, Habánik, and Novák (2014) confirmed the fact that there are differences between opinions of entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Entrepreneurs in the Czech Republic are more convinced that banks behave appropriately than entrepreneurs in Slovakia who are more convinced that banks use too harsh criteria.…”

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Education and Entrepreneurship in the SME Segment in Economic Transformation

Bartoš

Rahman

Horák

et al. 2015

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ABSTRACT. The issue of business environment for small and medium-sized enterprises is a very actual area of scientific research. Currently, the great importance is given to research people's personal and knowledge preconditions for conducting business. The aim of this article was to examine the relationship between education of entrepreneurs and several aspects of entrepreneurship in the SME segment. Our own research was conducted in the selected regions of the Czech Republic and Slovakia through a questionnaire survey. A total of 449 owners of small and medium-sized companies have been reached. The sample of respondents was divided into two groups: entrepreneurs with and without a university degree. To reach an above mentioned aim, Pearson statistics for a data count, series of 5000 Monte Carlo replication as well as tools of descriptive statistics have been used. Our results have showed that there are significant differences in the attitudes of these two categories of entrepreneurs in their motives for starting business and the knowledge of the lending criteria of commercial banks. On the other hand, the differences in other fields, such as the evaluation of the commercial banks approach, the change of their companies´ profitability, the ability to manage financial risks and the assessment of the academic knowledge usefulness were not confirmed by our research.

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“…Our research also confirmed such dissatisfaction of entrepreneurs with the academic field. Belás, Bartoš, Habánik, and Novák (2014) indicate that the opinions of the Czech and Slovak entrepreneurs in this sector were not different. Most often, entrepreneurs thought that some of the lessons learned at the university are useful to them.…”

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Education and Entrepreneurship in the SME Segment in Economic Transformation

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Rahman

Horák

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“…Freel et al (2010) and Mama and Ewoudou (2010) also declare that gender is not a significant factor in access to credit loan. According to the other research team, women more intensively perceive that the intensity of business risks grew during the crisis (Belás, 2015a). Roper and Scott (2009) and Mijid (2009) identified that gender has a substantial influence on the demand for and availability of credit, which is interconnected with the way of monitoring the legislative changes and the quality of the fulfilment of the administrative requirements.…”

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Impact of Gender in the Perception of Administrative Burdens among Young Entrepreneurs - Evidence from Slovakia

Kljucnikov¹,

Majková²

2016

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Excessive bureaucracy, administration, and frequent legislative changes belong among the common factors that discourage people from entering the world of business. The main objective of this paper is to introduce scientific evidence that gender is one of the factors with a significant impact on the management of a company's administrative activities and on the perception of such administrative burdens as bureaucracy and, often, tax and legislative changes as one of the barriers to young entrepreneurs in the Slovak business environment. On the basis of the research data that was obtained, we wish to confirm that gender has a statistically significant impact on the amount of time spent fulfilling the administrative and bureaucratic requirements among young entrepreneurs in Slovakia. We consider the findings of the research on administrative burdens to be important because of the assumption that excessive bureaucracy could have a negative impact on the competitiveness of every economy. The paper uses data from research carried out in Slovakia in cooperation with the Association of Young Entrepreneurs of Slovakia. Verification or rejection of alternative working hypothesis was realized through the statistical method of Pearson's chi-square test. Our results bring the following findings: young men and women consider different areas of the bureaucracy to be excessive; female entrepreneurs spend more time watching the changes in legislation affecting the business environment, and females spend almost twice as much time on administrative activities related to business in comparison to their male counterparts. These findings are confirmed by the statistical evidence.

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“…Lagging regions are often disadvantaged in this regard because of their low capability to prepare and submit good projects. Th is could be notably related to some themes, such as business environment (see, e.g., Belás et al, 2014;Belás et al, 2015) and innovations (see, e.g., Hájek, Grebeníček and Novosák, 2011;Kaufmann and Wagner, 2005). Th e aforementioned considerations are highly relevant also for SFs and their contribution to the equity and effi ciency goals.…”

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Distribution of structural funds: equity, efficiency and public procurement (Czech Republic)

Hájek¹,

Novosák²,

Nekolová³

et al. 2016

Journal of International Studies

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Abstract. Th is article deals with structural funds allocation for projects realized by Czech regional and local authorities in the programming period 2007-2013. Geographical distribution of structural funds in the context of the equity and effi ciency goals is mapped. Two research questions are formulated in this regard. Th e fi rst research question concerns the position of lagging regions in structural funds allocation. Th e second research question maps spatial spillovers of public procurement contracts supported by structural funds. Th e fi ndings point at a rather disadvantaged position of lagging regions in structural funds allocation. Th is position is further worsened by spatial spillovers of public procurement contracts. Th us, spatial coherence between the EU and Czech regional policies is questioned.

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Significant Attributes of the Business Environment in Small and Meduim-Sized Enterprises

Cited by 36 publications

References 21 publications

Education and Entrepreneurship in the SME Segment in Economic Transformation

Education and Entrepreneurship in the SME Segment in Economic Transformation

Impact of Gender in the Perception of Administrative Burdens among Young Entrepreneurs - Evidence from Slovakia

Distribution of structural funds: equity, efficiency and public procurement (Czech Republic)

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