Quality of business environment in the SME segment

Jaroslav Belas (), Martin Cepel () and Anna Kotaskova ()
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Jaroslav Belas: Tomas Bata University in Zlín
Martin Cepel: Paneuropean University in Bratislava
Anna Kotaskova: Paneuropean University in Bratislava

No 6509331, Proceedings of International Academic Conferences from International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences

Abstract: The aim of this paper was to evaluate the quality of the business environment in the segment of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the Czech and the Slovak Republic. In regards to the defined aim a survey-based research was conducted with enterprises operating in the SME segment. Responses from 312 enterprises in the Czech Republic and 329 enterprises in Slovak Republic were obtained via an online questionnaire during this research. The research brought some interesting findings. The evaluation of the business environment in both countries is relatively negative. The current risk rate of the business environment received a more positive rating in both countries. Significant differences in entrepreneurs? notions were discovered when evaluating the development of business environment in the recent past. Entrepreneurs of both countries were rather skeptical in evaluating the current quality of business environment in regards to starting a business.

Keywords: business environment; quality of business environment; Czech Republic; Slovak Republic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L26 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2018-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-ent, nep-sbm and nep-tra
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Published in Proceedings of the Proceedings of the 40th International Academic Conference, Stockholm, Jul 2018, pages 37-52

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