Are Men More Innovative And Aggressive In Business? Case Study From The Czech Republic

Abstract

SMEs make a major contribution to the growth and employment in the EU. In today’s fierce competition in the market economic activities the SMEs had gradually developed into a major force for national economic and social development in every country of world. The aim of this article is to examine the approach to innovativeness and competitive aggressiveness between males and females in the segment of small and medium-sized enterprises. Based on the results of the questionnaire which was conducted in May 2015 in the Czech Republic we tried to test four hypotheses on the relationship between the gender of entrepreneurs of SMEs and their attitude to innovativeness and competitive aggressiveness. The results of our research have pointed out some differences between genders. Men-entrepreneurs who do business in the segment of SMEs in the Czech Republic are slightly more innovative and are significantly more aggressive in regard to competitors than women, as they apply aggressive approach and their companies are perceived as aggressive.

Microenterprises and Significant Risk Factors in Loan Process

“…Entrepreneurs' characteristics, such as gender, level of education, age, managerial skills, and experience, in addition to physical and emotional family support, are the important factors that influence business success (Munoz et al, 2015;Kozubíková et al, 2015a;Bartoš et al, 2015) and represent significant factors which determine the approach to financial risk management and access to external financing through bank loans (Belas et al, 2015;Doležal et al, 2015).…”