Problems and environment of small businesses in the Czech Republic

Benáček, Vladimír; Zemplinerová, Alena

doi:10.1007/bf01112464

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“…It would appear that policy makers and contemporary research prefer the promotion of small enterprises in developing countries for a number of reasons, for example improving job opportunities for unskilled labor (Little, 1987), in addition, the small scale enterprise is widely dispersed in towns and cities (Anderson, 1982), and it needs less investments, and plays a critical role in periods of transition (Benacek and Zemplinerova, 1995). MSMS firms have an important share in entrepreneurial functions and create major job opportunities (Akyüz, 2000).…”

Section: General Characteristics Of Small Firmsmentioning

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The financing preferences and capital structure of micro, small and medium sized firm owners in forest products industry in Turkey

Akyüz

Serіn

et al. 2006

Forest Policy and Economics

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Section: General Characteristics Of Small Firmsmentioning

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The financing preferences and capital structure of micro, small and medium sized firm owners in forest products industry in Turkey

Akyüz

Serіn

et al. 2006

Forest Policy and Economics

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“…The understanding of this issue seems closely tied to wider discussions of crony capitalism and business-state relations in other Southeast Asian countries as well as in other transition countries (e.g. Walder, 2003;Benácek, 1997). Reviewing this body of literature in detail exceeds the scope of the paper, but in the following a couple of issues will be pinpointed, while reference to and discussion of the relevance for the examination of private businesses' various degrees of access to land and capital in Vietnam will be outlined.…”

Section: Business-state Relations and Ethnicitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In cases where states have achieved private sector development mainly through privatisation, for instance, it has been said that SOEs simply "privatise themselves". In addition, attention is paid to shady benefits obtained by state representatives from privatisation and relations between bureaucrats and private entrepreneurs, the latter themselves often being former bureaucrats too (Benácek, 1997;Walder, 2003). Garnaut et al (2005) stress that debates on ownership change and the emerging economic structure in transition economies often treats private and state ownership as two easily distinguishable and homogeneous concepts.…”

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confidence: 99%

Business-State Relations in the Differentiated Private Sector in Vietnam: Access to Capital and Land

Thomsen

2011

Asian J Soc Sci

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This paper examines private businesses' access to land and capital in Vietnam. It finds that the allocation of these resources to private firms is still excessively state-driven and personalised, and examines the links that business people of different ethnical and regional backgrounds have with the state and how this facilitates or hinders their access to land and capital. Lacking relationships with the state may have profound consequences for unconnected private enterprises, which are accordingly subject to uneven competition from connected ones. The paper suggests that private businesses' uneven opportunities are basically a consequence of the general history of the country and the role that individual business people have played in it, in such respects as having had former state-sector employment, party membership, the "side" they were on before and during the Vietnam War etc. In this, factors such as ethnicity, origin and present location in either northern or southern Vietnam play an important part.

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“…Unfortunately, apart from routine statistical evidence and administrative reports, not much attention was paid to self-employment in Czech economic and sociological research. In economic research very few studies have been devoted to the topic (Benáček 1994, Benáček andZemplinerová 1995); in sociological research the topic was treated only as a part of research about the middle class (Matějů 1999, Večerník 1999.…”

Section: Self-employment In the Czech Republic After 1989: Diverging mentioning

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Self-employment in the Czech Republic and CEE countries: persons and households

Večernı́k

2011

Post-Communist Economies

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This article presents evidence on the development and patterns of self-employment in four Central-Eastern European (CEE) countries, with a special focus on the Czech Republic and in comparison with Austria and Germany. After a brief historical overview, it provides new comparative evidence on persons and households engaged in self-employment. First, the author points out the specific features of the development of these categories in communist and market regimes. Next, he shows in more detail the changes in the number and position of self-employed in the Czech Republic after 1990. Third, he draws on the EU Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) to compare self-employed persons in CEE countries, Austria and Germany. Fourth, the same data source is used to describe couples and households of self-employed people and their incomes in comparison with employee households. While the shares of self-employed in the countries compared are becoming increasingly similar, there are still significant differences in the living conditions of the self-employed between and within them. Relative to employees, a certain polarisation in the situation of self-employed households is apparent.

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Problems and environment of small businesses in the Czech Republic

Cited by 18 publications

References 5 publications

The financing preferences and capital structure of micro, small and medium sized firm owners in forest products industry in Turkey

The financing preferences and capital structure of micro, small and medium sized firm owners in forest products industry in Turkey

Business-State Relations in the Differentiated Private Sector in Vietnam: Access to Capital and Land

Self-employment in the Czech Republic and CEE countries: persons and households

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