Jaroslav Belás, Přemysl Bartoš, 22 ISSN 2071-789X Jozef Habánik, Petr Novák RECENT ISSUES IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Belás, J., Bartoš, P., Habánik, J., Novák, P. (2014), Significant Attributes of the Business Environment in Small and Meduim-Sized Enterprises, Economics and Sociology, Vol. 7, No 3, pp. 22-39. DOI: 10.14254/2071-789X.2014/7-3/2 Jaroslav Belás, SIGNIFICANT ATTRIBUTES Department of Enterprise Economics, OF THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Faculty of Management and IN SMALL AND MEDUIM-SIZED Economics, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, ENTERPRISES Zlin, Czech Republic, E-mail:
[email protected] ABSTRACT. Aim of following contribution is to define and quantify selected attributes of the business Přemysl Bartoš, environment in Small and medium-sized enterprises Department of Enterprise (SME). In this context, our own research was prepared and Economics, gradually implemented, where the intensity of individual Faculty of Management and business risks, status, motivation, feelings of entrepreneurs Economics, in SME segment, relationship to the bank, state, society, Tomas Bata University in Zlin, and business optimism in the Czech Republic and Slovakia Zlin, Czech Republic, was analyzed. Due to the global financial crisis, conditions E-mail:
[email protected] for SME business have worsened. Average decrease in the profitability amounted in 10.44% in the Czech Republic, Jozef Habánik, and in Slovakia 12.01%. The most important business risk Alexander Dubček University of for SME is the market risk (lack of market space for the Trenčín, realization of own production). In the Czech Republic Fakulty of social-economics 79.44% and 80.49% of Slovak entrepreneurs reported relationship, market risk as a key business risk at present.