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ERENET Profile Vol. IV, No. 4. www.erenet.org Score of family business employ their workers for the other reasons mainly from solidarity. The employees are sometimes the other family members who have problems with unemployment like women after the maternity leave, handicapped persons, and seniors and so on. (Odehnalová, 2007, p. 146, Koráb and Hanzelková and Mihalisko, 2008, p.63) Pricewaterhouse Coopers, (2007) states that family business compensates the deficit in qualification level of employees by the higher employees benefits spent on the education, social benefits and so on. The similar results were found also in Czech Republic. External factors of competitiveness Analysis of the external factors of competitiveness did not prove any fundamental differences. This is done by the fact that the company environment is the same for the family and non- family business. The domestic market is small, so the conditions for the family and non-family business are the same. Stakeholders Other field of study was dedicated to the stakeholders. The main differences in the relationship with stakeholders are in the relationship with state. Family business marked the state as an important stakeholder. The difference between family and non-family business in the answers on this question was nearly 8%. Graph 5: The important of the stakeholder - state State Source: Processed by author 60,00 54,44 A little bit higher importance has the group of employees and customers for family business. The difference between family and non-family business was 2% favor of family business. 50,00 40,00 30,00 47,30 29,29 28,57 Non-family Family 24,17 in 20,00 <strong>16</strong>,28 10,00 0,00 not important average important Graph 6: Importance of stakeholder - customers Importance of customers 120,00 100,00 93,82 95,61 80,00 60,00 Non - family business Family business 40,00 20,00 0,00 0,880,00 5,294,40 not important average importatnt Source: Processed by author 38
ERENET Profile Vol. IV, No. 4. www.erenet.org Graph 7: Importance of stakeholder - employees Importance of employees 80,00 70,00 71,77 73,62 Source: Processed by author 60,00 50,00 40,00 30,00 20,00 10,00 0,00 Non - family business Family business 5,49 2,94 25,29 20,88 not important average important Same results present also Strážovská (2002, p. 32), who writes that family business is characterized by the positive relationship with stakeholders. Importance of employees is proved also by the research made by the PricewaterhouseCoopers (2007). This factor is one of the fundamental for competitiveness of family business. Lower importance for family business has the relationship with the suppliers and creditors. This can be caused by the fact that the family business has better financial results so the family companies have not the problems with liabilities, so these stakeholders are not so important for them. Owners Another part of the research was dedicated to the individual group of stakeholders. The first group was “Owners”. Graph 8: Structure of the owner Structure of the owner 35,00 30,00 25,00 Non-family business Family business 20,00 15,00 10,00 5,00 0,00 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 <strong>16</strong> 17 18 20 21 22 Source: Processed by author Most of the family companies are held by the several of big owners. The main difference between family and non-family business is in the structure of one owner. Scores of family companies were established as the company of one owner. As other members of family started to work in the business the owners structure changed to the several big owners. This type of business can be classed as the companies in the start – up phase. If the members of family stay in the business for enough time, they became the alternate owners. The type of companies with one owner is most extended. Other business was established as the family 39
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