Table Of ContentPeter Huber · Danuše Nerudová
Petr Rozmahel Editors
Competitiveness,
Social Inclusion and
Sustainability in a
Diverse European
Union
Perspectives from Old and New Member
States
Competitiveness, Social Inclusion and
Sustainability in a Diverse European Union
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Peter Huber (cid:129) Danusˇe Nerudova´ (cid:129) Petr Rozmahel
Editors
Competitiveness, Social
Inclusion and Sustainability
in a Diverse European Union
Perspectives from Old and New
Member States
Editors
PeterHuber DanusˇeNerudova´
AustrianInstituteofEconomic MendelUniversity
Research(WIFO) Brno,CzechRepublic
Vienna,Austria
PetrRozmahel
MendelUniversity
Brno,CzechRepublic
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Contents
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
PeterHuber,DanusˇeNerudova´,andPetrRozmahel
PartI PatternsofHeterogeneity
TheCompetitivenessoftheEUCountries:AMulti-dimensional
ClusterAnalysisApproach. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
PetrRozmahel,LadislavaIsseverGrochova´,andMarekLitzman
Long-RunHeterogeneityAcrosstheEUCountries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
SvatoplukKapounek
SustainableDevelopmentintheEU. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
DavidHampel,LadislavaIsseverGrochova´,JitkaJanova´,LadislavKaba´t,
andLubosˇ Stˇrelec
PartII PoliciesforCompetitiveness,SocialInclusion
andSustainabilityintheEU
CurrentDevelopmentsinCorporateSocialResponsibilityintheEU. . . 77
EvaAbramuszkinova´ Pavl´ıkova´ andMarcelaBasovn´ıkova´
TheInternationalisationofSmallandMedium-SizedEnterprises
asaPathtoCompetitiveness. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
LeaKub´ıcˇkova´,MarcelaTuzova´,andMartinaToulova´
KeyAspectsofCompetitiveness:FocusonEuropeanSmall
andMedium-SizedEnterprises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
MichaelaBeranova´,JakubTabas,andJanVavrˇina
PigouvianCarbonTaxRate:CanItHelptheEuropeanUnion
AchieveSustainability?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
DanusˇeNerudova´ andMarianDobranschi
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vi Contents
PartIII StrategiesandInstruments:ThePotential
forPolicyLearning
ALessonfortheContemporaryEuropeanPeripheryfrom
theTransitionProcessoftheCEECountries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
LudeˇkKouba
GeospatialInfrastructureforEuropeanUnionSustainable
Development. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
DavidProcha´zka,Jarom´ırLanda,JanaProcha´zkova´,andMartinKlima´nek
ReformingWelfareStates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
PeterHuber,ThomasLeoni,andHansPitlik
Contributors
Marcela Basovn´ıkova´ Department of Business and Economics, Mendel Univer-
sityinBrno,Brno,CzechRepublic
Michaela Beranova´ Department of Business Economics, Mendel University in
Brno,Brno,CzechRepublic
MarianDobranschi DepartmentofAccountingandTaxes,MendelUniversityof
Brno,Brno,CzechRepublic
Ladislava Issever Grochova´ Department of Economics, Mendel University in
Brno,Brno,CzechRepublic
DavidHampel FBEMendeluinBrno,Brno,CzechRepublic
PeterHuber WIFO,Vienna,Austria
JitkaJanova´ FBEMendeluinBrno,Brno,CzechRepublic
LadislavKaba´t FBEMendeluinBrno,Brno,CzechRepublic
SvatoplukKapounek MendelUniversity,Brno,CzechRepublic
MartinKlima´nek MendelUniversityinBrno,Brno,CzechRepublic
Ludeˇk Kouba Department of Economics, Mendel University, Brno, Czech
Republic
Lea Kub´ıcˇkova´ Department of Marketing and Trade, Mendel University, Brno,
Brno,CzechRepublic
Jarom´ırLanda MendelUniversityinBrno,Brno,CzechRepublic
ThomasLeoni WIFO,Wien,Austria
Marek Litzman Department of Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Brno,
CzechRepublic
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viii Contributors
Danusˇe Nerudova´ Department of Accounting and Taxes, Mendel University of
Brno,Brno,CzechRepublic
Eva Abramuszkinova´ Pavl´ıkova´ Department of Law and Social Sciences,
MendelUniversityinBrno,Brno,CzechRepublic
HansPitlik WIFO,Wien,Austria
DavidProcha´zka MendelUniversityinBrno,Brno,CzechRepublic
JanaProcha´zkova´ BrnoUniversityofTechnology,Brno,CzechRepublic
Petr Rozmahel Department of Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Brno,
CzechRepublic
Lubosˇ Strˇelec FBEMendeluinBrno,Brno,CzechRepublic
Jakub Tabas Department of Business Economics, Mendel University in Brno,
Brno,CzechRepublic
MartinaToulova´ DepartmentofMarketingandTrade,MendelUniversity,Brno,
Brno,CzechRepublic
MarcelaTuzova´ DepartmentofMarketingandTrade,MendelUniversity,Brno,
Brno,CzechRepublic
Jan Vavrˇina Department of Business Economics, Mendel University in Brno,
Brno,CzechRepublic
Introduction
PeterHuber,DanusˇeNerudova´,andPetrRozmahel
1 Motivation and Background to This Collective Volume
The concept of diversity and heterogeneity may be considered one of the central
features of the European Union (EU) and applies both to the economic and the
politicaldimensionsoftheprojectofEuropeanintegration.Economically,thefour
roundsofenlargementsby16countriesandtheintroductionofthecommonmarket
program,inadditiontotheEuropeanMonetaryUnion(EMU),noticeablyincreased
the heterogeneity of the EU. In just two decades, the addition of these countries
moved the European Union from a free trade association of 12 countries with a
populationofapproximately380milliontoacommonmarketareaof28countries
(mostofwhichhavealsojoinedtheEMU)withapopulationofalmost600million.
Thus, among the 12 EU countries that were EU members in the late 1980s, the
secondwealthiestcountry(ignoringLuxembourg,whichisthewealthiestofthese
12 countries but is an outlier) in terms of GDP per capita at purchasing power
parities (the Netherlands) was approximately 1.8 times wealthier than the poorest
countryunderthesamemetric(Greece);however,amongthe28countriesthatare
currentlymembersoftheEU(twodecadeslater),thesameratiowas2.9.
Politically—puttingasidetheobviousdifferencesininterestsbetweencountries
of such vastly differing economic development levels—this diversity is
P.Huber(*)
WIFO,Arsenal,Objekt20,1030Vienna,Austria
e-mail:[email protected]
D.Nerudova´
DepartmentofAccountingandTaxes,MendelUniversityofBrno,Brno,CzechRepublic
e-mail:[email protected]
P.Rozmahel
DepartmentofEconomics,MendelUniversityinBrno,Zemeˇdeˇlska´1,61300Brno,Czech
Republic
e-mail:[email protected]
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