Publication detail

Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Performance in Czech SMEs

KOCMANOVÁ, A. DOČEKALOVÁ, M. NĚMEČEK, P. ŠIMBEROVÁ, I.

Original Title

Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Performance in Czech SMEs

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

The paper focuses on environmental, social and corporate governance performance in relation to business sustainability in small and medium enterprises in the Czech Republic. Corporate Governance is understood as a key element when achieving economic performance as well as growth enhancing the investors trust. It also makes it possible to create structures supporting the determination, checking and achievement of the objectives of the enterprise. It creates suitable initiatives for the members of the administrative bodies and the management. In the integration with sustainability, featured as the business strategy, the long-term corporate objectives, efficiency, performance, competitiveness are pursued through the inclusion of economic, environmental and social aspects to the corporate management. The sustainability of small and medium enterprises in the Czech Republic may bring about its effects in practice through the analyses of environmental, social and corporate governance performance, increased interests of uninvolved groups in the issues, competitiveness, increased market share etc. The inclusion of sustainability in the corporate management of an enterprise calls for a change in business. The target of the paper is the empirical analysis of the environmental, social and corporate governance performance in small and medium enterprises in the Czech Republic.

Keywords

sustainable development, sustainability, environmental performance, social performance, corporate governance

Authors

KOCMANOVÁ, A.; DOČEKALOVÁ, M.; NĚMEČEK, P.; ŠIMBEROVÁ, I.

RIV year

2011

Released

19. 7. 2011

Publisher

WMSCI 2011,Orlando,USA

Location

IFSR , Orlando, USA

ISBN

978-1-936338-42-9

Book

The 15th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics

Edition

2011

Edition number

I

Pages from

94

Pages to

99

Pages count

6

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT72662,
  author="Alena {Kocmanová} and Marie {Pavláková Dočekalová} and Petr {Němeček} and Iveta {Šimberová}",
  title="Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance Performance in Czech SMEs",
  booktitle="The 15th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics",
  year="2011",
  series="2011",
  number="I",
  pages="94--99",
  publisher="WMSCI 2011,Orlando,USA",
  address="IFSR , Orlando, USA",
  isbn="978-1-936338-42-9"
}