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Peter 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 ThiSisaFMBlankPage 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 ISBN978-3-319-17298-9 ISBN978-3-319-17299-6 (eBook) DOI10.1007/978-3-319-17299-6 LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015945160 SpringerChamHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2016 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpart of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilarmethodologynowknownorhereafterdeveloped. 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Printedonacid-freepaper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) 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 v 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 vii 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] ©SpringerInternationalPublishingSwitzerland2016 1 P.Huberetal.(eds.),Competitiveness,SocialInclusionandSustainability inaDiverseEuropeanUnion,DOI10.1007/978-3-319-17299-6_1
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