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Figures & data
Table 1. The demographic structure of respond.
Table 2. Selected descriptive characteristics of statements.
Table 3. Respondent spends more than 8 hours per day doing business (ST1).
Table 4. Respondents’ perception of other statements to business management during the pandemic.
Table 5. Business uses innovative ways to obtain new markets and to retain the existing customers (ST6).
Table 6. Respondents’ assessment of other statements to market risk management.
Table 7. Assessment of other statements to personnel risk management during the pandemic.
Table 8. The results of Kruskal-Wallis tests.
Data availability statement
The first period of research: The CRIBIS database (universal register of companies, organisations and self-employed in CR and in SR) was used to create the database of SMEs, while the database provided the SMEs contact data. The selection file obtained represented 5% of all the companies in a given region. The selected companies were contacted via e-mail in order to fill in the on-line questionnaire. Totally, in the Czech Republic, there were contacted 8.250 SMEs and 10.100 SMEs in the Slovak Republic. In the Czech Republic, the number of returned filled in questionnaires was 5.5%, while in the Slovak Republic it was 3.6%. The first part of researched material (electronic questionnaire) contained demographic questions, and the second part included researched statements that focus on the selected areas of the corporates’ governance. The ratio between the number of correctly and incorrectly filled in questionnaires was represented by 97.5%/2.5% of respondents. The questionnaires with not consistent attitudes of the respondent on selected statements were excluded from the following quantitative analysis.
The second period of research (during the pandemic): Similarly, the collection of the primary data was done via electronic form using the MNFORCE SK & CZ panel (external organisation for support for the data collection and market research). In the Czech Republic, the research sample contained 360 respondents, while there were 320 respondents in the Slovak Republic. The main criterion was defined in a formation of selection files as a maximum number of self-employed at a level of 60%.