WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics
Print ISSN: 1109-9526, E-ISSN: 2224-2899
Volume 12, 2015
Impacts of Local Planning to Competitiveness Index Change – Using Approximate Initial Analysis of the Czech Regions
Authors: Viktor Prokop, Jan Stejskal
Abstract: Strategic planning must help to increase the competitiveness of the region. This relation becomes more important at the regional level in recent years. The aim of this article is usage of approximate initial analysis in Czech regions and to analyze the impact of the municipal strategic planning on their competitiveness. The approximate initial analysis uses the free available data from websites of the municipalities and allows doing the initial and fast analyses in some selected fields. Analysis was performed on all Czech regions of NUTS 3 size. The paper demonstrates the methodology of the initial analysis in practice. It compares the results with the index of competitiveness of the regions. The results demonstrate the applicability of this initial analysis in practice - the results showed that the present situation is unfavorable and the Czech Republic and most of its regions are falling in evaluation of competitiveness.
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Keywords: competitiveness index, economic development, local planning, region, strategic planning
Pages: 279-288
WSEAS Transactions on Business and Economics, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1109-9526 / 2224-2899, Volume 12, 2015, Art. #26