<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The paper examines the SME’s in the Czech Republic from the perspective what makes them to adopt telework using the data from the research made in 2017. The research includes 1018 SME’ s. The purpose of the study was to try to find out alignment between telework and some organizational constraints. We hypothesized that employer adoption of telework would depend on the size of the firm, the duration of telework adoption, foreign owner, IT level, and on the implementation of project management. Our empirical evidence showed that telework correlated with the foreign owner participation and the duration of the adoption of telework, with the IT level and with the adoption of project management. It does not correlate with the size of the enterprise and the duration of the adoption of telework.</p></abstract>

The paper examines the SME’s in the Czech Republic from the perspective what makes them to adopt telework using the data from the research made in 2017. The research includes 1018 SME’ s. The purpose of the study was to try to find out alignment between telework and some organizational constraints. We hypothesized that employer adoption of telework would depend on the size of the firm, the duration of telework adoption, foreign owner, IT level, and on the implementation of project management. Our empirical evidence showed that telework correlated with the foreign owner participation and the duration of the adoption of telework, with the IT level and with the adoption of project management. It does not correlate with the size of the enterprise and the duration of the adoption of telework.

Why Some SME’s in the Czech Republic Adopt Telework and Others Not?

University of South Bohemia in Česke Budějovice

European Countryside

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The paper examines the SME’s in the Czech Republic from the perspective what makes them to adopt telework using the data from the research made in 2017. The...

Why Some SME’s in the Czech Republic Adopt Telework and Others Not?

Published Online: Dec 30, 2019

Page range: 599 - 615

Received: Feb 05, 2019

Accepted: Aug 01, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2019-0033

Keywords
telework, SME, IT technology, project management

© 2019 Jaroslav Vrchota et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Why Some SME’s in the Czech Republic Adopt Telework and Others Not?

Published Online: Dec 30, 2019

Page range: 599 - 615

Received: Feb 05, 2019

Accepted: Aug 01, 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/euco-2019-0033

Keywordstelework, SME, IT technology, project management

© 2019 Jaroslav Vrchota et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
telework, SME, IT technology, project management