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Table 5.12
Reasons why cross-border cooperation is not planned
Czech businesses
German businesses
Number
Ratio in %
Number
Ratio in %
Lack of information about appropriate
branches
4
7.8
3
3.8
Lack of information about appropriate
partner companies
7
13.7
7
8.9
Lack of information about possible
support
3
5.9
5
6.3
Currently bad economic conditions
2
3.9
5
6.3
Effort higher than benefit
7
13.7
12
15.2
Lack of appropriate partner company
7
13.7
4
5.1
Inadequate infrastructure for cross-border
traffic
0
0.0
1
1.3
Negative experiences
0
0.0
5
6.3
Barriers by law
2
3.9
6
7.6
Trade barriers (p. e. customs duty, border
formalities)
1
2.0
3
3.8
Language barrier
5
9.8
9
11.4
Fear of damaged image
0
0.0
1
1.3
No interest (as of yet)
8
15.7
11
13.9
Other
5
9.8
7
8.9
Total
51
100.0
79
100.0
a
Multiple answers possible
uncertain about the concept. For some businesses there are no available contacts for
this kind of collaboration.
In Table 5.12 a variety of reasons for refusing cross-border cooperation include:
objective reasons (e.g. lack of information, language barriers) as well as subjec-
tive reasons (lack of interest). It is therefore impossible to restrict intensifying
entrepreneurial relationships to one or two different methods. In this case, different
approaches are needed.
5.4 Conclusions
The aim of the research report was to survey if, and to what extent, businesses from
the Euroregion Elbe/Labe are prepared to cooperate with each other and to analyse
which problems of collaboration may appear and which circumstances may hamper
the cooperation (cf. Krätke, 1998).
An increase in adequate information about possible collaboration and the support
of an appropriate cooperation partner are required for creating successful rela-
tionships (Kowalke, Jerabek, Schmidt, & Lohse, 2008; Jerábek, 2002). Despite
a high amount of available information, most of the polled companies felt they
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