THE BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT OF FAMILY ENTERPRISES IN SLOVAKIA-PERCEPTION OF EXTERNAL BARRIERS

The primary objective of the paper is to examine the perception of external barriers in the conditions of family business in Slovakia, also in the classification according to selected distinctive features. Mathematical and statistical methods of descriptive and inductive statistics were used in data processing. To investigate the perception of external barriers, we developed a scaling instrument, the reliability of which was verified by Cronbach's alpha. In this paper, we present two research questions and three hypotheses, which we verify using a one-way ANOVA test. The results suggest that family businesses in Slovakia do not perceive the existence of external barriers at a high level. It can be concluded that the nature of family businesses according to the selected criteria does not have a significant impact on the perception of the existence of selected external barriers in the business environment. Barriers are perceived by family businesses in the same way regardless of the criteria according to which they have been categorised.