Study title

Business objectives and expected company changes as well as challenges of the next 20 years. Topics: area of business; business size; turnover; position of respondent in business; autonomy of the business; most important objectives of the business (growth, survival, search for new markets, cost reduction, neue technologies); globalization, currency consolidation, change of working hours or telecommunication as assumed primary cause for change of the business; assumed takeover or fear of being taken over by other businesses; most important criteria for survival of the business in the next 20 years; assumed effects of new information technologies on businesses; assumed most efficient support for small and medium-sized companies in the future (from national or European institutions or municipalities); assumed future development of the situation of small and medium-sized companies; region.