Territorial cohesion and the geography of EU Cohesion policy funding in the Czech Republic

Novosák, Jiří; Hájek, Oldřich; Smékalová, Lenka; Nekolová, Jana; Škarka, Milan

dc.title	Territorial cohesion and the geography of EU Cohesion policy funding in the Czech Republic	en
dc.contributor.author	Novosák, Jiří
dc.contributor.author	Hájek, Oldřich
dc.contributor.author	Smékalová, Lenka
dc.contributor.author	Nekolová, Jana
dc.contributor.author	Škarka, Milan
dc.relation.ispartof	Transformations in Business and Economics
dc.identifier.issn	1648-4460 Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.date.issued	2015
utb.relation.volume	14
utb.relation.issue	3C
dc.citation.spage	419
dc.citation.epage	432
dc.type	article
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher	Vilnius University
dc.relation.uri	http://www.transformations.knf.vu.lt/36c/article/terr
dc.subject	Absorption capacity	en
dc.subject	Cohesion policy	en
dc.subject	Regional policy	en
dc.subject	Structural disadvantage of regions	en
dc.subject	The Czech Republic	en
dc.description.abstract	This paper concerns the assessment of the match between the selected cornerstones of territorial cohesion, on one hand, and the EU Cohesion policy, which is understood as the source of territorial impacts, on the other hand. In particular, the paper examines the association between EU Cohesion policy funding (2007-2013) in the Czech Republic and the balanced territorial development of Czech micro-regions. Moreover, the spatial coherence of EU Cohesion policy and Czech national regional policy is as well considered. The empirical results do not provide evidence in support of this match. EU Cohesion policy funding does not compensate for the structural disadvantage of Czech micro-regions. Moreover, the spatial coherence of EU Cohesion policy and Czech national regional policy is missing. The territories, the support of which is regarded as desirable for the balanced territorial development by Czech national regional policy, do not show evidence of higher EU Cohesion policy funding. Low absorption capacity in these territories might be an appropriate explanation for this. © Vilnius University, 2002-2015 © Brno University of Technology, 2002-2015 © University of Latvia, 2002-2015.	en
utb.faculty	Faculty of Management and Economics
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1006295
utb.identifier.rivid	RIV/70883521:28120/15:43873588!RIV16-MSM-28120___
utb.identifier.obdid	43874024
utb.identifier.scopus	2-s2.0-84962291222
utb.identifier.wok	000370913800008
utb.source	j-scopus
dc.date.accessioned	2016-06-22T12:14:41Z
dc.date.available	2016-06-22T12:14:41Z
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Novosák, Jiří
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Hájek, Oldřich
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Smékalová, Lenka
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Nekolová, Jana
utb.contributor.internalauthor	Škarka, Milan
utb.fulltext.affiliation	1 Jiri Novosak Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law Faculty of Management and Economics Tomas Bata University in Zlin Mostni 5139 760 01 Zlin The Czech Republic E-mail: novosak@fame.utb.cz 2 Oldrich Hajek Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law Faculty of Management and Economics Tomas Bata University in Zlin Mostni 5139 760 01 Zlin The Czech Republic E-mail: hajek@fame.utb.cz 3 Lenka Smekalova Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law Faculty of Management and Economics Tomas Bata University in Zlin Mostni 5139 760 01 Zlin The Czech Republic E-mail: smekalova@fame.utb.cz 4 Jana Nekolova Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law Faculty of Management and Economics Tomas Bata University in Zlin Mostni 5139 760 01 Zlin The Czech Republic E-mail: nekolova@fame.utb.cz 5 Milan Skarka Department of Regional Development, Public Sector Administration and Law Faculty of Management and Economics Tomas Bata University in Zlin Mostni 5139 760 01 Zlin The Czech Republic
utb.fulltext.dates	Received: December, 2014 1st Revision: January, 2015 2nd Revision: April, 2015 Accepted: September, 2015
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utb.fulltext.sponsorship	The authors are thankful to the Operational Programme Education for Competitiveness co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the national budget of the Czech Republic for grant No. CZ.1.07.2.3.00/20.0147 – “Human Resources Development in the Field of Measurement and Management of Companies, Clusters and Regions Performance” and for grant No. IGA/FaME/2014/003, which provided financial support for this research.