SME sector, a crucial area of the corporate competitiveness measurement

We meet the concept of competitiveness more and more, however there is no agreement on at what level this concept can be interpreted. The majority of the competitiveness researchers reckon it as a microeconomic category i.e. a thing which can be interpreted to corporate level as well as product level. The importance of SME sectors competitiveness is increasingly emphasized within the corporate competitiveness but, in practice, such models are still not created which would specialize in measuring the competitiveness of small and medium-sized enterprises. The corporate competitiveness is generally examined by means of criteria formed on the basis of the same competitiveness definition, not to highlight the specifics of SMEs, thus the results of analyzes has a good chance to be inaccurate. Therefore, the aim of this monograph is to compile a possible analytical framework taking the peculiar conditions of the small and medium-sized enterprises into consideration