| Abstract |
Sustainable development of productive social systems, especially family businesses, is a current topic for the Czech Republic and Central Europe. The aim of the paper is to present new theoretical knowledge of the author's twenty-year research. These findings were achieved in research in the years 2000-2020, especially in research projects SP / 2010167 Contemporary concept of competitive business potentials of industrial enterprises, and Podejscie oparte na okazjach do zarza.innowacjami w malych i srednich przedsi.biorstwach / An opportunity-based approach to managing innovation in small and medium-sized enterprises (2/015/17/BHS4/00988) and other projects in cooperation with Czech and Polish universities. Research activities have recently focused mainly on the synergy of the links between the family business and the owners' family, their innovative dynamics and competitiveness. The concept of evolutionary business modelling is based on business diagnostics and therapy, a specific approach to scientific research known as effectuality. The paper offers a generalization of knowledge to the theory of potential. Theoretical findings are verified by empirical research in more than 230 small and medium-sized family companies in the Czech Republic and Poland. |
