Flash Eurobarometer 61 (Managers 12)

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.