Family enterprises and their support through subsidies

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to define family enterprise and its possibilities and capabilities in drawing funds from subsidies. A family enterprise as an economic phenomenon is the subject of the research. The scientific goal is to evaluate the current state of knowledge of the given issue in the Czech Republic and to propose a functional ecosystem of family enterprise support. The article is written on the basis of general theoretical scientific methods, especially the method of comparison of secondary data obtained from publicly published research, data obtained from the database of economic entities, creation of time series, their analysis, synthesis, comparison, analogy, deduction and generalisation and method of expert estimation. The study contributes to the recognition that family enterprises with the most prominent representation of limited liability companies and joint stock companies legal forms are able to draw subsidies in a larger volume than the owners of other legal forms of family enterprises.