Review article

Cross-Border Trading in the Czech Republic

Oksana Chmouliar ; Social Science Department Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden

Abstract

In this paper I will present the findings of the cross-border trade analysis using mainly the example of the Czech Republic. The perspective I chose is the sociological analysis of mobility caused by the great economic disparities among the countries of the post-communist block. The main theoretical argument is to consider the cross-border trading as a small-scale activity emerging from subsistence peddling and developing into organised informal economic activity. The ethnic patterns of the crossborder trading are the main focus of the research. The future of the research will be to examine the implications which the transition to the market economies has for the increasing role of informal economic activities, specifically trading, in the group of the countries, namely Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland. The wider picture of the phenomenon may bring a substantial evidence that trading has a tendency towards becoming a professional activity, replacing the spontaneous crossing of the borders back and forth and enhance the development of foreign businesses in the region.

Keywords

cross-border trading; Czech Republic; post-communist block; ethnic patterns

Hrčak ID:

126825

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/126825

Publication date:

30.9.1996.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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