Business processes in medium-sized and large enterprises in conditions of a globalizing economy

Globalization and internationalization are increasingly affecting components of the corporate environment and business processes indirectly influenced as a result. The paper focuses on business processes that form a basis for the value-based business process. Their analysis uses a basic categorization of processes in companies. The research was carried out on a set of 207 business entities from all over the Czech Republic, of which 124 were medium-sized enterprises and 83 were large enterprises. From the point of view of sector differentiation, manufacturing and industrial enterprises were represented by 86 business entities and 121 were from the services sector. In terms of their business reach, there were 71 enterprises with a regional character, 76 national and 60 business entities were multinational. For the analysis a two-choice test and Fisher's exact test were used. The significance of the tested processes was determined based on their impact on the company profitability. For the medium-sized enterprises "marketing and sales" and "services and supporting services" were among the most significant processes of value-generating nature, followed by production, purchasing and output logistics. For the large companies the statistically significant processes included "science and technology development", followed by "marketing and sales", "services and supporting services", "input logistics" and "human resources management". Size differentiation has been proved as for the large enterprises significance of the business processes was more important than for the smaller size category.