Social sources competitiveness of cities on the example of Legnica Cover Image

Społeczne zasoby konkurencyjności miast na przykładzie Legnicy
Social sources competitiveness of cities on the example of Legnica

Author(s): Michał Kuriata, Dariusz Zawada
Subject(s): Economy
Published by: Uniwersytet Opolski
Keywords: social resources; competitiveness; competitiveness coeffcient; C-competitiveness

Summary/Abstract: Article authors refers to the social resource of the city, which is built on the basis inter alia of such ingredients as: the availability of students to the computer with an Internet connection, additional foreign language lessons and membership residents to community organizations. The authors explained in the article the importance of the concepts of social capital and social resource, and the competitiveness of the city, and also discussed issues related to instruments to enhance the value of social resource and the competitiveness of the city, as well as the operation of the authorities City of Legnica on to enhance the value of social resource. In addition they built social resource meter and calculation of the value of social resource and competitiveness City of Legnica. Authors in order to calculate C-Competitiveness of Legnica they built additional coeffcient “f” and calculate competitiveness of its value each year. In the article, uses of procedure a synthetic development measur and calculates competitiveness Legnica, C-competitiveness in the years 2008–2012.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 19
  • Page Range: 147-157
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English, Polish