Innowacyjność przedsiębiorstwa w lokalnych i zagranicznych relacjach klient–dostawca
Innovations in Domestic and Foreign Buyer–Seller Relationships

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyze dependency between effects of companies’ innovation activity in terms of their relationships with key customers and suppliers according to their domestic or foreign location. In the article the results of the study conducted from November 2014 to June 2015 among 419 companies from Poland are presented and analyzed using cluster method. The analysis shows that companies which are characterized by almost the same level of innovation or even slightly lower than their competitors, create relationships mostly with key customers located both abroad and in Poland and with key domestic suppliers. And companies which assess their innovativeness as better than the one from competitors cooperate with foreign and Polish key suppliers and key domestic customers. The analysis allows you to identify trends in the internationalization of companies’ innovative activities.

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