Uwarunkowania konkurencyjności przedsiębiorstw – analiza zróżnicowania wybranych determinant
Determinants of company competitiveness – analysis of selected factors differentiation

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents selected results of a survey conducted in 2018 among production companieslocated in Poland. The results were obtained at the first stage of the study, during which 132 questionnaireswere collected. The aim of the paper is to present the results of companies’ self assessmentregarding the selected competitiveness determinants. The paper, both in its theoretical and empiricalpart, is focused on three dimensions of competitiveness, i.e. competitive potential, competitive strategyand competitive position. In order to achieve the stated objective, the study used the results ofthe self-assessment of companies regarding their competitive position, both compared to competingcompanies from the country and abroad. Additionally, the paper shows the results of the assessment ofthe significance of selected elements of competitive potential, selected competitive objectives, as wellas the applied measures of competitiveness in the examined companies. In the following part of thepaper, non-parametric Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests were applied to examine the differentiationof assessments of the competitive position of companies, both in comparison to competition inthe country and abroad, regarding selected characteristics of companies. The following factors wereconsidered as potential variables that could differentiate the given responses: the size of enterprises,the spatial scope of business activity and the level of export in sales. The fact of having implementedquality and environmental management systems was also considered as an additional variable. Most ofthese variables turned out to have statistically significantly differentiated the assessment of the competitiveposition of companies. The scale of the entity's activity, its openness to foreign markets, as well assystem solutions, such as standardized management systems (ISO 9001, ISO 14001), were not withoutsignificance for the assessment of the competitive position of companies.

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