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Conditioning of automotive sector enterprises competitiveness in Poland and in Europe

Uwarunkowania konkurencyjności przedsiębiorstw sektora motoryzacyjnego w Polsce i w Europie

Author(s): Agnieszka Komór,Hanna Godlewska-Majkowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: enterprises competitiveness; automotive sector; location of economic activity

This paper identifies the main factors influencing the competitiveness of automotive sector enterprises in Poland and in Europe. An analysis concerns competitiveness conditioning connected with economic entities localization. The survey shows that automotive sector enterprises competitiveness depends upon their organization, employees competence, elasticity, competitive prices, forward delivery, quality and lower costs. There are also threats that automotive sector can be exposed to growing employment costs, lack of management staff, low level of elasticity regarding work legislation, difficulties in making quick decisions if a center is localized abroad, low level of both investment encouragements as well as country engagement in new investment process.

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Polish energy security and renewable energy sources

Bezpieczeństwo energetyczne Polski a odnawialne źródła energii

Author(s): Anna Czech / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: energy security; Poland; renewable energy sources; energy policy

Integration of Poland with the European Union has determined many objectives to achieve. One of them is the improvement in the environmental conditions by means of advancing the usage of renewable energy sources. The aim of this paper is to present the role and importance of renewable energy sources for the Polish energy security of Poland. The paper focuses thus on regulatory legislation for the promotion of renewable energy sources and on the possibility of using these sources.

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The use of the linear programming method to assess the production process of groups of farms of some chosen agricultural types

Wykorzystanie metody programowania liniowego do oceny procesu produkcyjnego grup gospodarstw wybranych typów rolniczych

Author(s): Agnieszka Barczak / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: efficiency; optimization of production; linear programming; agricultural type

The linear programming method plays an important role in an optimal decisions making. It can be used, inter alia in the process of production planning and when planning optimal level of employment. The models of linear programming can be used in agricultural farm management and in its operation planning. The aim of this article is the assessment of possibility of the use of the linear programming method in order to assess optimal outlay of production factors which maximizes its values in the groups of farms of some chosen agricultural types. The data for the years 2004-2008 were chosen, for the groups of farms of the Pomerania and Masuria region, specializing in field crops, gardening crops, and sustained crops and those which deal simultaneously with different kinds of crops.

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Economies of scale in the operation of local government units on the example of communities of Western Pomerania

Efekty skali w funkcjonowaniu jednostek samorządu terytorialnego na przykładzie gmin województwa zachodniopomorskiego

Author(s): Edward Wiśniewski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: community; local government unit; economies of scale; effectiveness

The issue of the optimal size of local government is an important area of research. A comparative analysis with other countries in the European Union does not equivocally resolve the major advantages of small municipalities. In the paper the model of P. Swiniewicz and M. Herbst synthetic indicator based on the efficiency of subdivision is used. Three main factors were distinguished in it: economic potential, ability to perform public services and local democracy. As a result of the calculations interesting results in the optimalization of the size of local government units were obtained, depending on the selected profile. It can be concluded that the optimal size of the community is in the range 22 500 – 30 000 inhabitants.

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Strengthening the competitive advantage of companies on the example of the agri-food sector

Umacnianie przewagi konkurencyjnej przedsiębiorstw na przykładzie sektora rolno-spożywczego

Author(s): Barbara Hadryjańska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: competitiveness of companies; elements of competitiveness; competitive advantage; agri-food companies

The paper presents the elements of the competitiveness of the agri-food business. It characterizes different categories of competitive potential. First in the article there is a division on material and immaterial potential. Then it describes instruments which help to achieve the competitive advantage in agribusiness industry and maintain the competitive position of the measured market share or financial situation of a company. The paper shows the ways to strengthen the competitive advantage of food producers. These include first and foremost the formation of quality and safety of products, as well as the adjustment of proenvironmental actions and product range to ever increasing demands of consumers.

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Network as an intermediate form of economic coordination on the example of integrated healthcare

Sieć jako pośrednia forma koordynacji gospodarczej na przykładzie zintegrowanej opieki zdrowotnej

Author(s): Iga Rudawska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: healthcare; medical network; network coordination; market; hierarchy

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the phenomena named network coordination. It can be seen as an intermediate – versus market and hierarchy – form of economic coordination. The background for the study is healthcare and one of its solutions called integrated healthcare. The paper consists of an introduction, three thematic parts devoted to particular mechanisms of economic adaptation, and a conclusion. The work has been conducted within the project financed by National Science Centre in Poland.

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Arable land and the development of non-agicultural economic activity in Poland

Użytki rolne a rozwój pozarolniczej działalności gospodarczej w Polsce

Author(s): Adam Wasilewski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: arable land; development of non-agricultural economic activity; rural areas

The paper presents research outcomes of the studies on relationships between the change of arable land area and entrepreneurship development in Poland over the period 2003- -2010. The aim of this research is to prove that arable land resources are still a significant production factor, not only in agriculture, but also in non-agricultural sectors of Polish economy. The reason of this research was the observation that successive increase of the number of private enterprises was strictly related to the permanent decrease of arable land area. Therefore the author made an effort to confirm statistical significance of the above relationships. For this purpose the methods of descriptive, comparative and simple regression analysis were used. The data of Central Statistical Office were the empirical material.

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Non-trade union forms of employee representation in the Polish system of industrial relations

Niezwiązkowe formy reprezentacji pracowników w polskim systemie stosunków przemysłowych

Author(s): Katarzyna Skorupińska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: industrial relations; trade unions; European works councils; employees councils; labour relations

Trade unions in Poland are the basic form of representation of employee interests. Apart from the trade unions, there are many other forms of representation of employees in an enterprise. First of all, one can mention employees councils, representations in cases of work health and safety, employee representatives on supervisory boards or representatives appointed ad hoc to resolve specific issues together with employers. Furthermore, employees have the right to participate in representative forms of participation also in the Community-scale enterprises. The main objective of this paper is to present the non-trade union forms of employee representation found in the Polish industrial relation system and to determine relations between these forms and trade unions.

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Analysis of labour output in agricultural farms in 2010 in comparison to 2002

Analiza nakładów pracy w gospodarstwach rolnych w 2010 roku w porównaniu do 2002 roku

Author(s): Antoni Mickiewicz,Bartosz Mickiewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: labor output; kind of works; AWU; employment in agricultural farms

The paper presents analysis of labor output in agricultural farms between agricultural indexes in 2002 and 2010. The research works show that labor output increased a little in the analyzed period (4.5%). The increase of employment took place together with the change of production technology, increase of its intensification, better preparation of raw materials for sale and rough products for processing, lower market requirements and increase of production in ecological farms. On the other hand labor output measured in AWU (Annual Work Unit) decreased from 2191.7 thousand AWU in 2002 to 20526 thousand AWU in 2010 (6.4%). The labor output calculated in AWU per one farm increased in that period.

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Income of typical dairy farms in the European Union in 2011

Dochody typowych gospodarstw mlecznych w UE w 2011 roku

Author(s): Ewa Kołoszycz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: farm income; entrepreneur’s profit; decoupled payment

The research was conducted on a group of typical dairy farms in the European Union, using data from 2011. It shows that the majority of farms achieved a positive net income from dairy cattle breeding. Half of the analyzed farms covered the full costs of dairy production using extra payments which were not connected with this production. The results show that out of 28 surveyed farms only 5 were able to cover the full cost of dairy farming without the support of extra payments and the farm made profit from the milk production.

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The eastern border of Poland from outskirts and isolation to co-operation

Wschodnia granica Polski. Od peryferii i izolacji do współdziałania

Author(s): Arkadiusz Malkowski / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: border areas; border of the European Union; cross border co-operation; competitiveness

Processes connected with globalization and regional integration create new challenges for border regions. This is due to the fact that the integration processes in the contemporary economy have increasing influence on the competition between border regions. A special role in the investigations on the development of areas which are divided by a border is played by the area of eastern borderland of Poland. The border regions, for years treated as peripheral and declining, are currently becoming areas of a more and more robust economic growth. This does not, however, apply to every border region. Cross-border location, communication routes and proximity of foreign markets do not always constitute factors of accelerated development.

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ENVIRONMENTAL STRATEGIES OF ENTERPRISES ON THE INTERNATIONAL MARKETS

Strategie ekologiczne przedsiębiorstw na rynkach międzynarodowych

Author(s): Anetta Kuna-Marszałek / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: sustainable development; problems of environmental protection; environmental strategies; enterprise internationalization

The purpose of this article is to present issues of proactive environmental strategies of companies operating on the international market. We determine the meaning and concepts commonly used in environmental strategies to show the attitude of environmental corporate social responsibility, determinants of its implementation, and the most important ways to implement the principles of environmental protection to the business philosophy.

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Differences in the development of poviats of west Pomeranian Voivodeship

Zróżnicowanie rozwoju powiatów województwa zachodniopomorskiego

Author(s): Grażyna Karmowska / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: regional development; regions’ convergence; diagnostic variables

This paper attempts to assess the economic and social potential of local government units at the second level of Polish administrative division called poviat. On the basis of the variables tested, no conditional convergence was found between the poviats of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. Diversification of Polish regions is characterized by high persistence as each of their socio–economic characteristics reinforces the other ones. The range of possible directions of development depends strictly on the present authorities of poviats and regions. Being aware of the potential is important not only for poviats themselves but also for all cooperating institutions.

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Economic policy of the government and the European Union towards coastal regions and its influence upon the development of maritime tourism in Poland

Polityka gospodarcza rządu i Unii Europejskiej wobec regionów nadmorskich i jej wpływ na rozwój turystyki morskiej w Polsce

Author(s): Joanna Kizielewicz / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: maritime policy; maritime tourism

Maritime tourism is considered as one of fast developing segments of the tourist market in recent years. The development of maritime tourism is determined by a variety of factors, but the legislative considerations are the most important. The lawmaking lies within the competence of the bodies of the European Union and Polish parliament. The purpose of the article is the analysis of the activities taken by the Polish government and the institutions of the European Union in terms of the space management and development of the coastal regions and the assessment of the impact of these activities on the development of marine tourism in Poland. The research was conducted using a method of critical analysis, a comparative analysis and literature research of the available Polish and foreign literature, and also law regulations and reports.

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The role of EU funds in the financing of sustainable development on the example of Łodź Voivodeship municipalities

Rola funduszy unijnych w finansowaniu zrównoważonego rozwoju na przykładzie gmin województwa łódzkiego

Author(s): Magdalena Ślebocka,Aneta Tylman / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: sustainable development; local financing; EU funds

This article points to the importance of sustainable development in global and EU policy, highlighting the priority of sustainable development for further local development. The purpose of this article is to draw attention to the impossibility of financing sustainable development policy at the local level (taking as an example municipalities in Łódź Voivodeship) without financial support from the EU funds. The purpose of this article is also to indicate the need to verify the assumptions of the operational programs that benefit local government, in connection with the opportunities of financing sustainable development needs.

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Self-employment during the economic slowdown in Poland

Samozatrudnienie w okresie spowolnienia gospodarczego w Polsce

Author(s): Bogusława Puzio-Wacławik / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: self-employment; economic slowdown; form of employment

Self-employment is an alternative form of employment that belongs to the socalled atypical forms of employment benefits. It is for people who are not able to find employment or are unable to accept available jobs, with their professional aspirations. This is a particularly attractive way of functioning and earning during the economic downturn. The article presents the most important rules and concepts of self-employment in Poland, the advantages and disadvantages of this form of employment, as well as the status and dynamics. The statistical data allowed for the analysis of the phenomenon and checking how developed a number of self-employed during the economic slowdown.

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Food processing in poland in the times of eu membership – condition and perspective

Sytuacja ekonomiczna przetwórstwa spożywczego w Polsce w okresie członkostwa w UE – stan i perspektywy

Author(s): Marek Wigier / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: food processing; economic and financial situation; agricultural policy effects

Polish food industry is growing fast, it shows high resistance to the phenomenon of the crisis, and its economic and financial situation is good. Such a situation can be explained by rising export and high demand on the internal market. International competitiveness of Polish food producers is high thanks to domestic and foreign funds. Polish producers are competing on the market with price and quality, more rarely with innovative products. Probably Polish food industry will be able to benefit from the EU aid funds for the last time in the period 2014-2020. The aim of this paper is a brief presentation of the most important processes and structural changes that have taken place in the Polish food industry in terms of production, investment and foreign trade as well as the analysis of the role played by public funds in these transformations and the presentation of the sector development directions.

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Economic instruments of space management on the local level

Instrumenty ekonomiczne zarządzania przestrzenią na poziomie lokalnym

Author(s): Sławomira Hajduk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: planning payment; adiacent payment; local spatial management plan; urban development payment; budget of the community

The current system of space management requires not only the obligation to prepare planning studies, but also the determination of the financial consequences of the adopted documents. The article refers to the economic management instruments at the local level and presents their classification.

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Analysis of efficiency coefficients of public universities

Analiza współczynników efektywności uczelni publicznych

Author(s): Zbigniew Mongiało,Michał Świtłyk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: public universities; efficiency; DEA; SFA

The aim of this study is to measure the relationship between the efficiency coefficients of public universities subordinate to the supervision of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and investigated hallmarks of selected universities. The time range of research covered the years 2001-2010. The research in 2001-2002 included 57 universities in 59 university years 2003-2008 and 2009-2010, 58 universities. The universities which investigated the effectiveness ratios were calculated using the method of DEA and SFA method. The highest multiple correlation coefficient was observed for the measured efficiency ratios SFA model 2 TOTAL STUDENTS (SO_SFA_M2). The highest rank correlation coefficient was observed for the measured efficiency depending on the model 2 SFA RESEARCH − TEACHING (“BAD_DYD_SFA_M2”) and the number of students. The highest correlation coefficients were characterized by curvilinear relationship between the number of students and the measured efficiency ratios SFA model 2 TOTAL STUDENTS (“SO_SFA_M2”). The analysis of the parabolic and hyperbolic regression models show that big universities are most likely to achieve the highest rates of efficiency.

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New approach the regional strategic planning (as an example of Podkarpackie Voivodeship)

Nowe podejście do regionalnego planowania strategicznego (na przykładzie województwa podkarpackiego)

Author(s): Andrzej Miszczuk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 307/2013

Keywords: strategic planning; Cohesion Policy; European Union; Podkarpackie Voivodeship

The aim of the paper is to present European and domestic conditions of new regional strategic planning in Poland in the period 2014-2020. Using an example of Podkarpackie Voivodeship, the author analyses methodology of creating updated regional development strategy.

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