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New examples of small Polish structures
We answer some questions from a paper of Krupi\'nski by giving suitable
examples of small Polish structures. First, we present a class of small Polish
group structures without generic elements. Next, we construct a first example
of a small non-zero-dimensional Polish -group
Inter-firm cooperation in a transitional economy: Comparative experience in two Polish regions.
After the collapse of the communist system in 1989, Poland embarked on the transition to a market economy. One of the main issues of the transformation is the creation of a strong private sector in the economy. The privatisation of state-owned enterprises has encountered considerable problems and lags behind expectations, whereas newly established small and medium-sized firms already play an important role both in terms of employment and output. These new firms, however, face problems which are peculiar to the transitional environment as well as difficulties which are similar to those experienced by small and medium-sized firms in more mature market economies. In response to these problems, Polish authorities and foreign donors are implementing support structures for small and medium enterprises which are based on Western models. Drawing on evidence from two Polish regions, this thesis compares the acceptance of these imported structures with cooperation structures that endogenously evolved between local enterprises. Apart from other local initiatives, two regional chambers of commerce serve as examples for transplanted support structures. Their role in the business environment is evaluated on the basis of a questionnaire survey among their members. This evidence is then contrasted with examples of informal inter-firm cooperation examined in four case studies. The social and economic relations between firms in these case studies are analysed following the embeddedness concept as developed by Granovetter (1985). The thesis argues that the import of formal institutions from Western market economies meets with difficulties regarding credibility and acceptance, since they reflect the specific conditions in the economies in which they evolved. Thus, the institutional support for small and medium-sized enterprises in Poland should take into account the case-specific structures of the business environment, which are rooted in the distinctive features of the transition process in general and of the regional situation in particular
Architecture of Poland as the Heritage of the Past in the Present. Castles, palaces and mansions, historic cities
The present book “Poland – History, Culture and Society. Selected Readings” is the third edition of a collection of academic texts written with the intention to accompany the module by providing incoming students with teaching materials that will assist them in their studies of the course module and encourage further search for relevant information and data. The papers collected in the book have been authored by academic teachers from the University of Łódź, specialists in such fields as history, geography, literature, sociology, ethnology, cultural studies, and political science. Each author presents one chapter related to a topic included in the module or extending its contents. The book contains the extensive bibliography
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The regulation of agricultural biotechnology in Poland and the obstacles to EU compliance
Transition and accession have necessitated the establishment of a regulatory framework for agricultural crop biotechnology in Poland. This paper examines the
theoretical and practical difficulties of complying with EU requirements. The first part of the study utilises evolutionary theory and path dependency to describe how policy makers interpret the requirements of accession through established conceptual models. Secondly the paper examines how accession programmes may alter path dependent trajectory but is simultaneously introducing or importing models which are fundamentally incompatible with national capabilities. Data presents the preaccession capacity building programmes and the import of German expertise as
examples. The final section examines the issue of capacity and in particular, financial capacity, and uses this underlying theme to explore in detail why incompatibilities arise and why EU compliance is presented with certain obstacles
The syntax of slavic predicate case
In this article I provide a syntactic framework for case patterns found in Slavic secondary predicates
Turbulence, amalgamation and generic automorphisms of homogeneous structures
We study topological properties of conjugacy classes in Polish groups, with
emphasis on automorphism groups of homogeneous countable structures. We first
consider the existence of dense conjugacy classes (the topological Rokhlin
property). We then characterize when an automorphism group admits a comeager
conjugacy class (answering a question of Truss) and apply this to show that the
homeomorphism group of the Cantor space has a comeager conjugacy class
(answering a question of Akin-Hurley-Kennedy). Finally, we study Polish groups
that admit comeager conjugacy classes in any dimension (in which case the
groups are said to admit ample generics). We show that Polish groups with ample
generics have the small index property (generalizing results of
Hodges-Hodkinson-Lascar-Shelah) and arbitrary homomorphisms from such groups
into separable groups are automatically continuous. Moreover, in the case of
oligomorphic permutation groups, they have uncountable cofinality and the
Bergman property. These results in particular apply to automorphism groups of
many -stable, -categorical structures and of the random
graph. In this connection, we also show that the infinite symmetric group
has a unique non-trivial separable group topology. For several
interesting groups we also establish Serre's properties (FH) and (FA)
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