Innovation Strategies and Productivity in the Polish Services Sector in the light of CIS 2008

Industry - and firm-level research into both innovations and productivity has long been limited to manufacturing. With this paper, we aim to contribute to the stream of literature that aims at extending the scope of such investigations to the services industry. To this end we analyze the innovation strategies in several service sectors in Poland in 2008 and examine their relationship to productivity. Our results show that service firms differ considerably in their innovation strategies, but that most of those strategies lead to productivity gains

Growth and Performance Factors in Polish Manufacturing Firms in 1998-2003 in the Light of Survey Data

We investigate possible factors of change in employment between 1998 and 2003 in 220 companies from four industries of Polish manufacturing (food, electronics, automotive and pharmaceuticals), that were subject to an enterprise survey. We also seek to explain the differences in performance among companies. We find that firms that were more competitive and more innovative laid off relatively less workers. Ownership status and history seem to be relevant factors too, as companies that were started as private businesses slightly increased employment, while the state-owned enterprises experienced proportionally the largest employment cuts; as for privatized companies, those taken over earlier performed better in terms of employment than those privatized later. However, econometric analysis of premia of early privatization and foreign ownership showed that only the latter factor played a significantly positive role for companies' revenues, productivity, profitability and the level of wages.employment, privatization, FDI, competitiveness, manufacturing

Identifying Vertical Product Differentiation in Three Polish Manufacturing Industries: an Enterprise Survey

The paper attempts to identify indirectly vertical product differentiation in three industries of Polish manufacturing (manufacture of glass and glass products, manufacture of other general purpose machinery and manufacture of other special purpose machinery) by examining how focus on a given group of customers (segment) is related to company characteristics. Changes in companies' segment orientation between 2002 and 2005 are examined and the factors of these changes are discussed. The analysis is based on a survey of 77 companies. The data support the hypothesis that there exist segments in the consumer goods market, defined by the income level of customers. In the capital goods market, it is shown that domestic-owned customers are the low-end segment of the market, whereas foreign-owned customers constitute a higher segment. It seems that industries producing capital goods have shifted towards higher market segments between 2002 and 2005 and their principal motive was the pressure exerted by competitors, both domestic and foreign.product differentiation, quality, competitiveness, manufacturing.

George Mousourakis, A Legal History of Rome, London–New York 2007, 282 strony.

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Międzynarodowa konferencja naukowa „Godność – od prawa rzymskiego do Karty z Nicei” Taranto – Monopoli 13–15 maja 2009 r.

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Ewa Gajda, Bożena Lubińska, Łacińska terminologia prawnicza. Ignorantia iuris nocet, pod red. naukową E. Gajdy, Dom Organizatora, Toruń 2014, 691 stron

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