Books that are noteworthy

Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World by Branko Milanovic. Belknap/Harvard University Press, 387 pages, 2019. People, Power, and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent, by Joseph Stiglitz, W.W. Norton & Co., 371 pages, 2019

Books that are noteworthy

For the current issue of our Journal, we have selected the books that might very well be highly educational, enter-taining, and joy to read. The first book offers simple sug-gestions on how to start your own – or family – business, and another how to learn from some key thought leaders for entire nation (the case of Israel) in our contemporary society

Entrepreneurship And Globalization: Overcoming Challenges And New Opportunities For Poland And China

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of emerging entrepreneurial initiatives in Poland and in China and to identify opportunities that arise through the promotion of entrepreneurship in an increasingly globally interconnected and interdependent world. The development of entrepreneurship occurs either as an individual or collective result of: comprehensive undertakings, strategies, training programs, specific promotional efforts such as for example creating technology parks, business incubators, replicating, coat-tailing, or simply implementing the best practices (or "benchmarking") as well as a plethora of other initiatives, inventions and industrious efforts.            In addition, by designing and developing pro-active and pro-business habits, as fostered by the recently initiated Global Entrepreneurship week, (since 2008) entrepreneurship is gaining more and more momentum and worldwide recognition and attention. At the same time, entrepreneurship also emerges through the bottom-up spontaneous initiatives of successful entrepreneurs - people who after having learned the hard way “the practice of entrepreneurship” may later on decide to devote a portion of their time and energy to teaching entrepreneurship in schools, community centers and sharing their practical experience, thereby enriching grass roots efforts.Finally, an attempt is made to sketch out some salient features and characteristics of an excellent entrepreneur; one who can be considered not just as a market leader or business hero, but as someone contributing to the success of a greater, common good of our increasingly interdependent global society

Trade and Procurement Reform in Poland and China: Responding to the Next Globalization Wave of Interdependent Economies

During the recent decades, China has achieved phenomenal economic growth - truly an unprecedented “development miracle”, as it is at times called.  Since the initiation of its reforms and an open door policy in 1978, China’s gross domestic product (GDP) has been consistently growing at an average annual rate ranging from 7-11 percent. In 2010, it has surpassed Japan and has become the world’s second-largest economy.   China's impressive sustainable economic growth coupled with pragmatic development policies and increasing integration into a global market make her a key player in the international trade arena.   China has an overall trade surplus not only with Poland and the US but also with many advanced and emerging economies of the world.  Over the period of the last decade, China’s exports and imports have been growing at a faster rate than the rate of world trade.   While China’s trade with the rest of the world has deepened, the structural and geographical patterns of its trade have also dramatically changed.  Most importantly, the share of imports by industrial countries accounted for by China has not only diversified but also has become more sophisticated.  Analysts and policy observers contend that the process of globalization will continue to accelerate and will in fact benefit China more than many other economies that are less export-oriented and less competitive.  Poland is still in the process of building a mature competitive and entrepreneurial market system, which China is in the process of perfecting.    Poland’s huge and growing trade imbalance with China is now posing an enormous challenge to the economic performance of the country buying more goods than it is capable to sell.  Sovereign debt of Poland, which also grows rapidly, poses a threat to its economy, while limited innovative solutions, such as creation of Special Economic Zones, (SEZ) are occurring at a rather slow pace in Poland in recent years.

Editorial Note

This current issue of the Business and Public Administration Studies introduces new Contributing Editors and new authors joining our Journal Committee as Board Members. Professor Billy Mae comes from White House and the Georgetown University teaching in the nation’s capital, of Washington DC. He has been actively helping promoting and marketing the Journal. Additionally, another welcome contributors are Dr. Marco Pani and Professor Frederic Sautet. The Journal introduces also an article by a dynamic young scholar Sergio Martinez Cotto. His article grew out of his final thesis

Public Procurement and Good Governance in Chinese and Polish Post-transition Experience

Many business practitioners and academic observers are in general consensus that during the recent transformation Poland and China emerged as the leading examples of successful, albeit distinctly different, economic reform paths. Both were painstakingly searching for an adequate set of policies (realizing soon that no simple, cookie-cutter approach, nor model, could be readily found). Both continued changing from a highly central, soviet-style, regulated economy to an open market economy. The transformation process quickly gained momentum and the spirit of entrepreneurship activity ensued. Thus China and Poland with their distinct reform policies provide a useful experience for comparative case study of transition economies

Books that are noteworthy

The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, by Martin Wolf, Penguin Press, 496 pp., 2023 Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Strug-gle Over technology and Prosperity, by Daron Ace-moglu and Simon Johnson, 2023 The Avoidable War: The Dangers of a Cata-strophic Conflict between the US and Xi Jinping's China Hardcover, by Kevin Rudd, 2022 Voluntary Insurance in the Process of Service Quality Improvement Jarosław Wenancjusz Przybytniowski, Wydawnictwo Rys: Poznan, Po-land (2023). ISBN: 978-83-67287-74-

Books that are noteworthy

The Pope and the CEO: John Paul’s Leadership Lessons to a Young Swiss Guard by Andreas Widmer, Emmaus Road Publishing, 152 pages, 2011, ISBN 978-1931018760.Good business: Catholic Social Teaching at Work in the Marketplace by Thomas O’Brien1, Elizabeth W. Collier and Patrick Flanagan; Anselm Academic Press, ISBN: 978-1-59982-169-6; 288 p., 2014