Corporate Philanthropy and Its Importance for the Competitiveness of Enterprises − a Review of Research

W literaturze pojawia się coraz więcej danych wskazujących, że filantropia korporacyjna przynosi takie korzyści, jak: wzrost sprzedaży i udziału w rynku, wzmacnianie pozycji marki, poprawa wizerunku, wzrost zdolności przyciągania, motywowania i zatrzymywania pracowników, spadek kosztów operacyjnych i wzrost przychodów, wzrost atrakcyjności dla inwestorów i analityków finansowych. W konsekwencji firmy zaangażowane w działania filantropijne dłużej utrzymują się na rynku i zwiększają swoją konkurencyjność. Artykuł prezentuje przegląd wybranych badań naukowych dotyczących tej problematyki.Monika Kwiecińsk

Corporate Foundation as a Tool for Achieving Corporate Social Goals

In Poland the number of corporate foundations has increased rapidly in recent years. Such non-profit entities, established by companies, have not only become more numerous but also become more significant for the founding company. This could be associated with the significance of the CCI concept (Corporate Community Involvement) and its popularity in Poland and around the world. It refers to financial, material and human contributions that companies provide to social initiatives in order to fulfil the social and economical needs and expectations of local communities in which they operate. In order to achieve this goal, the author points to theoretical findings and results of her own research project. The project was entitled "Corporate foundation as a tool for achieving corporate social goals" and was financed by the National Science Centre in Krakow. The research was conducted in May and June of 2012 through 50 interviews among 72 out of 86 actively operating corporate foundations in Poland and through 27 interviews with their founding companies. Additionally the websites of all 86 Polish corporate foundations and their founding companies were analysedW ostatnich latach w Polsce pojawiła się tendencja do tworzenia fundacji korporacyjnych. Takie właśnie organizacje non-profit, zakładane przez przedsiębiorstwa, są nie tylko coraz liczniejsze, ale też coraz ważniejsze. Tendencję tę można przypisać znaczeniu, jakie odgrywa w Polsce i na świecie koncepcja społecznego zaangażowania przedsiębiorstw (CCI z ang. Corporate Community Involvement). Odnosi się ona do zaangażowania przedsiębiorstw w inicjatywach społecznych poprzez udział finansowy, rzeczowy i zasoby ludzkie. Ma na celu zaspokojenie społecznych i gospodarczych potrzeb oraz oczekiwań społeczności, w których działają. Celem niniejszego opracowania jest przedstawienie wyników badań własnych otrzymanych w trakcie realizacji grantu, finansowanego przez Narodowe Centrum Nauki w Krakowie, pt.: "Fundacja korporacyjna jako narzędzie realizacji celów społecznych przedsiębiorstwa". W czasie realizacji badań własnych, udało się przeprowadzić 50 wywiadów skategoryzowanych wśród 72 zidentyfikowanych i aktywnie działających fundacji korporacyjnych w Polsce oraz 27 wywiadów z przedsiębiorstwami je tworzącymi. Badania przeprowadzono w maju i czerwcu 2012 roku. Dodatkowo przeanalizowano strony internetowe 86 fundacji i firm założycielskic

Commemorative conference for the Golden Jubilee of the Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IRWiR PAN)

A conference commemorating 50 years of existence of the Institute of Ruraland Agricultural Development of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IRWiRPAN) was held on 29 June 2022 in the Hall of Mirrors at the Staszic Palace inWarsaw

Fifty years of rural and agricultural research. The Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development at the Polish Academy of Sciences (1971–2022)

This article is based on the first section of the IRWiR PAN Jubilee Book titled 50 lat Instytutu Rozwoju Wsi i Rolnictwa PAN – Rys historyczny i współczesność (Fifty Years of the Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development at the Polish Academy of Sciences: A Historical Outline and the Present; pp. 11–89), of which I am a co-author, and my paper Obyś żył w ciekawych czasach (May You Live in Interesting Times), presented at the Jubilee Conference on 29 June 2022

The impact of the age structure of active population on agricultural activity rate: The case study of the Timok Krajina region

As agricultural activity is primarily linked to rural areas, negative demographic trends characterising them present as one of the basic factors of size and age structure changes in the agricultural population. On the other hand, the modernisation of agricultural production, combined with various stimulating mechanisms, impacts its attractiveness, thus influencing the number and age structure of agricultural producers. Change in the overall agricultural activity rate reflects these two processes, making it suitable to be analysed by quantification of effects that produce these changes by applying Das Gupta’s decomposition method. The Timok Krajina region is chosen as a characteristic example due to the recent and relatively significant rise in the overall activity rate in agriculture, in contrast to the national level, where a constant decline in this rate is present. This research focuses on the difference that occurred in the last intercensal period (between 2002 and 2011), aiming to determine the impact of changes in the age structure of the active population that performs an occupation on the change of overall activity rate in agriculture in the Timok Krajina region. The research results depict that the changes in activity rate in agriculture in the examined period almost completely occurred under the influence of demographic factors, while other factors, marked as the rate effects, had a symbolic impact

Gentrified countryside and non-gentrified countryside: Spatial dimension of the rural gentrification process

The subject of the paper is the process of rural gentrification in Poland. In Poland, this process has a special character. It began later than in the West and intensified in the last decade of the twentieth century. It resulted from two parallel processes endogenous and exogenous to the countryside. The rural middle class grew due to an increase in the level of education of the rural population (resulting from the “educational boom” after 1989) since a higher level of education entitles one to occupy a higher position in the social and professional structure. It was accompanied by the settlement of the urban middle class in rural areas. The paper identifies (based on literature and earlier own research) the features of rural gentrification in Poland. Based on them, the level of gentrification of rural communities was indicated, and in turn, the spatial extent of the rural gentrification process in Poland was defined

The impact of EU development policy on the governance capability of peripheral regions

The internal resource-based development of peripheral regions – which are still to be defined precisely and accepted universally – is a constant challenge for the European Union and the Member States, which is difficult to address in the form of a schematic recipe. An important aspect of this complex issue is the existence and success of local governance, which, based on its own internal characteristics alone, can mobilise a community, without which the chances of making further progres are bleak. Governance and the issue of peripheral regions together, at least at the EU level, are reflected in the EU’s development policy. This paper, based on the analysis of EU documents and the Hungarian local and regional experience, aims to investigate whether the European Union is able to assist peripheral regions to catch up, and if so, in what form and through what mechanisms, and what conditions and requirementsrelated to governance – may be necessary for successful catching up, which may at the same time lead to the success or failure of EU objectives

Stabilization of partial differential equations by noise

AbstractWe provide an example of a class of partial differential equations being stabilized (in terms of Lyapunov exponents) by noise. In particular, we show that the stability of the heat equation can be improved by adding a stochastic term to the equation. We also give an example of an unstable PDE made stable by noise