Local government as an entity supporting the development of entrepreneurship in the opinion of the representatives of the tourist and leisure industry in the Wielkopolska Province

• Authors: Basińska-Zych, Agata

Abstracts

EN

The paper focuses on the importance of local government in enterprise development, with particular emphasis on the opinions of the tourism and leisure industry. The main theoretical objective of the paper is to create an extensive analysis of municipal tools supporting entrepreneurship at the local level. The theoretical part of the article is illustrated by results of an empirical study concerning the evaluation of the local government’s activity in the enterprise development at the local level. To examine the entrepreneur’s opinions about how the local government is supporting entrepreneurship, the author conducted 208 diagnostic surveys with representatives of tourist and leisure business who, in majority, were leaders of non-governmental organizations and private enterprises. The rresearch was carried out between the years 2010 and 2011, in the area of 49 communes in the Wielkopolska Province, including 7 of the municipal type, 19 of the rural type, and 23 of the mixed type. Moreover, the results in the study were compared with the results of surveys that included 49 interviews with representatives of local authorities. On the basis of the analysis, two statements were made: 1) local authorities use different municipal tools supporting entrepreneurship on the local area; and 2) economic tools seem to have a dominant influence on the effective accomplishment of a local government’s activity in the field of enterprise development in the different types of communes. The article confirmed the above mentioned hypothesis and demonstrated statistically significant differentiation in the use of municipal tools supporting entrepreneurship by municipal, rural, and mixed communes in the Wielkopolska Province.

Keywords

EN

self-government interventionism; enterprise development; tourism; leisure; municipal tools supporting entrepreneurship; local government

• Publisher: Wyższa Szkoła Bankowa w Poznaniu
• Journal: Studia Periegetica
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 12(2)
• Pages: 125-149

Dates

published

2019-11-22

Contributors

author

Basińska-Zych, Agata