Globalisation as the Determinant of Regional Development Management in the European Union

• Authors: Małgorzata Michalewska-Pawlak

Abstracts

EN

RESEARCH OBJECTIVE: The aim of this article is to explain why the European Union perceives globalisation as the challenge for its regional development and how this assumption influences on regional development management. THE RESEARCH PROBLEM AND METHODS: The research problem concerns the issue of globalisation as the process which is estimated by the EU as the opportunity and challenge for its regional development at the same time. As a result the EU develops multi-level political system in which, along sovereign states, there are transnational and subnational political actors which have been engaged in regional development management. The research methods used in the study consist of an institutional and legal analysis of the major policy documents, actors and regional development management instruments that they use. THE PROCESS OF ARGUMENTATION: The introduction presents the principal methodological assumptions concerning the analysed research area, the applied conceptual approach and the research methods. The main body of the article discusses why the European Union perceives globalisation as the challenge and opportunity for regions’ competitiveness. RESEARCH RESULTS: The analysis shows that the scope of competences of the EU with regard to regional development management was laid out in the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union; however, the globalisation affects the formulation of strategic directions of EU actions in this area and implementation of relevant interventions of the European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund. CONCLUSIONS, INNOVATIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: In accordance to the European Commission globalisation creates conditions and challenges in the scope of regions’ economic development. In order to prepare the regions for global competitiveness in the EU, authority is spread among different decision making and implementing levels which have the sources and knowledge required in the process of increasing regions’ competitiveness.

Keywords

PL

konkurencyjność; Unia Europejska; globalizacja; zarządzanie wielopoziomowe; region

EN

competitiveness; European Union; globalisation; multi‑level governance; region

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Horyzonty Polityki
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 39
• Pages: 25-39

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Małgorzata Michalewska-Pawlak

• Uniwersytet Wrocławski

• https://orcid.org/0000000313711242

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Identifiers

DOI

10.35765/hp.2019

Biblioteka Nauki

2231636