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The basic principle of public authorities is to act in accordance with the law. This is also true of local self-governmental bodies. This principle is sometimes not respected, though, as the Supreme Audit Office has diagnosed in its report on the location and construction of wind farms. In her article, the author attempts to determine at which stages of the investment process a supervision interference of the voivode (the governor of the region at the self-government level) is allowed, aimed at eliminating malpractices and at making things compliant with the law again.
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The first decade of the 21st century saw a dynamic development in ATM networks. This was refl ected in the growth of the number of ATMs and number of withdrawals. However, in the beginning of the second decade, a slowdown in the dynamic development of this part of the banking system has been observed in Poland. The signifi cant reduction of interchange (which is the main source of revenue for ATM network deployers) and growing availability of cashless payments tempered a further intensive development of these networks. Over the next 3 years, this regression was refl ected in the declining number of withdrawals from ATMs and the insignifi cant growth of the number of ATMs. Therefore, ATM owners are forced to search for new solutions that could guarantee more profi ts. One way is the suitable choice of locations for new ATMs and removal of ATMs from non-profi table locations. In this paper, the authors have attempted to indicate the locations with the largest number of withdrawals on the basis of the number of withdrawals from the ATMs of the one of the largest ATM network deployers. The ATMs with the largest number of withdrawals are sources of the largest profi ts due to interchange. The authors have also indicated those locations where ATMs can be a source of losses.
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The paper reviews empirical studies on how various location factors influence foreign direct investment (FDI). The author focuses on some recent research and takes into account determinants such as market size, market growth, labor costs, labor quality, openness to trade, geographic distance, taxes, country risk, and corruption. These factors do not represent a closed set of factors that affect FDI location decisions, but are most frequently considered, Wawrzyniak says. Research theories list many factors that can influence the location of FDI. These include economic determinants (that depend on the type of FDI) as well as the policy framework for FDI and business facilitation. Moreover, these FDI determinants tend to change over time, Wawrzyniak says, and some of them, such as privatization of transition economies, are particularly important to some countries and regions. Empirical studies on the impact of various determinants on the location of FDI are inconclusive because different authors have reported different results. Some researchers say that a specific factor has a positive influence on FDI, while others argue the opposite. Still others believe that this particular factor is statistically insignificant. However, not all the potential determinants of FDI are equally controversial, Wawrzyniak says. The results of empirical research on different location factors show a varying level of consistency. They are generally more consistent in the case of factors such as market size and less consistent in the case of labor costs, for example.
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2011
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vol. 6
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issue 1
99-108
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Investments are crucial in creating economic growth and development on national and regional level. Specific kind of investments are foreign investments. Above their impact on labour market and economic entities of a host country, they also contribute to transfers of technology, methods of management and indirectly to quality of products and services. The aim of the article is to identity the level of interdependence between location of enterprises with foreign capital and regionally diversified level of economic development in Poland. The conducted analysis was based on utilisation of data concerning the number of economic entities with foreign capital in regions (NUTS 2) of Poland as well as the number of people employed in enterprises with foreign capital, that were collated with GDP per capita of regions. Empiric findings brought to the conclusion that location of enterprises with foreign capital was concentrated in regions of Western Poland and in Mazowieckie voivodship. At the lowest pitch enterprises with foreign capital concerned regions of Eastern Poland. The analysis revealed high statistical dependency between concentration of employed in economic entities with foreign capital in Polish regions and GDP per capita ofthat regions. More enterprises with foreign capital were located in regions with higher GDP per capita as well as more workers were there employed. In 2007 GDP per capita explained 84.89 per cent of spatial distribution of economic entities with foreign capital (measured by the number of workers). Additionally, the described phenomenon was growing in size through the last years (mostly due to Mazowieckie voivodship).
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Process of planning the location of enterprises still lacks the method allowing for combining spatial analysis with the competitiveness analysis of the industries or their clusters, while taking into account the competitive position and competitive potential. The purpose of the study is to create a new methodical pattern in the location analysis of the company based on regional strategic groups, and to show the possibilities and limitations of the proposed tool’s application, supporting location decisions on the example of food industry companies in NUTS 2 level regions in Poland. The study included medium and large enterprises of the food industry in 2013. This paper contains an attempt of application of a modified McKinsey matrix for spatial analyses, using the investment attractiveness indexation of regions. The suggested modification of McKinsey matrix is a new proposal in this respect, while at the same time being an attempt to solve the problem of the management. Regional strategic groups analysis allows one to propose possible strategic actions for businesses, which helps to solve the problem of location management of group of companies, including regional clusters. It is worth noting that the proposed instrument also contributes to the actions of the local government units (regions), concerning the adaptation of investment offer to the needs of business entities.
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2020
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vol. 30
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issue 1
95-103
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The choice of location is one of the key economic decisions for hotel owners. In modern economics traditional premises are increasingly questioned, and assumptions are often made involving imperfect competition, limited rationality of behavior, and the incomplete scope of information or the inability to use it effectively. This is also reflected in the theory of location within which a behavioral trend has been developed assuming the occurrence of non-economic, subjective factors in making location decisions. The aim of the paper is to identify behavioral factors in hotel location in Opolskie Province in Poland. The paper uses four main research methods: literature review, documentation, diagnostic survey and individual case studies. The study results confirm the importance of the behavioral approach in the process of selecting a location for independent hotels in Opolskie Province, involving the choice of secondary or primary locations. In the latter case, the decision-making process is based entirely on behavioral factors or is supplemented by them in situations where an objective approach is not connected with decision-making certainty. Behavioral factors such as intuition, emulation, experience, place of origin and residence, individual cases and the influence of others should be regarded as highly significant.
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Behawioralna teoria lokalizacji podkreśla duże znaczenie ograniczonej racjonalności i su-biektywnego postrzegania przestrzeni w wyborze lokalizacji działalności gospodarczej. W artykule omówiono kluczowe koncepcje z zakresu behawioralnej teorii lokalizacji. Zdaniem autorów, behawioralna teoria lokalizacji jest raczej komplementarna niż konkurencyjna w stosunku to podejścia neoklasycznego czy współczesnego, ponieważ pozwala wyjaśnić od-stępstwa decydentów od zachowań optymalizacyjnych.
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The behavioural location theory emphasises high importance of the limited rationality and the subjective perception of space in selecting of the location for a business activity. The article discusses key competencies from the scope of behavioural location theory. Ac-cording to the Authors, the behavioural location theory is rather complementary than competitive in relation to the neoclassical or modern approach, as it allows to explain the deviations of the decision-makers from the optimisation behaviour.
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This study aims to show how the polarisation of the economic space can modify the investment attractiveness of the regional space. A thesis has been put forward that the polarisation of the economic space affects the investment attractiveness of the regional space by strengthening the polarising power of the regions with the highest investment attractiveness. This study uses the results of the parameterisation of investment attractiveness of Polish regions for 2015 by gmina; it also identifies growth poles in four five-year time periods: 2008–2012, 2009–2013, 2010–2014, and 2011–2015. The study shows that the permanent growth poles are created at a distance of several dozen kilometres from large cities. It indicates the depletion of development reserves of large and medium-sized cities, especially those with extensive space management. Smaller centres are gaining location attractiveness, especially those located in the vicinity of communication routes, where access to investment areas and lower costs of running a business attract investors. Special economic zones are also located in such places. The poles and their clusters usually form large agglomerations and industrial centres in the development phase. They are usually places with high investment attractiveness, adjusted by management decisions of large enterprises, local government units and the state government. The polarisation of the economic space affects the increase of the investment attractiveness of the regions, strengthening the succession of economic production and service functions in special economic zones. Investments in road infrastructure and revitalisation processes supported by special economic zones are essential.
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The text aims to explore the economic and spatial strategies followed by artists who run micro-firms. The authors analyse results of a qualitative study of independent artist enterprises in Kraków. It reveals that motivations for artistic entrepreneurship are diverse and foremost linked with the need to overcome challenges artists experience in the labour market and in the market for cultural goods and services. Different strategies translate into particular location choices as well as varied visibility of such firms in urban space.
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2017
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vol. 46 EN
173-179
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One of the most interesting problems concerning human speech is the complicated two-way correlation between language and the brain. The present article attempts to answer the question how multilingualism is represented in people suffering from aphasia-spectrum disorders. What are the results of a brain stroke on speech centres? It should be noted that monitoring patients with aphasic speech disorders plays a significant role in understanding brain dysfunctions and is a source in creating models of learning processes and brain functions. The latest research into aphasia constitutes one of the few possibilities of getting answers to the question concerning the representation of language activity occurring in the brain. Does the theory postulating separate representation of various languages in different regions of the brain in a polyglot still find its supporters? The article explains the terms of multilingualism and aphasia, together with its causes. The remaining part of the article analyses the factors that play a significant role in the process of language restitution.
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Artykuł dotyczy lokalizacji nieruchomości o przeznaczeniu handlowym na terenie polskich województw. Nieruchomości o przeznaczeniu handlowym stanowią ważny instrument rozwoju regionalnego. Województwa są podzielone na te, na terenie których położone są obszary metropolitalne oraz te, w których obszary metropolitalne nie występują. W artykule przeanalizowano między innymi liczbę obiektów handlowych w poszczególnych województwach oraz liczbę przedsiębiorców zajmujących się działalnością handlową.
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The article introduces the concept of commercial - estate in polish regions. Commercial - estate are very important part of regional - development. Regions are instead of European Spatial Planning Observation Network divided to metropolital - regions and other regions. In article were submited numbers of commercial - objects in polish regions and numbers of commerce - businessmans in this regions.
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Celem opracowania jest charakterystyka i ocena lokalizacji przedsiębiorstw społecznych, w odniesieniu do porażki,trwałości i sukcesu przedsiębiorstwa, jak również refl eksja na temat dostępu do korzystnych lokalizacji. Pokazano także elementy procesu decyzyjnego, które wpływają na wybór konkretnej lokalizacji. W efekcie w artykule wskazano, jakie lokalizacje mogą budować przewagę konkurencyjną przedsiębiorstw społecznych i przyczyniać się do ich sukcesu – zarówno społecznego, jak i ekonomicznego. Opracowanie powstało na podstawie badań prowadzonych w przedsiębiorstwach społecznych w Polsce w latach 2012–2013.
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The aim of the paper is to assess the characteristics and location of social enterprises in respect of failure, stability and success of the enterprise, as well as a refl ection on access to preferred locations. The author also discusses the stages of the decision-making process which infl uence the selection of a specifi c location. As a result, the article indicates which locations can build a competitive advantage of social enterprises and contribute to their social and economic success. The study is based on research conducted in social enterprises in Poland in 2012–2013.
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The issue of the location of economic entities, which is crucial for economic geography, is becoming the object of ever more thorough analyses undertaken by the growing number of various academic disciplines, and especially those included in economic sciences, which paradoxically initiated this trend of research. This results from the cognitive interests of these disciplines, but also the needs of economic practice related to the perception of the complexity of conditions and the implications of the location of economic entities and its significance for their competitiveness. Each of the disciplines studying this issue does it a bit differently, and the analyses they make are a function of the academic identity of the researchers who conduct them. It is institutionally conditioned and determined by their education and practical experience, while the dynamically treated location theory plays a crucial role in its formation. However, the question remains whether the academic identity of the researchers of the location of economic entities shaped around this theory should be complex, nomadic or explicitly defined, and how the postulate of interdisciplinary investigation of location issues should be understood in this context.
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Dotychczasowe postrzeganie miejsca jako względnie trwałego, opartego na historycznych odniesieniach, na pamięci własnej i przodków, na więziach społecznych i interakcjach przebiegających w tej przestrzeni i czasie, dającego poczucie bezpieczeństwa i tożsamości wynikającej z praktyki a nawet osobistego zaangażowania, zmienia się. W tekście postawiona jest teza, że doświadczenia współczesnego świata nie pozwalają już na wąskie traktowanie miejsca ze względu na ich różnorodność. Miejsce, na skutek mobilności w różnych przestrzeniach (geograficznej, wirtualnej), zaczęło domagać się dostrzeżenia i szerszej interpretacji także w ujęciu pedagogiki. Celem tekstu jest próba prezentacji wybranych koncepcji miejsca, przykładów doświadczania miejsca oraz wynikających z ich nowości i różnorodności wyzwań dla pedagogów. Gdzie znajdują się współczesne miejsca? Jak są doświadczane? Czym się charakteryzują oraz jakie wyzwania dla pedagogów niosą nowe miejsca? – to wybrane pytania, które uzasadniają potrzebę podjęcia proponowanej problematyki.
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The previous perception of location as being relatively permanent, based on historical references, on one’s own memory and the memory of one’s ancestors, on social bonds and interactions occurring in a specific space and at a specific time, giving the sense of security and identity resulting from practice and even personal engagement, is currently changing. The hypothesis made in the text is that the diverse contemporary world experiences no longer make it possible to treat location from a narrow perspective. As a result of mobility in different (geographical or virtual) spaces, location had to be perceived and interpreted more broadly, also in the pedagogical context. The aim of the text is to present selected concepts of location, examples of experiencing location, as well as the resultant novelty and variety of challenges faced by pedagogists. Where are the contemporary locations? How are they experienced? What are their characteristics? And what challenges for pedagogists do they present? These are the selected questions that explain the need to discuss this issue.
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W artykule przedstawiono zarówno teoretyczne, jak i praktyczne aspekty działalności społeczno-gospodarczej w przestrzeni kraju, regionów i gmin. Zwrócono uwagę na formułowanie teorii lokalizacji i ładu przestrzennego w ekonomii przestrzennej, zawartych w głównych paradygmatach J.H. von Thünena, B. Webera, H. Hotellinga, W. Christallera i A. Lӧscha, a także w nowszych (współczesnych) teoriach W. Isarda, R. Sinclaira i C. Ronsarda. W dalszej części opracowania omówiono w zarysie teorie rozwoju przestrzennego-regionalnego i lokalnego. Na tej kanwie w artykule przedstawiono nowe aspekty planowania, ładu i polityki przestrzennej w Polsce, z uwzględnieniem szczebla krajowego, regionalnego (województw) oraz lokalnego (gmin i powiatów). W wyżej omawianej tematyce uwzględniono kompatybilne zagadnienia poprzedzające planowanie, tj. przygotowanie strategii rozwoju, a następnie założeń i wdrażania w praktyce gospodarczej polityki rozwoju regionalnego i lokalnego.
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The article presents both theoretical and practical aspects of socio-economic activity in the country, regions and municipalities. Attention is paid to the formulation of the theory of location and spatial order in spatial economy, contained in the main paradigms of J. H. von Thünen, A. Weber, H. Hotelling, W. Christaller and A. Lӧsch, as well as in the more recent (contemporary) theories of W. Isard, R. Sinclair, and C. Ronsard. In the next part of the study, theories of spatial development-regional and local-are outlined. On this basis, the article presents new aspects of planning, order and spatial policy in Poland, taking into account the national, regional (voivodeship) and local (municipalities and poviats) levels. In the above-discussed topic, compatible issues preceding planning were taken into account, i.e. preparation of a development strategy, and then the assumptions and practical implementation of regional and local development policy.
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There has been a considerable focus on ancient Egyptian letters due to the recognition of their importance as primary sources of social and historical knowledge. The personal correspondence from ancient Egypt exemplifies the extra knowledge such letters are able to provide. Their importance lies in their additional information regarding ancient Egyptian society – daily life, religious affairs, military achievements – in comparison with other types of visual and textual evidence. To illustrate this point the following study focuses on one of the few surviving letters from the Old Kingdom. It concerns a commander of troops’ com plaint in response to a communication from the chief justice and vizier ordering him to bring his battalion to receive their clothing.
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The article deals with praseological units that contain the lexemes diabeł ‘devil’ and diabelski ‘devilish’, excerpted from dictionaries of standard and dialectal Polish. The study is based on the assumption that a description of location as a languacultural category, manifest in these units, will be non-differential and panchronic; however, characteristic features of two languacultural areas (i.e., traditional folk culture and contemporary culture) are taken into account. In the phraseological units being investigated, the category of location appears either on the expression plane (it functions as a component of a given unit) or on the content plane (the place is the meaning of the unit), and its exponent is either a common noun or a proper name. Several aspects of the category of location, as it functions in the lexico-semantic field of "devil”, have been revealed: (i) the folk culture (spiritual culture, folk beliefs in demonology); (ii) location as a category that is evaluated and that is used in evaluation, in the context of the US–THEM opposition; (iii) cultural changes (in the city and in the country).
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Autorka poddała analizie frazemy z komponentem o znaczeniu ‘diabeł’ i ‘diabelski’, wyekscerpowane ze słowników dokumentujących polszczyznę dialektalną oraz ogólną odmianę polszczyzny (polszczyznę literacką). Założyła, iż opis miejsca jako kategorii językowo-kulturowej, uwidaczniającej się w tej grupie frazemów, będzie miał charakter niedyferencjalny oraz panchroniczny, starała się jednak uwzględnić zjawiska charakterystyczne dla każdego z dwóch obszarów językowo-kulturowych: tradycyjna kultura ludowa i kultura współczesna. W prezentowanych w artykule jednostkach kategoria miejsce występuje albo w planie wyrażania (nazwa miejsca jest komponentem frazemu), albo w planie treści (miejsce jest znaczeniem frazemu), jej wykładnikiem jest appellativum lub nomen proprium. Przeprowadzona analiza pozwoliła ukazać kilka aspektów funkcjonowania tej kategorii we frazemach z pola leksykalno-semantycznego diabeł: (1) dokumentacja kultury ludowej (kultury duchowej, wierzeń ludowych z zakresu demonologii), (2) miejsce jako kategoria wartościowana oraz wartościująca, z uwzględnieniem opozycji swoi – obcy, (3) ilustracja przeobrażeń cywilizacyjnych i zmian kulturowych (wieś i miasto).
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The article On the structure of gameworld in narrative video games proposes to introduce the term ‘ludotopia’ to Polish game studies in order to further compartmentalise the structure of video gameworld. Having reflected on the consequences of so-called world-centered turn in contemporary digital humanities, the author proceeds to defining archetypal structures that compose realities designed for the purposes of narrative video games, namely: locations and clusters of locations, the latter divided further into biomes and anthromes. The hierarchy introduced thereby is presented as an alternative for already influential (though, arguably, in transmedial world-building studies rather than game studies) trichotomy of mythos, topos, and ethos, as defined by Lisbeth Klastrup and Susana Tosca. In the end, the article cross-references the new structural hierarchy of ludotopographical components with a matrix of popular fantastic settings, seeking to delineate possible similarities between ludotopias and allotopias that would inform both game scholars and game designers on the ways of rapid prototyping of aesthetically diverse imaginary worlds.
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The aim of this article, entitled “Where does Poland lie? Construction of the geopolitical location of a state in Central Europe”, is to introduce the concept of country location, understood as governmental policy, redefining the geopolitical position of the country and its role in international relations, as framed by the processes of European integration. The author starts the analysis with the presumption that public diplomacy and nation branding are the basic tools of countries’ location. The hypothesis of the study says that although the very idea of location is deeply rooted in constructivism as a theory of international relations, it is not at odds with the realist approaches. To verify this hypothesis, the author confronts a country’s location with the concept of the “spatial turn” in social sciences. She elaborates on the cases of Poland and the Baltic states. The author presumes that centrally located Poland as a middle rank country is a case that is suitable for location. The author implements discourse analysis, indicating these narratives in discourse on politics in Poland after 2004, which consisted of orientational metaphors, shifting Poland from the east to the west, and then to the north. Eventually, the author coins the idea of a swinging location, illustrating it with Poland’s going back to Central Europe, “between the seas”.
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