Quo Vadis, Business? The migration of companies between cities using the example of the Mazowieckie voivodship in Poland

• Authors: Magdalena Cybulska , Wojciech Dziemianowicz

Abstracts

EN

Relations between metropolitan core cities and regional and sub-regional centres are part of a broader discussion on the importance of metropolitan areas for the development of regions. These relations are dealt with in this paper in the context of the growth pole theory. The paper focuses on the migration process in relation to enterprises. By moving their businesses, companies contribute to backwash and spread effects. Since company migrations between municipalities occur in both directions, the question remains open as to which migration direction dominates – whether from sub-regional centres to core cities or vice versa. This paper attempts to verify the hypothesis that regional and sub-regional centres in the Mazowieckie voivodship suffer the largest loss of enterprises due to migration to the core city of Warsaw. The results obtained were varied and the hypothesis was confirmed, especially in the case of three cities: Siedlce, Radom and Płock; and partly in the case of Ciechanów.

Keywords

EN

Warsaw; regional city; sub-regional city; polarisation; migration of companies; net migration

• Publisher: Wydział Geografii i Studiów Regionalnych Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Miscellanea Geographica. Regional Studies on Development
• Year: 2020
• Volume: 24
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 218-231

Dates

published

2020

Contributors

author

Magdalena Cybulska

• Chair of Urban Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

author

Wojciech Dziemianowicz

• Chair of Urban Geography and Spatial Planning, Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

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