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The sanctuary as a means of organizing urban space: a case study of selected sanctuaries in Poland
(Versita, 2012-01-31)
This paper attempts to show that a sanctuary can alter urban space. A sanctuary is a very special place because of its religious nature and attracts both pilgrims and tourists. The spatial structure of a sanctuary is ...
Is there a growing social acceptance of earnings inequalities in Poland?
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
In our studies, we deal with the estimating of the optimal ranges of earnings – the optimal Gini indexes which are favourable to the maximisation of GDP growth in Poland. We suspect that the optimal Gini coefficients ...
Badanie jakościowe w instytucjach dwujęzycznych – studium przypadku przedsiębiorstwa z sektora bankowego
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
Social sciences witness a steady interest in cross-cultural studies. Therefore, awareness of limitations and consequences of use of different languages in scientific research is crucial to its implementation. This paper ...
Changes in the Number and Capacity of Hotels in Poland
(Lodz University Press, 2018-03-01)
The author’s aim is to identify changes in the rate, intensity and direction of hotel development, as well as their number, type and capacity of in Poland, by category and province in 1990-2015. The objective is to define ...
Murals as a Tourist Attraction in a Post-Industrial City: A Case Study of Łódź (Poland)
(Lodz University Press, 2018-03-01)
The article presents the development of Łódź murals in the 21st c. and the opinions of the participants of tours organized in 2014 by the Urban Forms Gallery. Their objectives include saturating the urban fabric with street ...
Pro-Ecological Hotel Policies as Assessed by Guests
(Lodz University Press, 2018-03-01)
The purpose of the research was to learn whether pro-ecological policies are important to guests staying at hotels. It is based on a survey of 274 guests staying at 23 hotels in Poland. Research has shown that 32.1% of ...
Budżet obywatelski województwa małopolskiego
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2018)
A participatory budgeting is a form of direct democracy, which in Poland has been gaining more and more popularity and is used in many local government units. The purpose of this article is, on one hand, to present the ...
Ocena skuteczności modelu Beneisha w wykrywaniu manipulacji w sprawozdaniach finansowych
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
The aim of this study is to verify whether Beneish M‑Score model can be useful in detecting Polish companies involved in earning management practices that lead to adverse or disclaimer of auditors’ opinion. The sample ...
Nadzór nad rynkiem finansowym w Polsce a ochrona konsumenta
(Wydział Ekonomiczno Socjologiczny, 2019)
Celem niniejszego artykułu jest analiza nadzoru nad rynkiem finansowym w Polsce, porównanie możliwych koncepcji oraz odniesienie ich do ochrony konsumenta. Autor postanowił za pomocą przeglądu literatury i aktów prawnych ...
Porównywalność sprawozdań ze zmian w kapitale własnym na przykładzie spółek notowanych na GPW w Warszawie
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2019)
The aim of the paper is to assess the comparability of the structure and content of statements of changes in equity of listed companies and to propose some solutions to increase this comparability. Two research methods ...
Price dispersion and online markets maturity in Poland
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
This paper is dedicated to the issue of persistent price dispersion in real markets in the context of Polish online market development. The two channels of retail (online and offline) are observed and compared with regard ...
Kierunki migracji emerytów w Polsce
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2017)
Population ageing and migrations are currently the most popular research topics. However, not many researchers combine those two matters, conducting researches only on migrations of elderly people. The following article ...
Usługi w polskiej literaturze przedmiotu. Ujęcie chronologiczno-tematyczne
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014)
In Polish works from the fields of geography of services one can rarely find attempts of holistic approaches to its achievements from various points of view, formulated opinions, or updated information on its achievements. ...
Powstawanie miast w „strefach bezmiejskich”
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
The purpose of this article was to clarify fundamental models for organizing urbanization process inside of ‘non-urban zones’ in Poland. This question is analyzed in the context of both urban-forming forces, the centripetal ...
Morawianie (Morawcy) w Polsce
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
The paper aims to characterise the Moravian population (Moravs) who lives within the boundaries of Poland as a result of 20th-century territorial changes. Representatives of this group differ in their language (Lach dialect) ...
Poglądy w kwestii potrzeby oraz zakresu edukacji kobiet panujące w drugiej połowie XIX i na przełomie XIX i XX wieku
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
In the Kingdom of Poland, after the January Insurrection was crushed, many upper-class women were forced to support themselves because of the economic situation; there was therefore a heated discussion, among others in the ...
Stowarzyszenie Żydów-Chrześcijan w Polsce i dobroczynna działalność anglikanów w międzywojennej Polsce
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
Association of Jewish Christians was established in 1930. The aim of this initiative was an agreement between the two missions of the Church of England, which operated in interwar Poland, London Society for Promoting ...
Norms of Reciprocation Exhibited by Polish Students in the Trust Game: Experimental Results
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016)
Norms of reciprocity and the level of generalised trust are components of the social capital of a society, which is argued to be associated with economic growth. This article presents results from a large scale study of ...
Przestrzenne zróżnicowanie przemian demograficznych w Polsce w latach 2002‒2011Przestrzenne zróżnicowanie przemian demograficznych w Polsce w latach 2002‒2011
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2014)
Contemporary demographic processes in Poland can be seen in the context of the process of suburbanisation leading to concentration of the population in the outer metropolitan areas and in terms of the theory of the second ...
Transaction Costs and Export Intensification – The Cases of Poland and Hungary
(Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016-12-18)
The purpose of this paper is to explain if and how foreign sales are affected by the level of transaction costs within industries in Poland and Hungary. The main hypotheses reflect the potential correlation for different ...