The paper discusses the relationship between regional integration and capital mobility in the world economy. The experiences of the EU, NAFTA and AFTA are used to support the thesis that the level of advancement of ...

European Works Councils are a form of indirect employee participation which realize the right to information and consultation among employees in transnational companies. They are an extremely important institution of ...

The conception of sustainable development applies to all spheres of human activities since natural environment, which undergoes changes all the time, constitutes space of life for human race. One of human activities ...

Technology and innovation belong to most important factors stimulating competitiveness in the microeconomic and regional level. The aim of the paper is to analyze and evaluate the level of innovation and technological ...

The study assesses the level of socio-economic development in the voivodeship of Łódź in years 2000-2006 and compares it with the situation of the Polish economy. Data analysis allows us to conclude that GDP per capita ...

The paper discusses the question how the horizontal approach to industrial policy adopted by the European Commission is reflected by shifts in trends of state aid allocation in the EU member states (reorientation ...

The study aims at presenting change tendencies in employment and unemployment in the Łódź voivodeship and in its poviats between 1999 and 2007. Analysis shows that total employment in the voivode ship decreased by 19% ...

The study primarily intends to show major tendencies occurring in the Polish labour market, as well as their determinants, vis-à-vis EU labour markets. Particularly interesting are tendencies that characterise ...

Globalization process became the challenge. It can be associated with advantages, chances and opportunities that are brought for the whole world, main “actors” – transnational corporations and each country. From the ...

In the light of new institutional economics and the history of transformation, the nature of social change becomes an issue of primary importance. To explain this phenomenon, the new institutional economics has turned ...