{"id":1486,"date":"2011-12-23T02:17:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T00:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsijournal.eu\/?p=1486"},"modified":"2021-01-20T13:25:05","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T11:25:05","slug":"activity-of-foreign-capital-owned-enterprises-in-poland-is-it-really-embeddedness-so-far-the-case-of-lodz-metropolitan-area-poland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/?p=1486","title":{"rendered":"ACTIVITY OF FOREIGN CAPITAL-OWNED ENTERPRISES IN POLAND \u2013 IS IT REALLY EMBEDDEDNESS SO FAR? THE CASE OF \u0141\u00d3D\u0179 METROPOLITAN AREA (POLAND)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>MARIUSZ E. SOKO\u0141OWICZ<\/h4>\n<h4>Department of Regional Economics and Environment, University of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a<\/h4>\n<h4>90-014 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, ul. Rewolucji 1905 r. no. 39<\/h4>\n<h4>Ph. D., Assistant Professor, University of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland<\/h4>\n<h4>sokol@uni.lodz.pl; http:\/\/www.region.uni.lodz.pl\/Mariusz_Sokolowicz.html<\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Abstract:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>This paper depicts the level of international capital flows attractiveness in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Metropolitan Area in Poland and identifies the key attractiveness\u2019 factors in the context of potential (or only hypothetical?) features that can decide about embeddedness of large, foreign capital-owned companies. From the point of view of the every territory\u2019s aspiration to build its long-term competitive advantage, it is worth considering whether it is better for a region to be a \u201ccontainer\u201d of cost-minimizing resources for foreign capital-owned enterprises or to offer a well developed environment, enhancing the innovative potential of both territory and its companies. A questionnaire-based research among foreign capital-owned companies having their subsidiaries located in the \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Metropolitan Area and employing more than 50 workers, has been conducted. It has revealed that among FDI location factors in this territory, cost factors definitely prevail. At the same time, one can observe relatively low importance of pro-efficiency location factors (except some elements of local educational offer), which could determine the potential for innovativeness of regional economy. Therefore, in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Metropolitan Area and probably in most of other Polish regions, a change of the character of pro-investment policy should be considered. This \u201cpolicy switch\u201d shall be directed towards building more efficient environment for stronger economic ties at the regional level. This also means a need of strengthening the institutional framework for innovation by human resources\u2019 development or development of research capacities of the public sector, which seems to be the most important aim for creating a potential for an effective \u201cmarriage\u201d of global R&amp;D network of TNCs with regional innovation system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/ARTICLES\/December_2011\/135-150.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARIUSZ E. SOKO\u0141OWICZ Department of Regional Economics and Environment, University of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a 90-014 \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, ul. Rewolucji 1905 r. no. 39 Ph. D., Assistant Professor, University of \u0141\u00f3d\u017a, Poland sokol@uni.lodz.pl; http:\/\/www.region.uni.lodz.pl\/Mariusz_Sokolowicz.html Abstract: This paper depicts the level of international capital flows attractiveness in \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Metropolitan Area in Poland and identifies the key attractiveness\u2019 factors in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,1],"tags":[107,87,109,110,44,108],"class_list":["post-1486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-published","category-uncategorized","tag-embeddedness","tag-foreign-direct-investment","tag-location-factors","tag-lodz-metropolitan-area","tag-regional-development","tag-territorialisation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3884,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486\/revisions\/3884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsijournal.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}