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The paper presents traditional and innovative solutions in managing flood risk in Poland. A short report on the problem of flood losses and presence of this risk in the world is the introduction to the above discussion. It constitutes one of the main dangers of catastrophic nature (right after earthquakes) which affect the modern humanity. The risk of earthquakes is at a relatively stable level, but...
The objective of the paper is presentation of the basic research approaches which significantly enhance designing the development of an organisation (activities of companies, institutions, larger systems). They constitute concepts of attitudes to problems in designing and, at the same time, express a specific research angle for creating future economic, organisational, technical and others solutions...
The European Commission pays great attention to the need of innovations in the area of research, development and education since this area remains behind in comparison with the advanced countries such as the USA and Japan. The upgrading of education in the way it is stressed by the resolutions of the Bologna Process points up the necessity of increasing the quality by emphasising the linking of science...
With the background of general characteristics of forests in Poland, the objective and scope of innovativeness has been discussed in economy, including forest economy, and in work safety management. Special attention has been paid to the specific nature of noxiousness of work in a highly varied work environment, which often times extremely unfavourably increases health risk, or even poses hazard to...
The objective of this paper was the analysis of the statistical data related to innovativeness of entrepreneurs from Poland and other European countries. The data from the GUS and the Eurostat have been used in the paper. The analysis showed that more centres of innovativeness are being established in the territory of Poland and these are more and more specialised units. Polish entrepreneurs rather...
Transformations in the world economy towards the economy based on know-how result in the situation where innovations are listed among the most important elements which give momentum to growth, especially in the age of sudden process changes and globalisation of competition which are noticeable. However, certain conducive conditions have to be present for innovations to come into existence. One of...
The museum in the modern world meets many needs of the youth, such as the need of aesthetic experience, deepening knowledge, need of pleasant and quality spending of free time. For this reason, the objective of this paper was analysing the educational offer in the context of its attractiveness and innovativeness, proposed by several selected museum facilities in Krakow. The largest facility was selected...
This paper analyses the values held by Protestants and Catholics residing in the countries of modern Europe. The objective was to find out whether there are significant differences in the values subscribed to by these two groups and whether there are any areas relevant to economic development. The study showed the existence of differences and the areas in which they are present have been classified...
The paper presents the key substantial and methodological aspects of motivation for work, with special attention paid to the analysis of classification of motivating factors. The selected, more important of them, have been described. A new approach to them has been presented in the form of the concept of trychotomy of motivating factors at work (i.e. in the environment, in the situation of work),...
Eco-innovativeness as a process of providing activities in companies which produce electricity is one of the elements allowing gaining competitive edge. The expenditures incurred for ecological innovations and the created conditions are translated into the produced added value. The crucial significance of eco-innovativeness is more and more often appreciated by the management. Optimisation of the...
Entrepreneurship and innovativeness constitute the fundamental premises of economic development and growth. Entrepreneurship as a personal feature of the unit improved in the education process may be effectively manifested under the appropriate legal and economic conditions. These conditions are shaped by the socially established decision system. The entrepreneur-innovator executes his/ her projects...
The paper presents the effect of the processes of liberalisation and deregulation of the postal services market on the local market of postal services of the former Tarnów Voivodeship (now the city of Tarnów, the Counties: Tarnów, Bochnia, Brzesko, Dąbrowa Tarnowska, Dębica). In particular, the terms of postal services and of the postal services market have been discussed, and then the further stages...
The objective of the paper is presentation of innovativeness in regional development in the aspect of the regional development concept. Under current conditions, the development conditions of individual regions on the basis of which the directions of development of particular voivodeships should be based become significant. Moreover, the development concepts are important for individual regions, on...
The objective of the paper is the discussion of the health care systems in selected countries. The paper presents the four basic models of health service, i.e. the Bismarck’s model, the Beveridge’s model, the residual model and the Siemaszko’s model. In the following part, the paper presents information on the deficit in the health care service in Poland, as well as the deficit in selected European...
This paper describes the structure and testing of econometric models of dependence in copper quotes and quotes of KGHM Polska Miedź SA stock on the basis of 6-month data from the London Metal Exchange (LME) and from the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE). The reasons for application of such models come from the high correlations between copper quotes in LME in US dollars (x) and KGHM quotes in Polish Zloty...
The theoretical outline of the issues which constitute the essence of corporate governance research is settled in the theories of the new institutional economics. The theory of contracts, the theory of agency, economy of transaction costs and the theory of rights of ownership are presented with the phenomenon of asymmetry of information which appears in various aspects of functioning of a company...
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