Artur Klimek

• Professor
• Professor at Wroclaw University of Economics and Business

Książka poświęcona jest rozmaitym aspektom powstawania, ekspansji oraz transformacji globalnych łańcuchów wartości w różnych regionach świata. Tezą monografii jest twierdzenie, że globalne łańcuchy wartości kształtują się pod wpływem procesów zachodzących w gospodarce światowej, determinujących kierunki rozwoju poszczególnych państw i regionów. Opr...

This paper links global value chain (GVC) integration and operations of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in the context of host economies upgrading. Economic upgrading is referred to as higher exported value added that has been generated in the domestic economy as a result of foreign direct investment (FDI). Particular attention is paid to the impa...

Zrównoważony rozwój opiera się na solidarności międzypokoleniowej i oznacza proponowanie rozwiązań, które jednocześnie gwarantują dalszy wzrost gospodarczy i aktywnie angażują w procesy rozwojowe wszystkie grupy społeczne, dając im możliwość czerpania z tego korzyści. Do osiągnięcia zrównoważonego rozwoju konieczna jest spójność trzech elementów: w...

The main objective of the paper is to investigate the extent to which inward foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced business services (ABS) – a result of so-called offshoring of white collar jobs – contributes to the structural change of employment in regions of host economies. We use a fixed-effect regression model based on cross-regional pan...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced business services (ABSs), referred to here as the offshoring of white-collar jobs, has become one of the major developments in the operations of multinational corporations (MNCs). However, a specific theoretical approach to this phenomenon has not been adequately defined. In this article, we have two obje...

This paper is aimed at investigating determinants of recent flows of foreign direct investment (FDI) into advanced business services (ABS) in the European Union with the distinction between “old” (till 2004) and “new” member states (after 2004 extension). Special attention is put on the Visegrád countries. The factors affecting location decisions o...

For many years, services attracted most of the foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central and Eastern European countries. Recently, a distinctive type of business services, i.e., advanced business services (ABS), has become the focal point in FDI in the region. This paper is aimed at defining the role of agglomeration economies in FDI in ABS in Pol...

The paper aims to present recent trends in global trade and investment in advanced business services (ABS). Special attention is given to the position of Visegrád countries in international movements of services and associated activities. The research method applied in the study is the statistical analysis of aggregate data on trade and FDI. The da...

The main goal of the paper is to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced business services sector on economic development. We analyse the topic on the regional level as FDI in Poland is not equally distributed across the country. In order to investigate the research problem we estimate linear regression model using pan...

The traditional approach to multinational corporations typically assumes that advanced economies are sources of foreign direct investment, while emerging economies are merely passive recipients of the foreign capital. This paper presents a new model of multinational corporations originating in emerging countries. The new approach assumes that headq...

The paper presents the results of in-depth analysis of the expansion pattern of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOE). The main aim of the paper was to define motives and influence of institutional environment on the foreign operations of those firms. The method applied in this paper was the quantitative analysis of the Chinese state controlled fir...

Traditional discussion regarding multinational corporations (MNC) generally assumes that only firms possessing certain distinguishing advantages can successfully operate abroad. This paper examines the issue of emerging multinational corporations (EMNC), which do not represent high-end technology or excellent products, although they have become imp...

This paper explores the influence of the quality of a host country’s institutional environment on outflows from that country of foreign direct investment. The main finding of this paper is that such quality does play an important role, particularly with respect to governance quality and political stability. This implies that better institutional co...

This paper examines the economic effects of cross-border mergers and acquisitions by Polish firms. This issue is important because mergers and acquisitions generate the bulk of foreign direct investment flows. The novelty of the paper lies in focusing on the performance of acquirers instead of target firms. Acquiring enterprises' characteristics, e...

This paper is devoted to investigating the results of the largest deals of cross-border mergers and acquisitions by Chinese frms. General trends in such transactions were analysed, and selected deals were the subject of deeper examination. To put the deals into context, the research covered the performance of the participating frms before engaging...

This paper has been devoted to the presentation of changes that occurred in Polish enterprises as a result of their internationalization. The changes take place in two stages. First, some adjustment must be conducted before the start of an internationalization process. The second stage consists of changes after the entry to foreign markets or the i...

Firms can generally access foreign markets through exporting or local production. If a firm considers production in a host country, it must decide whether to acquire an existing company or to create a completely new establishment. The latter issue has been less frequently addressed in the literature, especially in the case of firms from emerging ma...

The paper analyses factors contributing to foreign activities of Polish enterprises. Most of the previous studies focused on the flows of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from advanced economies. Therefore, it was essential to investigate the role of firms from emerging Europe in this process. The research is conducted at the early stage of...

The paper analyses factors contributing to the foreign activities of Polish enterprises. Most of previous studies focused on the flows of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) from advanced economies. Therefore, it was essential to investigate the role of firms from emerging Europe in this process. The research is conducted at the early stage of...

The paper covers the problem of the influence of the Euro pean integration processes on the changes in the trade pattern of the me mber country. The changes are measured in scope of intra-industry trade theory. The rese arch questions, which based the study are: what is the impact of integration process on the intra-industry trade between Poland an...