Marlena Dzikowska

Poznań University of Economics and Business · Department of International Competitiveness

Research Summary We provide a more granular and comprehensive approach to subsidiary evolution and enhance the understanding of the complexity of the subsidiary's evolution in the era of value chain fine‐slicing. We extend Birkinshaw and Hood's model of general processes of subsidiary evolution into a model of functional evolutionary paths that rep...

So far, very little attention has been paid to the roles of foreign subsidiaries located in Poland and if or how these roles have evolved. Simultaneously, there exists strong empirical justification for assuming these roles have been evolving over the years. Through a literature review and empirical case study of a foreign subsidiary located in Pol...

The strengthening position of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in global economy, their competence-creating capabilities stimulate studies on various aspects of MNE phenomenon. Research emphasizes the influence of FS external and internal embeddedness on innovation performance, and subsequent FS positioning within MNE network. This study intends to...

The strengthening position of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in global economy, their competence-creating capabilities stimulate studies on various aspects of MNE phenomenon. Research emphasizes the influence of foreign subsidiaries’ internal embeddedness on their innovation performance. In the last years the role of foreign subsidiaries has been...

The study investigates the factors determining relocation mode choice (in-house sourcing, outsourcing, captive offshoring, offshore outsourcing) and provides an insight into the behavior of companies from a transition economy. A multinomial logit model run on a sample of 150 Polish companies from the automotive and clothing industries allows us to...

This chapter provides an extensive overview of studies of a subsidiary’s roles. While concentrating on the functional responsibilities of a subsidiary, it presents various approaches to this issue. It refers to resource- and configuration-oriented research, discusses responsibility-oriented subsidiary role studies, and focuses on the latest analyti...

The chapter presents a model of the determinants of the functional responsibilities of subsidiaries. In particular, the chapter presents argumentation for the existence of a complex set of relationships between functional responsibilities of a subsidiary and the subsidiary’s pool of distinct capabilities, initiative, internal and external embeddedn...

The chapter presents results of an empirical study focused on functional responsibilities of 193 subsidiaries operating in the Polish manufacturing industry during 2012–2017. In particular, the chapter describes diversity in terms of market scope and sophistication level of value chain functions encompassing production, assembly, procurement, marke...

The chapter discusses theoretical background for the phenomenon of subsidiaries’ functional specialization. The first two sections present basic assumptions of internalization theory and business network theory, discuss how they perceive the role of subsidiaries within the multinational enterprise, and explain the existence of subsidiary specializa...

Prezentacja wygłoszona podczas konferencji - International Conference World Economy 2019: "Learning from the Past and Designing the Future Collegium of World Economy", SGH Warsaw School of Economics, 9-10 maj 2019.

A growing number of foreign subsidiaries nowadays specialize in relatively narrow sets of activities in the multinational enterprise (MNE) value chain and perform different roles in it. The scientific problems addressed in this paper are the potential determinants of the roles that the foreign subsidiaries fulfill in the value chains of MNEs. An in...

Reflecting on the evolving organisation of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and their growing presence in international business, this book focuses on value creation by subsidiaries in transition economies, and uses Poland as an example. Drawing on internalisation and business network theory, the author analyses the role of the subsidiary with the...

The studies on FS innovation performance in transition economies, that cover the issue of FS innovation cooperation, are being undertaken only recently. There is still a cognitive gap in the knowledge on the relations between factors affecting FS performance and subsequent position within the MNE network from the perspective of FS established in tr...

The goal of the paper is to present, using the indicators of economic activity, how Polish economy coped with the last global economic crisis compared to another EU country - Greece, which faced huge difficulties while trying to get back to the pre-crisis levels of economic development. In the first part of the paper the origins of the global econo...

The global economic crisis has significantly altered the landscape of contemporary business markets worldwide. This article aims to verify how severely the economic crisis affected Polish industries and changed the competitive position of Polish companies. The authors put forward a research proposition which states that companies open to foreign co...

Poland, like other economies of the region of Central and Eastern Europe, embarked upon a process of radical economic transformation since 1989, leading to the introduction of a market-based economy. This process was accompanied and driven by a gradual opening of the economy to different forms of international economic activity, including notably a...

This book is the product of a research project titled “International competitiveness of Polish companies in the periods of prosperity and the global economic crisis”. The project was carried out in the years 2013-2016. The research team consisted of Marlena Dzikowska, PhD (key-investigator); Prof. Marian Gorynia, PhD (principal investigator); Barba...

Corporate groups are specific types of business networks that generate particular advantages for firms. They allow corporates to reduce costs, develop the pool of resources and increase the flexibility of operations and responses to external shocks among others. The above mentioned benefits are of even greater importance during times of economic tu...

Celem artykułu jest określenie, jakie znaczenie dla międzynarodowej pozycji konkurencyjnej polskich przedsiębiorstw (Gorynia, 2002, s. 69–72) posiadają czynniki popytowe, intensywność rywalizacji w sektorze, zewnętrzne czynniki zasobowe, wewnętrzne czynniki kosztowe oraz konkurencyjność czynnikowa w warunkach globalnego kryzysu gospodarczego. Dodat...

Objective: We aim to identify the most advanced SMEs in terms of their internationalisation shortly after the end of the economic crisis. For this purpose we look at the changes in the intensity of internationalisation in terms of its breadth and depth. Research Design & Methods: The study is based on a complementary data set derived from secondary...

Artykuł składa się z 6 części. Po wstępie następuje część druga, w której dokonano delimitacji pojęcia „kryzys gospodarczy” oraz w sposób syntetyczny omówiono przejawy kryzysu gospodarczego z uwzględnieniem perspektywy makro-, mikro- i mikro-mikroekonomicznej. Następnie przedstawiono wyniki przeglądu badań empirycznych dotyczących zjawiska kryzysów...

The paper focuses on issues related to Polish company’s export intensity and the global economic crisis. Poland is a transforming economy, actively engaged in international trade. At the same time, it is the only EU member country that managed to uphold a positive GDP growth rate during years 2009-2011. In relative terms, Poland also recorded very...

Poland, like other economies of the region of Central and Eastern Europe, embarked upon a process of radical economic transformation since 1989, leading to the introduction of a market-based economy. This process was accompanied and driven by a gradual opening of the economy to different forms of international economic activity, including notably a...

The potential accession to the euro zone is a very current issue for Poland. Its importance is increased by the consequences of the recent economic crisis that can be seen in the global economy and particularly in the economies of European Union member states. The paper finds that the analyzed sample of companies is dominated by euro-enthusiasts, w...

Value chain module relocation is nowadays a commonly used business practice. Its popularity is growing not only among companies originating from developed countries, but also among companies from Central and Eastern Europe. However, the attention of researchers and politicians from the latter region is often focused on the realization of particular...

The article focuses on the relocation of the company's value chain modules. Relocation is defined as a process of moving some or all of the tasks performed by an economic entity to a vendor operating in the same country or abroad, who is or is not related by ownership structures to the relocating company. In the paper this issue is analyzed from th...

The paper focuses on the influence of the financial crisis and economic downturn during 2008-2009 on the world's 500 biggest corporations. The authors present an overview of literature providing some insight into the impact the global financial crisis and economic downturn during 2008-2009 exerted on enterprises and their operations. The empirical...

WPROWADZENIE Współcześnie, wbrew potocznym opiniom o całkowitej swobodzie przestrzennej lokalizacji działalności przedsiębiorstw 2 i braku jej powiązania z terytorium, kwestia wyboru miejsca działań firmy zachowuje aktualność i nadal odgrywa znaczącą rolę w kreowaniu przewagi konkurencyjnej przedsiębiorstw. Z uwagi na wzrost mobilności i możliwości...

Zachodzące na przestrzeni lat zmiany w otoczeniu zewnętrznym organizacji umożliwiły m.in. wykorzystanie przez przedsiębiorstwa delokalizacji modułów łańcucha wartości. Delokalizacja modułów łańcucha wartości polega na rozdzieleniu wcześniej zintegrowanego procesu wytwarzania na poszczególne stadia (moduły) zlokalizowane w oddaleniu od siebie. Ewolu...

Celem artykułu jest dokonanie przeglądu oraz oceny przydatności najważniejszych teoretycznych koncepcji konkurencyjności przedsiębiorstwa. Uwagę skoncentrowano w szczególności na ewolucyjnym i kumulatywnym charakterze ich rozwoju. Przedstawianie ram definicyjnych poruszanego zagadnienia rozpoczęto od próby zdefiniowania pojęcia konkurencyjności prz...

Globalization is a process of varied intensity over time that causes changes in the business environment. It stands for the widely acknowledged elimination of barriers and integration associated with transition of firm activities to the transnational level. This is often concomitant with growing interdependence of national economies. The vast chang...

W niniejszym artykule autorzy relacjonują wyniki badań nad wejściem Polski do strefy euro z perspektywy polskich przedsiębiorstw, które można traktować jako głos w dyskusji nad sensownością "operacji euro" dla Polski.

The potential accession to the euro zone is a very current issue for Poland. Its importance is increased by the consequences of the recent economic crisis that can be seen in the global economy and particularly in the economies of EU member states. The article presents some findings of studies carried out within the research project “Influence of t...

The potential accession to the euro zone is a very current issue for Poland. Its importance is increased by the consequences of the recent economic crisis that can be seen in the global economy and particularly in the economies of EU member states. The article presents some findings of studies carried out within the research project "Influence of t...

The main aim of the paper is to present the perception of Polish companies to the intended accession of Poland to the euro zonę. The authors’ present opportunities and threats resulting from Poland joining the monetary union based on the outcome of empirical research which was carried out among 230 companies from all over Poland.