Tomasz Dorożyński

University of Lodz, Faculty of Economics and Sociology · Department of International Trade, Institute of Economics

Purpose This study aims at measuring the results of the use of an improved and innovative teaching method, specifically designed for supporting the development of students’ entrepreneurship competence, through students’ self-assessment before and after the teaching. Design/methodology/approach The teaching methods design was based on the effectuat...

The principal goal of the article is to assess the quality of governance (QG) in the EU–28 over the period 2004–2020. It also examines the relationship between QG and FDI inward stock as a % of GDP. The study has been divided into five stages. The first one, based on the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI), attempts to identify countries that rep...

The recent Covid-19 pandemic and recent economic and political turbulences exacerbate issues related to the economic and political resilience of countries. In this context, digitalization and productivity improvement, the development of the labour market and human capital, as well as regional disparities, and economic and social stratification, nee...

A specific cognitive gap that inspired us was the questionable evaluation of active internationalisation in emerging economies, including those in Central Europe. This is because the growth of FDI there often contradicts the logic one uses when analysing investment from developed countries. For this reason, some researchers believe that to interpre...

The international scientific conference entitled “How Business Environment Institutions Contributed to Economic Development. Theoretical and Empirical Approach” was held online on November 16, 2023. The event was organized by a team of researchers from the University of Lodz, the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Maria...

The authors of the conceptual article took up the topic of the sectoral model of chambers of commerce (of trade, of industry and commerce, etc.). This proposal complements the taxonomy of chambers present in the literature, based on three main models: continental, Anglo-Saxon and mixed. A comparative worldwide analysis of chambers of commerce indic...

Przedmiot badań: Przedmiotem badania jest pojęcie reprezentatywności organizacji przedsiębiorców rozpatrywane z perspektywy różnych dyscyplin w obszarze nauk społecznych – socjologii, prawa i ekonomii. Cel badawczy: Projektowanie i realizacja polityki gospodarczej wymagają istnienia efektywnych ram dialogu między instytucjami państwowymi i organiza...

The main objective of the paper is to present the performance of special economic zones (SEZs) by province over 25 years of their operation and their role in reducing regional economic disparities. SEZs were created with the aim to mitigate the unemployment problem revealed by the transformation of the Polish economy. It was hoped that, thanks to i...

Recent research has shown that graduates typically lack some employability skills, which are also known as work readiness skills. Indeed, there is a skills gap in communication, thinking/decision making and problem solving, cooperation and teamwork or other competencies such as mindset, motivation and emotions’ regulation. These skills are necessar...

The aim of the article is to assess institutional quality in 28 EU Member States and to examine the relationship between the quality of institutions and FDI inward stock as % of GDP. This study is structured as follows. Firstly, we reviewed studies dedicated to the relationship between institutional quality and investment attractiveness. Then, we d...

Background: Theoretically, any country or region in the world whose political and economic situation is stable and predictable can become a potential optimal investment location for multinational enterprises (MNEs). Nevertheless, some locations are doing better than others. In trying to explain why that is the case, the author has taken a closer lo...

Recent two decades witnessed unprecedented changes in the economies of Central and Eastern Europe. Accelerated economic growth following systemic transformations, globalisation and liberalisation and EU integration visibly intensified international capital flows, including foreign direct investment (FDI). Intense internationalisation of an economy...

In the article, we focus on the institutional aspects and their role in attracting foreign direct investment (FDI). Hence, the objective of the paper is to assess institutional quality in 17 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and to examine the relationship between the quality of institutions measured with the synthetic index of institutional...

One of the ways to comńnce investors, in particular foreign ones, to participate in the pursuit of host country s economic policies leads through the development of Special EconomicZones (SEZs), which are designed to offer business environment morę favourable than in other locations.The SEZs, which have been established and developed in Poland, pla...

Objective: The objective of this article is to explain why some Special Economic Zones in Poland have attracted more foreign and domestic investment than others. Research Design & Methods: Referring to the OLI paradigm, we identified 25 variables which might impact the stock of investment in each individual SEZ. They were divided into three groups...

Nowadays, globalization, trade liberalization, and regional integration processes strongly facilitate the international expansion of companies. However, it seems that only big enterprises can benefit from those favorable conditions widely. As for small and micro companies, only about 1/3 of them sell their product internationally and the scale of i...

The role of foreign direct investment initiatives is pivotal to effective enterprise development. This is particularly vital to emerging economies that are building their presence in international business markets. Outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Emerging Market Economies is a comprehensive source of academic material on the progressive...

Recent two decades witnessed unprecedented changes in the economies of Central and Eastern Europe. Accelerated economic growth following systemic transformations, globalisation and liberalisation and EU integration visibly intensified international capital flows, including foreign direct investment (FDI). Intense internationalisation of an economy...

Objective: The objective of the paper is to identify motivation behind FDI followed by enterprises from the Lodz Region and to find out if these motives are similar in companies that differ by size, share of foreign capital and internationalisation path. Research Design & Methods: Empirical part is based on the results of a questionnaire-based stud...

One of the ways of convincing investors, in particular foreign ones, to take part in the implementation of host country economic policies is the development of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) designed to ensure more favourable business environment than those available in other locations. Poland has created and develops the SEZs. They play a positive...

In the present chapter we have made an attempt to identify factors determining the investment attractiveness of the new EU Member States, which may have an impact upon the scale of foreign direct investment (FDI) in these countries. This chapter is structured as follows. First, it explores the existing literature on FDI definition and main effects...

This paper presents employers’ opinions concerning competencies they expect of graduates of Faculties of Economics with elements of environmental protection. In order to provide empirical input, we conducted a questionnaire-based study among 200 top managers of (mostly) businesses located in the Lodz region (voivodeship), including 194 enterprises...

In the article, we attempt to assess the investment attractiveness of the New EU Member States, using the Visegrad Group countries as examples. This study is structured as follows: First, it explores the existing literature on factors of investment attractiveness. Further we examine inward foreign direct investment flows in the Visegrad Group count...

This paper aims to study the role of various factors in attracting foreign capital to the Province of Lodz. Conclusions are based on the direct questionnaire study conducted among 188 companies with foreign capital which invested in the region. The obtained results indicate that specific Lodz Province (voivodeship) characteristics were of little im...

The main goal of the chapter is to make an assessment of the innovative position, the level of internationalization and potential of small and medium-sized enterprises in the EU in the light of challenges implied by the building of knowledge-based economy. The chapter comprises several parts. Main attention is paid to the substance and factors that...

The aims of this chapter are to evaluate the main determinants of the inflow of FDI into selected countries of CEE and to examine the volume, dynamics, and structure of FDI inflow into these countries. Due to certain similarities, the authors focus the analysis on four countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. The reasons are ge...

The article focuses on the activities of local government units (LGUs) in the Lodz voivodeship (Poland). More importantly, it compares the activities of local authorities in selected EU Member States of Central and Eastern Europe. Despite the fact, that foreign investors consider Central and Eastern Europe one area, the countries in the region diff...

This paper evaluates the financial and non-financial incentives used by local authorities in the Province of Lodz to promote the inflow of FDI. Conclusions are based on a questionnaire study conducted in the second half of 2010 among 188 companies with foreign capital (CFC) which invested in the region, and 87 local government units hosting the maj...

Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play a major role in economic growth in developed and developing countries. For example, in the European Union, SMEs contribute to over 99% of all enterprises and more than 100 million jobs, representing 67% of private sector employment. In the Lodz Metropolitan Area (LMA) SMEs play a decisive role in econo...

The aims of this chapter are to evaluate the main determinants of the inflow of FDI into selected countries of CEE and to examine the volume, dynamics, and structure of FDI inflow into these countries. Due to certain similarities, the authors focus the analysis on four countries: Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia. The reasons are ge...

The issue of how to stimulate economic growth and development remains an open question. The EU structural funds are meant to help solve the problem at the regional level within the framework of the cohesion policy. Only some of these funds are used to directly subsidize businesses that are the engines of growth in a market economy. This paper aims...

In this article an attempt was made to answer the question of why economic policy must not only perceive the process of globalization and integration, but should also be led in a way which would exploit the opportunities created for the Polish economy by globalization and economic integration. This particularly applies to developing a long-term str...

In order to remove economic regional disparities, the European Union is realizing a cohesion policy. It is justified economically and socially. It is however conditioned by an acceptance of an active role of the Union and member states in the economy, and therefore a permission for cross-national interventionism. The mechanism of the cohesion polic...