Authors: Wiesław Maria Grudzewski, Irena Krystyna Hejduk and Anna Sankowska

Pages: 2-8

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Author: Beata Piasny

Pages: 9-17

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This article presents and justifies the following thesis: competitiveness of businesses depends considerably on the existence of a regional environment. As an example to prove the set thesis, the author shows the Podkarpackie Aviation Valley, the first and the biggest modern cluster in Poland, which successfully linked industry and science. In other words, this work brings up theoretical and practical aspects of cluster operations, based on the available scientific literature and the case study.

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Author: Andrzej Wilk

Pages: 18-21

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On the basis of his personal observation Dr.Joseph Penbera has made an assessment both positive results and shortcomings of the transformation of the Polish economy during the period 1990-2006. He also offered some advice concerning the process in the years to come.

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Author: Michael Arendt

Pages: 22-32

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Innovation is the engine of growth for many companies. Six Sigma on the other hand is an outgrowth of the quality movement and has found its way from manufacturing into the service industries. While many authors argue that the rigor of Six Sigma is in contradiction with the degrees of freedom an innovative company may need to come up with new ideas, this paper is seeking to show that Six Sigma may help the process of innovating effectively.

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Author: Jan Parys

Pages: 33-36

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J. M. Bocheński in his analysis suggested rejecting traditional vision of enterprise limited only to conflict between labour and capital. Furthermore, he questioned the stereotype about two socio-economic systems. Instead he defined enterprise as the system. He highlighted and appreciated the role of entrepreneur. The analysis from the philosophers’ perspective allows to draw far-reaching conclusions and to provoke a debate.

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Author: Patryk Gałuszka

Pages: 37-51

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This article analyzes the attitudes of Polish recording industry towards selling music online and discuses reasons for popularity of traditional music business model among Polish small and medium record labels. Although Polish record labels are active in using the Internet to distribute and promote music, their main product is still represented by a compact disc. The empirical data shows that many Polish record labels approach digital files with mistrust and represent conservative business attitudes, which may be caused by insufficient knowledge about digital music market and new business models. Article suggests that the skepticism of Polish record labels may be also caused by the fact that they believe that traditional music business model gives them much more control over cultural production and distribution, especially since selling compact discs via labels’ websites became popular.

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Author: Robert Perkowski

Pages: 52-64

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In the paper was analyzed life cycle of virtual SME enterprises. The life cycle of virtual companies is similar to classic life cycle: in the beginning companies are most flexible, they are creating information and physical connections between other firms, getting older they are becoming less flexible. Inflexibility is causing by overspecialize communication between partners and reduction number of them, keeping only few most efficient companies.

Report shows model of virtual company and isomorphic models (allow different: size, type of business, age, market). Models are made by the regression analysis. Paper contains also universal method of measuring virtualization level of company and measuring components: degree of communication diversity, degree of structure elasticity. Those methods allows to measure influence of each enterprise parameters on competitiveness.

The degree of virtualization depends on the phase of the life cycle, which affects the company profile and scope of its core competencies. Companies are most virtual at earlier stages of its development, developing stiffen its structure and decreasing virtualization. Firms are most competitive in the phase of exploration of cooperators (Phase I), when setting up cooperation (phase II of development) and executing the production plan (Phase III development) their competitiveness is decreasing, at breaking existing cooperation (phase IV of development) the competitiveness is lowest. Analysis of the age of firms shows that the lest virtual and the least competitive firms are younger than 1 year and older than 15 years. The highest competition and highest virtualization is achieving by companies aged between 1 and 15 years of existence.

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Author: Antoni Magdoń

Pages: 65-71

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The main targets of the common agriculture policy aiming at sustainable development should be: increasing emphasis on fostering and maintaining sustainable development, promoting environmentally- driven high quality products, managing biodiversity and implementing environmentally-driven technologies including use of renewable raw materials. On September 22, 2006 the Polish Parliament enacted a law on using funds sourced from the European Union budget and allocated to finance the common agricultural policy. The law applies to authorities engaged in making payments financed from the European funds allocated for financing agriculture and development of rural areas, such as: Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture, Agricultural Market Agency as well as Customs Service and inspectorates reporting to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (including the ones reporting to National Bank of Poland which handles relevant bank accounts).

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Author: Wacław Szymanowski

Pages: 83-93

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The paper aims are presenting the concept of food supply chain and networks management and its components applicable in design of modern fresh and processed (frozen) food distribution systems. Introduction of the traceability concept allows analysis of shipments movements and their origin and, as a consequence tracing the movement of food and its components throughout all stages of its production and distribution. The principles of consistency and transparency in data and information exchange among the participants in the food supply chain and networks create conditions for effectivity and efficiency of food supply systems operation securing their safety and quality making full use of the resources thanks to flexibility of reaction to changes occurring in the needs appearing in the market. The use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) allows identification of the placement in space and time of food products, the sender and the destination within the food chain. In the second part of the paper the main conclusions of an international benchmark study of traceability systems in different supply chains in several countries are presented. The paper concludes with cost-benefits discussion related to issues that need to be taken into consideration when an organisation develops its chain traceability strategy.

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