Economists have analyzed offshore outsourcing mainly from the perspective of transaction costs and procurement decisions. In the current phase of globalization offshoring practice increasingly involves high value added activities such as design and R&D. Today’s globalized R&D system embraces...

The relationship between breakthrough and incremental innovation remains one of the more important issues in innovation theory and in national innovation policy. Using a comparative historical approach, in this paper, we analyze the rise and fall of Germany as a science and innovation leader of...

This research offers new pedagogical tools derived from linguistic analysis that provide intriguing visual portraits communicating cultural differences. Using associative group analysis to systematically examine free associations to key management terms, this research produces charts that reveal...

Poland urgently needs to look to new sources of economic growth, particularly through strengthening of R%D in the economy. European investment funds will be critical for this, with a strong emphasis on the novel policy concept of smart specialisation. The paper assesses the opportunities and...

The paper aims at answering the question how to persuade the managers of business units to use the research outcome of universities, independent research and development units, Think – Tanks and other science – oriented organizations. The basic assumption is that such an exchange should be...

This paper attempts to explore the concept of an investment development path (IDP) and its key component, the net outward investment position, as applied to Poland, treated here as a transitional economy. The point of departure for data analysis is the beginning of Poland's transition to a...

This paper identifies and clarifies modes and rhythms of the internationalization of Polish firms that make it feasible thanks to the position achieved by the Polish economy, coupled with its access to the EU. The internationalization trends of the Polish economy are at first located and then...

This study is a synthesis of the authors' research on the application of the Investment Development Path (IDP) concept to Poland. The IDP is investigated from the point of view of its general trajectory as well as its geographic and industry/sector idiosyncrasies. Collected data cover a time...

The present paper is based on a complex analysis of the results from a survey of seven subsidiaries of multinational corporations (MNCs), which entered the Polish market in the early nineties, and focuses on the motives and modes of setting up these subsidiaries. The survey design has been based...

This study is a synthesis of the authors' research on the application of the Investment Development Path (IDP) concept to Poland. The IDP is investigated from the point of view of its general trajectory as well as its geographic and industry/sector idiosyncrasies. Collected data cover a time...