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Bickhoff, N., Hollensen, S., & Opresnik, M. (2014). The Quintessence of Marketing: What You Really Need to Know to Manage Your Marketing Activities. Springer.
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Bickhoff, N., Hollensen, S., & Opresnik, M. (2014). The Quintessence of Marketing: What You Really Need to Know to Manage Your Marketing Activities. Springer.
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This paper examines drawings and mental maps made by children (used alongside with conventional interviewing techniques) as method of investigating migrant children sense of belonging. Children’s visual methods have gained renewed interest as many social scientists search for methods that align with the current conceptualisation of children as social agents and cultural producers. Drawing upon a qualitative study of Migration and the Integration of Polish families and children in Scotland, I analyze children's presence and participation in processes of transnational migration, giving some empirical example of how visual methods can be evaluated as a research strategy.
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The article presents some research results concerning the opinion of selected social dialogue institutions in Lublin region regarding possibilities and impediments of the economic cooperation and the development of entrepreneurship in Ukraine, particularly in the border region of the Volhynian circumference. The subject matter of examinations concerned the following areas: a) knowledge about the Ukrainian market, b) tendency for cooperation with relevant institutions in Ukraine, c) barrier of such a cooperation, d) support expectations for such a cooperation and e) evaluation of Ukrainian market attractiveness in the opinion of representatives of social dialogue institutions.
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Sustainable development is a strategic concept implemented at national, regional and local levels. Properly planned and executed, development of local economic, social and environmental. The implementation of the concept of sustainable development requires decision-makers to determine indicators for assessing the effects of the measures taken. This article aims to analyze and evaluate sustainable development on the example to the town Przasnysz. Indicators evaluate and measures taken by policy makers, on the other hand they convey the concept of development.
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The aim of this article is to evaluate the involvement of housing associations in the implementation of the concept of sustainable development in the light of investment thermomodernization. To achieve analyzed data expenditure on investments by housing cooperatives West Pomeranian Province in the years 2001–2013. Used for this method: an economic analysis, statistical and deduction. As a result, you could specify achieved results.
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The article covers the topic of measuring socio-economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. Popular indices are presented, along with sub-Saharan countries’ results. A relationship between the results of the indices was analyzed using Spearman correlation coefficient and Kendall’s Tau. A strong correlation was observed between Human Development Index and Multidimensional Poverty Index, both of which are indices endorsed by UNDP. No further strong correlation was found.
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The article presents the possibility of a three-dimensional inventory of natural objects using structured light technology. In this work tested the first Polish mobile scanner MantisVision which is used to work with small and hardly accessible objects in variable lighting conditions. The article describes in details the process of accurately reproducing the bone elements of farm and marine animals. The method used in this work is non-invasive, it allows to increase the level of details and accuracy of digital documentation with high spatial resolution generated model. The scanning does not require good lighting, and allows off-road control the quality of the data. Fast data acquisition facilitates measurements of dozens positions within few minutes, what reduce the residence time of the measurement team on the site. Scanners using a structural light formed on the initiative of replacing one of the cameras in stereoscopic scanner by an active element, which is a projector or laser. This solution makes it easier to find the corresponding image points, which is a serious problem for passive systems. This technique is widely using for 3D scanning, in many areas of life. Devices that using a structural light fill the gap between cheap commercial scanners with insufficient precision, and exclusive ones, where the very high price stops the possibility of their use.
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In the study the author is taking issues of the efficiency pay in the context of the model Shapiro-Stiglitz. to begin with is asking questions whether according to the model Shapiro-Stiglitz in Polish conditions a statistical relation exists in individual provinces between the work output and the gross average salary. The consequence of the study is setting rates of the determination and their interpretation in the regional presentation and in the process taking back to the representative presentation the efficiency pay.
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In the paper Author explored occurrence of cointegration among essential variables characterising economy of Zachodniopomorskie voivodship from the beginning of 1998 to the half of 2015. The examined variables concerned (among other) labour market, sold production, trade and seaports. For cointegrated variables the estimated cointegration relations were also presented. The data come from Statistical Bulletins of Zachodniopomorskie Voivodship.
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In the paper results of research on influence of world economic crisis on economic and financial situation of Polish enterprises were presented. The analysis was conducted with use of regional data in 2006–2013. An assessment was based on observation of changes of two variables: sales revenues and employment. The sample consisted only firms which have employed at least 10 employees. Applied method was similar to the proposition of competitive advantage analysis of BCG. Two business cycle indicators: Aggregate Indicator of Business Cycle developed by Polish Central Statistical Office and Economic Sentiment Indicator elaborated by Eurostat were used for identification of turning points. Additional goals of the article were regional analysis of stability and similarity of changes of economic and financial situation of enterprises. The results have indicated that there was significant negative influence of economic crisis on economic situation of Polish firms and high regional diversification of crisis effects.
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Authors have verified Say’s Law also known as Market Law existing on the ferry shipping market of the Southern Baltic Sea. Two maritime transport operators’ statistical data were used in the research. Market analysis provided by authors indicates further increase of cargo transport potential in the Southern Baltic Sea region.
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The article presents the results of ratio analysis for companies operating in Szczecin in the years 1990–2014. Ratio analysis is part of the analysis of the vitality of companies (Markowicz, 2012). It includes a variety of measures and indicators of structure, dynamics and business intensity.
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The main tasks carried out by Agricultural Real Estate Agency (AREA) are improvement of farm structure, making favourable conditions for rational utilization of production potential and taking care of restructuring process of the real estate Treasury. Knowledge about real estate market should include current situation and, as far as possible, future tendencies. Relevant data, that helps to improve undeveloped agricultural lands management from AREA resources, are the information about estate prices and their spatial differentiation. This paper presents preparation of average transaction prices maps for undeveloped agricultural land using the weighted average distance interpolation IDW method. The capabilities of using maps in Treasury agricultural property management were also indicated.
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Economic growth has made real property an attractive investment option, which has resulted in the increased number of individual and institutional investors on the market. The article in a direct manner describes the specific character of investments on the real property market and shows their advantages and disadvantages as well the problems associated with the investment process itself. The primary purpose of the article, however, is to present findings of the estimation of the hedonic price models and flat price indices on the basis of information about transactions concluded on the real property market in Szczecin. The study was based on data coming from the secondary market in the period of 2012–2014. The obtained results are a part of a larger project and their quality is a consequence of the poor quality of input data. Hence the conclusion that it is necessary to create improved databases about the Polish real property market.
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The analysis is to assess the specificity of management of residential real estate dwelling housing as an example the city of Szczecin. Theoretical considerations are focused on presenting the specifics of cooperative property management. The empirical part shows how to manage cooperatives own resource. This will determine the course of its management and supervisory boards as well as to assess the diligence in the management of co-operative housing estate.
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An important challenge of the EU cohesion policy is to take into account the dynamics of demographic change in the context of a factor conducive to the sustainable development of Europe. The analysis of the evolution of demographic processes is so important for effective local policy, whose priority is to support less developed regions, including rural areas. In the article it was examined, whether, in the Decade of Polish membership in the EU directions for change and the intensity of selected demographic processes are similar in rural and urban areas and provinces in Poland and that the observed changes in Poland correspond to the changes occurring in the EU?
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The article attempts to determine an indicator that measures the attractiveness of the location of particular housing estates in Szczecin. The research was based on 1400 transaction prices of the apartments sold on the local secondary market. Although the attractiveness of the location is not a measurable feature, it is reflected in the value of real estate. Therefore, an assumption was made that if the transactions were carried out in similar economic conditions and the legal status of the apartments was similar, the prices were determined mainly by the quality and location of the property, which can be extracted and compared.
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The article presents the essence of the multidimensional concept of quality of government, which The Quality of Government Institute at the University of Gothenburg moved to the regional level. Using 16 indicators of governance in the regions of Europe presented by the Institute, the quality of government in the Polish provinces in 2010 and 2013 has been assessed. In order to conduct a comparative analysis, aggregate measure vectors of the quality of government were constructed, separately for the three pillars, as well as overall measure. The results of the analysis indicate significant differences in the quality of government in the Polish regions (NUTS 2).
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Reginal Smart Specialization Strategy (RIS) is a novel approach to regional economic and social development promoted by the EU, designed to address issues of economic competitiveness and social cohesion as outlined in Europe 2020 strategy. Universities should be a vital partner for regions in the process of design and implementation of RIS3 and knowledge production and dissemination. The RIS3 Guide recognises the significance of and the need for the Quadruple Helix approach by proposing to add a fourth group (civil society as innovation users) to a classical Triple Helix model. This Quadruple Helix model puts innovation users at its heart and encourages the development of innovations that are pertinent for users.
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The article focuses on social capital in terms of the concept of complexity. The article attempts to explain the formation of the process of adaptation of economic structures of the regions, taking into account the complexity of social capital. The article sets a synthetic index of social capital provinces and comparing it with the process of transformation of the structure of employment in the regions in 2009–2014.
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