REASONS FOR UNDERTAKING CROSS-BORDER COOPERATION BY POLISH AND BELARUSIAN ENTERPRISES

For many years, border areas have been seen as problematic regions, economically belated and doomed to marginalization. Now the scale of political and socio-economic transformations indicates that they should be seen as core areas, of vital importance not only in the regional system, but also in the...

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Main Author: Wasiluk, Anna
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Cooperation
Correlation coefficient
Correlation coefficients
Foreign subsidiaries
Globalization
International cooperation
International relations
Management science
Regions
Social exclusion
Statistics
Strategic management
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Summary:For many years, border areas have been seen as problematic regions, economically belated and doomed to marginalization. Now the scale of political and socio-economic transformations indicates that they should be seen as core areas, of vital importance not only in the regional system, but also in the context of integrating Europe. Cross-border cooperation allows the synergies effect to be achieved by cooperating regions and the elimination of disadvantages associated with the peripheral position in the country. Analysis conducted on the basis of statistical data only, which define the number of projects completed, the size of the invested funds or the number of completed communication or technical infrastructure facilities seems to be insufficient. They should be supplemented with research on the real relationships between the different actors in business, including primarily enterprises. On the other hand the conditions of cross-border cooperation show high variability and require continuous, thorough monitoring. In the literature of the subject there are reports on national cooperation of enterprises, but there are no analyzes on cross-border cooperation of enterprises, especially with Belarus. This text fills the gap. The main purpose of this text was to present the results of research on assessment of the reasons for undertaking cooperation by Polish and Belarusian companies so far and to identify prospects for its possible tightening in the near future. The research covered 381 Polish companies based in Podlaskie Province and 121 Belarusian companies. Statistical measures and central tendency standards were used for the interpretation of the research results. Spearman's rank correlation coefficient was used to indicate the correlation coefficient between the ratings, followed by the t-Student test to examine its significance. Statistical calculations were made using STATISTICA programme version 12.5.
ISSN:1849-6903
1849-6903