Informacje o naborze artykułów i zasadach recenzowania znajdują się na stronie internetowej Wydawnictwa www.pracenaukowe.ue.wroc.pl www.wydawnictwo.ue.wroc.pl Publikacja udostępniona na licencji Creative Commons Uznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polska (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 PL)
Enterprises entering foreign markets are confronted with many barriers of a different nature, depending on the industry sector, offered products, the target market and other factors. The level of difficulty in overcoming a given barrier may also vary. The aim of the study was to identify and discuss the internal and external barriers experienced by micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in Podkarpackie Voivodship in their process of internationalisation and to assess the perceived level of the related difficulties. The article provides a synthetic review of domestic and foreign scientific publications on the subject. The Kruskal- Wallis test was used and a multiple comparison analysis was performed to evaluate the significance of the differences in the perceived level of difficulties relating to the occurrence of barriers. The authors’ research of 194 SMEs with foreign capital, carried out in Podkarpackie Voivodship in the second half of 2019, demonstrated that among the most serious barriers to internationalisation are limitations and difficulties arising from the external environment which the enterprises operate in. SMEs also recognised some internal barriers, although their negative impact on the process of internationalisation seemed to be of less importance than that resulting from external constraints.
The aim of the research is to determine the ranking of voivodships in the field of economic innovativeness and development as well as to assess the relationship between these phenomena. The article presents theoretical fundamentals of issues connected with innovation and economic development. Attention was also paid to the impact of innovation on the region's economic development. In the first stage of the analysis, rankings of voivodships in terms of innovation and economic development for 2005 and 2015 were created using the methods of taxonomic ordering of objects. Subsequently, an attempt was made to assess the correlation between the two rankings using Spearman's correlation coefficients. Basing on literature study and own research results, the thesis that at present innovativeness is one of the most significant factors of growth and economic development was confirmed. Innovations, especially the crucial ones, serve as the driving force of growth and thus of economic development.
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.