Economic resilience of the command and control function of cities in Central and Eastern Europe

Abstract

The authors propose a new approach to the analysis of cities in a time of potential major crisis in a dominant sector consisting of the largest firms generating the command and control function of a city. This purpose is served by the creation of the Central and Eastern European Economic Centre Index (CEEECI), which reflects the potential of each studied city and its development and/or fields of economic specialisation of its largest companies capable of generating regional command and control (C&C) functions of cities. Research has shown that the C&C functions of cities such as Warsaw, Prague, and Budapest are the most resistant to economic crisis of the dominant sector. More than half of the analysed cities are economically dominated by the consumer business and transportation and manufacturing sectors.

Role of Advanced Producer Services Shaping Globalization Processes in a Post-Industrial Region: The Case of the Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolis

“…Its impact is substantial enough that it forms a new network of regional connectivities in the larger corridor of domestic and European flows. This finding has been confirmed by other researchers studying the command and control function of cities [23,25].…”

“…The development of new technologies, especially the Internet and other grassrootstype infrastructural resources [5], has helped cities with quite weak global linkages to potentially become new economic nodes in emerging regional growth corridors. This includes some cities in Central and Eastern Europe [20,23], as shown by the latest rankings of intercity connectivities. In this context, not globally well-known Polish cities such as Wrocław, Poznań, Katowice, and Łódź are experiencing various types of network effects.…”

Dynamic Villages in the Hinterland of a Polycentric Region: Case Study of the Górnośląsko-Zagłębiowska Metropolis in Poland

“…The presented research results should be considered in a broader context of the current socio-economic processes relating to rural development opportunities. In recent decades, the influence of metropolisation and globalization on socio-economic processes was particularly important in the countries of Central Europe [69][70][71][72][73][74]. Strong connections between the examined rural communes and the GZM towns of various sizes were observed.…”

“…Another reason may be the growing importance of GZM on the international arena. According to data from 2020, business service centres in core cities concentrated 25.8 thousand jobs in 110 international IT and BPO entities [69][70][71][72]. These companies indirectly stimulate other economic sectors in the hinterland of the GZM.…”

Coordinated Development of Innovation System in China’s Yangtze River Economic Belt, a Demand and Supply Perspective

“…Human resources, capital, and technology are long been recognized as important resources that generate innovation [2,35,69]. Subjects that promote innovation are usually enterprises, colleges and universities, and organizations [33,34,70,71]. The environment related to the supply of innovation is usually about the institutional environment, the cultural environment, and the Internet [2][3][4].…”