Entrepreneurial activities of local governments in their investment attractiveness context – evidence from Poland

Godlewska, Małgorzata; Pilewicz, Tomasz

doi:10.1080/03003930.2020.1842736

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“…However, there are also other important factors which matter for the total number of entrepreneurs active on LG territory. One of such factor, according to Godlewska and Pilewicz [49], may be the potential investor attractiveness of local regions. These other factors will require further investigation.…”

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“…Moreover, Olsson et al [8] and Xing et al [21] highlight the critical importance of LGs in studying entrepreneurship at the local level. For this reason, in response to calls for research on the interaction between entrepreneurial actions undertaken by LGs and local entrepreneurship development [16,29,49], and to better understand the state of play and investigate research gaps, the authors chose a six-stage approach (see Figure 2). geographical, historical, socioeconomic, and political which also have direct impacts on the local entrepreneurship environment.…”

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“…Therefore, in this paper, based on the studies by Heffner and Klemens [48] and Godlewska and Pilewicz [49], the following hypothesis was examined: The higher the variety of bottom-up initiatives undertaken by LG managers, the higher the local entrepreneurship level.…”

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The present paper deals with issues related to activities undertaken by local government. The article focuses on the identification and assessment of the significance of local government’s different bottom-up initiatives that support development of local entrepreneurship. The article also indirectly discusses the importance of activities referring to energy efficiency. Through the digitization process and by using digital tools, LGs realize projects, improve local actors’ awareness, and finally achieve new challenges such as a higher proportion of gross final energy consumption being from renewable sources. The aim of the paper is to present the relationship between the LGs’ entrepreneurial activities, which we call bottom-up initiatives, and the local entrepreneurship level, understood as the number of entrepreneurs active on the territory of a LG. This paper presents the results of research carried out on the bottom-up initiatives undertaken by Polish local governments to support entrepreneurship. The research was based on survey and statistical tools and stepwise regression analysis. In the paper, bottom-up initiatives undertaken by local governments (such as organizing events at the national or regional scale that enable networking among entrepreneurs or establishing departments for supporting local entrepreneurship that offer cooperation with local entrepreneurs) were found to influence the number of entrepreneurs active in local government territories. The paper concludes that local governments and their bottom-up activities are an important factor influencing local entrepreneurship development. The presented research results have implications for policy makers and may be useful for local governments in Poland and in other countries in the context of supporting entrepreneurship by undertaking bottom-up initiatives at the local level.

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“…In accordance with this methodology, the level of potential investment attractiveness of a given spatial unit is determined basing on a number of sub-indices, aggregated in so-called microclimates. There are 5 microclimates calculated to determine the level of potential investment attractiveness: human resources, technical infrastructure, social infrastructure, market, and administrative ones (Godlewska, Pilewicz 2020). Consequently, the degree of variation in the average level of total potential investment attractiveness, based on these microclimates, is presented by a synthetic indicator of the potential investment attractiveness (PAI1).…”

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Interrelations between complexity of demographic policy instruments and investment attractiveness at local level – evidence from Poland

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2021

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This paper presents examples of complex instruments oriented toward improvement of demographic situation at local level, represented by communes (local regions in Poland), and identifies links between communes’ investment attractiveness and the level of complexity of the demographic instruments they implement. We performed a multilayer research on 16 communes in Poland. The research encompassed an analysis of communes’ official documents, an electronic audit of their official website portals and Bulletins of Public Information, and structured surveys with official representatives of communes’ authorities. We identified significant differences in communes’ approach toward preparation and implementation of instruments aimed at the improvement of local demographic variables. Those differences depend on the level of potential investment attractiveness represented by a given commune. We have distinguished communes which are leading, following, or performing moderately when it comes to giving importance to demographic challenges in public policy discourse. Case studies presented in this paper and the proposed typology of communes constitute a rudimentary catalogue of possible communes’ responses to demographic challenges. The presented tools can be used by the local authorities to raise the potential investment attractiveness of their region and support them in policy making.

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“…LGs have instruments to stimulate entrepreneurship by regulations and laws at a local level, organisational and institutional solutions, which might impact the location of existing enterprises in the area of LAU as well as the creation of new enterprises (Benites-Lazaro and Mello-Théry, 2019). The instruments at hand for LG managers and their purposeful usage result in the phenomenon of a perceived climate for developing entrepreneurially in a given location (Wołowiec and Skica, 2013;Godlewska and Pilewicz, 2020). According to Wołowiec and Skica (2013), the most important activities of LG managers in the local development process refer to local development planning (both strategic and operational), improvement of local infrastructure (social and technical), local development coordination, utilisation of local resources, local development-related spatial planning, local marketing activities (including the promotion of tax exemptions or other privileges in local taxes and fees), creation and execution of direct investments, organisation of guarantee funds or loan funds for local development and cooperation with local development actors (Wołowiec and Skica, 2013).…”

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Attributes of Local Government Managers – What Matters in Local Entrepreneurship Context?

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Entrepreneurial activities of local governments in their investment attractiveness context – evidence from Poland

Cited by 14 publications

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Bottom-Up Initiatives Undertaken by Local Governments to Support Entrepreneurship

Bottom-Up Initiatives Undertaken by Local Governments to Support Entrepreneurship

Interrelations between complexity of demographic policy instruments and investment attractiveness at local level – evidence from Poland

Attributes of Local Government Managers – What Matters in Local Entrepreneurship Context?

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