Transborder Co‐Operation and Competition Among Firms in the Polish‐German Borderland

Dołzbłasz, Sylwia; Raczyk, Andrzej

doi:10.1111/tesg.12191

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“…The Euroregions and cross-border cooperation are widely discussed in the literature. From the Polish perspective, we have the widely discussed cooperation on the Polish-German border: Stryjakiewicz (1998) [58], Guz-Vetter (2002) [59], Ciok (2004) [60], Ciok and Raczyk (2008) [61], Dołzbłasz (2012) [62], Raczyk, Dołzbłasz and Leśniak-Johann (2012) [63], Szmigiel-Rawska and Dołzbłasz (2012) [64], Dołzbłasz and Raczyk (2016) [65], Wróblewski (2010Wróblewski ( , 2014Wróblewski ( , 2017 [66][67][68] and also Krätke (1999) [69], Grix and Knowles (2002) [70], Brym (2011) [71], and Mirwaldt (2012) [72]. CBC in the Polish-Czech border area is also widely discussed, for example: Vaishar et al ( 2013) [73], Skorupska (2014) [74], Dołzbłasz (2016) [75], Kurowska-Pysz (2016) [56], and Böhm and Opioła (2019) [76].…”

Section: The Objectives Of the Euroregions And Cross-border Cooperationmentioning

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Euroregions and Local and Regional Development—Local Perceptions of Cross-Border Cooperation and Euroregions Based on the Euroregion Beskydy

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2020

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The cross-border regions, which are the peripheral regions, are struggling with m troubles. They often include high unemployment, insufficiently developed infrastructure, or inadequate language skills of residents, which are barriers to exploiting the potential of such regions. One kind of remedy is the assumption of the European Union’s regional policy, under which Euroregions are created. These units, constituting a form of cooperation between the regions of the European Union member states, candidate countries, and the regions of their neighbors, with the support of local and regional authorities, constitute support for the competitiveness and development of border areas. The purpose of this study is to verify how people perceive the activity and effectiveness of Euroregions, as well as to try to determine whether they think Euroregions contribute to local and regional development. In this research, an online and self-administered survey was used, with two parts: one related to Euroregions in general, and the other to a specific, selected Euroregion. Despite the fact that the Polish experience has not been as long as in other parts of Europe, the results show that the Euroregions are positively evaluated by people, and they rate them as important for development of the regions.

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Section: The Objectives Of the Euroregions And Cross-border Cooperationmentioning

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Euroregions and Local and Regional Development—Local Perceptions of Cross-Border Cooperation and Euroregions Based on the Euroregion Beskydy

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2020

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“…Researchers have also come to study the cooperation pursued between companies (Van Geenhuizen & Van der Knaap, 1996;Dołzbłasz & Raczyk, 2017), or other institutions outside the public sector, while many works have been devoted to analysis of cooperation's determinants, it being noted how private ties, informal relationships based on friendship, and private acquaintanceships can be crucial (Sobczyński, 1995;Blasco et al, 2014).…”

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Premises and barriers associated with cross-border cooperation - evidence from border regions of Poland

Raczyk,

Dołzbłasz

2022

Europa XXI

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The aim of the work detailed here has been to identify the most important premises upon which cross-border cooperation can be established, the conditions for its further continuation or lack of continuation; and the key barriers to and benefits from the cooperation in question. Also examined was the intensity of cooperation in the periods before, during and after the implementation of individual cross-border cooperation projects – the aim being to assess the extent to which joint projects generate mutual relations of greater intensity. Analysis drew on a questionnaire survey run among all organisations involved in the implementation of Poland’s EU-funded cross-border cooperation projects in the 2007–2020 period.

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Changes in the network of tourist trails in the border zones of the Czech Republic after entering the Schengen area

Kołodziejczyk

2020

J. Mt. Sci.

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Among the factors influencing tourist trail network development are political issues, including the presence of state borders, the possibility of crossing them and the accessibility of border zones. In the article, it was decided to look at changes in the offer of tourist trails (hiking and cycling) along the entire border of the Czech Republic after the extension of the Schengen area (within this area, crossing the border is possible anywhere, and not only at official border crossings). It should be emphasized here that the borders of the Czech Republic over most of their length run through mountainous areas and, apart from political factors, natural features should have a major impact on the development of tourist routes. In order to determine the coherence of the current network of trails on both sides of the Czech Republic state border, modern tourist maps have been analyzed, determining the number of places where it is possible to cross the state border with the help of a marked tourist trail. Based on that, two indicators were introduced to determine the degree of openness with all neighboring countries as regards the opportunity to cross on a tourist trail. Changes in the historical situation, a comparison of the accessibility of the border area before entering the Schengen area and 2019, were analyzed for two study areas using archival maps. Over a decade after the extension of the Schengen area, the number of places where tourist trails of neighboring countries approach the border has clearly increased. Crossing is more often made possible using hiking trails than cycling routes (trails of the first type cross the border every 7.91 km, while the latter every 13.3 km), but considering the speed of movement, it can be assessed that the openness for cyclists is higher than for hikers. Moreover, in many places there is still significant potential for further integration of tourist trail networks as trails created in one country often do not have a continuation on the other side of the border.

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Transborder Co‐Operation and Competition Among Firms in the Polish‐German Borderland

Cited by 6 publications

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Euroregions and Local and Regional Development—Local Perceptions of Cross-Border Cooperation and Euroregions Based on the Euroregion Beskydy

Euroregions and Local and Regional Development—Local Perceptions of Cross-Border Cooperation and Euroregions Based on the Euroregion Beskydy

Premises and barriers associated with cross-border cooperation - evidence from border regions of Poland

Changes in the network of tourist trails in the border zones of the Czech Republic after entering the Schengen area

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