Individual businesses, sectors, entire national economies, and regional
integration groupings have experienced deep technological and economic changes. This has
led to the emergence of a new economic order, driven by globalization, thecapacitytocreate
and absorb technological progress, and fast transfer of knowledge. Transformations in the
economic landscape necessitate a search for new ways of creating value, and consequently
economic prosperity. Creating value and - in a broader sense - the developmental capacity
of the company, sector, region, economy or regional integration grouping are intrinsically
related to increasing their competitiveness. The question how to improve the
competitiveness of different economic systems remains open and fosters more in-depth
research and investigation.
The principal aim in organizing this volume has been to report selected results from
current work on various aspects of competitiveness at the Department of Strategy and
Policy of International Competitiveness at Poznan University of Economics. The book covers
three principal dimensionsofcompetitiveness, namely macro, mezzoand microones.
Table of Contents
List of Authors 5
Introduction 7
1. The economic and monetary union vs. Shifts in competitiveness of member
states 11
2. Competitiveness vs. stability of the financial sector: the case of the Polish
financial sector 36
3. Information asymmetry and investment in the manufacture of food products and
beverages and in the manufacture of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers 56
4. Institutional support of innovation at the regional level 71
5. Clusters as a mode of coopetition: the case of firms from one region in Poland 91
6. Hypercompetition in the perspective of Schumpeter' s theory 110
Bibliography 127
Index 145
145 pages, Paperback