How to Investigate Polish Clusters’ Attractiveness for Inward FDI? Addressing Ambiguity Problem

Marta Götz; Barbara Jankowska; Cezary Główka

doi:10.1515/ijme-2015-0004

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How to Investigate Polish Clusters’ Attractiveness for Inward FDI? Addressing Ambiguity Problem

International Journal of Management and Economics

Volume 43 (2014): Issue 1 (September 2014)

By: Marta Götz, Barbara Jankowska and Cezary Główka

Open Access

|Jan 2015

Abstract

The aim of the paper is to assess whether, and in what fashion, managers of Polish cluster organizations perceive the attractiveness of foreign direct investment in Polish clusters This research is exploratory and qualitative in nature. The complex nature of Polish clusters, which can benefit from and be competitively challenged by, FDI are identified and a conceptual framework for assessing that nature is proposed; specifically, research using the grounded theory method (GTM).

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ijme-2015-0004 | Journal eISSN: 2543-5361 | Journal ISSN: 2299-9701

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Published on: Jan 27, 2015

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Keywords:

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI),

cluster attractiveness,

Grounded Theory Method (GTM),

Poland

Related subjects:

Business and economics,

Political economics,

Economic theory, systems and structures,

Business management,

Management accounting, financial controlling, cost calculation, investment

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