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– higher influence of the functioning of Euroregions on Eurologistics.
As has already been mentioned, empirical studies were carried out on how
Polish companies, big, medium-sized and small, are prepared for modern logistic
processes, both in Europe and in the world 10 . The survey was carried out in
145 businesses located in all 31 poviats of Wielkopolskie Province (in big and
medium-sized ones between 2000 and 2004, and in small business sector in
2005); its aim was to assess the level of internationalisation, with regard to the
use of modern methods of logistics management. It should be added here that
the basic forms of internationalisation include: exports, licence transfer, franchising,
joint venture, foreign subsidiaries, production plant, daughter company.
The results of the survey show that as many as 62% of companies implement international
logistics processes in one of the most important forms of internationalisation,
i.e. in the production plant (see Fig. 61).
Capital and executive
staff at home100%
100%
EXPORTS – 12%
JOINT VENTURE – 2%
Foreign subsidiary – 4%
Production plant – 62%
Daughter company – 20%
Capital and executive staff
abroad 100%
Fig. 61. Logistics of Polish companies in various forms of internationalisation (%)
Source: Own study.
100%
In other forms of internationalisation, i.e. in licence transfer and franchising,
there were no formal references to their integration with logistic processes.
What is positive is their structure, not to mention the volume of capital outlays
for the purchase of modern information technologies, in spite of the fact that the
state-of-the-art methods of logistics management supported by IT are being already
applied. And so, the companies under survey are going to allocate 45% of
10 The results of the research carried out within inter-university grants were published in:
E. Go³embska, D. Kempny, J. Witkowski, op. cit., and Logistyka w internacjonalizacji przedsiêbiorstw UE,
op. cit.
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