The Impact of Economic Actors' Decision-making on Socio-economic Development

Introduction 9

1. Conditions for economic development in the light of the progress of globalisation (Michał Bilczak) 11

1.1. Main points and transformations of globalization 11

1.2. Adverse globalisation processes 16

References

2. The differentiation of the socio-economic development in Poland – A regional approach (Marcin Spychała) 19

2.1. The core as well as the factors of the socio-economic development 19

2.2. The research procedure 20

2.3. The conclusions of the research procedure conducted concerning the respective factors of development 26

2.4. The conclusions from the research analysis concerning the general socio-economic level of districts 29

References 30

3. Stakeholders in the light of Corporate Social Responsibility (Anna Krzysztofek) 31

3.1. Introduction 31

3.2. Stakeholder theory 31

3.3. Corporate Social Responsibility 33

3.4. Stakeholder theory and the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility 35

3.5. Final remarks 38

References 39

4. Social cooperatives and their role in the inclusion of people with disabilities (Andrzej Koza) 42

4.1. People with disabilities as the subpopulation at risk of unemployment and social exclusion 42

4.2. The role of employment in the inclusion process of people with disabilities 44

4.3. Social cooperatives as workplaces and integration forms of persons with disabilities 45

References 49

5. Senior Entrepreneurship (SE) – An attempt to assess the potential and to recommend the preliminary model supporting the development of SE in Poland (Beata Bieńkowska) 51

5.1. Does Senior Entrepreneurship matter? 51

5.2. Senior Entrepreneurship – Definition of the concept and short literature review 53

5.3. Characteristics of the 60+ group 55

5.4. Main support programs for active ageing 59

5.5. Recommendation of an inclusive model of support for the development of SE 60

5.6. Final remarks 63

References 64

6. Environmental education and ecological awareness – Polish experience (Bartosz Bartniczak, Andrzej Raszkowski) 68

6.1. The concept of environmental education 68

6.2. Environmental education in Polish strategic documents 70

6.3. The situation of environmental education in Poland 72

6.4. Conclusions 78

References 79

7. The new European systemic approach to non-performing loans (Jan Koleśnik) 82

7.1. The problem of non-performing loans in the European banking system 82

7.2. NPL vs. exposures in default 84

7.3. NPL in capital adequacy calculation 85

7.4. Secondary markets for NPLs 87

7.5. Evaluation of a new European systemic approach to NPLs 88

7.6. Long-term effects of a new European systemic approach to NPLs 89

References 90

8. The project of the integrative currency area. The case of chosen Central and Eastern European countries (Marcin Jędrzejczyk) 91

8.1. Introduction 91

8.2. The critical analysis of the optimum currency areas in the context of the Eurozone 92

8.3. Wage productivity parity and its role in the creation of the integrative currency area 94

8.4. The quantitative formula for the creation of the integrative currency area on the basis of three-seas-initiative countries 95

8.5. Final remarks 99

References 100

Summary 101