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This paper highlights the role of social capital in regional development as a factor enabling activation of non-economic resources. It was assumed that building effective cooperation in the triple helix structures requires the provision of high levels of social capital characterised by a high level of trust between partners. This paper attempts to identify the factors – barriers adversely affecting opportunities for cooperation between partners within the framework of the regional innovation system and to analyse their impact on the quality of cooperation in the regional triple helix structure. The paper presents the findings of the research on functioning of inter-organisational cooperation networks in the Lublin region, carried out in 2014 and 2019. The study shows that regional leaders appreciate the role of social capital in the development of cooperation between regional institutions and recognise the importance of such factors as trust, leadership, and the level of organisation’s intellectual capital. The value of the research and its findings is capturing how the respondents’ assessments change along with dynamic changes occurring in all three analysed research areas over a time period between the first and second phase of the study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article deals with the issue of the so-called out-of-court restructuring, which is a proposal for further improvements to be introduced to the restructuring proceedings system. Out-of-court restructuring conducted with omitting the stage of judicial approval of the arrangement is currently unknown to Polish law, but it has been provided as an option by the European legislator in the pending implementation of the Directive (EU) 2019/1023 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on preventive restructuring frameworks, on discharge of debt and disqualification measures to increase the efficiency of procedures concerning restructuring, insolvency and discharge of debt, and amending Directive (EU) 2017/1132. The main objective of this paper is to attempt to assess the legitimacy of introducing solutions concerning out-of-court restructuring into domestic law. The research thesis is that this kind of restructuring is an effective instrument that allows for the acceleration of the proceedings, however, a significant obstacle to its effective implementation in practice is the lack of interpersonal confidence, which is characteristic of business relations in Poland. To achieve the main aim and verify research thesis, dogmatic and comparative methods were used. Moreover, an analysis of statistical data on the assessment of social capital in Poland was carried out, referring to the welfare index developed by the Legatum Institute. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this paper is to assess the importance of class differences in contemporary Poland by studying the effect of social position and mobility on the commensal practices. For this purpose, the author applies Pierre Bourdieu's multidimensional class model and argues that class effect may be disaggregated into three components: cultural, economic and social capital. Using data from a survey conducted in 2017, he finds support for three hypotheses. First, commensality is more typical for people with higher endowments of economic and cultural capital, but is not related to educational mobility/immobility. Second, commensality is correlated with social capital and social networks and thus potentially conducive to social advantages. Third, commensality goes together with culinary openness and cosmopolitan taste that foster it. Contrary to the thesis of class dissolution, class differences are still operative in contemporary societies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The article aims to outline the role of literary periodicals in the social system of literature from a perspective of processes that take part in the accumulation of both cultural capital and social capital. In this sense, the paper is an attempt to incorporate a sociological perspective into the theory of literature in order to provide a more informed view on social and cultural processes that are mediated by literary periodicals of diversified kind. By referring to the notions of embodied and institutional cultural capital (Pierre Bourdieu) as well as social capital (Robert D. Putnam, Francis Fukuyama), the paper examines the dialectic of system reproduction and morphogenetic change in terms of processes that organize the functioning of literature conceived of a specific kind of social system.

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Adam Noga, in his review of the theory of entrepreneurship, distinguishes 24 different types of goals which make entrepreneurs establish, run and develop their enterprises. He emphasizes that the maximization of profits, sales volume, satisfactory profits, flow and value were the goals enterprises strived for until the 1970's. However, entrepreneurship, according to Noga, consists of discovering new targets and objectives which accompany the process of enterprise creation and development, including the growth in the usefulness of human, intellectual and social assets. In order to meet such expectations, appropriate social and organizational conditions need to be ensured. One of these essential conditions is a suitable organizational culture, to a large extent depending on the owners and top rank managers, which confirms that, today, growth is determined by social capital, human capital, management and organizational culture. This subject is important both from the scientific and practical point of view. It shows that when it comes to management, economy lacks knowledge concerning the cultural context, as well as knowledge related to the assessment of social welfare, in which too little attention is paid to the qualitative elements of social and economic development. The aim of this paper is to answer the question whether an organizational culture which facilitates undertaking non-business activities exists. In order to answer this question, the notions of non-business activities and organizational culture have been defined. Characteristic features of an organizational culture have been presented and the culture which theoretically facilitates undertaking non-business activities has been indicated. In the empirical part, the theoretical assumptions have been verified and an organizational culture which attempts to achieve not only business goals has been identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of the present paper is to show the impact of the diversity of social capital of the international sailing environment on the development of tourist services around the Szczecin Lagoon and Dąbie Lake. The target group are Polish and German participants in nautical tourism in the cross-border research area. Materials for the article were collected during field studies conducted in 2009–2012. The questionnaire method was mainly used to obtain information. The paper uses elements of social capital for the purpose of creating the image of the place and promotional activities of the region. The sources of capital were: motivations for sailing, additional leisure time activities, form of sailing activity, individual choice of a place of rest as well as the most frequently chosen domestic and international destinations, as well as personal data like gender, age and nationality of respondents. Understanding capital as a resource allowed it to be used for the development of the research area. The analysis of the research results allowed to specify one characteristic which was positively evaluated by two groups of respondents and these are landscape conditions of the Szczecin Lagoon. Contact with nature turned out to be the most important motivation for sailing. On the other hand, the heterogeneity of the Polish and German sailing environment is clear in the context of age, sailing qualifications, property status, which determines the direction of cruises undertaken and other activities accompanying sailing. All the above-mentioned elements of social capital bring benefits for the research area, observed in the economic and social dimension. Based on them, promotional and infrastructural changes were proposed for the needs of the tourist services sector, including, among others, nature, cultural or qualified tourism.

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The aim of this paper is to measure social capital and determine its effect on economic development across thirty five European economies from 2017 to 2020. Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was applied to measure and identify the relationship between latent (directly unobservable) variables. Social trust was found to be more strongly determined by interpersonal trust than by trust in organisations. Furthermore, social trust was also found to be the most important component of the overall measure of social capital. The latent variable representing social interaction and attitudes was found to be less important in the formation of social capital. Finally, a strong positive and statistically significant relationship was found between social capital and economic development.

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Modern reality is oriented towards the effectiveness of achieving goals and the optimization of busi-ness processes. Organizations are increasingly looking for ways to create a competitive advantage in the area of organizational culture, interpersonal relations, relational capital, etc. There is a question of whether economic entities that prosper on the market, such as corporations, persuade their employees to adopt specific pro-innovation behaviours. The research was carried out on a representative sample of 1,100 micro, small and medium-sized enterprises in the West Pomeranian Voivodeship. The basic method used in this research is the quantitative method (CATI - computer-assisted tele-phone interviewing). The results indicate that people with experience of employment in corporations exhibit behaviours proving the multiplication of social capital, based on relations with the companies in which they were employed. Moreover, this group showed a greater inclination to adopt pro-innovation behaviour than the rest. The research results indicate the effect of socialization corporations to a specific type of business behaviours. It is also an exemplification of the concept of social capital and its conversion to other forms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Trust facilitates the development of human relations by enabling effective cooperation and preventing conflicts, it is an important element of a particular kind of capital, called social capital. The implications of trust on social life are very far reaching and for that reason trust is one of the central issues in contemporary sociology and other social sciences. The aim of this study is to assess the relationship between social capital and political trust, both on the individual level and on the country level. For this purpose a linear regression model was calculated, using data from the ninth round of the European Social Survey (ESS). Te results showed that social capital, measured by an indicator of generalized trust, has a statistically significant, positive impact on political trust. This impact however was a lot weaker than the impact of satisfaction with the performance of the political system or the evaluation of its inclusiveness. On the country level a strong, positive corelation between generalized trust and political trust has been observed. These results are in line with the previous research, it may be concluded that social capital, particularly generalized trust as its core component, has a positive influence on political trust on the individual and cross-country level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this paper is to present the concept of intelligent organizations, which is nowadays believed to be the highest developed form of a company and to check if high-tech small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from Greater Poland region are run according to the concept of intellectual entrepreneurship. Verification whether the high-tech SMEs meet the criteria of intelligent organizations was tested on a sample 44 SMEs using a survey CATI tool. Data analysis consisted of comparing the values of three statistical measures (dominant, median, arithmetic average) of seventeen items. The survey results confirm that these enterprises base their actions on intellectual capital, which becomes the most important element of business management in the strategic perspective. Thus, their actions are consistent with the concept of intellectual entrepreneurship. The originality of this work lies in studying the concept of intellectual entrepreneurship taking into account companies from high-tech industry. Up till now companies from Greater Poland region were analysed just for their level of innovations, not intellectual capital. It is important to encourage more companies to be run according to the intellectual entrepreneurship concept due to unstable circumstances worldwide.

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In recent years, or even months, Polish scholars have gradually become more and more interested in moral capital. Generally, they have addressed this issue without going into much detail. Building on the latest publications which describe moral capital, this paper thoroughly explores the issue of the social and economic significance of moral capital. As a result, moral capital will be presented from two complementary points of view, namely sociological and economic.

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