Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contemporary Dilemmas of Management Sciences
- Organisational Change: Continuous Threat or a Chance for a Better Tomorrow Despite a Worse Today?
- Coopetition and Its Determinants in a Business Group: Theoretical Considerations
- The Effect of Managerial Ownership and Company Performance on CEO Turnover: Evidence from the Polish Two-Tier Board Model
- Effective Management Succession Models in Larger Family Enterprises: Presentation of the Best Practices in the World
- Management of Family Businesses in View of the Challenges of Modern Economy
- The Development of Instruments for Financial Security Management of Households
- Benefits of Competition and Cooperation among Local Government Units within Polish Metropolitan Areas
- Practical Experience in the Formation of Entrepreneurial Competencies among Students
- The Role of Innovation Management Standards in Fostering Innovation Processes in Enterprises
- Organisational Innovations in the e-Business Model Maturity Assessment
- Born Global Organisations in the Contemporary Networks of Relations
- Motives for Creating Open Innovation in Enterprises Operating in Poland
- The Entrepreneurial Context of Nonprofit Manager Assessment: Comparative Case Study
- Analysis of Current Managerial Problems on the Example of a Distinctive Organisational Unit of Public Administration
- Customer Service in a Marketing and Logistics Approach
- Human Resources Management in Enterprises 4.0: Opportunities, Threats and Challenges for Practice and Theory
- Variety Management and Diversity Management as a Response to Complexity
Benefits of Competition and Cooperation among Local Government Units within Polish Metropolitan Areas
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 November 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Contemporary Dilemmas of Management Sciences
- Organisational Change: Continuous Threat or a Chance for a Better Tomorrow Despite a Worse Today?
- Coopetition and Its Determinants in a Business Group: Theoretical Considerations
- The Effect of Managerial Ownership and Company Performance on CEO Turnover: Evidence from the Polish Two-Tier Board Model
- Effective Management Succession Models in Larger Family Enterprises: Presentation of the Best Practices in the World
- Management of Family Businesses in View of the Challenges of Modern Economy
- The Development of Instruments for Financial Security Management of Households
- Benefits of Competition and Cooperation among Local Government Units within Polish Metropolitan Areas
- Practical Experience in the Formation of Entrepreneurial Competencies among Students
- The Role of Innovation Management Standards in Fostering Innovation Processes in Enterprises
- Organisational Innovations in the e-Business Model Maturity Assessment
- Born Global Organisations in the Contemporary Networks of Relations
- Motives for Creating Open Innovation in Enterprises Operating in Poland
- The Entrepreneurial Context of Nonprofit Manager Assessment: Comparative Case Study
- Analysis of Current Managerial Problems on the Example of a Distinctive Organisational Unit of Public Administration
- Customer Service in a Marketing and Logistics Approach
- Human Resources Management in Enterprises 4.0: Opportunities, Threats and Challenges for Practice and Theory
- Variety Management and Diversity Management as a Response to Complexity
Summary
Abstract
Development strategies of metropolitan areas take into account the relations between the local government units that form them. Nowadays, city-to-city or community-to-community relations are shaped by simultaneous competition and cooperation—coopetition. Inter-organisational collaborations become an important part of a development strategy to cope with faster business dynamics, higher uncertainties and environmental complexity. The present unstable economic and business developments in the form of market globalisation, aggressive competition (hypercompetition) and intensive know-how diffusion among cities are one of the most important causes of the occurrence of coopetition.
Keywords: governmental units, competitiveness factors of local government units, governmental units Competition
The conducted empirical studies have served to characterise coopetition occurring between communities in Polish metropolitan areas. The study covered 345 self-government units and cities in 8 metropolitan areas in Poland. One of the examined aspects of coopetition was the benefits of separate competition and cooperation. Responses obtained from 137 representatives of the highest authorities of local government units were used for the purposes of comparative analysis of the benefits of both competition and cooperation. Questionnaire survey was used to gather empirical data.
Data gathered from the representatives of local government units in Polish metropolitan areas demonstrate that the average level of cooperation benefits is higher than the level of competition benefits. The obtained results show that cooperation is much more often used as an approach in the relationships shaping among local government units within metropolitan areas in Poland. Most of the researched units declared a high level of cooperation, which is connected with participation in expected benefits—mostly connected with the improvement of the units’ effectiveness (e.g. public utility services, investment in infrastructure).
Cooperation and competition among local government units within metropolitan areas, as well as their benefits, are strictly connected with the features of the researched unit—its type, location, affiliation and number of inhabitants. Future research should focus on the significance of cooperation and competition benefits as one of the factors determining the relational strategies within metropolitan areas.
Introduction
The dynamic development of metropolitan areas in Poland and the whole European Union in the last 25 years has contributed to the accumulation of high quality resources: physical, human and organisational which can be considered as a source of competitive advantage.
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- The Future of ManagementVolume One: Entrepreneurship, Change and Flexibility, pp. 114 - 133Publisher: Jagiellonian University PressPrint publication year: 2022