The article examines the role of knowledge sharing as a critical success factor in sustainable management, especially in the context of applying artificial intelligence (AI) solutions and implementing corporate sustainability directives. Based on a pilot study conducted among Polish companies involved in knowledge-sharing platforms, the research investigates awareness, application, and measurable effects of EU guidelines on responsible business conduct (CSDDD/CSRD). The findings demonstrate a significant but uneven uptake of the eight climate governance principles, with a particular gap in risk assessment practices. The article highlights sectoral challenges and the potential of AI for enhancing ESG data collection, reporting, and strategy implementation, while also addressing ethical and systemic limitations of digital tools in sustainability management.
The main objective of this article is to examine how organisational resilience is defined and its implications for logistics industry entities. For the purpose of a systematic literature review (SLR), bibliometric analysis and content analysis were used. The analysis reveals no unified definition of resilience in the logistics industry, though a common pattern defines it as an entity’s ability to achieve a desired outcome under disruptive conditions. The findings indicate that major disruptions, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic, are the primary reasons for the heightened research interest in this topic. The analysis carried out allows for further methodological work on systematising the concept of resilience in logistics activities (logistics industry), which is important in the context of maintaining the continuity of logistics processes, both from the point of view of supply chains and from the point of view of individual links. This is important from a cost perspective (analysis of the total cost of goods flow) as well as for building customer satisfaction.
Bogusław Wacławik, Joanna Popławska, Stanisław Bielski
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The purpose of the article is to discuss the reporting of environmental information on sustainability and ESG regulations in companies from the energy sector listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The article presents the results of the authors' own research on the extent of disclosure of environmental information among 14 companies in the energy sector listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange in 2022-2023. The methodology was based on a review of the literature on the subject, legal acts and own research, which used non-financial reports of listed companies in the energy sector on environmental information and indicators. The research problem undertaken by the authors was to investigate whether companies in the energy sector disclosed environmental information in the period before mandatory regulations in this regard. The results of the conducted research confirmed the authors' supposition that these companies published such information. At the same time, the scope of disclosed information differed quite significantly between companies. According to the authors, the article adds value to the literature on the subject, especially in terms of the collection of source material, its presentation and discussion. The information gathered in the empirical chapter can be used, among other things, to compare the scope of disclosure of environmental information of companies from Poland with companies from other countries in the energy sector. The topics of the article can form the basis for further detailed empirical research in this area.
The article discusses the issue of the changes in the structure of financing environmental protection in Poland and the voivodeships in the years 2005-2022. The study aims to assess changes in the structure of expenditure on fixed assets for environmental protection according to the directions of investment, divided into voivodeships. The analysis uses a research method based on the angle θ measure to analyse the intensity, pace and monotonicity of structure changes. This measure allows for precise assessment of structural changes, assigning different weights to shifts depending on the share size. The analysis is supplemented by assessing the evolution of structures by determining the average pace and their monotonicity. The study covered 288 seven-element structures, and the results indicate high intensity and chaotic changes in the examined structures of expenditure on environmental protection in the voivodeships. The presented research method can be one of the methods for assessing the effectiveness of implementing environmental policy provisions by observing changes in the expenditure structure.
The main objective of this study has been to measure and evaluate changes in the values of metrics applied to environmental management systems implemented in rural areas in the years 2010 and 2022. The study included three provinces in Poland representing different socio-economic development classes. Two strategic research groups were distinguished within the provinces: rural municipalities and rural areas in urban-rural municipalities. With the Perkal method, a synthetic indicator was constructed to measure environmental performance in rural areas. The Pearson correlation coefficient was applied, leading to the results which substantiated the conclusion that the highest improvement of the environmental management indicator value was achieved in the province at the highest socio-economic development level, even though the sub-indicators did not improve between 2010 and 2022 in all the analysed groups. The management of the environment is a task mostly delegated to local governments. Proposing an environmental monitoring method can support making decisions at the level of local governments as regards directions in the management of the environment in a given area because the synthetic indicator created in this study comprises only these elements that can be moulded by actions undertaken by local governments.
Current global threats and changes undoubtedly justify conducting studies of sustainable development (SD) in different aspects. Researching this phenomenon in urban areas is important to formulate more accurate and important conclusions for urban policy. The aim of the paper is to assess the diversity of SD of FUAs of voivodship’s capitals in Poland, also with the level of development in different dimensions of sustainable development. The study, using the TOPSIS method, was conducted for 17 FUAs. This allowed us to assess that the level of differentiation of SDin studied FUAs is rather small. The highest levels of SD indices were observed in FUAs: Warsaw, Wrocław, the lowest in FUAs: Katowice-Gliwice and Łódź. Moreover, 65% of the studied units belong to the lower middle and lower-level classes of SD. It was also observed that the lowest result of SD indices was in the environmental-spatial dimension (in over 40% of studied FUAs).
Impression management is vital in disclosing non-financial information, including environmental information, in integrated reports. The purpose of the study is to identify and assess the effects of using the impression management strategies in presenting non-financial ecological knowledge in the integrated reports issued by capital groups from the energy, raw materials and fuel sectors, which have had a large share in the degradation of the natural environment for many years. The research was conducted based on two stages: the first stage – as part of the impression management strategy – focused on text analysis to identify the tools for thematic manipulation as well as visual and structural manipulation, and the second stage consisted in analysing the level of text readability using, i.a., FOG and Pisarek indices. The research findings regarding the selected business entities identified as the “polluters” of the natural environment confirm the application of various tools as part of the stakeholder impression management strategies, including manipulation using words, colour, pictures and text.
In Poland, even though there is already richer literature on the subject of the regional economy, there is still a need for knowledge on various dimensions and aspects of the development of problem areas. The reason for this is to search for ways to boost the country's development, to find new opportunities to activate both growth centres, as well as, and perhaps above all, to activate underdeveloped, backward areas burdened with hidden unemployment in agriculture and to activate those areas which lack features that favour the development of the modern, knowledge-based economy of the 21st century. The key problem addressed in this article is „what criteria should be taken into account when delimiting the problem areas in order for public intervention to be effective and to contribute to the desired changes?”
This article presents the method of delimiting problem areas on the example of the “Five Capitals” model. The case study is the West Pomeranian Voivodeship in Poland (EU).
En la investigació sobre el treball de les dones en els segles XVIII-XIX, trobem la dificultat de visualitzar la presència femenina en les fonts que comptabilitzaven l'activitat econòmica i productiva del país. Aquest treball realitza una aproximació a les primeres dones que es van enrolar a treballar en els vapors de la Compañía Trasatlántica, SA.
La Barceloneta se configuró, inmediatamente después de su fundación en 1753, como el espacio predilecto de la construcción y reparación naval de la ciudad de Barcelona. A partir de la década de 1830, el sector vivió su etapa de máximo esplendor, ejerciendo un papel como demandante de materiales, herramientas y servicios que le permitió actuar como el principal agente dinamizador de la economía del distrito. Este contexto permitió al núcleo de familias de los principales constructores navales establecer su poder e influencia más allá de las fronteras de la propia actividad, convirtiéndose en el principal componente de la burguesía local del barrio. La grave crisis que vivió el sector en el último tercio del siglo XIX provocó la desaparición de múltiples astilleros y ocasionó una notable crisis de trabajo, así como la desvinculación de la Barceloneta de las familias que más capital y poder habían acumulado.
The article addresses an innovative instrument of regional development management, namely the Special Demographic Zone (SDZ). The zone has been established in Opolskie Voivodeship, a region marked by the most unfavourable demographic trends among other Polish regions. The article aims to highlight activities intended for people aged 50+ pursued by municipalities and enterprises
operating within the SDZ as well as discussing the assessment the Opolskie for the Family programme by surveyed stakeholders. Based on the theoretical framework of the SDZ, a questionnaire has been designed, and a survey has been carried out with a view to achieving the aforesaid aim. Based on the analysis of survey results, the authors have identified the need for and scope of further action that will allow local self-governments and enterprises to implement the concept of the SDZ in a more effective manner.
Tourism is mostly concentrated in protected areas. The highest level of protection of nature and landscape represents national parks, which are important biosphere reserves. Tourism in national parks has to be developed with a thoughtful and considerate approach to the environment and in accordance with sustainable development values, which are based on economic, social and
environmental principles. The object of the study is the Tatra National Park, whose task is to preserve and protect the original conditions of the natural environment in the protected landscape and utilise its potential for recreational, medical and sport purposes. In the last decade, the territory of the national park has been undergoing major innovations associated with the construction and improvement of tourism facilities. The aim of the article is to examine the sustainability of tourism in the Tatra
National Park based on indicators developed by UNWTO (2004) in terms of visitors with an emphasis on social and environmental aspects.
This article discusses identity and modernity problem in globalization era. As a plural society, Indonesia needs to maintain and build the identity. In Indonesia context, the only way is how to revitalize Pancasila. Revitalization of Pancasila and local wisdom is a worthy and urgent thing to do in an effort to counteract the excesses of modernization and globalization. Moral teachings derived from Pancasila and local wisdom, which stresses social awareness, simplicity, and power of the human mind, must be internalized intensively and planned to learners and the wider community.
The purpose of the paper was to examine, on the example of Podlaskie Voivodship, if the disbursement of funds for the development of tourism in the framework of the Cross-Border Cooperation Programme Poland – Belarus – Ukraine 2007-2013 was justifi ed and whether the funds were expended in an effi cient manner and on an adequate scale. The analysis was based on the secondary data of the Ministry of Regional Development, literature covering the research area and offi cial statistical data. The results of research and analysis on tourist traffi c in Podlaskie Voivodship indicated that despite the establishment of ambitious goal of improving and fully utilising the tourist potential of the Polish-Belarusian-Ukrainian borderland, it is impossible to clearly determine the degree of effectiveness of the programme in this respect due to a number of potentially signifi cant determinants of
tourism development in the region. The paper comprises the fi rst in the existing body of literature detailed analysis of the effectiveness of tourism support under the programme, which may be a valuable diagnostic tool in defi ning the scope of other EU cross-border programmes in the future fi nancial perspectives as far as tourism is concerned.
Space may be divided into two basic components: the natural environment and the anthropogenic environment. Both components permeate one another. The desire for constant development exposes the natural environment to numerous threats; therefore, particularly important areas are included under legal protection. To make more effi cient use of limited space, planning documents are adopted, the content of which has to take into account the environmental determinants, including issues related to environmental protection. The paper presents the Polish system of nature conservation and spatial planning, along with mutual dependencies that connect both systems and their reciprocal influences.