Analiza barier rozwojowych przedsiębiorstw międzynarodowych

The influence of international enterprises on the world economy is gradually increasing. It has been observed that competitive advantage was reached by these international entities that divided their production process and located a given step of that process in the country where such phase could be realized in the cheapest manner possible. The research conducted within the Łódź area in 2000-2002 indicated that insufficient range of foreign investments in Poland is caused by a whole array of faults of the Polish administration as well as a number of other factors mentioned consecutively in this paper. As a consequence, Poland is unable to choose the most attractive oilers and often selects foreign investors whose activity is unfavorable for our economy. Moreover, it appears that general conditions of functioning of economy have much greater effect on foreign investors’ decisions than those factors that have traditionally been considered as the basic reasons for investing abroad (long-term profit, increase o f the enterprise.