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Transnational entrepreneurship in the context of a globally oriented company located in south-western Poland: A multiscalar approach

Publication date: 12.12.2018

Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, 2018 (XLIV), Vol. 169, issue 3, pp. 97 - 112

https://doi.org/10.4467/25444972SMPP.18.037.9436

Authors

Marta Songin-Mokrzan
University of Lodz, Poland, ul. Narutowicza 65, 90-131 Łódź
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0019-9200 Orcid
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Transnational entrepreneurship in the context of a globally oriented company located in south-western Poland: A multiscalar approach

Abstract

The article focuses on selected aspects of transnational entrepreneurship, understood in terms of actions that go beyond national borders and lead to long-lasting innovations in sociotechnical spaces. These considerations rest on the ethnographic research conducted in years 2013–2016 in a globally oriented company situated in south-western Poland. While exploring the issue, the author moves between diff erent scales of analysis: from the macro-level of the postsocialist state, through the global infrastructure of neoliberal politics, to the specific working environment and the regional context. Th e adopted strategy of shift ing perspectives is applied in order to point to the larger political, historical and economic contexts in which specifi c places are embedded and which infl uence the trajectories of lives of employees of global enterprises.

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Information: Migration Studies – Review of Polish Diaspora, 2018 (XLIV), Vol. 169, issue 3, pp. 97 - 112

Article type: Original article

Titles:

Polish:

Transnational entrepreneurship in the context of a globally oriented company located in south-western Poland: A multiscalar approach

English:

Transnational entrepreneurship in the context of a globally oriented company located in south-western Poland: A multiscalar approach

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0019-9200

Marta Songin-Mokrzan
University of Lodz, Poland, ul. Narutowicza 65, 90-131 Łódź
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0019-9200 Orcid
All publications →

University of Lodz, Poland, ul. Narutowicza 65, 90-131 Łódź

Published at: 12.12.2018

Article status: Open

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Marta Songin-Mokrzan (Author) - 100%

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