The aim of the work was to present the relationship between the development of social capital and corruption on the basis of new growth and knowledge management theories. Corruption was regarded in this work as a brake on the country’s productivity growth through its impact on the rate and quality of structural changes in an economy, and therefore its welfare. The article discussed possible damages caused by corruption to the efforts in the development of social capital, especially in public administration, which could include, for example, fall in different types of standards and mutual trust of social life participants. Based on the studies of international institutions as World Bank, World Economic Forum and Legatum Institute was also analyzed the relationship between selected indicators of corruption and social capital levels on a group of 104 countries by means of statistical methods in 2009–2010. The results confirmed the presence of co-dependence between an increase in social capital level and a decline of corruption scale in the surveyed countries.

Cities/towns – in the light of the regulation related to commune self-government – are not obliged to establish service entities in the form of district council, or neighbourhood or local ones etc. However, the majority of large cities established the afore-mentioned entities. In the mid-sized cities (50–100 thousand citizens) such “socialization” is at the level of 38%. In the cities which beforehand decided on such citizens’ share in public management, their influence on the local development is on the increase. The examples of such cities counting on such a development encompass – among others – Kraków, Poznań, Wrocław, Gdynia, Sopot, Bydgoszcz. In the voivodeship of Kuiavia and Pomerania, out of 22 cities with the population amounting to over 10 000 people in 10 of them such entities were established, including a couple of small towns. Even in small towns such as Mogilno, the examples of civic initiatives and the real influence on local development are numerous. Even more then one should claim the necessity of introducing the statutory duty to establish the service entities in each city/town. The active citizenship manifesting itself through district councils could possibly bring the additional profits if district councils allocated more financial means from local budgets or if – statutorily, their own sources of profits were granted – for example from neighbourhood car park fees, the fees issuing from selling alcoholic beverages as well as fine and penalties and alike.

The paper aimed to find out how PBOs’ financial data affect Polish donors choosing a public benefit institution to support. The research let authors draw the conclusion, that Polish donors make very limited use of PBOs’ financial statements in this process.

In the article was paid attention to connections between the general election and the quality of official authority. Here was discussed a specificity of the instrumentation of election marketing in context 4P model, a systematics of election taking place in our country, as well as issues of the participation of the society in the general election on various rungs of the authority.

Strong farmers’ individualism limits their competitiveness. Smaller commercial agricultural producers find themselves at particular disadvantage. The sustainable agricultural paradigm requires farmers to receive adequate and regular income (which is independent of the crisis factors), and to preserve an environment and a biodiversity. However, Lithuanian farmers rarely take common actions in the market. The aim of article is to create an organizational system that allows different sizes of sea buckthorn growers’ farms to work together merging into cooperatives and producers’ organizations. There is suggested a merging system for different size buckthorn growers’ farms which allows unionize local, zonal and country cooperatives

Currently, the business innovative activity is seen as a complex and complicated process. From this point of view, stimulation of a innovative abilities by local governments is a must. Their aware and targeted focus lead to develop a business support organisation. The subject of the article is to research the impact of it on innovative activity of industrial companies in West Pomeranian region.

The purpose of this article is to show the potential behaviors of local governments, which stimulate the development of innovative business activities based on a specific set of institutional theories of regional development. The basic hypothesis of the research assumes that the regional authorities should actively formulate regional innovation policy, and then implement it.

One of the processes of development, which have a real impact public authorities, is the development of the information society. The content of this article is to show examples of activities in the public management that can contribute to raising the standard of living through improved access to information and assistance in the development of skills that are essential to the use of information technology. Presented reflection is based on examples of actions taken by the City of Czestochowa.

Accepted values are motivating and give direction to taken actions. The object of projected studies are values that underlie professional competence of nurses: (1) professional knowledge and skills, (2) relations among employees, (3) concern for the best interest of the patients. An assumption that the values can change along with the lenght of service has been done. In the research in which participated 60 nurses, modifi ed questionnaire concerning Professional Life Dilemmas, based on Biographic Dilemmas Questionaire by Adam Niemczyński, was used. The results indicate that all the three values are refl ected in the way of thinking about the professionalism, reconstituted from the statements in the questionnaire. The assumptions concerning the change in the way of understanding of the professionalism during working life, that goes from knowledge and skills, through the importance of the relation among nurses to the concern for the patient are confi rmed.