The metropolisation of companies or local enterpreneurship? / Bogusław Podhalański // W: 3rd International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts, SGEM 2016 : conference ... więcej

The metropolisation of companies or local enterpreneurship? / Bogusław Podhalański // W: 3rd International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conference on Social Sciences and Arts, SGEM 2016 : conference proceedings, Extended Scientific Sessions Vienna, Austria, 6-9 April 2016. Book 4, Arts, performing arts, architecture and design. Vol. 2, Architecture and design. – Sofia : STEF92 Technology Ltd., 2016. – (SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific Conferences on Social Sciences and Arts, ISSN 2367-5659. – S. 733-740 : tab., wykr. – Bibliogr. 13 poz., Abstr. – doi: 10.5593/sgemsocial2016HB42. – ISBN 978-619-7105-54-4

In an age of globalization, capital is not the only thing that undergoes concentration. Companies and businesses also tend to become larger and take on different forms, in addition to changing the urban ... więcej

In an age of globalization, capital is not the only thing that undergoes concentration. Companies and businesses also tend to become larger and take on different forms, in addition to changing the urban layouts of the spaces they inhabit, in which they can potentially achieve the highest possible economic growth. Metropolises currently play the leading role among the many forms of settlement. Metropolitan areas are the sites of new industrial construction projects, mostly due to the abundance of cheap labor, but also due to the availability of properly trained management and engineering staff. This causes companies to increase their ties with metropolises, which takes on the form of relocating to metropolises or being gradually absorbed into them. This phenomenon is accompanied by a mobility of specialists from many different fields, especially scientists and engineers associated with innovative technologies, who are attracted by not only the possibilities that are offered to them by modern research facilities, but also, or perhaps first and foremost, by the quality of their surroundings, as well as the quality of life within a given metropolis. There are many rankings of metropolises which segregate them in accordance to criteria which are not always comparable, nevertheless being one of the more popular means of illustrating the differences and changes that are occurring in urban areas and that are generated by technological progress. At the other end of the globalization spectrum is the tendency to flee from civilization in order to settle in an environment which is closer to nature, while in the intellectual sense, the direction is often dubbed "the desert", that is, the sources of spiritual, early Christian inspiration. The opposite of multinational production and trade corporations are the local and micro businesses. Their development can be seen as the future of towns, which looks quite bleak in the context of their depopulation and the rising rates of migration to metropolises and even other countries with more efficient economies in search of a good job.