Ukrainian companies in Poland - conditions and structure of foreign direct investment

• Main Author: Glinkowska Beata
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sciendo 2017-12-01
• Series: Management
• Subjects: internationalization; foreign direct investment; FDI; Ukraine; Poland; F230
• Online Access: http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/manment.2017.21.issue-2/manment-2017-0009/manment-2017-0009.xml?format=INT

The aim of the article is an attempt to find an answer to the question about the state of Ukrainian FDI in Poland: showing the state, support, government incentives, motives, barriers and investor sentiment. It was possible to reach the target primarily thanks to a thorough analysis of documentation from the websites of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine and interviews with representatives of institutions or their employees. The article consists of three main parts: the first is the administrative activity for the development of Ukraine’s cooperation with Poland and the existence of “incentives” for FDI from Ukraine; the second part analysed data on Ukrainian FDI in Poland and Ukrainian FDI in total and approximated the state of commodity exchange of Ukrainian companies with Poland as a basis for economic contacts (which may develop into strategic alliances, joint ventures or FDI); the third part presents the results of empirical research on investor sentiment, motives and barriers in this process.