Staff
Paweł Capik
MSc
Research Student
Tel: +(44) 141/ 848 3496
Fax: +(44) 141/ 848 3395
e-mail: pawel.capik@uws.ac.uk
Paweł Capik pursued his undergraduate studies in human and economic geography at Utrecht University (Erasmus Scholarship), Aberdeen University (SYLFF Fellowship) and Jagiellonian University in Kraków, which he graduated from in 2003. Paweł's MSc research involved a comparative study of conditions and effects of the EU funding in regional economies in Scotland and Poland. Having successfully secured the University scholarship Paweł started his PhD studies in Paisley in September 2003. His research investigates the role of place promotion in regional development. It focuses on regional promotion strategies and their impact on foreign direct investment attraction to the Czech, Polish and Slovak regions.
Paweł's further academic interests include regional development theories, spatial, social and economic dimensions of Central Eastern European transition, business internationalisation, MNE restructuring and offshoring and outsourcing of services. Those interests are developed throught Pawel's involvement in Visegrad Fund sponsored research project on 'Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe: What Kind of Competitiveness for the Visegrad Four?', and co-organisation of RSA Research Network on 'Regional Development and Changing Geography of Outsourcing Business Services in an Enlarged Europe'.
Publications
Book chapters
(forthcoming in autumn 2008) 'Regional promotion and competition: determinants of long-term and ad hoc approaches to FDI attraction in Central Eastern Europe', in: Adams, N., Cotella, G., Nunes, R., Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning: building on EU enlargement.
2007, 'Coherent FDI Promotion? – Organisational Frameworks and Strategic Choices in Competing Regions', (in) Kallabova E., Frantal, B., Klusacek, P., (eds.), Regions, Localities and Landscapes in New Europe, Institute of Geonics, Ostrava.
Reviewed papers
2007, 'Target Groups, Competitors and Organization of FDI Promotion in Central-Eastern European Regions', Central Eastern European Journal of Architecture and Planning, vol.11(2), pp. 20-28.
2007, 'Organising FDI promotion in Central-Eastern European regions', Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, vol.3(2), pp.152-163.
Conference papers
‘Joining the game' – emergent approaches to FDI promotion in Central-Eastern European regions', Central-Eastern European Engagement: AESOP-YA Conference 2007, Slovak University of Technology, Bratislava.
'Regional promotion strategies and network models in competing regions - FDI attraction mechanisms in Central Eastern Europe', CIRM 2006 Proceedings, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester.
'Regional promotion strategies and FDI attraction to Central-Eastern Europe' , RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2006, London, [CD-ROM].
'Pre-accession assistance – conditions, spatial distribution and management issues on a Polish example', 5th UACES Student Forum Regional Conference in Glasgow, 2004.
Reports and other papers
2008, 'Offshoring and outsourcing: new trends in service sector foreign direct investments in Poland', Research Report, Economy and Society Trust, Brno.
2007, 'On scale and the unclear nature of place branding', Regions, No 268, pp. 22-23.
Reviews
2008, Review: Dicken, P., (2007), 'Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy', Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, vol.99(3), pp.368-370.
2008, Review: Harrington, J.,W., Daniels, P.W., (2006), 'Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalisation and Regional Development', Ashgate, Aldershot, Economic Geography Research Group website.
2007, Review: Asheim, B., Cooke, P., Martin, R. (2006), 'Clusters and Regional Development: Critical Reflections and Explorations', Regions, No 266, pp.26-27.
2007, Review: of Hayden J. (2006): 'The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland: Strategic misperceptions and unanticipated outcomes', Geographical Journal, vol.173(1), pp.96-97.
Last update: 3rd May 2008