Wioletta KILAR, Pedagogical University of Krakow, Poland
The world economy has been undergoing extensive and rapid changes over the past few decades. Globalisation and integration processes have intensified. Knowledge and technology transfer brought about new opportunities, and the economic development of regions rose to unprecedented levels.
Multinational corporations play a key role in this regard. Corporations are best placed to develop and implement different types of innovations efficiently, as they have immense economic power, resulting mainly from their financial resources, modern technologies, and qualified workforce. In making decisions on the location of their branches, corporations choose the most favourable locations, ensuring optimal conditions from their perspective. With reference to the above premises, the subject of this paper will be IT corporations as an example of innovative companies. Because the location of IT corporations in the world indicates that changes in the global economy are also reflected in the location of IT corporations' headquarters.
The aim of the research was to identify the areas of concentration of HQs of IT corporations in the last two decades (2003-2021) and to observe changes in this area.
Along with changes in the concentration of headquarters of IT corporations, there was a change in the concentration of the economic potential of IT corporations, which was calculated using a synthetic measure. Due to the fact that corporations, including IT corporations, through global network connections, have a significant impact on the areas of their host countries and their economies, there is a feedback loop. The concentration of innovative corporations depends on several decisive factors, including in particular: human factor, economic factors, including labor costs and technical conditions. At the same time, by concentrating the headquarters of management boards and branches of innovative corporations in a given place, these input factors are improved.
Mots clés : IT corporation|areas of concentration|innovation
A105097WK