153 research outputs found
Struktura konkurencji technologicznej w największych bankach Polski
No full textThe author proposes a method for measuring technological competition among businesses and a method to determine the structure of technological competitiveness. To this end the author uses the CCR super-efficiency model applied in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The proposed procedure is used in the study of technological competition among Poland’s 25 largest banks. Guzik uses a set of 2006 data published by Polish banking trade magazine Miesięcznik Finansowy Bank in June 2007. The results obtained by the author show that foreign and private banks generally display the greatest potential for technological competition, Guzik says, while some of the banks that were spun off from the National Bank of Poland (NBP) at the start of the country’s transition to a market economy are the least capable of being competitive technologically. The same is true of banks controlled by state-owned enterprises and organizations, Guzik concludes
Technological Competition Among Poland’s Largest Banks
No full textThe author proposes a method for measuring technological competition among businesses and a method to determine the structure of technological competitiveness. To this end the author uses the CCR super-efficiency model applied in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The proposed procedure is used in the study of technological competition among Poland’s 25 largest banks. Guzik uses a set of 2006 data published by Polish banking trade magazine Miesięcznik Finansowy Bank in June 2007. The results obtained by the author show that foreign and private banks generally display the greatest potential for technological competition, Guzik says, while some of the banks that were spun off from the National Bank of Poland (NBP) at the start of the country’s transition to a market economy are the least capable of being competitive technologically. The same is true of banks controlled by state-owned enterprises and organizations, Guzik concludes
Professor Kazimierz Guzik – distinguished geological cartographer, geotechnician and tectonician
No full textKazimierz Guzik (1911-1970), Polish geologist, graduated from the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, employee of the National Geological Institute and professor at the University of Warsaw. He was the organizer of one of the first soil mechanics laboratories in Poland, an expert in engineering geology and cartography, a pioneer in ground and aerial photogeology. He was a researcher of the tectonics of the Tatra Mts. and the Carpathians, and the co-author of the first detailed geological map of the Polish Tatras
Atrakcyjność inwestycyjna województw
No full textThe paper looks at the results of surveys by the Gdańsk Institute for Market Economics (IBnGR) involving the investment appeal of Poland’s regions. The author proposes a different procedure to determine the investment appeal of regions/provinces. In the procedure, a nationwide reference model of ties is used to determine the link between investment outlays and the socioeconomic development of individual provinces. The proposed procedure combines two types of research into the investment attractiveness of regions: an analysis of investment spending per capita (which can be described as an indicator of investment popularity) and an approach based on a multidimensional comparative analysis (which can be described as an examination of a region’s overall development level). The calculations made by the author show that, in terms of investment appeal/attractiveness, Poland’s provinces are not as heavily differentiated as suggested by the IBnGR’s research. Contrary to popular belief, there is no division into “Poland A” and “Poland B,” Guzik says. Provinces considered to better developed are not necessarily at the head of the league table in terms of investment appeal. The top five provinces according to the procedure proposed by Guzik are Wielkopolska, Lubuskie, Podkarpackie, Mazovia and Małopolska. According to the IBnGR, the top five regions are Mazovia, Lower Silesia, Małopolska and Wielkopolska (in descending order)
The Investment Appeal of Poland’s Regions
No full textThe paper looks at the results of surveys by the Gdańsk Institute for Market Economics (IBnGR) involving the investment appeal of Poland’s regions. The author proposes a different procedure to determine the investment appeal of regions/provinces. In the procedure, a nationwide reference model of ties is used to determine the link between investment outlays and the socioeconomic development of individual provinces. The proposed procedure combines two types of research into the investment attractiveness of regions: an analysis of investment spending per capita (which can be described as an indicator of investment popularity) and an approach based on a multidimensional comparative analysis (which can be described as an examination of a region’s overall development level). The calculations made by the author show that, in terms of investment appeal/attractiveness, Poland’s provinces are not as heavily differentiated as suggested by the IBnGR’s research. Contrary to popular belief, there is no division into “Poland A” and “Poland B,” Guzik says. Provinces considered to better developed are not necessarily at the head of the league table in terms of investment appeal. The top five provinces according to the procedure proposed by Guzik are Wielkopolska, Lubuskie, Podkarpackie, Mazovia and Małopolska. According to the IBnGR, the top five regions are Mazovia, Lower Silesia, Małopolska and Wielkopolska (in descending order)
Making Things Stick
No full textWith Mexico’s War on Crime as the backdrop, Making Things Stick offers an innovative analysis of how surveillance technologies impact governance in the global society. More than just tools to monitor ordinary people, surveillance technologies are imagined by government officials as a way to reform the national state by focusing on the material things—cellular phones, automobiles, human bodies—that can enable crime. In describing the challenges that the Mexican government has encountered in implementing this novel approach to social control, Keith Guzik presents surveillance technologies as a sign of state weakness rather than strength and as an opportunity for civic engagement rather than retreat. “This book rethinks the idea of surveillance. Surveillance technologies are elements in an assemblage of other objects and people, so their materiality matters for how we understand surveillance and power. I very much welcome the focus on the relationships between technologies, authorities, and those who are governed within their purview.” -LOUISE AMOORE, author of The Politics of Possibility, Professor of Human Geography, Durham University “We live in an era of intense state surveillance and in a moment when we are both aware of the general outlines of the surveillance state and, yet, still mostly uncertain about how to think about what surveillance is. For readers anxious to put the surveillance state in a broader global and conceptual framework, it will be a must-read.” -TOBY JONES, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University “This is a very interesting work, filled with insight and built on solid empirical research. It shows a deep understanding of the role of surveillance in modern societies and, within that larger aim, focuses on creative and compelling ways in the case of Mexico.” -DIANE E. DAVIS, Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning and Urbanism, Harvard University KEITH GUZIK is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Denver. He is the author of Arresting Abuse and the coeditor of The Mangle in Practice
Plan S: In service or disservice to society?
No full textThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication inEuropean Heart Journal following peer review. The version of record Guzik, T. J. and A. Ahluwalia (2019). "Plan S: in Service or Disservice to Society?: The controversial plan for scientific research publications to be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms, is discussed." European Heart Journal 40(12): 949-952. is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehz065The controversial plan for scientific research publications to be published in compliant Open Access Journals or on compliant Open Access Platforms is discussed. The article has been co-published with permission in European Heart Journal and British Journal of Pharmacology. The articles are identical except for minor stylistic and spelling differences in keeping with each journal's style. Either citation can be used when citing this article.Prof Guzik has received research grants from European Research Council, European Comission and the British Heart Foundation; consultancy Fees from Bayer AG and is the Editor-in-Chief of Cardiovascular Research, a European Society for Cardiology Journal. Prof Ahluwalia receives grant funding from Heart Research UK, The National Institute for Health Research, The British Heart Foundation and The Barts Charity
FIGURE 2 in Pilbarana, a new subterranean amphipod genus (Hadzioidea: Eriopisidae) of environmental assessment importance from the Pilbara, Western Australia
No full textFIGURE 2. Pilbarana grandis sp. nov. holotype male WAM C78830, 7mm. A, whole animal with scale; B, antenna 1; C, antenna 2; D, mandible; E, maxilla 1; F, maxilla 2; G, maxilliped.Published as part of Stringer, Danielle N., King, Rachael A., Austin, Andrew D. & Guzik, Michelle T., 2022, Pilbarana, a new subterranean amphipod genus (Hadzioidea: Eriopisidae) of environmental assessment importance from the Pilbara, Western Australia, pp. 559-573 in Zootaxa 5188 (6) on page 564, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.6.4, http://zenodo.org/record/710369
The Ownership Structure and Technological Efficiency of Poland’s Largest Banks
No full textUsing data on Poland’s 50 largest banks-ranked by Bank Miesięcznik Finansowy in June 2007-the author calculated indicators of efficiency for 23 Polish banks. These indicators were calculated for 2006 according to a key Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model known as the SE-CCR. On the basis of data on the banks’ shareholding structure by country of origin and type of ownership-as well as data on when the banks were established-the author checked if individual groups of banks differed from one another in the average level of efficiency. Guzik used the Kruskal-Wallis test to this end. He also developed a model to explain the relationship between efficiency in the sense of CCR super-efficiency and the ownership structure of banks and their age. Overall, the paper shows that privately held banks controlled by foreign shareholders and established after 2000 are far more efficient than banks owned by domestic shareholders and established before 2000, especially if they are controlled by the state
Struktura własnościowa a efektywność technologiczna największych banków w Polsce
No full textUsing data on Poland’s 50 largest banks—ranked by Bank Miesięcznik Finansowy in June 2007—the author calculated indicators of efficiency for 23 Polish banks. These indicators were calculated for 2006 according to a key Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model known as the SE-CCR. On the basis of data on the banks’ shareholding structure by country of origin and type of ownership—as well as data on when the banks were established—the author checked if individual groups of banks differed from one another in the average level of efficiency. Guzik used the Kruskal-Wallis test to this end. He also developed a model to explain the relationship between efficiency in the sense of CCR super-efficiency and the ownership structure of banks and their age. Overall, the paper shows that privately held banks controlled by foreign shareholders and established after 2000 are far more efficient than banks owned by domestic shareholders and established before 2000, especially if they are controlled by the state
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