<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Relations between metropolitan core cities and regional and sub-regional centres are part of a broader discussion on the importance of metropolitan areas for the development of regions. These relations are dealt with in this paper in the context of the growth pole theory. The paper focuses on the migration process in relation to enterprises. By moving their businesses, companies contribute to backwash and spread effects. Since company migrations between municipalities occur in both directions, the question remains open as to which migration direction dominates – whether from sub-regional centres to core cities or vice versa. This paper attempts to verify the hypothesis that regional and sub-regional centres in the Mazowieckie voivodship suffer the largest loss of enterprises due to migration to the core city of Warsaw. The results obtained were varied and the hypothesis was confirmed, especially in the case of three cities: Siedlce, Radom and Płock; and partly in the case of Ciechanów.</p></abstract>

Relations between metropolitan core cities and regional and sub-regional centres are part of a broader discussion on the importance of metropolitan areas for the development of regions. These relations are dealt with in this paper in the context of the growth pole theory. The paper focuses on the migration process in relation to enterprises. By moving their businesses, companies contribute to backwash and spread effects. Since company migrations between municipalities occur in both directions, the question remains open as to which migration direction dominates – whether from sub-regional centres to core cities or vice versa. This paper attempts to verify the hypothesis that regional and sub-regional centres in the Mazowieckie voivodship suffer the largest loss of enterprises due to migration to the core city of Warsaw. The results obtained were varied and the hypothesis was confirmed, especially in the case of three cities: Siedlce, Radom and Płock; and partly in the case of Ciechanów.

Quo Vadis, Business? The migration of companies between cities using the example of the Mazowieckie voivodship in Poland

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Relations between metropolitan core cities and regional and sub-regional centres are part of a broader discussion on the importance of metropolitan areas for...

Quo Vadis, Business? The migration of companies between cities using the example of the Mazowieckie voivodship in Poland

Published Online: Oct 31, 2020

Page range: 218 - 231

Received: Jun 12, 2019

Accepted: Sep 08, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0037

Keywords
Warsaw, regional city, sub-regional city, polarisation, migration of companies, net migration

© 2020 Magdalena Cybulska, Wojciech Dziemianowicz, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Quo Vadis, Business? The migration of companies between cities using the example of the Mazowieckie voivodship in Poland

Published Online: Oct 31, 2020

Page range: 218 - 231

Received: Jun 12, 2019

Accepted: Sep 08, 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0037

KeywordsWarsaw, regional city, sub-regional city, polarisation, migration of companies, net migration

© 2020 Magdalena Cybulska, Wojciech Dziemianowicz, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Warsaw, regional city, sub-regional city, polarisation, migration of companies, net migration