EJPAU 2008. Powęska H. THE CHARACTER AND CONDITIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CROSS-BORDER SHOPPING IN POLAND IN THE PERIOD OF TRANSFORMATION

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2008
Volume 11
Issue 4

Topic:

Economics

ELECTRONIC
JOURNAL OF
POLISH
AGRICULTURAL
UNIVERSITIES

Powęska H. 2008. THE CHARACTER AND CONDITIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CROSS-BORDER SHOPPING IN POLAND IN THE PERIOD OF TRANSFORMATION, EJPAU 11(4), #09.
Available Online: http://www.ejpau.media.pl/volume11/issue4/abs-09.html

THE CHARACTER AND CONDITIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT OF CROSS-BORDER SHOPPING IN POLAND IN THE PERIOD OF TRANSFORMATION

Halina Powęska
Department of Agricultural Policy and Marketing, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Poland

ABSTRACT

This paper examines the conditioning factors of development
of cross-border shopping in Poland and in Eastern and Central Europe during the
period of political and socio-economic transformation at the turn of the 20th
century. The author presents similarities and differences of this phenomenon
by making reference to other regions of the world. Cross-border shoppers are
characterized and the analysis of the difference between cross-border shopping
and smuggling is made. The paper discusses a wide range of conditions that are
presented here using a model and it highlights diverse aspects of the phenomenon.
The main reasons, the basic reasons and the complementary reasons have been distinguished.
The basic reasons include political and organizational factors, such as the system
of the exercise of power, organization of the manner of crossing the borders,
existence of cross-border infrastructure, as well as the manner of the exercise
of control. The main reasons indicated in the paper include the economic factors
and the security of goods and travelling persons. Complementary factors encompass
the organization and environment of shopping, infrastructure and accessibility
to shopping places as well as the behaviour of the population. The reasons and
the groups of factors indicated in the article are interrelated, which makes
the phenomenon more dynamic and constantly evolving.

Key words: cross-border shopping, Eastern and Central Europe, Poland, cross-border areas.

Halina Powęska
Department of Agricultural Policy and Marketing,
Faculty of Economic Sciences,
Warsaw University of Life Sciences (SGGW), Poland
Nowoursynowska 166, 02-792 Warsaw, Poland
Phone: (+4822) 59 340 64
email: halina_poweska@sggw.pl

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