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2018, Vol. 4, No. 2  

Editorial 

Nowadays a belief that a new era has begun seems to be dominating international socie-

ties – the time of globalizing political problems and above all economic challenges is just 

happening. Observing the phenomenon of globalization taking place virtually in every as-

pect of life, one may see the overwhelming process of international growth resulting in 

richness and poverty in different corners of our globe. During the past couple of years, 

integration processes and co-dependency as well as correlations in world economy have 

become more and more significant. Also the development of worldwide access to the In-

ternet contributed to accelerate the globalization process. Entrepreneurship seems to be 

a tool for eliminating disparities between regions in the world, that is why we what to 

dedicate this issue to international growth and entrepreneurship. 

This issue includes 10 articles altogether, while the first six articles are dedicated to the 

theme of this issue, and the last four articles are published within the series ‘Student Debuts’. 

Dawid Jarco (Austria) in his article entitled Testing and measurement of economic con-

vergence – a review of some recent developments elaborates on the various measures of 

economic convergence from the literature of the subject. 

Arvydas Jadevicius (UK) in his article entitled Day of the week effect and Baltic 

stock exchanges checks how the day of the week impacts on exchanges. 

Maryna Skyba (Ukraine) in her article entitled The main tendencies of higher education 

in Ukraine in the context of the current challenges of European Integration analyses pluses 

and minuses of Ukrainian higher education and the challenges caused by the integration 

processes towards the EU.  

Christoph Siebert (Germany) in his article entitled From essentialism and functional-

ism to a realistic concept of the ‘visible hand’: evolution of entrepreneurship concepts in 

the context of multipreneurship discusses theoretical framework of entrepreneurship, ex-

ploring the concept of multipreneurship.   

Paul Lane (USA) in his article Dreaming, designing, doing, developing and innovation 

orientation: A case study of working in innovation Stanford style in remote rural Nicaragua 

reveals a very innovative and creative environment provided by the international project 

realized in Nicaragua.  

Joanna Szarek and Jakub Piecuch (Poland) in their article entitled The importance of 

startups for construction of innovative economies discuss how startups impact economies.  

Marta Voloshyn (Ukraine) in her article entitled Foreign Direct Investment as a pull 

factor of the economic growth in Ukraine in the period 2003-2016 discusses the role of FDI 

and its impact on the economy of Ukraine as an example of the economy in transition.  

Klaudia Pietras (Poland) in her article entitled Znaczenie zagranicznych inwestycji 

bezpośrednich w polskim sektorze usług w latach 2010-2015 undertakes the analysis on 

the role of FDI in services in Poland in the period of 2010-2015. 



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Michalina Piątek  (Poland) in her article entitled Zjawiska hamujące rozwój transgra-

nicznego handlu elektronicznego w krajach Unii Europejskiej discusses the hinders against 

e-commerce across national borders in the European Union. 

Mateusz Kućmierczyk  (Poland) in his article entitled Wpływ letnich igrzysk olimpijskich 

na gospodarki miast, regionów i krajów na przykładzie Igrzysk XXXI Olimpiady w Rio de 

Janeiro discusses the impact of Summer Olympic Games on the economies of host cities 

and regions taking Rio de Janeiro into a special consideration. 

We would like to thanks all authors, reviewers and members of the Editorial Board of 

‘International Entrepreneurship’ for their valuable contributions. 

 

 

Krzysztof Wach 

Marek Maciejewski 

Thematic Issue Editors 

 

Kraków – September 2018