Staff profiles
Pawel Capik
Senior lecturer in international business, MSc
Phone 0114 225 5885
E-mail p.capik@shu.ac.uk
Research centres and institutes associated with
Centre for Business and Management
Research area
Competiveness
Subject areas
- international business
- regional development
Research interests
- firm internationalisation, international business and public policy interactions
- place promotion
- emerging markets and global capital flows
- geography of knowledge intensive business services
- regional development theories
- Central Eastern European transitions
Profile
Paweł graduated from Jagiellonian University in Krakow. During the course of his studies he completed research and exchange programmes at Utrecht University (Erasmus Scholarship) and Aberdeen University (SYLFF Fellowship). Subsequently he started his PhD research at the University of the West of Scotland. While at UWS he began teaching entrepreneurship, international business (at the UWS) and aspects of Central Eastern European transition (at University of Glasgow). His doctoral research investigates the role of place promotion in regional development. It focuses on regional promotion strategies and their impact on foreign direct investment attraction to Central Eastern European regions.
More broadly Pawel's academic interests include regional development theories, MNE restructuring and offshoring and outsourcing of services and business internationalisation particularly in the context of Central Eastern European transition. Those interests are developed through Pawel's involvement in Visegrad Fund sponsored research project on 'Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe: What Kind of Competitiveness for the Visegrad Four?', and co-organisation of RSA Research Network on 'Regional Development and Changing Geography of Outsourcing Business Services in an Enlarged Europe'.
Teaching interests
- international business strategy
- firm internationalisation and location of economic activity
- transition and emerging economies
Research and consultancy projects
'Foreign Direct Investment in Central and Eastern Europe: What Kind of Competitiveness for the Visegrad Four?' - International Visegrad Fund funded project coordinated by Economy and Society Trust (Brno, Czech Republic)
Research outputs - key publications since 2001
Journals
Capik, P., Drahokoupil, J., 2011, Foreign Direct Investments in Business Services: Transforming the Visegrád Four Region into a Knowledge-based Economy?, European Planning Studies, vol.19(9), pp.1611-1631.
Hardy, J., Micek, G., Capik, P., 2011, Upgrading Local Economies in Central and Eastern Europe? The Role of Business Service Foreign Direct Investment in the Knowledge Economy, European Planning Studies, vol.19(9), pp.1581-1591.
Hollinshead, G., Capik, P., Micek, G., 2011, Beyond Offshore Outsourcing of Business Services, Competition and Change, vol.15(3), pp.171-176.
Capik, P., 2007, Target Groups, Competitors and Organization of FDI Promotion in Central-Eastern European Regions, Central Eastern European Journal of Architecture and Planning, vol.11(2), pp.20-28.
Capik, P., 2007, Organising FDI promotion in Central-Eastern European regions, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, vol.3(2), pp.152-163.
Book chapters
Capik, P., 2010, Regional Promotion and Competition: an examination of approaches to FDI attraction in the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia, in: Adams, N., Cotella, G., Nunes, R., (eds.), Territorial Development, Cohesion and Spatial Planning: Building on EU Enlargement, Routledge, London.
Capik, P., 2007, Coherent FDI Promotion? - Organisational Frameworks and Strategic Choices in Competing Regions, in Kallabova E., Frantal, B., Klusacek, P., (eds.), Regions, Localities and Landscapes in New Europe, Institute of Geonics, Ostrava.
Book reviews
2008, Review: Dicken, P., (2007), 'Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy', Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie, vol.99(3), pp.368-370.
2008, Review: Harrington, J.,W., Daniels, P.W., (2006), 'Knowledge-Based Services, Internationalisation and Regional Development', Ashgate, Aldershot, Economic Geography Research Group website.
2007, Review: Asheim, B., Cooke, P., Martin, R. (2006), 'Clusters and Regional Development: Critical Reflections and Explorations', Regions, No 266, pp.26-27.
2007, Review: of Hayden J. (2006): 'The Collapse of Communist Power in Poland: Strategic misperceptions and unanticipated outcomes', Geographical Journal, vol.173(1), pp.96-97.
Other publications
Capik, P., Hardy, J., Micek, G., 2009, Outsourced and offshored services - the complex relationship with places, Regions, No.274, pp.10-11.
Capik, P., 2008, Offshoring and outsourcing: new trends in service sector foreign direct investments in Poland, Research Report, Economy and Society Trust, Brno.
Capik, P., 2007, On scale and the unclear nature of place branding, Regions, No.268, pp.22-23.
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