The multidimensional approach to development strategy of marine industry Part II. Multifaceted analysis of the development outlook for the polish marine industry

Abstract

Today the Polish marine industry demands multi-step conversion of its companies into future-oriented enterprises. The article presents some results of the multifaceted analysis of this branch of the Polish economy. Main attention is devoted to identification of the critical barriers to its modernization. It is shown that such purpose as increase of competitiveness requires the correct assessment of various obstacles to innovative changes. Moreover, it is recommended the scenarios approach to the risk minimization of quantitative transformations and qualitative changes in the Polish marine industry. Various scenarios forecasting obstacles impacts are presented. Special attention is focused as on the decision-makers willingness to innovative changes, as on eventual techniques for fruitful overcoming the barriers to accelerated development of the Polish marine industry. Proposals are illustrated by numerous results of fulfilled investigation.