Wpływ procesów transformacji na lokalne struktury przemysłu na przykładzie byłego województwa słupskiego

In the industry of the former Słupsk voivodship, in the period of 1989–2000 substantial changes took place, both quantitative and qualitative, and its future, without any doubt, will depend not only on the possibility of effective local and regional development, but also on the municipal authorities that are responsible for its area’s social and industrial development. As a consequence of the structural changes, there has been a diminution of the cities’ role as important centres assembling industrial production potential. The industrial activity has considerably been shifted to the suburban and country areas, where it has found better economic conditions. After the year of 1992, there have been considerable spatial transformations of industry’s division structure. The region’s traditional divisions have lost their leading role to the chemical (plastic) and the electromechanical industries.During the 1997–2002 period, locational preferences changed. There was an increase in the importance of the following: the cost-factor, institutional support and accessibility of communication. The factor described as business environment, however, was developing in an unsteady fashion, deepening hitherto existing spatial differences. The privatization process of the state property, the founder’s organ of which was the Słupsk voivod, had not been completed till 31st December, 1998. The initiated administration reform did not disturb the processes already in action. The industry’s model of privatization in Slupsk voivodship is very characteristic for the general tendency all over the country