 Challenges for long-term industry restructuring in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin: What has Polish coal mining achieved and failed from a twenty-year perspective?Izabela Jonek Kowalska Resources Policy, 2015, vol. 44, issue C, 135-149 Abstract: Restructuring entire industries within changing economic systems remains a great challenge. This restructuring is a project of extraordinary scale, including entire regions and even a whole economy. Therefore, the primary objective of this paper is to assess the restructuring of coal mining in Poland from 1990 to 2013 in combination with identification of directions for its further development to guarantee survival of the industry in current market conditions. To achieve the objective, the empirical part of the paper presents the causes, process and effects of restructuring from two perspectives. The first is a macroperspective which concerns coal mining in Poland as a sector. The second is a microperspective in which the largest Polish coal producers, together with their 24 colliery structures, are analyzed. Additionally, in the theoretical part of the paper—including the introduction with the literature study—the review of previous research on restructuring is presented in order to establish the background of the analysis and evaluation that were conducted. Keywords: Industry restructuring; Efficiency; Productivity; Coal mining in Poland; The Upper Silesian Coal Basin (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jrpoli:v:44:y:2015:i:c:p:135-149 DOI: 10.1016/j.resourpol.2015.02.009 Access Statistics for this article Resources Policy is currently edited by R. G. Eggert More articles in Resources Policy from Elsevier |
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