FOREIGN AFFILIATES IN POLAND (Filie zagraniczne w Polsce.)

The aim of this article is to portray the population of foreign affiliates of transnational corporations in Poland. At the beginning there is a definition of foreign affiliates' category and description of their types. There is pointed out when entities with foreign capital can be perceived as foreign affiliates of transnational corporations. Then, the authoress shows quantitative characteristic of entities with foreign capital according to their numbers, share of foreign capital, organizational form, way of establishment, size, number of employees, capital origin, geographical distribution, and PKD sections. Banking and insurance sectors were analyzed in a limited scope. The research period is 1993-2007, however, information presented on figures and tables includes different time periods, dependent on data accessibility.