Szilárd Rácz

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Publications - 5

The firm geography of Central and Eastern Europe and the Western Balkans

Szilárd Rácz Ildikó Egyed Ádám Páthy Judit Berkes

Publication Name: Journal of Urban and Regional Analysis

Publication Date: 2025-01-01

Volume: 17

Issue: 1

Page Range: 5-35

Description:

Over the past three decades, significant socio-economic transformations have reshaped the post-socialist states of Central and Eastern Europe. This study examines the geography of firms with over 10 employees across 15 countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Hungary, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slova-kia, and Slovenia. Using data from over 300,000 firms, the analysis focused on firm size categories, turnover, and activity distribution. The research highlighted disparities between post-socialist and other countries, and it employed descriptive statistics and the framework of agglomeration economies to uncover nuanced spatial patterns. The findings revealed significant differences in business concentration and the functions of small and medium-sized cities, particularly in the regions without a European-scale metropolis, emphasising their role in regional economic and demographic sustainability.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.37043/JURA.2025.17.1.1

EDITORIAL: Cities, Regions and Borders in Central and Eastern Europe

Szilárd Rácz Ildikó Egyed Judit Berkes

Publication Name: Deturope

Publication Date: 2023-01-01

Volume: 15

Issue: 2

Page Range: 6-8

Description:

No description provided

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.32725/DET.2023.009

The Role of Territorial Capital in Urban Renewal in a Non-core Central European City

Szilárd Rácz Ildikó Egyed

Publication Name: Deturope

Publication Date: 2020-01-01

Volume: 12

Issue: 3

Page Range: 108-132

Description:

The concept of territorial capital, presented by the authors as an alternative to exogenous, FDI-driven economic restructuring strategies, has fertilised regional development policy thinking in multiple ways. Triggering reflections on the bottom-up reconceptualisation of regional policy, it has a particular salience in peripheral or lagging regions due to its potential to reverse deeply-entrenched core-periphery relations. The paper discusses the concept of territorial capital with a view to its policy embeddedness and academic valorisation. The structure of the paper is as follows. The first section presents the theoretical antecedents and conceptual evolution of the notion of territorial capital. This is followed by a brief discussion of the relevance of territorial capital in non-core or peripheral Central European contexts. The concluding section seeks to identify the main obstacles to collaborative and integrated strategy-making relying on the territorial capital approach in the case study city of Pécs, demonstrating its crucial absence from post-2000 top-down regional development programmes.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: DOI not available

Territorial Research in Central Europe – Report on the 2019 Conferences of the Hungarian Regional Science Association

Szilárd Rácz Ildikó Egyed

Publication Name: Deturope

Publication Date: 2020-01-01

Volume: 12

Issue: 3

Page Range: 7-12

Description:

No description provided

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.32725/det.2020.019

Development processes of regional centres in Central and Southeast Europe - From state socialism to dependent market economies

Szilárd Rácz

Publication Name: Deturope

Publication Date: 2019-01-01

Volume: 11

Issue: 2

Page Range: 92-100

Description:

The background of the current research is that despite the existence of a vast amount of literature devoted to the study of post-socialist transition processes, there is a relative scarcity of international comparative analyses on Central and Southeast European metropolises. The research seeks to explore FDI-driven transformation and development processes in Central and Southeast European regional centres in the posttransition period. The geographical focus of the analysis is limited to Central and Southeast European postsocialist states, while the scale of the analysis targets the metropolitan and regional level. The present study provides a brief summary of the first phase of the research constituted by literature review.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.017