THE KEY LIMITING FACTORS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A BENCHMARKING PARTNERSHIP IN CLUSTER ENTERPRISES

The benchmarking partnership of cluster enterprises is an important and interesting field
of scientific research in the management sciences. The purpose of the paper is to identify the
key factors limiting the establishment of this form of partnership and to establish their impact.
This paper argues that proper identification of the main limiting factors is an essential
management process to help with benchmarking partnerships, and I aim to examine which
limiting factors (internal or external) have a greater negative impact on the establishment of
benchmarking partnerships? The work utilizes indirect research through the analysis of
literature sources and deductive reasoning, and direct research through the use of
questionnaires conducted with selected Polish clusters enterprises.

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