Abstract
Cross-border partnerships are a distinctive example of inter-organizational cooperation, embedded, in terms of territory, in the neighboring borderland regions of two or more countries. The aim of this paper is to identify factors that contribute to the sustainable cross-border cooperation and affect motivation to increase cooperation between cross-border partners. The objective implementation is connected with the verification of a hypothesis referring to the possible impact of the European Union funds on the trans-boundary cooperation transformations. Results of desk research and quantitative research involving IDI, CATI, CAWI and CATI and PAPI data collection methods, implemented in the Polish–Czech borderland in 2016 were used in this paper. Research on the Polish–Lithuanian borderland was also used in the paper to conduct comparative analysis, useful to identify and evaluate factors motivating sustainable cross-border cooperation in the Czech–Polish borderland. The sustainable, cross-border and inter-organizational cooperation in the borderlands results from the simultaneous interaction of three groups of factors: (1) people and institutions (the quality of interpersonal relationships); (2) cross-border planning, procedures and support mechanisms (e.g., the possibility of jointly planning the cross-border cooperation and obtaining EU funds for the development of the borderlands as well as the availability of other funds helpful in this kind of cooperation); and (3) environment (historical affinity and geographical proximity of neighboring border regions, system support at the regional and local level in neighboring countries).
Highlights
The phenomenon of cross-border partnerships is associated with overcoming stereotypical perception of a border as a barrier and obstacle to multidimensional integration in order to undertake joint projects, beneficial to the partners themselves and the development of borderland areas of neighboring countries
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Both the studies on the Czech–Polish borderland and on the Polish–Lithuanian borderland revealed that the Polish side is more active in cooperation development
Summary
The phenomenon of cross-border partnerships is associated with overcoming stereotypical perception of a border as a barrier and obstacle to multidimensional integration in order to undertake joint projects, beneficial to the partners themselves and the development of borderland areas of neighboring countries. The motivation for research was the increasing importance of inter-organizational cooperation on the borderland It takes place in specific conditions of the cross-border environment, in a microscale, i.e., most often in Euroregions [13] and in the form of larger undertakings, e.g., as cooperation of partner cities or cooperation in cross-border projects implemented under the INTERREG VA Program. The analysis included studies conducted among main subjects of cross-border cooperation in the regions such as: local governments, public institutions and non-governmental organizations. This approach corresponds to other views presented in the literature [43,44]
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