Bariery Współpracy Przedsiębiorstw z Podmiotami Zagranicznymi

The aim of the article is to indicate the important barriers of companies cooperation with entities of their business environment, with particular reference to foreign entities. Deliberations are to answer the question which barriers limit cooperation with foreign entities and whether they are specific compared to barriers of companies cooperation with local entities. The article presents the idea of close cooperation between companies on the background of the transactional approach, and it diagnoses factors limiting this cooperation. Then the results of two empirical studies are presented. The research proved that the barriers to cooperation with foreign entities are to some extent different from the barriers to cooperation with local players. Companies evaluating cooperation only with foreign entities generally rated low the importance of all barriers compared to companies that analysed cooperation including the local entities. The main factor limiting cooperation, regardless of country of origin, was the difficulty of finding appropriate (that meet companies requirements) business partners.