Łukasz Sułkowski

Department of Management and Social Communication, Institute of Public Affairs, Jagiellonian University,

Cracow, Poland

lukasz.sulkowski@uj.edu.pl 

ORCID 0000-0002-1248-2743

Increase in patriotic entrepreneurship in Ukraine and Poland as a result of Russian invasion in 2022

Grzegorz Ignatowski

Department of Management, University of Social Sciences,

Lodz, Poland

gignatowski@san.edu.pl 

ORCID 0000-0002-4432-8476

Bartłomiej Stopczyński

Department of Management, University of Social Sciences,

Lodz, Poland

bstopczynski@san.edu.pl 

ORCID 0000-0001-8941-7424

Joanna Trębska

Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz,

Poland

joanna.trebska@uni.lodz.pl 

ORCID 0000-0002-0398-5867

Abstract. The aim of the paper is to examine the significance of the war in Ukraine for patriotic entrepreneurship in both Poland and Ukraine.  The methods are semi-structured interviews with entrepreneurs and an online survey conducted among participants coming from both countries, who were introduced to the main elements that make up the concept of patriotic entrepreneurship. Both quantitative and qualitative research indicated that there is no significant impact of the Russian-Ukrainian war on inclinations related to patriotic entrepreneurship among Polish entrepreneurs, while there is such an impact among Ukrainian entrepreneurs. While patriotic entrepreneurship can be one of the important motivations for managerial and employee actions, the noticeable impact of war on it was only in the country where hostilities are taking place. The research limitation was the lack of representativeness of the sample. The research should be repeated after the war. It would also be useful to continue the research on the representative study.

Received: April, 2022

1st Revision: January, 2023

Accepted: March, 2023

DOI: 10.14254/2071-8330.2023/16-1/2

JEL Classification: M2, O2

Keywords: patriotism, patriotic entrepreneurship, impact of war