Effectiveness versus conditions of small and medium-sized enterprise development in Poland

• Authors: Anna Marciniuk-Kluska
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) are fundamental to the economic sphere of everysingle country. They usually generate more than half of the gross domestic product and employ over ahalf of the total number of the workforce. The necessity of supporting enterprise understood as the creationof new companies is a must on the way to restoring the condition and developmental potential of thesector of small and medium-sized enterprises. The paper presents the relation between the effectivenessand advanced entrepreneurship, illustrated with an example of the development of SME in Poland. Theanalysis has been carried out in three dimensions: the importance of enterprises for the economy, thedemographic picture of entrepreneurship depicting the changes that take place in the structure of companiesin Poland in relation to the EU, and the entrepreneurs’ perspective on the phenomenon sincethese are entrepreneurs' intentions, decisions and aspirations that translate into the effectiveness andqualitative improvement of a company. The purpose of the paper is to present the dynamic relationshipbetween effectiveness and the development of small and medium enterprises in the environment ofuncertainty and market asymmetry. Additionally, the paper seeks to identify the tools that are helpful inincreasing the effectiveness and value of enterprises in the SME sector. Data from the following sourceshave been used for the purpose of the study: Central Statistical Office (GUS), Polish Agency for EnterpriseDevelopment (PARP), Eurostat, SBA Fact Sheets and the research done by the Global EntrepreneurshipMonitoring (GEM).

Keywords

PL

efficiency; development; small and medium companies

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Przyrodniczo-Humanistyczny w Siedlcach
• Journal: Zeszyty Naukowe UPH seria Administracja i Zarządzanie
• Year: 2016
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 111
• Pages: 51-67

Dates

published

2019-08-01

Contributors

author

Anna Marciniuk-Kluska