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The contemporary world’s economy la charactarized with a trend towards concentration and integration of production. That is 80 sinice relationships between economica, science, and technology call for establishment of big economic organizations being able to utilize effectively achievements scored in these fields. In the Polish linen industry, since the early post-war years the processes of production concentration and integration have constituted one of maln factors promoting development of this industry. Organizational merging of companies, construction of new ones, roconstruotion and modernisation were paving the way for introductlon of new techniques and technologies, new products, growth of produotion dynamics and improved labour produotivity. Analysis of the impact exerted by factors of production and productivity growth raveals that this growth was largely due to technical and organizational progress promoted in the Polish linen industry.