Fr. Józef Maria Bocheński, known for his many contributions, is not usually associated with the philosophy of economics, even though he had some achivements in this field. The classical analysis of the enterprise, limited to the division into capital, land, and labor, as a sociological-historical rather than an economic concept, does not contribute much to the study of economics, so Bocheń-ski’s analysis using ontological and logical tools is an attempt to remedy this. The analysis of the enterprise shows that it is a system which purpose is production. This system consists of internal and external elements and a synthesis factor in the form of the entrepreneur, who may be identical with with one or more of these elements or with none of them. As the dynamic analysis shows, the various subsystems of the enterprise may have divergent objectives, but they must be subordinated to the main objective, which is production, otherwise no objective will be fulfilled. From the work as a whole, the ideal of the entrepreneur emerges, reconciling the conflicting aspirations of the individual components of the system. These considerations provide an ontological ground for deliberation of the theory of the firm and the theory of entrepreneurship, showing the connection between these two issues. Bochenski’s work generates numerous problems of a detailed nature, mainly in the selection and number of elements, and needs to be supplemented with a theory of the boundaries of the firm.
Market-based management is an original approach to management developed by Charles Koch around the developed principles of the Austrian school of economics and applied in an entrepreneurial context. This article reconstructs Koch’s managerial ideas, highlighting the foundation of his approach in the thought of F.A. von Hayek, L. von Mises and J. Schumpeter and compares his views on organization and management with the views of the leading representatives of the modern management thought. The article consists of introduction and three main sections. The first section contains an outline of intellectual biography of Charles Koch and a short history of the Koch Industries. In the second section I present the main tenets of the market-based management and trace back their roots to the ideas of scholars working within the tradition of Austrian school of economics. The third section concludes the paper with the critical analysis of Koch’s theoretical acumen, indicating their similarity to the previously developed concepts in organizational science, and some remarks on their highly successful implementation in his managerial practice.
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Market-based management to metoda zarządzania stworzona -przez Charlesa Kocha stanowiąca oryginalne rozwinięcie szeregu idei zaczerpniętych z austriackie] szkoły w ekonomii odniesionych do warunków panujących wewnątrz przedsiębiorstw. W artykule dokonuję rekonstrukcji poglądów Kocha na zarządzanie, wskazuje na ich inspiracje myślą F.A. von Hayeka, L. von Misesa i f. Schumpetera oraz porównuje je z poglądami innych przedstawicieli myśli organizatorskiej. Artykuł składa się ze wstępu i trzech punktów. W pierwszym z nich przedstawiam w zarysie biografię intelektualną Charlesa Kocha i omawiam historię zarządzanego przez niego przedsiębiorstwa Koch Industries. W drugim punkcie przedstawiam główne założenia zarządzania opartego na rynku oraz ich związek z austriacką szkołą w ekonomii. W trzecim punkcie, stanowiącym podsumowanie, poddaję krytycznej analizie poglądy Kocha wskazując na ich podobieństwa z szeregiem idei, już wcześniej zgłaszanych w myśli organizatorskiej, podkreślając jednocześnie sukces z jakim zdołał zaimplementować je on we własnej praktyce zarządzania.
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