Aktywność gospodarcza przedsiębiorstw w Polsce w świetle badań metodą tekstu koniunkturalnego

Abstract

The article indicates that the privatisation of Polish economy is accompanied by the growing importance of research into the economic activity of enterprises. The author points to the causes of the growing role of qualitative research in a transient economy. Such research results from: 1) the necessity to obtain particular information allowing to formulate quick diagnoses and short-term prognoses; 2) an increased risk and uncertainty of functioning of enterprises; 3) a reduced role of traditional quantitative statistics, in consequence of a devoloped demand from the central government for information concerning decisions taken at a microeconomic level necessary to formulate a macroeconomic strategy. In conditions of a transient economy the research into the economic activity of enterprises by means of the business survey mehod may not copy automatically the patterns adopted in a fully developed market economy. The purpose of the article is to indicate which of the measures of the economic situation are the most adequate and suitable for the structure of the Polish economy and for the economic and ownership transformations taking place in Poland.