Istota władzy gospodarczej producentów w świetle ogólnej teorii władzy
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1986
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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The Essence of Economic Power of Producers in the Light of the General Theory of Power
Abstract
The implementation of the Polish economic reform occurs in the extremely
unfavorable market conditions. The internal market is not only unbalanced but
also dominated by monopolistic structures. The unbalanced and closed market becomes
a source of the strong market power of those enterprises which supply
determined goods and services. The present article is the author's attempt at theoretical explication of the
essence of economic power of producers and the discussion of the characteristic
features of that notion against the background of the general theory of power.
In the first part of the article the author reviews definitions of the general
notion of power encountered by him in the modern Western and socialist sociological,
politological and legal literature. The definitions are of a certain value as
they can facilitate understanding the essence and recognition of the action mechanisms
of that specific sort of power, being the economic power of the socialized
producers.
The second part of the article brings about the author's discussion of the essence
of the economic power of producers in the socialized economy.
The authors shares opinions of those Polish economists, according to whom
the notion of economic power can be referred to situations at which an enterprise
gains a considerable market advantage, over other subjects, what allows it to
shape regulational horizontal links according to the own rules of a game (independently
from the official findings) as well as exercise influence over regulational
vertical links (with the administrative center) to reach its own goals, contradicting
the social goals and the goals of other market subjects.
Next the author discusses the most important features of the economic power
of the producers. The analysis produced in this respect resulted in formulating the
following conclusions:
— the economic power of the producers is a social relation;
— the relation is not grounded in the legal regulation, it is effected by the
factual position of a given enterprise on the market;
— the economic power reveals an authoritarian character, power relations
are this asymmetrical (there are dominating and dominated subjects in them);
— the obedience is a substantial element of the economic power, the excèssiveness
and range of power can be proved by a number of acts of the obedience
and by a number of subjects manifesting it;
— economic organizations as users of power are vested with a peculiar extra-
-legal imperium, having the means of economic duress at their disposal;
— two types of economic power are to be distinguished: the potential power
and the power excercised; as the power being a certain potential, chance or possibility
may, but does not have to be realized;
— the economic power of the producers is neither forced nor absolute; there
are possibilities to control it, limit it or eliminate it;
— the economic power is transitive and relative as an enterprise is related to
specific elements of its milieu both by means of dominance and subjection.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 48, 1986, z. 3, s. 51-63
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0035-9629