Spółdzielczość w gospodarce rynkowej
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1995
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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Cooperatives in a market economy
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The paper first mentions those who initiated and propagated the idea of cooperatives, the
types of cooperatives and their evolution in the market economy. Next, it stresses that despite the tendency to carry out mass privatisation and the negative evaluation which cooperatives set up in
socialist countries have received, one should not overlook the positive aspects and opportunities
which cooperatives create and which should therefore be given some room in economic activity.
In the Polish environment the restructuring of the present cooperative system requires a new
set of legal regulations defining its role and the principles according to which it operates. First of
all, cooperative attitudes and relations promoting a system in which cooperatives collaborate and
help one another in the market should be established. This will improve the functioning of cooperatives
in the competitive market economy. Cooperatives should base their operations on principles
of good management and income value which is the best measure of performance as a function
of a goal, a criterion used in the assessment of any economic activity.
To be successful, the restructuring of cooperatives requires, at least in its initial stage, external
support of the state. This helps them to achieve independence and efficiency. It also needs to
be supported by a set of organisational and economic assumptions and regulations adequate to its
role assumed in the state's policy.
However, the pro-cooperative policy of the state should not merely provide a protective umbrella
and tolerate poor management, inefficiency and a policy of the so-called profitable minimum
prices. The state's involvement should never interfere with the principles of market economy.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny, 57, 1995, z. 3, s. 41-51