Abstract
Dr Maria Anna Karwowska and Ezbieta mrozinska are with teh Torun business school, university of Nicolaus copernicus, Torun, Poland, This paper presents an overview of small business activity in poland following the moves towards a market econmoy which started in 1989/90. The title of the paper suggest it is about the special regulations helping small and mediume-sized enterprises in poland but as yet there are in fact no such regulations. SMEs operate according to different criteria than state enterprises but this lasw refers to the private sector as a whole. Small business development in Poland is connected with teh transformation to a market economy, as part of the privatisation process, and is naturally the part which is much easier to achieve than the privatiation of large, state-owned enterprises. SMEs are in fact receiving all the support that is being given to the private sectors. small-scale privatisation refers to small firms, mainly in the retail trade but also to some extent in the industrial sectors. in these cases, privatisation is accomplished mainly by transfering ownership to the firm's workers.
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