Impact of the accession to the European Union on Polish enterprises development

Abstract

The current situation creates potential and almost unrestricted possibilities of creating the new value of Polish enterprises on European markets. Preliminary governmental statistics as well as the presented results of own empirical research show, that Polish entrepreneurs successfully use possibilities created by the common market: they Europeanize their activities by increasing foreign trade transactions, but more and more bravely they make use of the European freedom for establishment. The presented results of own empirical research make up the basis for verifying common opinions on the influence of the accession on Polish enterprises, they shows active attitudes of Polish entrepreneurs towards European markets. However it is crucial to underline that they are only the preliminary results of the research, which should be the subject of further statistical analysis and verification in order to find and prove correlations among individual variables.European Union, Poland, integration