in Network Organisations – Some Aspects Summary

In her article, the author focused her attention on advantages and disadvantages of cooperation undertaken by enterprises operating within the framework of net-work organisations in the Polish economy. Establishing cooperation by enterprises may become nowadays one of the bases of formation of their development strate-gies. In the conditions of high variability of the environment, the growing uncer-tainty of enterprise activity, there gain in importance the concepts making use of definite relationships and partnership cooperation with other entities. There appear new forms of that cooperation, new organisational structures, inter alia, network organisations. Affiliation to them is connected with achievement by enterprises of definite benefits, while, on the other hand, it may result in occurrence of some threats. The empirical research carried out in 2013 in a group of 363 enterprises belonging to various network organisations conform that really enterprises achieve definite benefits carrying out their activities within the framework of network. And they are decidedly more emphasised than definite threats. Key words: enterprises, network organisations, advantages, threats to functioning