Activity of Enterprises in Conditions of Growing Prices for Raw Materials, Materials, Fuels and Energy

In this article, the author tackles problems connected with enterprises response to growing prices of raw materials, materials, fuels, and energy. After justifying topicality of the subject the author points at the former and present systemic sources of a high material and Energy intensity of production such as the policy of low prices for means of production, costly method of fixing prices, instability of the financial system, centralized allocations of industrial supplies, etc. On the basis of results of the conducted studies there have been presented the main types of neutralizing effects of increases in procurement prices by socialized enterprises, including primarily neutralization through effectiveness, manipulations of the indices-stimuli and financial system, and the so-called pricing vpass on", i.e. shifting increases in procurement prices onto prices of end products. More attention has been paid to conditions and mechanisms forcing out and stimulating a scenario of neutralization through effectiveness and, thus, a mechanism of economic constraint, simulation of economic constraint, mechanism of specialized stimuli, direct mechanism e.g. central savings programmes and anobligation to elaborate them in enterprises, and a social mechanism of regulating price increases. The last-mentioned mechanism has not been introduced in Poland as yet, and the author has presented an outline remarks on possibilities and ways of the so-called economization of the procurement market and restoring equilibrium on it. The author perceives a necessity of a comprehensive action in this direction, in which alongside the most important production-supply solutions and removal of the direct rationing of materials a major role should be played by measure saiming at promoting greater elasticity in size and structure of demand for objects of labour, and elastic, constantly up-dated prices of raw materials, materials, fuels and energy based on economic foundations