Strategy of Exporting Firms in the Socialist Economy

• Autorzy: Wiesław J. Otta
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

The term strategy has been traditionally connected with the warfare. It has been laso used with reference to some sophisticated games like chess. Since the appearance of the work of Neuman and von Morgenstern the concepts of game and strategy have been more and more used in the analysis of the behavior of economic actors. Concepts of the theory of games served initially to describe the behavior of decision makers in the market - free and monopolistic. Those were mainly zero sum competitive games. Later the concept of games has been extended also over non-market behaviors of economic and social actors - e.g. over behaviors in administered systems. The concepts of game and strategy have particullary strong relations to the activistic approach to the behavior of economic and social actors. In the approach social and economic phenomena constitute an "ecology of games" played by purposefully behaving actors. In theory of the socialist economy prevails a view of firms (enterprises) as passive objects of the central steering. Only a relatively short time ago attention has been paid to the autonomous behaviors of enterprises. It has been noticed that they often come out of the central control and/or can successfully block central inititives. This turner the attention of the economists to the game paradigm as an instrument for describing and analysing the behavior of firms in the socialist economy. The firm does not react to central signals but actively responds to the behaviors of other economic actors (including the central administration) and takes autonomous actions. It plays a game(s) with the actors from it's environment. Some patterns of behavior can be observed in the game(s). They can be called strategies. (fragment of text)

Słowa kluczowe

PL

Eksport; Strategia rynkowa; Gospodarka socjalistyczna; Gospodarka scentralizowana; Planowanie centralne; Wymiana międzynarodowa; Wymiana handlowa; Struktura eksportu

EN

Export; Market strategy; Socialist economy; Centralized economy; Central planning; International exchange; Trade exchange; Export structure

• Czasopismo: Zeszyty Naukowe. Seria 1 / Akademia Ekonomiczna w Poznaniu
• Rocznik: 1990
• Numer: nr 169 Changes and tendencies in economic relations of East-European countries
• Strony: 85-98

Twórcy

autor

Wiesław J. Otta

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