Abstract:
Management is a general scope of activities, processes and decisions. Its application in relation to resources, persons, capital or organization is to ensure the conditions for their effective functioning, leading to achievement of set goals. Management means actions that make up the process of managing people in the resource management of any institution. The basic task of management is to ensure the achievement of the institution's objectives while maintaining the principle of rational management. The primary purpose of business management efforts is the desire to succeed. Success of the company depends primarily on ambitions and knowledge of its owners, the adopted strategy of operation, customers, the quality of products and services provided and the efficiency of resource management they have. All management activities based on making decisions regarding the development of innovations based on new or differently configured resources already in various organizational spheres are called entrepreneurial management. Today, entrepreneurship is defined as a process which participant is not only business, but also local governments and social organizations. Local governments recognize that entrepreneurship, especially in connection with competitiveness, is a factor of local development, as well as the basis for shaping regional specializations, which is why they try to create favorable conditions for its development, supporting enterprises with a wide range of both income and expenditure instruments (Makieła, 2013). In the paper, the author has attempted to present various tools and instruments for cooperation of local government units with entrepreneurs, as well as results of an audit report on supporting entrepreneurship by Polish communes, conducted in 2018. The paper presents results of the research conducted in 2019 among selected SME’s operating on the local market, concerning knowledge, forms of supporting entrepreneurship by the local government and barriers to business development in Polish micro, small and medium enterprises located in communes of the Częstochowa district.
