Poland has been building and strengthening the market economy with its institutions and mechanisms and encouraging foreign competition (cooperation) for the last three decades. Membership in the European Union, with the inclusion of Polish enterprises in the area of the Single European Market, became a momentous step forward. Competition strengthened the selection mechanisms, leading to the displacement of the least effective players and the temptation to act against free competition by creating monopolies, which privileged some entities at the expense of others.
The research aims to identify key economic and legal problems related to the theory and practice of the competition between entities of the European Union on the Single European Market and selected countries of Central and Eastern Europe and provide recommendations for institutional changes limiting the practices of unfair competition.
The study focuses particularly on changes related to technical progress, innovation, including the phenomena of digitisation, and further implications of these processes. A multifaceted analysis of these issues will provide an opportunity to broaden the knowledge about changes in the processes and mechanisms of market competition and their contemporary conditions and to identify and eliminate practices of violating fair competition. The study will be conducted by a research team comprised of: Assistant Professor Krzysztof Falkowski, Ph.D., Małgorzata Krasnodębska-Tomkiel, Hansberry-Tomkiel Office Sp.K. and Assistant Professor Jerzy W. Pietrewicz, Ph.D., under the leadership of Associate Professor Roman Sobiecki, Ph.D.