Management of business processes is a comprehensive approach to implementation of the objectives of an organisation. It concentrates on optimising the ways business processes are run in organisations in order to increase effectiveness of operations within an organisation. The aim of this paper is to identify and analyse an enterprise's orientation on process management and to identify the limitations in the process approach to an enterprise management. To achieve this aim, a questionnaire survey was conducted in 2015 examining enterprises and business processes they perform. It enabled identification of statistical relationships with reference to selected categories of enterprises and verification of the research hypotheses which defined, among other things, level of entrepreneurs’ knowledge and orientation on processes occurring in an enterprise management

Achieving and maintaining an appropriate level of competitiveness of enterprises from the SME sector is a long-term process, and companies’ competitiveness strategies are related to market behavior. Organizational behaviors depend on the company’s resources and changes in the business environment, but at the same time allow the achievement of the company’s main goals. Environmental conditions and activities undertaken by companies affect the level of competitiveness, and often even determine the success of companies on the market. Adaptation to the conditions of a changing environment requires enterprises to take actions within the adopted strategy, and the factors influencing competitiveness determine the company’s current market position. The aim of the article is to assess the factors of competitiveness among enterprises from the SME sector. The article uses the results of own research conducted in 2020 on a group of 140 Polish manufacturing companies using the proprietary questionnaire. The conducted analysis, with the use of descriptive statistical methods, indicates that the size of the company determines the range of factors influencing the market competitiveness of enterprises. Resource capabilities, organizational behavior, and the dynamic capabilities of entities mean that, depending on the size of the company, enterprises declare different and at a different level factors determining their market competitiveness.

Flexible Activities of the Organization in Implementation of the Sustainable Development Principles in Selected Areas of the Organizations

The contemporary conditions for the operations of enterprises, including family businesses, require a high level of organizational flexibility in the market decisions taken. This also applies to the creation of cooperation networks since the benefits from adopting the cooperation strategy provides enterprises with competitive advantage in turbulent and demanding markets. The objective of the article is to diagnose the level of flexible operations from the perspective of the creation of cooperation networks between organizations in the market. The conducted analysis is based on the own research results on a group of Polish family businesses. During the analysis, appropriate statistical methods were used, the application of which allowed for indicating the relationships and conditions of the level of flexibility of operations.