Polityka przekształceń własnościowych przedsiębiorstw państwowych w przemyśle stoczniowym w Polsce po 1989 roku
The policy of ownership changes in state-owned companies in the shipbuilding industry in Poland after 1989

Summary/Abstract: Ownership changes in state-owned companies were part of the political transformation that started in Poland in the late 1980s. Ownership changes affected the production shipyards, which influenced Poland’s economic development and earlier had been symbols of political importance. The ownership changes taking place in the Polish shipyards depended on the decisions made by Polish governments, but also on the situation on the global shipbuilding market and the fact that later Poland was to join the EU. Therefore, the changes attracted the attention of many politicians, academics and Polish society, arousing emotions, disputes and controversy. The aim of this paper is to analyze the policies of successive governments in terms of ownership changes in the shipbuilding sector. Attention is focused on the factors that affected the privatization of the Polish shipyards. While analyzing the policies of Polish cabinets concerning the ownership changes in the shipyards, we wanted to find the answers to the following questions: did the Polish government work out a coherent concept for changing the ownership structure in the shipbuilding industry? What decisions were made by successive Polish governments in order to reprivatize the shipyards? The study used comparative, decision-based, institutional, legal and statistical methods. Particular attention is paid to the process of reprivatization of the shipyards after Poland joined the EU. The examples of reprivatization in the shipyards of Szczecin, Gdańsk and Gdynia are given.

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