Application of the outsourcing concept in managing small and medium-sized enterprises
研究了外包概念在中小企业管理中的应用，基于对波兰罗兹地区三家公司的问卷调查，评估了适合中小企业特点的外包模式及其条件。
Outsourcing defined as a concept of management that consists in limited involvement of enterprise’s own resources and the use of the potential of external entities instead, is included among a wide range of contemporary management concepts [Penc 2002, p. 7]. The concept can be well applied in management of small and medium-sized enterprises, which are often internally restricted due to immanent resource shortages and are forced to search for possibilities of development in the potential of competitive environment. In this case, searching for a specific model of outsourcing and its conditionings, adjusted to the specific nature of the SME sector, is necessary. Accounting for that, the evaluation of outsourcing solutions applied in the management of SMEs on the basis of questionnaire research of three research projects realized in companies functioning in the Lodz region has been assigned as the aim of the article.