ABSTRACT
Industrial policy in the second half of the 20th century was marked by numerous turnabouts both in the free-market economies and in the socialist ones. The analysis of Polish industrial policy presented below is based on verification of neo-Weberian approach in public management. Although this chapter focuses on neo-Weberian concepts in public management, it should be borne in mind that this approach is employed in managing organisations. According to an OECD survey, industrial policy in its member countries In early 1990s, owing to publication of Bangemann Report, European industrial policy began to evolve from focus on declining industries towards those based on R&D. In 2004, the European Commission decided to modify the role of public administration in the context of challenges faced by industrial policy. The proposed solutions were exclusively horizontal and included simplification of legal provisions and EU regulation system in the EU, and the strengthening of administrative cooperation between the European Commission and the EU member states.
