Strategie gmin w Polsce w latach 2011-2018. Perspektywa podejść do strategii

The purpose of the research was to define the preferences regarding the approaches to strategy in Polish communes. The conducted research provided the basis to conclude that the planning approach towards strategies is the dominant one in Polish communes. This approach is expressed in focusing on material resources, on the internal development factors. The approach which is observed in communes to a lesser extent is the resource approach, the basis of which is focusing on non-material resources, and, similar to the case of the planning approach, on the internal factors. The positional approach focusing on the resources which differentiate and on the postulates regarding increasing the share in the market, the innovative approach, in which the communes focus on creating innovations, and the network approach focusing on relational resources and the usage of the network in development, even though they are justified from the point of view of the operation and development of a commune self-government, are only practiced by the communes to a small degree.