Zastosowanie elementów teorii organizacji i zarzadzania w badaniach nad partiami politycznymi

The aim of this article is to consider the possibility of using elements derived from organization and management theory in research on political parties. The following issues have been analyzed in particular: organization’s goals, conceptions of development, environment and boundaries, structure and selected functions as well as strategic analysis methods. The authors have applied the system approach, which makes it possible to compare objects representing various research disciplines. The belief that both the company and the party are organizations that create specific systems has made us lean towards choosing this way. The analysis has shown that research studies on political parties as well as political parties themselves could benefit a lot from the application of organization and management science. Parties should in particular: firstly – focus on having a long -lasting organizational structure that, which is connected to development and adjustment to the environment; secondly – pay attention to the need of optimizing their structures (balancing between hierarchic and stratarchic, centralized and decentralized, formalized and deformalized structures); thirdly – attach more importance to the elaboration of appropriate strategies as well as the use of strategy management methods and techniques.