Аннотация:Notwithstanding its planned nature, the reform of production relations in socialist production is a complex, occasionally contradictory process of interaction and coordination of the interests of various social groups participating in economic management. As experience has shown, the fact that executive bodies arrive at decisions on the restructuring of the economic mechanism- be they ever so urgent and proper from the point of view of society in general-is no guarantee that they will be implemented if they contradict or are irrelevant to the economic interests of management groups responsible for their practical implementation.