Overview

This book offers a collection of studies on various organizations’ efficiency, criteria for evaluating efficiency, together with tools and methods for measuring efficiency. The articles included present an interdisciplinary look at efficiency, its essence and the principles of its measurement. They represent an attempt to seek the conceptual boundaries of efficiency, i.e. to clarify this abstract and multidimensional concept including its relation to innovation, competitiveness and intellectual capital. The contributions also identify a broad spectrum of conditions for achieving efficiency in various types of organizations and systems (e.g. health care, hybrid organizations, non-profit organizations), representing various industries (e.g. insurance, banking, tourism, agriculture).

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Author:   Tadeusz Dudycz ,  Grażyna Osbert-Pociecha ,  Bogumiła Brycz
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016
Weight:   0.718kg
ISBN:  

9783319387376

ISBN 10:   3319387375
Pages:   337
Publication Date:   23 August 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Identification of Performance Measurement Systems Applied in Polish Enterprises.- The Impact on the Organisational Effects of the Implementation of ERP and Selected Management Methods.- Industry Concentration and Performance: Case of Life Insurance Industry.- Communication Infrastructure and Enterprise Effectiveness.- The Influence of Intellectual Capital Performance on Value Creation in Slovak SMEs.- Entrepreneurial Environment and Economic Growth: What Affects the Productiveness of Business Activity at Macro Level?- A Value-Oriented Quantitative Model for Strategy Formulation Regarding Strategic Business Units.- The Impact of Intellectual Capital Efficiency on the Profitability of Agricultural Enterprises.- Tripartite Collaborative Model Value Creation Experience of iEnterprise with Corporate and NGO.- Is the IPO Anomaly in Poland Only Apparent or Real?- The Relevance of Context for Goodwill Impairment Decisions Within Hall's Framework.- Efficiency Evaluation Criteria of Tour Guides' Communication Activities.- Controlling in the Banking Industry. The Case of Romania.- The Use of Fuzzy Logic in the Enterprises Business Efficiency Assessment.- Institutional Conditions for Improving the Efficiency of the Health Care System in Poland.-Method of Simplified Evaluation of the Commercial Potential of R&D Projects.- On the Importance of Free Cash Flow Metrics Bias Resulting from Static Approach to Free Cash Flow Analysis.- Do Business Valuation Professionals Need Business Valuation Standards?- The Effectiveness of the Hybrid Organisations - a Purposive Approach.- Market Valuation of Innovation-Related Intangibles: The Case of Polish Biotechnology Firms.

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Tadeusz Dudycz is a professor at the Wrocław University of Technology where he is Head of the Department of Financial Management and Vice-Dean for Finance and Organization at the Faculty of Computer Science and Management. Grażyna Osbert Pociecha is a professor of Economics. She works in the Department of Business Economics at the Wrocław University of Economics. Bogumiła Brycz is an assistant professor in the Department of Financial Management at the Wrocław University of Technology

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