The Essence and Measurement of Organizational Efficiency

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. Identification of Performance Measurement Systems Applied in Polish Enterprises

   • Barbara Batóg, Jacek Batóg, Andrzej Niemiec, Wanda Skoczylas, Piotr Waśniewski

   Pages 1-11

3. The Impact on the Organisational Effects of the Implementation of ERP and Selected Management Methods

   • Agnieszka Bieńkowska, Katarzyna Walecka-Jankowska, Anna Zgrzywa-Ziemak

   Pages 13-28

4. Industry Concentration and Performance: Case of Life Insurance Industry

   • Zuzana Brokešová, Tomáš Ondruška, Erika Pastoráková, Jana Péliová

   Pages 29-37

5. Communication Infrastructure and Enterprise Effectiveness

   • Maria Fic, Mariusz Malinowski

   Pages 39-63

6. The Influence of Intellectual Capital Performance on Value Creation in Slovak SMEs

   • Marian Holienka, Anna Pilková, Miroslava Kubišová

   Pages 65-77

7. Entrepreneurial Environment and Economic Growth: What Affects the Productiveness of Business Activity at Macro Level?

   • Marian Holienka, Anna Pilková, Nataliia Ostapenko

   Pages 79-95

8. A Value-Oriented Quantitative Model for Strategy Formulation Regarding Strategic Business Units

   • Michał J. Kowalski, Łukasz Biliński

   Pages 97-121

9. The Impact of Intellectual Capital Efficiency on the Profitability of Agricultural Enterprises

   • Magdalena Kozera

   Pages 123-136

10. Tripartite Collaborative Model Value Creation Experience of iEnterprise with Corporate and Nongovernmental Organization

    • Ilex K. K. Lam

    Pages 137-173

11. Is the IPO Anomaly in Poland Only Apparent or Real?

    • Joanna Lizińska, Leszek Czapiewski

    Pages 175-194

12. The Relevance of Context for Goodwill Impairment Decisions Within Hall’s Framework

    • Radu-Daniel Loghin

    Pages 195-208

13. Efficiency Evaluation Criteria of Tour Guides’ Communication Activities

    • Gabriel Łasiński, Małgorzata Maria Bogdan

    Pages 209-219

14. Controlling in the Banking Industry: The Case of Romania

    • Mihaela Mocanu, Victoria Stanciu

    Pages 221-227

15. The Use of Fuzzy Logic in the Enterprises Business Efficiency Assessment

    • Tomasz L. Nawrocki

    Pages 229-248

16. Institutional Conditions for Improving the Efficiency of the Health Care System in Poland

    • Jarosław Plichta

    Pages 249-261

17. Method of Simplified Evaluation of the Commercial Potential of R&D Projects

    • Edward Stawasz, Daniel Stos

    Pages 263-279

18. On the Importance of Free Cash Flow Metrics Bias Resulting from Static Approach to Free Cash Flow Analysis

    • Aleksandra Szpulak

    Pages 281-298

19. Do Business Valuation Professionals Need Business Valuation Standards?

    • Piotr Szymański

    Pages 299-314

20. The Effectiveness of Hybrid Organisations: A Purposive Approach

    • Adam Weinert

    Pages 315-326

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).

• Company Value
• Conference Efficiency
• Efficiency Measurement
• Financial Efficiency
• Organizational Efficiency

• Wrocław University of Technology, Wroclaw, Poland

  Tadeusz Dudycz

• Wrocław University of Economics, Wroclaw, Poland

  Grażyna Osbert-Pociecha

• Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocław, Poland

  Bogumiła Brycz

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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