Efficiency in Business and Economics: Proceedings from the 7th International Conference on Efficiency as a Source of the Wealth of Nations (ESWN), Wro [Paperback]

This volume offers a collection of studies on problem of organizations efficiency, criteria for evaluating the efficiency, tools and methods for measuring the efficiency. The articles included present an interdisciplinary look at efficiency, its essence and the principles of its measurement. The contributions also identify a broad spectrum of conditions for achieving efficiency in various types of organizations and systems (e.g. public institution, non-profit organizations), representing various industries. The book collects selected papers presented at the 7th International Conference Efficiency as a Source of the Wealth of Nations , held in WrocBaw, Poland, in May 2017.?

1. Factors Affecting the Internal Audit Effectiveness: A Survey of the Polish Private and Public?Sectors.- 2. Measuring Social Effectiveness of Public Institutions  a Contribution to Methodology.- 3. Does high IPO valuation benefit investors?.- 4. CEO succession in the Polish capital market in 2000-2015.- 5. The Absorptive Capacity of a Finance Company as an Efficiency Factor of Its Pro-technology Innovation Activities.- 6. Financial Microeconometrics as Research Methodology in Corporate Finance and Accounting.- 7. The Empirical Study of the Efficiency of the Impact of Macroeconomic Variables on National Currency.- 8. How can firms appropriate their investments in innovation activities?.- 9. Interdependence Between Value Drivers and Value Migration Processes. Evidence from Warsaw Stock Exchange.- 10. Remodeling of FLIEM: The cash management in Polish small and medium firms with full operating cycle in various business environments.- 11. Tender Bids Evaluation in the Context of Value-Based Management.- 12. Raw material as a resource implying effectiveness of product innovations  attempt to assess the selected implementation.- 13. Institutions and Entrepreneurial Environment in Visegrad Four Countries and Finland.- 14. A Random Walk of Stock Prices in Visegrad Group: Efficientlx