Agnieszka Parkitna

Dimensions of Business Ecosystem Efficiency

The research paper refers to the complexity of the business ecosystem’s efficiency by attempting to describe the dimensions of organizational efficiency of the business ecosystem. The paper presents a business ecosystem as a set of organizations that interact with one another by creating various correlations and relationships of a symbiotic character - from competing to cooperative. Eight models of measurement of organizational efficiency were identified and systematized following the subject literature. Their analysis and own research allowed the authors to point out another model of measuring the efficiency of business ecosystems, which was named relational.

Efficiency of Immediate Payment Systems as a Determinant of Safety

People who are looking for convenience and time savings are increasingly willing to reach for new technologies and methods designed to enhance the efficiency of their operations. After studying the literature on the Polish payment systems, the authors saw such convenience opportunities in the immediate payment systems that have been developing over the past several years. In this paper, the authors discuss the concept of payment system efficiency management and perform an assessment of efficiency of immediate payment system management by analyzing and comparing the Express Elixir and the BlueCash systems. The main goal of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of management of immediate payment systems of the financial market operators providing such services on the Polish market. The problems presented in this work are of a theoretical nature and were preceded by literature analysis.

Intellectual Capital—Measuring the Immeasurable and Reporting

This paper reviews “Reporting of intellectual capital.” This dissertation shows the problem of the definition and the significance of the intellectual capital, as well as the methods and means of measurement and reporting in enterprises. The first part of the work is a query literature on intellectual capital. It presents the origins, definition, nature and the role played by the intellectual capital, as well as various approaches to the subject. The second part describes selected methods of measuring and evaluating the intellectual capital. This section contains information on the preparation of the report and the elements that it should contain in terms of suitability. The last part of paper is a presentation of a proposal of the intellectual capital report, that can be developed and used in practice.

The Paradigm of Effectiveness of Public Hospitals

This paper reviews various analysis and evaluation methods for measuring hospital effectiveness. Differentiation of hospitals due to the legal subjectivity. The specificity of the activities of hospitals as the main determinant of effectiveness measurement. Identification of the determinants of the measurement of efficiency in public hospitals. Identified in a set group hospitals, which can be considered as the most effective and which might be a model group. Established a list of possible non-economic factors that determine the efficiency of hospitals. At the end of the model they created prerequisites efficiency of hospitals, which can be a basis for further scientific consideration of this topic—The paradigm of the measurement of efficiency in public hospitals-evaluation of model.