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The more and more accelerated scientific and technological progress in advanced economies requires an increased complexity of the uncertainty and non-repetitiveness characteristics of the university activities. This calls more and more for the diversification, perfection and refinement of the evaluation methods for the efficiency and effectiveness of the university activity, in the short, medium and long run under the new conditions of globalization and assertion of knowledge-based society. This paper compares methods of evaluation used across many countries in Europe. On the basis of this comparison and focusing in particular on Bucharest University of Economic Studies (BUES), we examine the advantages and disadvantages of performance-based funding in comparison with other approaches to funding. This thesis adds value to the field of university evaluation in a holistic vision including the method of evaluating and the types of problems of research evaluation practiced in every country. The research starts with exegeses of the theoretical approach concerning evaluation concepts in the context of strategic management and continues with the analysis of the quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods in terms of research university evaluation in Romania and other EU member countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study is to create an improved model of development results assessment. This model should take into attention the cyclic dynamics of the development and a high level of uncertainty in managerial activities. Usually companies apply a different qualitative approach to intellectual capital metrics and do not integrate this approach with financial management. This can be explained with the following drawbacks of traditional financial metrics as the lack of non-financial indicators in the performance assessment; weak relationship with companies' strategy planning; orientation on the past results and their extrapolation to the future; short-determinism; information asymmetry and involvement of only owners and managers into decision-making. The use of traditional IC-assessment methods, on the other hand, does not consider metrics important for financial decisions. This can be one of the reasons for underinvestment or overinvestment into intellectual assets. The approach proposed eliminates the cognitive gap between the financial management and IC management functions. It is based on the financial assessment of the results of IC management. Our method is based on surveys of middle and top-managers of the companies in the industrial sector of the economy based in the North-West of Russia. The surveys' results helped to identify models of IC assessment and their relationship with financial metrics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Development of information technology affects all aspects of society. One of the fundamental trends of recent decades has been an active and increasingly widespread adoption of information and communication technologies in the management of business organizations. In this issue of the effectiveness of their use, with teaching positions still available. The authors proposed a method of evaluating the effectiveness of information and infrastructure management software organization. Methodology focuses on the consistent estimation of the positive effects of information in relation to the stages of implementation of information systems. Assessment is based on the following steps: selection, procurement, and implementation of information systems, improving management processes, changing economic and financial results of activity, cumulative evaluation. The Technique is based on a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods. Testing of methods on the example of the introduction of CRM software solutions showed its value and practicality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]