Vol. 47 No. 3 (2020)

These papers are an attempt to present the reader with the authors’ position on contemporary knowledge about finance and management of complex organizations. The aim of the authors of the articles is to look for answers: how these organizations can be constructed and organized as well as how they can function in a situation where the pace of changes causes the emergence of thus far unknown phenomena and processes, raising new problems that cannot be solved without appropriate research and new knowledge. Each of the presented articles composing this issue of The Małopolska School of Economics in Tarnów Research Papers Collection, are, in turn, aimed at adapting the analysis of the world of organization and finance to the pace of these changes. The articles, which are the result of scientific work conducted as part of
basic and implementation research, present the issues of measuring the profitability of an enterprise, forecasting the state of economic activity in pre-emerging countries, researching the financial effectiveness of R&D activities in an enterprise; as well as analysis of factors for the development of cooperative banks, assessment of the effectiveness of the management motivation system, marketing activities and social media in the context of enterprise innovation and others. 

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