Countries that are candidates for EU accession face a complex and urgent task to adopt and implement the acquis … communautaireon food safety. For the food industries in Candidate Countries, this implies that EU standards of food production and … application of the benchmarking methodology taking the UK fresh produce importing chain as the benchmark. …

internal market has forced the EU countries to increase competitiveness. The economic prosperity of countries is associated … market. Financial crisis in the EU has changed the look on the competitiveness research. Economy in the main countries has to …, the crisis is also having an effect on households and businesses - economic growth has slowed sharply and in some EU …

applying best practices. Keywords: efficiency; data envelopment analysis; health management; benchmarking; hospital activity. …

The article considers possibilities of the use of benchmarking when rendering other services to auditing organisations …. Under conditions of knowledge economy, the benchmarking is an agent of distribution of various knowledge, including special … knowledge of accounting. Auditing companies can render such benchmarking services as: comparison of indicators of activity of …

' competitiveness on the basis of benchmarking. The article covers the problems of using benchmarking for improvement of enterprises … "competitiveness" and "benchmarking", evolution of benchmarking, its principles and methods, interrelation with another improvement … instruments; shows the structure of benchmarking process. …

innovation capacity to identify project starting points, including micro and macro elements (ii) Socio-economic benchmarking, and …