H41 - Public GoodsReturn

The culture sector is from the European or national perspective often designated as a dynamic segment of the economy, which is also characterized by high rates of GDP growth. This fact reinforces the importance of the sector within the European Union, as GDP growth belongs among the primary goals of the Community, in accordance with European legislation and key EU documents. However, from the socio-economic perspective the benefits of culture sector are economically difficult to quantify. The paper is focused on the problems the culture sector assessment from the point of view of socio-economic importance in the international context of the European Union. The research is based on the usage of MCDM methods (TOPSIS and WSA). The results are focused on the comparison of the socio-economic importance of the culture sector in EU member countries. For the assessment are chosen 7 socio-economic culture indicators describing the importance of culture sector in the country. The results of two selected MCDM methods are verified on the basis of correlation analysis.

The scientific studies are focused on the evaluation and the general perception of the public services value by their consumers. The benefit what flows from consumption of the services is in the middle of the interest. This paper focuses on the verification that the library consumers take in and evaluate the importance of the services. They can do it by answering the question about "willingness to pay" for the library services (contingent valuation method). The paper analyses the dependence between willingness to pay and disposable income of the consumers. Next we want to present the application of the approaches based on willingness to pay by the tax assignation. It contains also the application of methods and summarizes the results what have been never presented in Czech Republic in library research field.

The paper deals with possibilities of utilization Lessons Learned method in management of outsourcing process. It presents selected finding of empirical research of outsourcing which is realized in The Slovak Armed Forces. The purpose e of this article is to bring some advices how to upgrading practices of managing outsourcing.