Improvement can be understood as a project that is undertaken to obtain additional benefits to the organization and its customers. In the literature, the term is most often present in the context of pro quality activities as a “continuous improvement”. In the companies’ practice it is striving for excellence that manifests itself through the implementation of various concepts, methods and impro...

Abstract Performance-based research funding systems have been extensively used around the globe to allocate funds across higher education institutes (HEIs), which led an increased amount of literature examining their use. The UK’s Research Excellence Framework (REF) uses a peer-review process evaluate environment, outputs and non-academic impact produced by HEIs produce more accountable distrib...