PERSPECTIVES ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT INSTRUMENTS AND PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC (SECTOR) RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION SYSTEM

: The study aims to contribute to the scholarship on the performance of organisations belonging to public RDI and identify its relationship to the strategic management instruments applied by the main actors involved in management and execution processes. The analysed operating instruments comprise processes, methods and operating procedures in a written form and whose content has been established by an issuing body, and which are available for all organizational levels. We will outline the specific aspects found in the evaluation rankings, as well as the measures adopted for increasing scientific performance. The assessment of the national research, development and innovation system, and of the Romanian Academy regarding the applicable operating instruments enabled us to draw a set of conclusions that we hope will be appreciated positively. This paper contributes to the organisational management literature by investigating the elements of strategic planning and management of public RDI in Romania and by studying how they are connected to the achieved performance.