Integration processes at the intercorporation level: the definition and approaches to performance evaluation

The objective of the research was to develop theoretical and methodological basis for evaluation of the integration processes at the intercorporation level. The object of our research is the system of organizational forms and relations that are shaped in the process of integration of economic agents in terms of functioning and development of the integrated structures in the conditions of globalized economy. The article specifies the definition of “companies integration” at the intercorporate and intercorporate levels as extension and reinforcement of interrelation and cooperation of incorporated and unincorporated businesses for the sake of more efficient use of the competitive advantage, completion of the missing components and acquiring the synergetic effect; it formulates a concept-based approach to performance evaluation of integration processes based on the synergetic effect supported by the idea that it should be considered in a broader sense than usual and that the factors to have been reviewed separately should be taken into account...