Potential Doctoral Dissertation Supervisors
In any time during your doctoral studies or even before applying for Ph.D. Programme in Economics, Finance and Management you may contact our Professors to discuss your research idea or project.
Dr hab. Marek Ćwiklicki
E-mail: marek.cwiklicki@uek.krakow.pl
Academic Specialization: Management Science
Areas of Academic Interest:
1) Methodology of organization and management science,
2) Theory of Organisation,
3) History of managerial thought,
4) Evolution, adaptation, development and implementation of contemporary management concepts and methods (tools),
5) Information management, infonomics, informatics in management,
6) Enterprise Content Management.
Dr hab. Filip Grzegorczyk
E-mail: f.grzegorczyk@gmail.com / filip.grzegorczyk@uek.krakow.pl
Academic Specialization: Business Law
Areas of Academic Interests:
1) managerial, financial & legal aspects of the power sector and other regulated sectors functioning (incl. EU policies in the respective areas)
2) corporate governance (accounting & company law)
3) state vs. economy (incl. State’s business activity run by State Owned Enterprises)
4) EU Integration
5) other (upon agreement)
Dr hab. Marek Jabłoński
E-mail: marekj@uek.krakow.pl
Academic Specialization: Management science
Areas of Academic Interest:
1) Human resource management in profit organization and public administration
2) Employee’s competences development within modern models of organization
3) Modern models of organization (learning organization, intelligent organization, fractal organization)
4) Intangible resources management
5) Knowledge management
6) Improving organizational learning processes
7) Managerial competences management (identification, measurement, development)
8) Modern management methods
Prof. UEK, dr hab. Ewa Miklaszewska
E-mail: uumiklas@cyf-kr.edu.pl
Academic Specialization: Banking and International Finance
Areas of Academic Interest:
1) Banks and financial intermediation: sources of risks and returns,
2) Evolution of Global Financial Architecture: questions of efficiency and stability,
3) The impact of financial crisis of 2007-2008 on the financial industry,
4) Evolution of global regulations: Basel 1 (1998), 2 (2004) and 3 (2010),
5) The Dodd-Frank Act in the US (2010) and New European System of Financial Supervision (2010),
6) Strategies of global financial services companies.
Dr hab. inż. Janusz Morajda
E-mail: morajdaj@uek.krakow.pl
Academic Specialization: Economic Informatics, Computer Science.
Areas of Academic Interest:
1) Informatics and its Application to Business and Economy,
2) Konowledge Engineering, Data Mining,
3) Economic Data Analysis,
4) Artificial (Computational) Inelligence and its Business Applications.
Prof UEK dr hab. Mateusz Pipień
E-mail: eepipien@cyf-kr.edu.pl
Academic Specialization: Econometrics, financial econometrics, macroeconometrics, Bayesian inference, empirical finance, business cycle analysis
Areas of Academic Interest:
1) Econometrics,
2) Empirical Macroeconomics,
3) Empirical Finance.
Prof. dr hab. Aleksy Pocztowski
E-mail: pocztowa@uek.krakow.pl
Academic Specialization: Human Resources Management
Areas of Academic Interest:
1) Transformation of HR-Function,
2) Strategic HRM,
3) International HRM,
4) Reward management,
5) Diversity issues.
Prof. UEK, dr hab. Adam Sagan
E-mail: sagana@uek.krakow.pl
Academic Specialization: Marketing Research
Areas of Academic Interest:
1) Methodology of marketing research,
2) qualitative and quantitative research methods,
3) laddering interviews and means-end theory,
4) measurement in marketing,
5) models of consumer behavior,
6) latent variables models.
Prof. UEK, dr hab. Aleksander Surdej
E-mail: Aleksander.Surdej@uek.krakow.pl
Academic Specialization: International Regulatory Economics
Areas of Academic Interest:
European single market regulations; cost-benefit analysis, international regulatory cooperation, global public policies, pharmaceutical industry: markets, health and development.
Prof. UEK, dr hab. Jacek Klich
E-mail: uuklich@cyf-kr.edu.pl
Academic Specialization: Economics, Political Science, Management
Areas of Academic Interest:
- Globalization and Health Care Systems (various aspects of)
- Management of Health Care Sector (macro, mezzo and micro levels)
- European Health Care Systems and their Reforms
- Polish Health Care System and its Evolution (including private sector development)
- Privatization in Post-Communist Countries
- EU – Russia Economic Relations
- EU and Energy Security
- and few other proposed by the Students
Dr hab. Daniel Kosiorowski
E-mail: daniel.kosiorowski@uek.krakow.pl
Academic Specialization: Applications of the modern mathematical statistics in the Economics (Mathematical Statistics, Nonparametric Econometrics, Data Mining, Data Visualization, R)
Areas of Academic Interest:
From a methodological point of view:
- Robust statistics (robust multivariate statistics, robust regression, robust time series analysis)
- Nonparametric statistic (nonparametric tests, kernel density estimation, kernel regression)
- Data depth concept (multivariate medians, functional boxplots, multivariate skewness)
- R environment and data visualization
- Functional data analysis
From a merit point of view:
- Theory of Economics
- Macroeconomics
- Economy of Welfare
- Regional Economics
- Social Economics
For more information visit: https://e-uczelnia.uek.krakow.pl/course/view.php?id=137
Dr hab. Andrzej W. Kozina,
E-mail: kozinaa@uek.krakow.pl
Academic Specialization: management
Areas of Academic Interest:
1) The analysis & modeling of business negotiations & organizational conflicts
2 ) Improvement (diagnosis & designing) of organizational structures
3) Organizational restructuring
4) Business processes management
5) Managing organizational change & development
Dr hab. Krzysztof Wach
E-mail: wachk@uek.krakow.pl
Academic Specialization: international business, entrepreneurship, small business economics and management
Areas of Academic Interest:
1. International Entrepreneurship (International Business; International Management; international Marketing; Internationalization and Globalization of Businesses)
2. Small Business Economics and Management (Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Entrepreneurial Management; Family Firms; Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises - SMEs)
3. European Integration (European Business; Europeanization; Economic Integration within the European Union)
Remark: PhD Dissertations are possible in both disciplines that is in Economics or Management.
Dr hab. Agnieszka Żbikowska
E-mail: zbikowska@uek.krakow.pl
Academic Specialization: Marketing
Areas of Academic Interest:
1. International marketing: research on international markets, international market entry modes, business presence strategies in foreign markets, planning and implementation of marketing tools on international markets, the role of culture in international marketing.
2. Public relations: PR tools in achieving marketing goals of organizations, Public Relations in building organizations image, crisis management.














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