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Prof. dr hab. Piotr Jedynak
Education
Management and Marketing - 1996, AGH University of Science and Technology
Interfaculty Doctoral Studies - 1998, Cracow Academy of Economics
PhD in Economic Sciences - 1998
Habilitated Doctor of Economic Sciences, discipline: Management Studies - 2009
Professor of Economic Sciences - 2019
JU Faculty of Management and Social Communication – since 1998
JU Associate Professor – since 2011
Full Professor – since 2019
Head of the Post-Diploma Programme: Management and Auditing – since 2003
Deputy Head of the JU Institute of Finance and Management – 2008-2012
Head of the JU Department of Normalised Management Systems – 2010-2020
Head of the JU Chair in Management Systems
Head of the JU Institute of Economy, Finance, and Management – 2012-2016
Dean of the JU Faculty o Management and Social Communication – 2016-2020
JU Vice-Rector for Human Resources and Financial Management – 2020-2024
Rector of the Jagiellonian University – since 2024
Member of the Jagiellonian University Committee for Bilateral Scholarships – 2016 - 2020
Member of the Committee responsible for the Jagiellonian University’s application in the “Excellence Initiative - Research University” programme - 2019
Head of the No. 1 Committee for Governance and Organisational Structure during the introduction of the new higher education law (Ustawa 2.0) - 2019
Head of the JU Media Committee – 2018-2020
Head of the Supervisory Board of the Jagiellonian Centre for Innovation – 2019-2024
Head of the Council of the Jagiellonian University Student and Graduate Foundation ‘Bratniak’ (since 2013) and Head of the foundation’s Audit Committee – since 2019
Member of the Councils of Doctoral School in the Social Sciences and Doctoral School in the Humanities - since 2019
Member of the Steering Committees of Priority Research Areas FutureSoc and Antrophocene – since 2019
Programme Council Member of the Excellence Initiative - Research University – since 2019
Municipal Heat Supply Company in Kraków – Management Board’s Proxy for Restructuring and Management Systems – 1996-2001
Auditor and advisor in the field of designing, implementing and improvement of management systems in about 90 organisations, including Toyota Tsusho Europe, British Telecom, Krakowski Holding Komunalny, Głuchołaskie Zakłady Papiernicze, Alfa Laval, and Objectivity – 2000-2019
Auditor for the certification of management systems – Lloyd’s Register – 2000-2019
Member of the Committee on Organizational and Management Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Individual member and JU representative in the HERMES network (Higher Education and Research in Management of European Universities)
Member of the Ministerial Award Committee - 2020
President of the Organisation and Legislation Committee of the Conference of Rectors of Academic Schools in Poland – 2024-2028
President of the Council of Rectors of Higher Education Institutions in Kraków – 2024-2028
Member of the Conference of Rectors of Universities in Poland
Member of the Economic Council to the Voivode of Małopolska
Member of the Museum Council at the National Museum in Kraków – since 2024
Head of the Advisory Committee on Unfair Publication Practices – since 2025
Member of the Economic Forum Programme Council – since 2025
President of the 'Perspektywy' Secondary School Ranking Board – since 2026
Risk management, strategic management, human resources management, higher education management
About 150 research publications, including authorship or co-authorship of 14 monographs. Academic editor of publication series Contemporary Management & Marketing Dilemmas and Comprehensive Management Issues. Editorial board member of Ekonpolis publication series. Editorial board member of the International Journal of Contemporary Management. Editor-in-chief of the Jagiellonian Journal of Management. Leader or main researcher in 11 research or implementation projects funded from external sources.
Zarządzanie ryzykiem, 1997, Ossolineum (co-author),
Polityka ubezpieczeń w przedsiębiorstwie, 1999, JU Publishing,
Zarządzanie ryzykiem w przedsiębiorstwach zorientowanych międzynarodowo, 2001, Księgarnia Akademicka (co-author),
Ubezpieczenia gospodarcze. Wybrane elementy teorii i praktyki, (2001 - wyd. 1, 2003 - wyd. 2) Księgarnia Akademicka,
Ocena znormalizowanych systemów zarządzania jakością. Instrumenty i uwarunkowania wartości, 2007, JU Publishing,
Znormalizowane systemy zarządzania. Modele, funkcje, wymagania, 2011, JU Publishing,
Współczesne systemy zarządzania. Jakość, bezpieczeństwo, ryzyko, 2012, Helion (co-author),
Integrated Management Systems, 2015, Springer (co-author),
Znormalizowane systemy zarządzania a ryzyko działalności organizacji, 2017, JU Publishing,
Action research w kształtowaniu współpracy uczelni z interesariuszami. Korzyści, szanse, wyzwania, 2019, JU Publishing (co-author).
Risk management in crisis : winners and losers during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021, Routledge (co-author),
Quality management and accounting in service industries : a new model of quality cost calculation, 2022, Routledge (co-author),
Risk management maturity : a multidimensional model, 2023, Routledge (co-author),
Universities, stakeholders and social mission : building cooperation through action research, 2023, Routledge (co-author).
Research and teaching collaboration with the following universities: Reutlingen University ESB Business School, EM Strasbourg Business School (University of Strasbourg), Piacenza - Università Cattolica, and University of Economics in Bratislava.
Co-author of a double degree programme with the Reutlingen University ESB Business School. Lectures, classes and seminars in the field of risk management, quality management, management consulting, and management systems design. He has been the supervisor of 4 PhD and about 200 MA or BA theses and a reviewer in 25 PhD, habilitation, and professorial procedures.