Research activities

Change theory.
crisis management
crisis management methods to resolve internal resistance and conflicts,
methods of change management
Strategic management, strategy theories and schools, the relation conformity between strategy, structure and culture.
The management of culture change, corporate culture.
Management, organization culture, the impact of globalization.
Organization changes, management strategies.
Synergy management, the drive toward strategic alliances.
Corporate Governance, international comparison.
The problem of status quo.
The tools of managerial influence.
The management characteristics of the service sector.
Management of for- and non-profit organizations.

Analysis of the microeconomical conditions of the innovation process. Analysis of the factors defining the behavior of the process's participants.
Design of innovation strategies, and the assessment of the realization.
Research of the technology transfer process. The main concept and contributing factors of diffusion. Transfer mechanisms, and their conditions.
Characteristics of transfer operations related to multinational companies.
The process of R&D, its corporate and institution structure. The specific methodologies of R&D design and management. The organizational structures and requirement related to R&D.
Environmental and technology impact analysis. The decision processes and participants, cooperation modes of impact analysis. The methodology of impact analysis.
Team work as a learning process. The process of team work, the stages of team development. The methodologies of team/building. Learning strategies.
The mechanisms of knowledge transform. Knowledge-based cooperation models.
The information technology background of process management. System analysis and design. Enterprise-wide information systems.
The stages of problem solving. The methodological support of problem solving.
Quality assurance systems. The ISO standards. Environment-conscious management. The processes and requirements related to environment and quality assurance audits. The further development of quality assurance systems (TQM, BPR). The methods of quality design and quality control.

The organizational behavior:
individual actions, emotions and thinking
groups
classes, divisions
the organization as a whole
organization populations
Organization development, analysis:
organization theory, development, related theories
process organization, involving producation, service, management processes.
management control
communication, motivation
ergonomy, the man-machine-environment analysis
project management





 

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