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Department of Strategic Analysis

Marek Szarucki

Dr Habil. Marek Szarucki, Associate Professor

Head of Department

Head of the Department of Strategic Analysis (since October 1, 2019). Graduate of the Faculty of Management at the Giedyminas Technical University in Vilnius (Bachelor’s degree in management, 1999), the Cracow University of Economics (Master’s degree in economics, 2001), and Karlstad University, Sweden (MA in Service Management, 2004). He obtained a PhD in economic sciences, specializing in management sciences, in 2007 (dissertation: “Motives for Establishing Micro-Enterprises in Poland and Sweden”), and a postdoctoral degree (habilitation) in economic sciences in the discipline of management sciences in 2017 (monograph: “The Concept of Method Selection in Solving Management Problems”).

He has extensive international experience and has participated in research, teaching, and specialist programs at universities in Karlstad, Helsinki, Prague, Graz, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kaunas, Vilnius, Vienna, and Zagreb. In 2009, as a Visiting Professor, he completed a two-month research fellowship at Grand Valley State University (Michigan, USA) and, in 2019, a six-month research fellowship at the School of Management, University College London, funded by the Bekker Programme (NAWA). From 2009 to 2011, he served as editor of an industry portal focused on the economic application of research findings in economic sciences, “Science and Economy.” He is a member of the editorial boards of the following journals: Journal of Business Excellence, Business: Theory and Practice, Journal of Business, Management and Education, and Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review.

Research Interests

His research interests focus on the methodology of management sciences, the motives behind the creation of micro-enterprises, innovation management, and collaboration between academia and business. From 2015 to 2018, he led the research project “A Model for Selecting Methods in the Process of Solving Management Problems,” funded by the National Science Centre (grant no. 2014/13/B/HS4/03452). He is the author and co-author of numerous scholarly publications in national and international journals, as well as several dozen popular science articles on collaboration between science and business.