Dr. Czeslaw Mesjasz,
Deputy Chairman

• Curriculum vitae
   
• List of publications
   
• Address data

Curriculum vitae

Date and place of birth:

26 March 1954, Poland

Studies:

1. Physics, M.Sc., Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, 1978

2. Organization & Management, M.A., Cracow Academy of Economics, Cracow, 1980

Work:

Since 1 October 1980 - Management Process Department; initially Research and Teaching Assistant, Cracow University of Economics, 31-510 Cracow, ul. Rakowicka 27, Poland

Ph.D. in Economics (Area of specialisation: Organisation & Management) - Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, June 1989

Adiunkt (approximately equivalent of Associate Professor) at the Cracow University of Economics from 1 October 1989 onward

From 1 October 1994 onward - Jagiellonian Business School, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, ul. Slawkowska 32 (second employment) - also adiunkt

Since 1 September 1992 until 15 January 1994 - Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace & Conflict Research (actually COPRI) , Fredericiagade 18
DK-1310 Copenhagen K, Denmark

"Habilitation" (Second Doctorate) - Book: "Models of Contractual Relations between Bank and Company" (in Polish) - published in November 2000; procedure of assessment finished in October 2001

Dr hab. in Poland allows tenure position in any Polish University - equivalence of Associate Professor

Positions:

Adiunkt (approximately equivalent of Associate Professor) at the Cracow University of Economics and at the Jagiellonian University, Cracow, (two positions)

Since 1 September 1992 until 15 January 1994 - Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Peace & Conflict Research, Fredericiagade 18, DK-1310 Copenhagen K, Denmark

Areas of interest:

1. Quantitative decision theory, game theory, conflict resolution and negotiations - theory and applications in business, economics and in international relations
2. General management, strategic management, international management
3. Applications of systems approach in social sciences
4. Theoretical foundations of corporate governance
5. Economic and financial aspects of international security
   

Research work:

Some 120 publications and unpublished works in Polish and in English
Several papers presented at international conferences - later published in English language books and journals.

Papers and chapters in the works published by Kluwer (The Netherlands), Francis & Taylor (USA), Dartmouth (United Kingdom), Edward Elgar (United Kingdom), United Nations University Press (Tokyo, Japan), World Scientific Publishers (Singapore), Reidel Publishers Dordrecht (The Netherlands), Lit Verlag (Germany).

Teaching activities

1.) Courses taught at the Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland, and the
Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland, full-time students, part time students, post-
graduate students, doctoral students

General Management, Strategic Management, Project Management, Management Systems, Negotiation - various applications in management, International Management

Seminars - supervision of B.A., MA Theses and Ph.D. Theses

2.) Courses taught at the Cracow University of Economics, Cracow, Poland, International Business Programme:

Strategic Management, Management Practice and Reforms in Poland (Central Eastern Europe)

Courses taught in the MBA programmes:

1.) Cracow University of Economics in co-operation with Teesside University,
Middlesborough, United Kingdom (until 2000)

Strategic Management, Management Systems, Developing Organisations

Seminar: Supervision of MBA final research reports (theses)

Cracow University of Economics in co-operation with Stockholm Business School (from 2001 onward)

Strategic Management, Management Systems, Developing Organisations

Seminar: Supervision of MBA final research reports (theses)

2.) Nowy Sacz Business School-National-Louis University, Nowy Sacz, Poland in
co-operation with the Maastricht School of Management, The Netherlands,

Seminar: Supervision of MBA final research reports (theses in English))

Professional activity:

Member of the Polish Society for Scientific Management
Member of the Polish Economic Association
Member of International Peace Research Association (IPRA) - from 1990 until 1994 Convenor of IPRA Security and Disarmament Commission
Co-operation with the International Economic Association (IEA)
Member of the International Studies Association (ISA)
Member of the International Sociological Association - Research Committee RC 51, (Sociocybernetics)
Member of NECSI (New England Complex Systems Institute)
Deputy Chairman of the Board of Arbeitsgruppe Friedensforschung und Europäische Sicherheitspolitik - Peace Research and European Security Studies (AFES-PRESS), Mosbach, Germany
Co-operation with the Millennium Project of the American Council for the United Nations University - participant in questionnaire studies since 1998 (Results published in the "State of the Future Report")

Miscellanea:

Married, no children

Languages - English (Cambridge University Certificate of Proficiency),
French, Russian - good, German - fair;

NATO Democratic Institutions Fellowship in 1991-1992 - the project:
"Economic Negotiations: A Survey of Methods and Procedures"

Secretary of Rotary Club Kraków: from 1 July 1998 - until 30 June 2002

List of publications

• Mesjasz, Czeslaw: “Applications of Systems Modelling”, in: Peace Research, Journal of Peace Research, vol. 25, no. 3, 1988: 291334 (Monograph Supplement with Foreword prepared by Anatol Rapoport).
• Mesjasz; Czeslaw: Problems of Conversion in Central-Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland, Working Paper, No. 15 (Copenhagen: Centre for Peace & Conflict Research, 1992).
• Martyniak, Zbigniew; Mesjasz, Czeslaw: “Leading Representatives of the Lvov-Cracow School of Polish Organizational Thought”, in: Auspitz, J. Lee et al. (ed.): Praxiology and the Philosophy of Economics. The International Annual of Practical Philosophy and Methodology, vol. 1 (New Brunswick & London: Transaction, 1992): 515-534.
• Mesjasz, Czeslaw: Assistance for the East in 1989-1993 as Western Security Expenditure, Working Paper, No. 17 (Copenhagen: Centre for Peace & Conflict Research, 1993).
• Mesjasz, Czeslaw (ed.): Security Challenges after the Cold War, IPRA Defence & Disarmament Study Group Paper 5, AFES-PRESS Report No. 46 (Mosbach: AFES-PRESS, 1993).
• Mesjasz, Czeslaw (ed.): Security and Disarmament in North-East Asia, IPRA Defence & Disarmament Study Group Paper 6, AFES-PRESS Report No. 48 (Mosbach: AFES-PRESS, 1993).
• Mesjasz, Czeslaw: “Bankers vs. Generals: East-West Financial Relations and Reductions in Military Expenditure in the East (1985-1991)”, in: Balazs, Judit; Wiberg, Hakan (eds.): Peace Research for the 1990s (Budapest: Akademiai Kiado, 1993): 79-91.
• Mesjasz, Czeslaw: “International Stability - A Theoretical Analysis”, in: Pfetsch, Frank R. (ed.): International Relations and Pan-Europe, Proceedings of the Inaugural Pan-European Conference of ECPR Standing Group on International Relations in Heidelberg, September 1992 (Hamburg: Lit Verlag, 1993): 19-34.
• Mesjasz, Czeslaw: International Stability: What Can We Learn From Systems Thinking, in International Stability - Eastern European Perspectives, Publication Series of the International Relations Research Group, P 93-305 (Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, 1993): 37-58.
• Mesjasz, Czeslaw: “Shock Therapy and Conversion in Central Eastern Europe: The Case of Poland”, in: Brauch, Hans Günter (ed.): Confidence-Building, Verification and Conversion, Contributions to the First Pan European Conference on International Relations in Heidelberg, September 1992, AFES-PRESS Report No. 39 (Mosbach: AFES-PRESS, 1993): 37-52.
• Mesjasz, Czeslaw: “Systems Metaphors, Systems Analogies, and Present Changes”, in: International Relations, Cybernetics and Systems. An International Journal (Vienna), vol. 25, , no. 6, 1994: 763-780.
• Mesjasz, Czeslaw: “Eastern Post-Cold War Peace Dividend: A Preliminary Typology of Components”, in: Møller, Bjørn; Voronkov, Lev (eds.): Defence Doctrines and Conversion (Dartmouth: Aldershot, 1996): 123-133.
• Mesjasz, Czeslaw: “Security Functions of Western Assistance for Central Eastern Europe”, in: Peace Research. The Canadian Journal of Peace Studies, vol. 28, no. 2, 1996: 75-95.
• Mesjasz, Czeslaw: “Negotiation Between the Countries of Central Europe and NATO as a Public Good Game”, in: Bullens, Hendrik; Tachibana, Seiitsu with the assistance of Wayne Reynolds (eds.): Regional Restructuring Security Concepts, Postures and Industrial Base, IPRA Security and Disarmament Commission Paper no. 9, AFES-PRESS Reorts No. 63 (Mosbach: AFES-PRESS, 1997): 209-219.
• Brauch, Hans Günter; Mesjasz; Czeslaw; Möller, Björn:”Defence, Disarmament and Conversion”, in: Alger, Chad (ed.): Future of the UN System (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 1998)

Address data

Cracow University  of Economics, 31-510 Krakow,
ul. Rakowicka 27, Poland

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