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Consolidations in Polish higher education have been developing since the 1990s, although in the first two decades they were rather incidental. Intensification of mergers of private higher education institutions has occurred in recent years under the influence of increased competition. In Poland, the consolidation processes of universities in the last 25 years have been spontaneous and of a bottom-up nature. They did not take the form of a merger wave and were not implemented systemically. Among several public-sector mergers, two were strategic in nature. In recent years the largest scale of consolidations has been among private universities, forced by a falling demand for education. The aim of the article is to describe the process of merging public universities in Poland. The research methodology in the article was based on the analysis of the merger of two Polish public universities. The article has a review nature and uses exemplification in the form of a case study and constitutes a starting point for further in-depth research in the field of university mergers in Poland. The article describes the importance of mergers between universities in an era of legal changes taking place in the Polish higher education system. The case study includes the merger of the Medical Academy in Cracow into the structure of the Jagiellonian University and as described in the article can be an exemplification of the federal merger process. Keywords: university mergers, public university, university management, higher education sector in Poland, Polish university
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Is scientific excellence a good predictor of academic engagement in knowledge transfer? Empirical evidence from tourism academia
Marlena A. Bednarska, Marcin Olszewski
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Organizations in the Face of Growing Competition in the Market
Anna Ujwary-Gil
Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 2019
The essence of the functioning of any organization, whether commercial or non-profit, is to provide value to groups of recipients whose expectations undoubtedly change over time. Various competition mechanisms in the market apply to both business-oriented organizations and organizations operating in the sphere of public utilities. This monograph includes examples of the problems facing contemporary organizations, and at the same time provides evidence, confirmed by research results, that indicates the direction of current changes. The analysis of changes taking place in organizations was carried out in many dimensions. The content layout adopted in the monograph presents four research perspectives, where the subject of the research is the organization; the modern tools used in organization management, the impact of the market economy on organizations, and sectoral or industry aspects of the organization’s functioning. In the first chapter, four studies related to commercial and non-commercial organizations have been collated. Researchers of academic organizations who in order to meet the expectations of students increase their activity in the field of entrepreneurship and their support for the most talented students. Both examples show the need to conduct research, develop knowledge about own activities, and focus on the needs of the environment. Entrepreneurial universities are open to the implementation of joint ventures with entities in their environment, which affect the development of the university, its students, as well as the entities. Entrepreneurship, which is based on the ability to take advantage of market opportunities, also creates opportunities for developing the ability to flexibly shape and adapt programs, methods and operating principles to the growing expectations of their environment. The ability to develop your potential as well as the potential of your students plays a crucial role. In the pursuit of excellence, a strong focus should be placed on talented students and the development of all possible forms of support that could determine an output of graduates with particularly high development potential. In the research presented in this monograph, the authors compare the activity of universities in the USA, the Netherlands, and Poland in the area of talent development. The comparative analysis becomes a valuable source of indicating imperfections, but also examples of potential forms of positive activity in this area. Equally important in this part of the monograph is the research on the learning organization. Through a bibliometric analysis, the author identified the fields of research on the learning organization. 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