Professor Roman Sobiecki, PhD

Education

• post-doctoral degree in economic sciences, discipline of economics (2008) – Collegium of Business Administration at SGH
• doctoral degree in economic sciences (1987), Faculty of Production Economics at SGPiS (now SGH)
• master’s degree (1978), Faculty of Production Economics at SGPiS (now SGH)
• secondary school (1974), Agricultural Vocational Secondary School in Gródki/Działdowa
• primary school (1969), Wieczfnia Kościelna, Mława poviat

Academic positions

• professor at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Scientific specialisation

• Entrepreneurship and family enterprises
• Corporate competition theory and strategies
• Agricultural economics
• Food security
• Globalisation

Academic positions held

• Dean of the Collegium of Business Administration (2012–2020)
• Vice-dean of the Collegium of Business Administration (2005–2012)
• director of the Institute of Markets and Competition (since 2013; Head of the Department of Market and Competition Analysis in 2012–2013)
• secretary of the Senate (1999–2005)
• member of the Senate (1996–2005 and since 2012)
• member of the Board of the Collegium of Business Administration at SGH (1996–2019)
• chair of the editorial board of the publishing series of the Collegium of Business Administration at SGH titled “Entrepreneurship in the 21st Century”
• editor-in-chief of the Business Administration Quarterly (2016–2020)
• chair of the Programme Board of the Business Administration Quarterly (since 2020)
• head of the postgraduate programme in “Economics and Business Law for Judges” (2007–2012)
• head of the full-time doctoral programme at the Collegium of Business Administration, SGH (5th edition)
• initiator of the process and member of the Organisation Committee for the Conferment of the Banner of the SGH Warsaw School of Economics (2002)

Key publications

• Globalisation and the functions of Polish agriculture, SGH, Warsaw, 2007
• Digitisation versus the enterprise, academic editors: M. Poniatowska-Jaksch, R. Sobiecki, SGH, Warsaw 2019
• The new faces of entrepreneurship [in:] Digitisation versus the enterprise, academic editors: M. Poniatowska-Jaksch, R. Sobiecki, SGH, Warsaw 2019
• Sharing economy, academic editors: M. Poniatowska-Jaksch, R. Sobiecki, SGH, Warsaw 2016
• Entrepreneurship in the sharing economy, J.W. Pietrewicz, R. Sobiecki [in:] Sharing economy, academic editors: M. Poniatowska-Jaksch, R. Sobiecki, SGH, Warsaw 2016
• In search of competitive advantage, academic editors: Pietrewicz, R. Sobiecki, SGH, Warsaw 2019
• Interventionism in the age of globalisation, S. Kowalczyk, R. Sobiecki [in:] Business Administration Quarterly 2/2019
• The wave of innovation in society and economy, academic editors: R. Sobiecki, J. W. Pietrewicz, SGH, Warsaw, 2018
• Is succession a problem for family firms? [in:] Business Administration Quarterly 1/2018
• Is a public higher education institution a business? [in:] Business Administration Quarterly 2/2018
• Agricultural reform – was it groundbreaking? [in:] Business Administration Quarterly 3/2018
• To be or not to be in the Eurozone? [in:] Business Administration Quarterly 1/2017
• Why does the progress of civilisation require social innovation? [in:] Business Administration Quarterly 3/2017
• Enterprise and the global crisis, academic editors: R. Sobiecki, J. W. Pietrewicz, SGH, Warsaw, 2010
• Agricultural crises and food security [in]: Enterprise and the global crisis, academic editors: R. Sobiecki, J. W. Pietrewicz, SGH, Warsaw, 2010
• The European Model of Agriculture versus global challenges (co-author: S. Kowalczyk), Zagadnienia Ekonomiki Rolnej No. 4/2011
• The family business in the global economy, academic editor: R. Sobiecki, SGH, Warsaw, 2014 (the book received the 1st prize in the “Business Strategies” category at the Economic Publishing Fair)
• Transaction costs – the effects of changes for businesses, academic editors; R. Sobiecki, J. W. Pietrewicz, OW SGH, Warsaw, 2011
• Requirements of global competitiveness of enterprises, academic editors: R. Sobiecki, J. W. Pietrewicz, SGH, Warsaw, 2014
• The expansion of Polish companies onto international markets, academic editors: R. Sobiecki, J. W. Pietrewicz, OW SGH, Warsaw, 2014
• The growing instability of the economy and the competitiveness of enterprises, academic editor: R. Sobiecki, OW SGH, Warsaw, 2014, 235 pages
• Counteracting turbulence in the economy, academic editor: R. Sobiecki, OW SGH, Warsaw, 2015, 205 pages
• Industrial enterprise in Poland, academic editors: M. Poniatowska-Jaksch, R. Sobiecki, 241 pages
• Competitiveness of enterprises – international and sectoral aspects, academic editors: M. Poniatowska-Jaksch, R. Sobiecki, OW SGH, Warsaw, 2016, 249 pages
• Justice in an era of social expectations. Part II: management and economics, academic editors: P. Banasik, R. Sobiecki, Wydawnictwo C.H. Beck, Warsaw, 2016, 236 pages
• The effects of globalization for the agriculture of European. Union countries [in:] Agri-food System and its Linkages with Global
• International and Domestic Economies, academic editor: A. Zawojska, Warsaw University of Life Sciences Press, Warsaw, 2009, pp. 8–21
• Q&A on fundamentals of entrepreneurship (50% editor and co-author), Difin, Warsaw, 2003, 235 pages (the book received the 1st Degree Collective Prize of the Rector of SGH in 2004)

Other activities and achievements

• Gold Cross of Merit (2012)
• Bronze Cross of Merit (1987)
• Medal of the National Education Commission – awarded by the Minister of National Education (2006)
• Badge of Honour “For distinguished service to agriculture” – awarded by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
• “Meritorious Cultural Activist” badge – awarded by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage
• Badge “For services to the development of the economy of the Republic of Poland” – awarded by the Minister of Economy (2015)
• “Szabla Kilińskiego” badge of Honour – awarded by the Polish Crafts Association (2016)
• Platinum Jan Kiliński Medal for services to the development of Polish crafts – conferred by the Polish Crafts Association (2014)
• Award of the Central Committee of the Economic Knowledge Contest “For Services to the Development of School Olympiads” (1993)
• 1st Degree Collective Prize of the Rector of SGH for scientific activity (2015)
• 1st Degree Individual Prize of the Rector of SGH for organisational activity (2015)
• 1st Degree Individual Prize of the Rector of SGH for scientific activity (2009)
• 1st Degree Collective Prize of the Rector of SGH for teaching activity (2004)
• member of the Team of Consultants to the President of the Republic of Poland on Agriculture and Rural Development (1999–2005)
• chair of the National Entrepreneurship Council to the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economy (2013–2015)
• member of the Examination Board for Candidates for Restructuring Advisers to the Minister of Justice
• member of the Jury of the nationwide entrepreneurial competition “Sposób na sukces” (since 2005)
• Member of the Supervisory Board of Bank PKO BP S.A. (2008–2009)
• Member of the Supervisory Board of the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (2013–2016)
• Chair of the Supervisory Board of MAKARONY POLSKIE SA (since 2012)
• member of the Programme Board for Administrative and Economic Professions to the Ministry of National Education (1994–1995)
• member of the General Committee of the Entrepreneurship Olympiad
• director of the Economics School Complex in Łomża (1991–1996)