Conference program

7 September 2014

 

22 SEPTEMBER, MONDAY

Location: Scientific Information Centre and Academic Library (CINiBA, http://www.ciniba.edu.pl/)

10.00-13.00 – Registration at the ground floor (Hall Level 0)

12.00-13.00 – Guided tour around the CINiBA starting from the ground floor

13.00 – Conference official opening (Conference Room Level 0)

13.10-14.10 – PLENARY SESSION I: Research insights into success of young V4 scholars(Conference Room Level 0)

• Research-related competences and other personal factors – dr E. Hvizdova, University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia

• University environment – prof. V. Spacil, VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic

• Academic networking – prof. M. Mitrega, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland

• Research productivity – dr S. Pronay, University of Szeged, Hungary

14.10-14.30 – Plenary discussion I (Conference Room Level 0)

14.30-15.30 – Lunch (Cafeteria Level 0)

15.30-18.45 – PLENARY SESSION II: Experts insights into success of young scholars(Conference Room Level 0)

• 15.30-16.15 – Milestones in international career in business science – prof. S. C. Henneberg, School of Business and Management | Queen Mary University of London |UK

• 16.15-17.00 – In-depth business studies as the leverage for success in academia – prof. A. Halinen, Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Finland

• 17.00-17.25 - Key factors for dynamic career of young business scholar - international vs. domestic academia prof. Z. Pastuszak,
  Maria Sklodowska-Curie University, Poland

17.25-17.45 – Plenary discussion II (Conference Room Level 0)

17.45-18.00 – Sponsor presentation (Conference Room Level 0)

18.00-18.45 – Panel discussion – What do editors and reviewers think and do reading business manuscript? Prof. S. C. Henneberg, Prof. A. Halinen,
Prof. Z. Pastuszak, Prof. M. Mitrega

18.50 – Transfer to the Vacanza hotel

20.30 – Gala dinner at the Vacanza hotel

 

23 SEPTEMBER, TUESDAY

Location: Vacanza Hotel, ul. Olimpijska 4, Siemianowice Śląskie

8.00-9.00 – Breakfast

9.00-12.00 – WORKSHOP SESSION (Conference Room “Troja”)

9.00-10.00 – Intercultural networking workshop for participants – dr G. Pfajfar, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

10.00-11.00 – Structural Equation Modeling for hypotheses testing in business science – prof. A. Sagan, University of Economics in Kraków, Poland

11.00-11.45 – English academic writing workshop – dr A. Wieczorek, University of Silesia, Poland

11.45-12.00 – The official conference closing

12.00-13.00 – Lunch at Vacanza Hotel

 

The team of our scholars is leading the network of universities partnering in the international research grant

16 March 2014

 

The scholars team from the Department of Marketing and Market Research chaired by professor Maciej Mitręga have got a research grant from Visegrad Fund, coordinated by University of Economics and realized in partnership of 3 other universities: VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, University of Szeged and University of Economics in Bratislava. Research grant is entitled "Leveraging success of young scholars in business discipline". It is sponsored by the Visegad Fund and it is to identify factors evoking success of young scholars in Visegrad countries.The workshop with country project leaders was held in Ostrava on 10th-11th March 2014 and hosted by VSB – Technical University of Ostrava. During the workshop discussed detailed plan for further project steps, including: research sample selection, research questionnaire, procedure of qualifying conference applicants and programme of scientific conference that will take place in Katowice, 22-23 September 2014.