Papers by Zbigniew Makieła
Sustainability, 2022
This article presents the development of the Metropolis GZM cities within the scope of the concep... more This article presents the development of the Metropolis GZM cities within the scope of the concept of a Smart City and 4T capitals. The subject matter discussed herein is also related to the search for municipal authorities’ new models and tools to shape sustainable development in order to improve citizens’ access to municipal services and facilities, as well as to increase citizens’ impact on the future of their cities. The main objective of the research was to identify the way in which authorities of the selected cities consider the subject matter related to the Smart City and 4T capitals when formulating local policies. The aim of this article is to analyse the innovative potential in selected cities of the Metropolis GZM, in the light of academic entrepreneurship, the innovativeness of citizens, entities supporting innovativeness, and soliciting talent. The research was based on a systematic literature review and the analysis of local documents, supplemented by direct interviews...
Studies of the Industrial Geography Commission of the Polish Geographical Society, 2003
The article has presented the development of the human capital concept in the pro-cesses of human... more The article has presented the development of the human capital concept in the pro-cesses of human resources management. It also has included a proposition the human capital valuation. The article has presented the development of the human capital concept in the pro-cesses of human resources management. It also has included a proposition the human capital valuation. The aim of the article was to present the author’s research tool for the valuation of human capital. It allows in a universal manner and based on external sources to value human capital in the analyzed entity, especially in companies listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.The conducted research allowed not only to verify the correctness of the tool, but also to an-swer the question to what extent to use the concept of the human capital management as one of the tools of enterprise value growth. It was equally important to verify whether companies inde-pendently value human capital, even if they do not do it consciously based ...
Energies, 2022
This paper aims to investigate whether the environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) s... more This paper aims to investigate whether the environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) score of companies operating in the energy sector is associated with their corporate financial performance (CFP). The research covered data from eight companies with a dominant position in the Polish energy sector. The research used the comparative analysis between ESG performance and accounting-based measures of profitability: return on equity (ROE), return on assets (ROA) and return on sales (ROS). Additionally, reference was also made to the DuPont model. The acquired results do not reveal repetitive dependencies that would facilitate the discovery of a pattern of the impact of the factors of ESG on the financial performance of enterprises. Despite indicating the cases of correlations between the ESG scores and CFP at a high level, indeed sometimes at a very high level, the particular case studies significantly differ from each other. This may be caused by the fact that Polish enterpri...
Energies, 2021
If corporate social responsibility (CSR) is expected to work efficiently, there should be a stand... more If corporate social responsibility (CSR) is expected to work efficiently, there should be a standardised approach for implementation of the CSR concept for all businesses, including companies operating in the energy sector. Although many companies declare compliance with CSR standards, further investigation should be undertaken to evaluate if and how those standards have been applied in practice. The aim of this research is to examine the level of standardisation of the CSR activities within Polish energy companies and explore the good practices developed by those companies. The Polish energy companies have been selected for the investigation as the literature review we conducted demonstrates that there is limited research in this area and there is a knowledge gap regarding how Polish energy companies apply CSR regulation in practice. To accomplish the stated aims, the following research questions were developed: (1) What is the essence of applying the CSR concept in Polish energy c...
Routledge eBooks, Feb 15, 2023
Experiences from innovative regions demonstrate that a proven model for regional development is a... more Experiences from innovative regions demonstrate that a proven model for regional development is a development model associated with a leading university (universities), focused upon technologically advanced innovations, revealing another innovative technology, innovative product, innovative service which will exert influence upon the markets and transform the entire branches of industry. This model has a chance to prove itself in large regional centres (metropolises) that ought to possess a number of essential advantages. Regional centres ought to bring together a significant population, be characterised by the high level of Gross Domestic Product, the high level of Gross Domestic Product per capita, and need to concentrate the leading enterprises of innovative industries, enterprises fulfilling the requirements of large customers, business centres, as well as health and public sector institutions
An innovative university creates the conditions for the commercialisation of knowledge, which is ... more An innovative university creates the conditions for the commercialisation of knowledge, which is the motivating factor in terms of arousing academic entrepreneurship, supporting the creation of academic firms, market activation and cooperation between scientific employees and the market. The success of the new model of the university, known as the innovative university, is conditioned by the leaders of science, defined as the “academic entrepreneurs,” who are changing the model of management for universities. Based on the innovative universities that function excellently in the USA and on the British Isles, it is necessary to conclude that the success of an innovative university may be expected in the conditions of the Polish system of higher-level education
Proceedings of the 11th Business & Management Conference, Dubai, 2020
The transformation of universities from the classic model to the entrepreneurial university and l... more The transformation of universities from the classic model to the entrepreneurial university and later to the innovative university is the stimulator for the creation of a knowledge society providing the foundation for an economy based on knowledge. This process is the effect of internal disputes running between traditionalists and pragmatists at universities. Among the traditionalists there is a conviction that knowledge is of a theoretical dimension that comes down to the value of discovery, retention and conveyance of knowledge in its own right. The aim of the herein paper is to conduct an analysis of the process of innovative management of a university, while also to define the innovative features of a university and the principles of management of a university of the third generation. The effect of the pilot research conducted is the proposal of the model of the university of the third generation, whose development is generated by constant innovation, cooperation with the economy, while also social partners and civic society.
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Papers by Zbigniew Makieła