Agata Niemczyk

Cracow University of Economics

In 2021. European Commission formally called for a fifth industrial revolution (Industry 5.0). Discussions by participants from all over Europe in two virtual workshops organised by Directorate "Prosperity" of Directorate-General for Research and Innovation on 2 and 9 July 2020 resulted in the document "Industry 5.0: Towards a Sustainable, Human-ce...

The new challenges in almost all organisations are based on people. It is their competences, knowledge and skills that enable any organisation to grow. Personnel are a resource that must be properly taken care of. Effective talent management is mainly based on planning and building career paths. Talent management is one of the most important busine...

Services constitute an important part of the economy. From an economic development standpoint, one of the most meaningful groups is high technology services. This study diagnoses changes of turnover in services structure. The spatial scope covers Central and Eastern European countries, the time range-the years 2015-2021. The article is theoretical...

This desk research was carried out within the ERASMUS+ Cooperation partnerships in adult education, Empower Adult Educators to Support Digital Social Inclusion [DigIN], Project number 2022-1-PL01-KA220-ADU-000088404, coordinated by Instytut Badan I Innowacji w Edukacji - Poland. The primary goal of Cooperation Partnerships is to allow partner organ...

Celem artykułu jest identyfikacja kluczowych obszarów regionalnego ekosystemu innowacji umożliwiających skuteczny rozwój sektora mikro, małych i średnich przedsiębiorstw (MŚP) w warunkach czwartej rewolucji przemysłowej. Praca ma charakter teoretyczno-empiryczny. Wykorzystano typowe dla tego typu opracowań metody badawcze: krytycznej analizy litera...

The report present a desk research about "Situated Leaning" in general and some example of good practices in the partner Institutions working in the implementation of the Programme: Erasmus+ Key Action: Partnerships for cooperation and exchanges of practices; Cooperation partnerships in adult education; Project Reference: 2021-1-PL01-KA220-ADU-0000...

The dynamic development of digital technologies and their widespread use in everyday life, especially by younger generations, forces urgent initiatives to counter the digital exclusion of older people. Adult Social Inclusion in and the Digital Environment (ASIDE) has offered activities to support inclusive education and digital skills, raising comp...

In this paper, the issue of the deliberate aging of products by manufacturers is discussed. Deliberate aging consists in intentionally planning or designing a product with an artificially limited lifetime in order to force consumers to replace it faster. The resulting rapid acceleration of the cycle of obtaining and utilizing consumer goods has ser...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought profound changes in the way businesses and organizations operate. This unexpected situation also affected the world of science. However, it did not stop the organizers of the 13th International Scientific Conference of the College of Management and Quality Sciences at the University of Economics in Krakow from host...

The Adult Social Inclusion in a Digital Environment project (ASIDE) intends to support inclusive education and digital skills, improving the competences in digital social inclusion of social educators and social volunteers. ASIDE project addresses social inclusion through the definition of a portfolio of basic digital competences that are necessary...

The aim of the study is to present good practices in the field of basic digital competences necessary for the development of ICT-based social inclusion initiatives / services. To achieve this goal, the desk research method was used, in which the key determinants of competency development in a virtual environment were identified on the basis of lite...

Energy education of the younger generation, who are the future decision makers, investors, consumers, scientists, or skilled labor force in new energy technologies, is crucial for the future of Europe and the world. However, beyond the long-term goals of energy education policies, the short-term effects on energy conservation and the promotion of r...

Food choices are complex and highly variable, even over short periods, as they are influenced by numerous psychological, social, and cultural factors, in addition to biological and economic ones. Consumer choices are increasingly complex because of the growing quantity and variety of available food products, which also affects individuals’ environm...

Zmiany demograficzne powodują, że seniorzy stanowią coraz większy odsetek społeczeństwa – w Polsce według Głównego Urzędu Statystycznego w 2020 r. było to niemal 26% wszystkich mieszkańców. To sprawia, że ich znaczenie jako segmentu każdego rynku branżowego systematycznie rośnie. Na rynku turystycznym osoby starsze budzą szczególne zainteresowa...

This publication contains the fourth report of the Adult Social Inclusion in a Digital Environment - Exchange of Good Practices, ERASMUS+ project number 2019-1-PL01-KA204- 065689. The fourth report presents a desk research about “DIGITAL SOCIAL INCLUSION” carried out by ASIDE consortium and contains: Introduction Digital Social Inclusion: The Tu...

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought profound changes in the way businesses and organizations operate. This unexpected situation also affected the world of science. However, it did not stop the organizers of the 13th International Scientific Conference of the College of Management and Quality Sciences at the University of Economics in Krakow from host...

Purpose – The aim of the article is to study the changes of disposable income and consumption expenses in pensioners’ households in the years 2010-2019 and the attempt to draw conclusions corresponding to the deepening process of society ageing.Research method – Categories of disposable income and consumption expenses as well as selected issues fro...

The independence of territorial self-governments in the process of implementing the tasks imposed on them does not mean that they have to implement them independently. Achieving the assumed goals of action often requires skillful cooperation with other entities, including non-governmental organizations. Local government is the closest partner of no...

One of the challenges facing the modern academic teacher is to instill in students the idea of scientific work and to point them to the possibility of gaining first professional experience by active participation in the student scientific movement. Conferences have been and remain an important element of the scientists’ professional activity. They...

Integralną częścią życia każdego człowieka jest czas wolny. Jest on niezbędny do wypoczynku, relaksu, odreagowania stresów, aby organizm mógł wydajnie funkcjonować. W tym kontekście nie da się zaprzeczyć, że czas wolny pełni pozytywną rolę w życiu jednostki. Jedni mają go więcej, inni mniej. Najwięcej mają go osoby pozostające bez pracy, wśród nich...

The academic world has long endeavoured to make a meaningful contribution to the challenge of measuring the economic impacts of meetings. Existing reviews of the business tourism literature demonstrate that the economic impact of events and meetings is among the crucial themes that have emerged as key research topics in academia. The main aim of th...

Przedstawiciele pokolenia Z jako uczestnicy ruchu turystycznego. Temat podjęty w monografii ma charakter pionierski. To pierwsza obszerna pozycja naukowa z zakresu pokolenia Z na rynku turystycznym. Współczesne czasy to czasy wielu pokoleń. Spośród nich najmłodszym jest pokolenie Z repre-zentowane przez osoby urodzone po 1994 roku, dorastające w la...

The purpose of this article is to recognize the assessment of Cracow from the perspective of the residents and tourists a year after a religious event, the 2016 World Youth Day (2016WYD). Bearing in mind that the image of a city is created by an individual and their socio-demographic features, ones that differentiate the assessment of the city were...

The meeting industry is a dynamically developing sector of the economy in Kraków, represented with flair by the ICE Kraków Congress Centre, Expo Kraków and the Tauron Arena. Congress, exhibition and event venues, as well as a wide selection of hotel conference centres mean that meeting and event participants are eager to come to Kraków. This is...

The aim of the article is to verify the thesis that the social media as a source of information and promotion affect an economic success of a tourist destination. Path modelling allowes to prove that although the social media do not directly influence an economic success of a destination, their role reveales in an indirect effect by an organization...

The article presents the results of the analysis of the interplay between free time and economic development of a region. Since culture is one of the ways of spending one’s free time, the main objective of this article is the presentation of interdependencies between the level of development of the cultural function of a region and the level of its...

The purpose of this article is to present the specificity of family decisions on the tourist market. The first part of the article describes the four models of family decision-making and identifies the determinants of making joint and individual decisions. The second part discusses the profiling of a tourist whose tourist-trip-related family decisi...

This paper aims to answer the question of whether a mega-event can act as an incentive for tourists to return to a previously visited destination. In order to find an answer to this research question, hypotheses were proposed with the aim of revealing dependencies between selected aspects of consumption of tourist products such as UEFA European Foo...

The aim of this article is to present consumer behaviour in the tourism market, i.e. behaviour constituting the compound effect of an individual's multistage reaction to multiple determinants, crowned with the after-feelings the consumer begins to develop at the earliest stage of a tourist trip. A satisfied tourist is one who recommends a given des...

This paper suggests a classification of cultural tourism participants by building on the McKercher–Du Cros typology in a Polish context. Based on a sample of 600 tourists arriving in Cracow to visit monuments and museums, participate in cultural events, and experience the cultural milieu, the study identified five main clusters. These were the ‘Pur...

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The main purpose of the paper is to identify changes in the meeting industry in Krakow. One of the reasons for the changes was the global crisis. An attempt to prove the thesis has been undertaken. Research on the meeting industry in Krakow was conducted on the basis of a questionnaire addressed to operators of facilities that can organise business...

The main topic of this paper is to present the scale and nature of congress tourism in Cracow in the years 2008 and 2009. Methodology: The empirical material for the analysis was the result of the research prepared and conducted in Cracow in 2009 by the researchers of the Tourism Department of the Cracow University of Economics. The questionnaire w...

The main purpose of the paper is to identify changes in the meeting industry in Krakow. One of the reasons for the changes was the global crisis. An attempt to prove the thesis has been undertaken. Research on the meeting industry in Krakow was conducted on the basis of a questionnaire addressed to operators of facilities that can organise business...