Katarzyna Grondys

• PhD
• Częstochowa University of Technology

Poland is the leader in the performance of international transport in the EU, serving more than half of its market. The most common branch of transport is road transport, predominantly heavy goods transport, which contributes to the strain on road infrastructure. Furthermore, around one-fifth of those vehicles may exceed the permissible total mass....

For several years, the global supply chain has been particularly exposed to various dangers in particular natural disasters, the COVID-19 pandemic or the armed conflict in Ukraine, which threaten its stability, continuity of efficiency. Each of the current events brings full economic environmental social risks that directly affect the supply chain....

A health crisis caused by a pandemic tested the effectiveness of national healthcare systems by testing both financing and organizational and technical performance of patient care. At that time, the structural flaws in healthcare systems and inequalities in the level of healthcare in its different dimensions and countries due to resource constraint...

A dense and modern road network determines the proper functioning of trade-in economically developed countries. The aim of this article is to assess the influence of individual road infrastructure components on their performance in terms of traffic flow. To obtain a complete and comprehensive description of the problem, a mixed method of quantitati...

The purpose of this study is to develop a comprehensive methodological approach to assess the sustainability of the e-commerce business model based on the integration of key performance indicators into a single vector of business model sustainability. The proposed vector approach allows for predicting and evaluating the effects of different kinds o...

The subject matter of the article relates to the assessment of the perception of selected types of risk in economic activities of the SME sector, which change their intensity as a result of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The current economic downturn is unprecedented and involves many companies and industries that have faced new, previously...

The purpose of this study is to identify factors that influence knowledge management and evaluate its effectiveness in non-governmental organizations in the context of an integrative-oriented approach. The assessment framework for knowledge management effectiveness offered in this study permits the evaluation of decision-making alternatives and the...

One of the ways to sustain development is striving for energy efficiency. This is the purpose of directive 2012/27/EU on energy efficiency, which aims at explaining and promoting energy–saving and ecological solutions that allow increasing the output of consumed energy. Several years after implementation, it is possible to assess the directive’s us...

The sector of SME is the major force for the national economic and social development. Financial risk is one of the key threats to the activity of small and medium enterprises. The most common manifestation of the financial risk of SMEs is difficulty in financing the business and lack of funds for development. Banks are unwilling to grant loans to...

The sharing economy is treated as an alternative consumption model. Its aim is to increase the efficiency of the resources used and create a new value for society. In order to create a new value for business, attempts are being made to implement a shared economy model in the B2B (business-to-business) sector. While this model is effectively impleme...

The article describes modern methods of debt collection of rent receivables in the management of municipal premises. Traditional and alternative methods of debt collection as well as related economic and social consequences are presented herein. In particular, social consequences of traditional debt collection procedures, such as increasing the phe...

Transport operations are one of the sources of contemporary problems of pollution in urban areas. One of many reasons for such a situation is the growing needs for freight transport using different modes of transport, mainly road transport and the insufficient availability and network of roads. The impact on the environment should be one of more im...

The research aimed to assess Supply Chain Management (SCM) in small and medium enterprises in Kazakhstan and Poland, and, more specifically, identify similarities and differences in the approach to the SCM concept in selected countries. The research methodology was based on ANOVA analysis comparing samples of contemporary SMEs operating in Poland a...

Special economic zones (SEZs) differ in terms of the scope and principles of functioning, they have the same objective: to attract investments and create jobs and simultaneously generate benefits for municipalities and their residents. However, in order to make the activity of SEZs and their further development possible and acceptable, activities u...

The aim of the article is to assess environmental loads credited to handling defective products. The assessment is made on the case of manufacturer of driveline products for automobiles. Life cycle assessment is used for that purpose. According to the company procedures of handling defective products several scenarios are build. For each scena...

The article focuses on the major aspects of economy development of the Częstochowa region in terms of its activity in Special Economic Zones being regarded as the chance to grow the number of investors in the city and the whole county. The authors present and analyze the factors influencing the level of entrepreneurship in Częstochowa, the issues o...

In the present paper the authors address the importance of forward-thinking in terms of career management among youths. Because the youth -perceived as a central section of the future evolution- must develop both in terms of personal and professional features, the authors approached aspects regarding youths’ interest on employment fields and their...

W globalnej gospodarce nowoczesne technologie informacyjno-komunikacyjne stanowią istotny czynnik odpowiadający za przekazywanie informacji w łańcuchach logistycznych. Szczególnie podkreślić należy ich rolę w procesach transportu samocho-dowego, który stanowi trzon europejskiego systemu logistycznego. W artykule Autorzy podejmują problematykę zasto...

According to the reports of WHO, air quality is deteriorating year after year. This phenomenon mainly originates in energy, industrial and transport activities of countries and cities, becoming the direct cause of global problems associated with the greenhouse effect, acid rains or the ozone hole. The fastest growing metropolitan areas are also the...

Evolution of information society, which arises mainly from the development of technology and information technology, causes that older people may be marginalized and their activity in society may be limited. One can avoid such a phenomenon by all initiatives of stimulating seniors towards intellectual and physical activity. The most popular initiat...

The article presents the benefits and problems resulting from the maintenance acquisition and management, from the point of view of the client and the outsourcer. The article’s aim is to indicate the determinants of outsourcing implementation into the management of production equipment, based on the research conducted among production companies fro...

The aim of the study was to assess the attractiveness of the Polish logistics to internal and external investors in the dimension of national, international and global circumstances, with a focus on the creation of logistics centres. Apart from the generally available statistics, the study used indicators of logistics efficiency, the Business Proce...

Examination of economic reality requires a broad spectrum of methods for the analysis of economic operators situation. Economic entities operating in the financial sector such as other economic sectors have distinct individual - specialized methods of "market recognition". Striving for the globalization and internationalization trends requires from...

The analysis of the sector, therefore, both micro- and macro-economic factors constitute the source of valuable information for companies wishing to be or being a part of the local economy. Generating profits in the sector is associated with demand and competition. To generate profits, the enterprise must create value for the customer so that the p...

The article describes the essence of information systems management to the needs of courier companies. The possibilities to use information systems to ensure the efficient flow of goods and information in the management of courier companies. Presented functionality DRP and CRM systems and the possibility of combining them with other systems availab...

The aim of the article is an assessment of management of suppliers who supply industrial entities in spare parts, based on conceptual model concerning selection of suppliers due to different nature of parts in the context of material supply. Therefore, reduction of supply costs in the context of spare parts requires to take different circumstances...

The aim of the paper is the analysis of the development of electricity management in households using modern information technology - Smart Grid. The experiences of the countries which are crucial for the global economy, such as China or the USA, prove that Smart Grid can be used not only in business but also it can be applied in households. Due to...

The subject of the paper is the presentation of the case-study of the company outsourcing the spare parts stock. As the result of the changes in the agreement between the outsourcer and the large commissioning company, the task of the outsourcing company was to standardize the margin for the individual groups of products, so far highly diversified....

Efficient management of supply chains consists in particular in ensuring possibly highest quality of customer service and striving for minimization of the costs generated by flow between the links. Typical cause of constantly increasing costs is excessive inventory levels throughout the chain. The reason for this situation is maladjustment of the l...

The motivation to take up the subject is a direct link between the stock of spare parts and the system of production capacity. The relationships which exist between the entities, referring to entrepreneurship, constitute a chance for the improvement of the functioning of the enterprise from the executive point of view. The development, which takes...

Tourist industry is characterized by the wide range of activities connected with the service of tourist attendance also of that associated with places of worship. Its appropriate planning and realization refer to basic logistics actions, i.e.: organization of transport, accommodation, food and admission to religious centers. These actions require c...

Z uwagi na wysoką różnorodność i krytyczność części zamiennych wyposażenia technologicznego stanowią one często poważny problem dotyczący optymalizacji poziomu i struktury tego rodzaju zapasów. Artykuł rozważa model wielu pozycji zapasów części w jednym miejscu stosowany w celu zminimalizowania kosztów zakupu i utrzymywania zapasów w pojedynczych p...

The purchase and storage of a real inventory plays an important role in carrying out the main manufacturing processes in an industrial enterprise. To optimize its level, with adhering to the rules of reducing the maintenance costs and carrying out production in uninterrupted manner, is a major challenge for manufacturing entities. The volume of sto...

So far the objective of the concept of TPM has been to increase the effectiveness of production by means of involvement of operative workers at different levels in the assigned tasks. As a result, an enterprise which was focused on profits coming from its basic activity minimized production loss by implementing some preventive measures with regard...

Recent several years of Polish metallurgy have seen deep changes and bothorganizational and ownership transformations. Steel companies, frequently subject to restructuringand continuous improvement in their operation, developed a highly competitive position in theEuropean market. The requirements connected with Poland’s accession to the EU has cons...