Piotr Walentynowicz

• University of Gdańsk

The article presents considerations on the theory and practice of the current state of application of Lean Management in the shipbuilding industry, with particular emphasis on the case of Çimtas Module & Shipyard. This case proves that in shipbuilding the use of Lean Management can bring many benefits to the company.

Purpose: The main objective of the article is to present the results of a study on the attitude of young generation customers to Industry 4.0 technologies used in manufacturing companies and the resulting conclusions. Design/Methodology/Approach: The CAWI methodology was used in the study. The respondents were mainly students of the University of G...

Scientists and practitioners have recently emphasized the fact that in order to use Lean Management successfully, it is necessary to develop an appropriate organizational culture. In other words, changing the current culture to a lean-friendly organizational culture. Recently, many studies have been published on the features of Lean-friendly organi...

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the national development processes is under study. The article considers methods for assessing changes that affect the territory development prepared by Russian and Polish researchers. A comparative characteristic of methodological approaches is given. The discussion made it possible to establish that the resu...

The study contributes to innovation and crisis research by analyzing the COVID-19 pandemic's impact on enterprise innovativeness. We hypothesize that innovative activity both in the form of creative destruction and creative accumulation evolved from adjustments to structural changes during the pandemic. We reviewed scientific articles that focused...

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the course of many businesses around the world. It pushed many companies into unfamiliar territory, some of them had to disappear from the market, others gained wind in their sails and sailed out into wider waters. The aim of this paper is to present the results of a study on the economic and financial condition of...

This article presents an analysis of the determinants of a firm's innovativeness deriving from its internal potential and characteristics. The analysis is based on research carried out on 1355 firms that applied for public subsidies from the Innovative Economy Operational Program in 2014. The methods applied are logit regression, comparative analys...

The article presents results of empirical research regarding relationship between two leading management concepts: Lean Management and Industry 4.0. It investigates answers to two research questions: how do Industry 4.0 technologies support companies, which operate according to Lean Management principles and in what directions can application of su...

The article attempts to identify, classify and evaluate the success factors of development projects implemented in the holiday property sector. The first part of the study presents development prospects for this market in Poland. The next part presents the idea of using key success factors in management. The empirical part presents the results of o...

The article focuses on a synthetic assessment of the validity of the application of certain methodologies in the management of development projects (including TPM, APF, APM) ¹ . The authors, after discussing the basic assumptions of traditional methodologies and so-called “agile” ones, present the results of a development project implemented using...

In the writing, the results of empirical studies regarding the barriers of regular employees’ involvement in continuous improvements processes of the enterprises in Poland and the ways of breaking the barriers identified on the basis of the related literature and the author’s researches in this matter were presented. Because of the fact that the ex...

In this article the attributes of Lean organizational culture, as an example of a positive organizational culture, are presented. It accompanies applying the concept of Lean Management on a high professional level in a company. An additional goal of the article is to describe the ways of this culture's creation in a company, together with the autho...

When compared to other segments of the market, the agricultural real estate market is a completely different world. While there have been possibilities to observe price corrections over the recent years of the economic crisis, e.g., on the housing market in big cities, on the market of holiday apartments or building plots, the agricultural real est...

This article presents results of pilot survey of methods of recruitment and selection of managerial staff, used in a number of countries, as well as conclusions drawn from analysis of world literature on this subject. Authors of the article maintain, that, due to differences among organizations with respect to their industry and structure, and due...

Podjęto próbę ujęcia idei metody SPACE (Strategic Position and Action Evaluation) w ramy metodologiczne z zachowaniem możliwości dopasowania jej do konkretnej sytuacji. Metodę SPACE zalicza się do zintegrowanych metod analizy strategicznej, które pozwalają na analizę przedsiębiorstwa na tle otoczenia. Zwrócono uwagę, że metoda SPACE nie stanowi jed...