Joanna Cygler

Joanna Agnieszka Cygler (born May 21, 1967) is a Polish economist and professor of management at the Warsaw School of Economics.

Career Cygler was born in Warsaw and graduated from Warsaw School of Economics (WSE) in 1991. In 1999, she earned her Ph.D. in management (also WSE) in management for the thesis (The influence of strategic alliances with foreign partners on position, market strategy and management systems of Polish companies), for which she also received the Karol Adamiecki Award in 2000. In 2009, following her thesis Kooperencja przedsiębiorstw. Czynniki sektorowe i korporacyjne (Coopetition: sectoral and corporate factors), she received her habilitation. Her courses were several times among the highest rated in the annual WSE students' Top Ten ranking. She also teaches Executive MBA courses at the PAN Institute of Economic Sciences.

Alongside her teaching and academic leadership, Cygler served as director of research at the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency from 2002-2003, followed by her work as an expert in the International Bureau at the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland through 2005.

Cygler is a member of the Programme Board of the "Innovative Economy Institute" Foundation (Polish: Fundacja Instytut Innowacyjna Gospodarka), Warsaw, and an expert in the Intellectual Development (Polish: Inteligentny Rozwój) Program at the Ministry of Development, and an expert at the Employers' Union of Warsaw and Masovia (Związek Pracodawców Warszawy i Mazowsza).

Cygler also serves on editorial boards of Engineering Management in Production and Services, Forum Scientiae Oeconomia, Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Humanitas. Zarządzanie, and Marketing Instytucji Badawczych i Naukowych.

Selected publications J. Cygler, W. Sroka, The Boundaries of Coopetition: A Case Study of Polish Companies Operating in the High-Tech Sector [in:] J. Ateljević, J. Trivić, Economic Development and Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies Springer, 2016, pp. 253–269. . J. Cygler, Structural Pathology in Inter-organizational Networks and the Decision-Making Autonomy of Its Members [in:] W. Sroka, Š. Hittmár, Management of Network Organizations, Springer, 2015, pp. 181–195. . J. Cygler (ed.), Wymiana gospodarcza Polski Wschodniej z krajami byłego ZSRR i ryzyka z tym związane, Warszawa, Związek Pracodawców Warszawy i Mazowsza, 2015. J. Cygler, M. Aluchna, E. Marciszewska, M.K. Witek-Hajduk, G. Materna, Kooperencja przedsiębiorstw w dobie globalizacji. Wyzwania strategiczne, uwarunkowania prawne, Warszawa, Wolters Kluwer Polska, 2013. J. Cygler, Guanxi – chińska koncepcja sieci, "Przegląd Organizacji". no 6, pp. 14–18, 2011. J. Cygler, Kooperencja przedsiębiorstw. Czynniki sektorowe i korporacyjne, Warszawa, Oficyna Wydawnicza Szkoły Głównej Handlowej, 2009. J. Cygler, Alianse strategiczne, Warszawa: Difin, 2002. J. Cygler, Organizacje sieciowe jako forma współdziałania przedsiębiorstw [in:] M. Romanowska, M. Trocki, Przedsiębiorstwo partnerskie, Warszawa: Difin, 2002, pp. 147–160.

Awards Silver Cross of Merit (2011).