Włodzimierz Sroka

Włodzimierz Krzysztof Sroka (15 August 1967 – 21 January 2023) was a Polish economist and manager, associate professor of strategic management at the WSB University in Dąbrowa Górnicza.

Life and career A graduate of the University of Economics in Katowice, he earned his PhD in economics in 1999 at the Faculty of Management of the same university, based on the thesis entitled Strategic alliances as a form of cooperation in a global environment. In 2012 he received his habilitation degree in the same discipline at the University of Žilina on the basis of the thesis entitled Management as the key success factor of alliance networks.

From 1999 he was associated with the University of Dąbrowa Gornicza (WSB University), from 1999 to 2012 as an assistant professor and subsequently as an associate professor at the Department of Management. Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Forum Scientiae Oeconomia"; and a member of the editorial board of "Organizacija" He is also a member of the Scientific Councils of the following journals: "Engineering Management in Production and Services"; "Marketing of Research and Scientific Institutions"; and "Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoły Humanitas. Zarządzanie".

Sroka died on 21 January 2023, at the age of 55.

Selected publications W. Sroka, Sieci aliansów. Poszukiwanie przewagi konkurencyjnej poprzez współpracę, PWE, Warszawa 2012. W. Sroka, Š. Hittmár, Management of Alliance Networks: Formation, Functionality And Post-Operational Strategies, Springer Verlag, 2013, J. Cygler, W.Sroka, Structural Pathologies In Inter-Organizational Networks And Their Consequences, „Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences”, 110: 52–63, 2014. W. Sroka W., J.Cygler, B.Gajdzik, The Transfer of Knowledge in Intra-Organizational Networks: A Case Study Analysis, „Organizacija”, 47(1), 24–34, 2014. W. Sroka, Š. Hittmár (red.): Management of Network Organizations. Springer, 2015. J. Cygler, W. Sroka, The Boundaries of Coopetition: A Case Study of Polish Companies Operating in the High-Tech Sector [w:] J. Ateljević, J. Trivić, Economic Development and Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies Springer Verlag, 2016, s. 253–269. . W. Sroka, Š.Hittmár, J.Kurowska-Pysz (red.), New Trends in Management and Production Engineering – Regional, Cross-Border and Global Perspectives, Shaker Verlag, 2016 W. Sroka W., J. Vveinhardt, Nepotism and favoritism in the steel sector: are these phenomena prevalent? Proceedings of the 5th International Scientific Conference “Innovation Management, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability” (IMES 2017), 25–26 May 2017, Prague

Awards Komisja Edukacji Narodowej Medal (2013).