The Department of Economics and and Organization of Enterprises continues the tradition of economics and business management initiated in the interwar period at the then Higher School of Commerce by Professor Stanisław Bieńkowski, an outstanding creator of Polish organisational thought and its promoter in economic practice.

In the post-war period, his creative work in the field of economics and business management was continued by the Department of Industrial Economics, the Department of Industrial Enterprise Economics, the Department of Economics and Organisation of Industrial Enterprises of the Institute of Industrial Economics, the Independent Department of Economics and Organisation of Enterprises, and today’s Department of Economics and Organization of Enterprises.

The historical development of the Department of Economics and Organisation of Enterprises is presented in the following timeline:

1937 – establishment of the Department of Organisation and Management of Industrial Enterprises.

Head of the Department: Prof. Stanisław Bieńkowski, PhD, Eng. – 1937-1945

1945 – renaming of the Department to the Department of Business Organisation.

Department Heads:

Prof. Stanisław Bieńkowski, PhD, Eng. – 1945-1950,

Deputy Prof. Edward Rose, PhD – 1950-1951

1951 – renaming of the Department to the Department of Industrial Economics.

Department heads:

Deputy Prof. Edward Rose, PhD – 1951,

Doc. Ludwik Mayre, MSc – 1952-1958

1958 – renaming of the Department to the Department of Industrial Enterprise Economics.

Head of the Department: Prof. Ludwik Mayre, MSc – 1958-1969

1969 – renaming of the Department to the Department of Economics and Organisation of Industrial Enterprises and incorporation into the structure of the Institute of Industrial Economics.

Heads of the Department:

Prof. Ludwik Mayre, MSc – 1969,

Doc. Kazimierz Janik, PhD – 1969-1988,

Prof. Bronisław Byrski, PhD – 1988-1990,

Ryszard Borowiecki, PhD – 1990-1992

1992 – renaming of the Department to the Independent Department of Economics and Organization of Enterprises.

Head of the Independent Department: Ryszard Borowiecki, PhD – 1992-1993

1994 – renaming of the Independent Department to the Department of Economics and Organization of Enterprises.

Heads of the Department:

Prof. Ryszard Borowiecki, PhD – 1994-2013,

Andrzej Jaki, PhD, Prof. UEK – 2014-2024,

Dr Barbara Siuta-Tokarska, Prof. UEK – since 2024

Currently, the Department employs 19 research and teaching staff, including:

▪ 1 full professor,
▪ 5 habilitated doctors – UEK professors,
▪ 12 doctors,
▪ 1 master’s degree holder.

The research and teaching areas and scientific interests of the Department’s staff cover a wide range of issues related to economics, management, restructuring, finance and corporate controlling. They therefore fall within the following thematic areas: