dr hab. Agnieszka Sokołowska-Durkalec, Professor at WUEB
Socio-Economic Policy
Dr hab. Agnieszka Sokołowska-Durkalec, Professor at WUEB, specialises in the management of intangible resources in enterprises: corporate social responsibility and irresponsibility, intellectual capital and people management. Her research examines how organisations, small firms in particular, identify and assess their CSR activities, and how ethics, organisational culture and leadership shape the way people are managed. A distinct strand of her work concerns corporate social irresponsibility: how to recognise and assess it before it affects a company’s relations with employees, customers and the wider environment.
For organisations she translates this knowledge into practical tools: a CSR diagnosis with directions for improvement, competency models, incentive and appraisal systems, coaching and mentoring, and the measurement and development of intellectual capital. She is a certified academic tutor and business trainer. Her expertise rests on more than 130 publications, including three award-winning books, and more than a dozen research projects; her latest monograph, “Dylematy konceptualizacji społecznej nieodpowiedzialności przedsiębiorstwa” (Dilemmas in Conceptualising Corporate Social Irresponsibility, 2025), addresses the dark side of corporate activity.
At the Wrocław University of Economics and Business she serves as Dean for Education and heads the Department of Enterprise Sciences at the Faculty of Management; she sits on the WUEB Senate and the Scientific Council of the Discipline of Management and Quality Studies.
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Services for business
- Training and advisory services on implementing corporate social responsibility (CSR) in organisations: identification and assessment of activities and setting directions for improvement
- Design and implementation of selected elements of human resource management: competency models, incentive systems, employee appraisal
- Coaching and mentoring for managers and employees
- Identification, measurement, use and development of intellectual capital: human capital and internal and external (relational) structural capital
- Preparation of applications for, and management of, heritage protection projects
Sector expertise
- Social responsibility of enterprises and universities
- Corporate social irresponsibility
- Sustainable development and business ethics
- Human resource management
- Intellectual capital management and knowledge management
- Organisational culture and leadership
- Small enterprise management
Research expertise
- Author or co-author of more than 130 scientific publications on intangible resource management, CSR and small enterprise management
- Author of the monograph “Dylematy konceptualizacji społecznej nieodpowiedzialności przedsiębiorstwa” (Dilemmas in Conceptualising Corporate Social Irresponsibility; WUEB Publishing House, 2025, 439 pp.)
- Author of the habilitation monograph “Społeczna odpowiedzialność małego przedsiębiorstwa. Identyfikacja – ocena – kierunki doskonalenia” (Social Responsibility of the Small Enterprise: Identification, Assessment, Directions for Improvement; WUEB Publishing House, 2013), awarded in 2015 by the Chapter of the Scientific Society for Organisation and Management (TNOiK)
- Winner of the competition for the best Polish doctoral dissertations “New Trends in Economics and Management” (Foundation for the Promotion and Accreditation of Economic Studies and the Polish Economic Society, 2005) for the dissertation “Zarządzanie kapitałem intelektualnym w małym przedsiębiorstwie” (Intellectual Capital Management in the Small Enterprise)
- Distinction from the Committee on Organisational and Management Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences for co-authoring the textbook “Zarządzanie wiedzą w przedsiębiorstwie” (Knowledge Management in the Enterprise; 2007)
- Principal investigator and team member in more than a dozen research and teaching projects
- Participation in over 120 national and international conferences, seminars and symposia
- Multiple WUEB Rector’s awards for research achievements
- Dean for Education at WUEB, member of the WUEB Senate, the Scientific Council of the Discipline of Management and Quality Studies and the Council of the Faculty of Management
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