Faculty of Finance and Accountancy

Research areas

• My research focus is organizational behaviour, culture and leadership accentuated (Country Co-Investigator of Hungary of the international comparative research GLOBE/GLOBE 2020). In recent years I have also researched and published in the field of science metrics. I had been participant of the following research projects: 1984-87: Member of the Hungarian team of the international research program "Microelectronics in the Service Sector" (six country involved, coordinated by Aston University, Birmingham) 1986-89: Researcher of project "Managers' Behaviour" - part of TS 1/4 "Business Organizations in Economic Micro-Sphere" Long-Range Research Program financed by Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Survey of 2566 top and Middle managers at dozens of Hungarian organizations) 1989-1993: Co-researcher of "Managing the changing Hungarian Enterprises" Hungaro-American longitudinal research project on organizational learning process of six Hungarian joint ventures 1994-2019: Country Co-Investigator of international cross-cultural research project GLOBE (Global Leadership and Organizational Behaviour Effectiveness) coordinated by Robert J. House, The Wharton School, Philadelphia, Penn.) 1995-2000: Head of Research project “Culture, Learning and Human Resource Management“ in research program “Competing with the World”, BUES 2000-2003: Head of Research project Organizational Culture – Organizational Learning (Managing Cultural Change in the Turn of the Millennium Hungary), Research Fund for Higher Education Development, (project No 0310/2000) 2004-06: Economy and culture – cultural determinism of future oriented competitiveness (based on GLOBE research). National Fund of Scientific Research, (project No T 046897) 2004-06: Head of Research project „Societal & organizational culture and leadership of Transylvanian Hungarian minority” Sapientia Foundation – Research Programs Institute 2006-07: Organizational culture and leadership in telecommunication sector (a GLOBE based research project in Romania, Serbia, and Hungary). Corporate research Grant of Hungarian Telecom 2008-09: Head of Research project „The impact of organizational culture on competitiveness of ventures of Seklerland” Sapientia Foundation – Research Programs Institute 2009-10: Head of research project „Comparative leadership study of for-profit and non-profit organizations” Sapientia Foundation – Research Programs Institute 2013-16: Project member „Organizational efficiency development in health provider system – forming spatial cooperation” TÁMOP 6.2.5/B Research Program 2017-2021 Researcher at the ConNext Social Futuring Center Social Futuring Research Programme since 2019: Country Co-Investigator (CCI) „GLOBE 2020 Study” Int’l Research Program with 159 countries participating, coordinated by Ali Dastmalchian (Simon Fraser University) and Mansour Javidan (Thunderbird School of Management, Arizona State University). 2022- Head of the Future Potential Observatory Future Potential Organization research project