9. Higher Education in Management: The Case of Poland

Lwów became a part of Ukraine after the Second World War.

Some educational institutions were active underground during the Second World War.

The International Business School was a founding partner of Kozminski University, the first academic institution in Poland and the whole of Central Europe to hold the triple crown (EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA accreditations).

The only entry barrier for bachelor and master’s program is meeting requirements related to specific numbers of faculty allocated to a specific programme offered.

In 2014 the name of the programme was changed to management and administration due to the new classification introduced by International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED-F 2013).

Central Statistics Office report on higher education institutions and their finances in 2014, Warsaw, released in November 2015.

The Ministry of Higher Education regulates the fields of science. The current structure has three levels: (1) area of knowledge, (2) field of science and (3) discipline. According to the Law on HE (2005) there are four disciplines in field of economics (economics, finance [from 2011], management science and commodity science), while the field of economic science is part of a broader area of social science. This classification is somewhat problematic as some well-established disciplines like marketing, or accounting, do not exist in the Polish classification system. This creates a growing problem and tension, especially for the representatives of those disciplines that are missing in the classification. Marketing would normally be considered as part of management science; accounting on the other hand could be classified either as management or finance. If research in accounting is concerned with the firm level (for instance studies of accounting systems in various organizations) it would be classified as management science, while studies in accounting related to the markets would be considered finance.