Zbysław Dobrowolski
Zbysław Dobrowolski – professor at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, economist, praxeologist, specializing in management sciences. He works at the Institute of Public Affairs of the Jagiellonian University. He is a member of the Advisory Scientific Committee of the Financial Ombudsman in Warsaw. He is the co-author of three international standards and guidelines of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institution - INTOSAI, which brings together supreme audit institutions from over 180 countries; an expert in INTOSAI IDI training.
Zbysław Dobrowolski graduated from the University of Economics in Poznań with a master's degree. In 2003, he was awarded the degree of doctor of economic sciences, and in 2012, of a postdoctoral degree. Since 2012, he has been working at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University. Since 1992, he has been professionally associated with the Supreme Audit Office of Poland. In 2013-2018 he was the director of the regional branch and was a member of the top management of this organization. In 1993, he started international activities at the Supreme Audit Office. He was one of the first training participants in the British National Audit Office, and in 1998 he took part in a prestigious internship addressed to the management of supreme audit institutions: GAO International Auditor Fellowship Program in the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Many later SAIs presidents have completed this internship, for example, the President of the Hungarian Supreme State Audit Office (SAO of Hungary). Since 2008, he has been associated with INTOSAI, where, as an expert, he trained employees of supreme state control bodies from several dozen countries and is a co-author of three global standards and audit guidelines: ISSAI 130, GUID 5260, GUID 5270.
International activities
He has been associated with INTOSAI since 2008, where he co-created three global standards and audit guidelines: ISSAI 130, GUID 5260, GUID 5270. He is The only Polish INTOSAI IDI expert for training activities. He is a Polish representative at the Organization for Security and Cooperation conferences in Europe (OSCE) in Dublin and Prague in 2012. He is an expert in several international projects, including those organised by the OECD or the European Union, to improve the management of international organisations in other countries. At the invitation of the Controller's General of the United States, he co-led with a representative of the U.S. GAO training workshops for SAIs employees from 10 candidate countries to the European Union (Velence, Hungary). Later, at the invitation of the INTOSAI DI he participated as an expert in the program of improving the professional qualifications of SAIs employees from Eastern Europe and Asia. As an expert, he participated in the program entitled Support and Bridging Activities for the SAI organised by OECD in Tirana. In the years 2002-2017, he participated in international cooperation programs aimed at solving management problems in public organisations. He participated in projects addressed to representatives of SAIs or other public organisations from several dozen countries, incl. South Korea, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Indonesia, Russia, China, Nigeria. He participated in meetings of SAis representatives from the Visegrad Group and Slovenia to improve the audit methodology. He also participated in the work of the Pension Fund Audit Steering Committee and the activities of the European Organization for Nuclear Research.
He served as editor of The International Journal on Government Financial Management, published by the International Consortium on Governmental Financial Management, St. Michael's Maryland USA (ICGFM). He is the author of numerous articles on supreme audit institutions, audit, risk management. He is the author of an article published by the United Nations and INTOSAI, presented by EUROSAI, the United Nations, indicated by the OECD and the European Union, quoted, among other things, by the United Nations - Sustainable Development Goal 16: Focus on Public Institutions. World Public Sector Report 2019, by Tweede Kamer der Staten-Generaal, 31 388 Signaleren van fraude, by EUROSAI AUDIT SUR L'ÉTHIQUE DANS LES ORGANIZATIONS DU SECTEUR PUBLIC.
Scientific and academic activity
Researcher at the Institute of Public Affairs at the Faculty of Management and Social Communication of the Jagiellonian University, member of scientific councils of scientific journals, member of scientific conference program boards, chairman of scientific sessions. MBA lecturer. Reviewed over 150 scientific publications, including articles published in journals with high Impact Factor, WoS, Scopus. Author and co-author of over 700 studies, including over 100 scientific publications, including over 20 monographs and several articles with high Impact Factor. The promoter of 5 doctoral dissertations. Reviewer of 3 post-doctoral (habilitation) proceedings. Supervisor or reviewer of over 150 MA or BA theses.
Scientific interests
Management of public organizations,
Organization theory and management methodology,
Audit and Optimization,
Risk management,
Organizational culture and innovation,
Business management,
Human resource development,
Constraints management
Practical experience in management
He has over 25 years of experience, including managerial and expert activities. He was the director of the regional branch of SAI; he was an expert on INTOSAI programs and those financed by the OECD and the European Union. As part of his expert activities, he participated in the research of nearly 1,000 organizations; speaker at conferences and seminars for practitioners.
Selected publications
Zbysław Dobrowolski is the author and co-author of over 100 scientific publications in the field of management. They include monographs, publications in international and national journals, and chapters in Polish and English collective works.
Monographs
(2021), Audit: functions, formulation of findings, risks, Warsaw: Wolters Kluwer, ISBN 978-83-82-23475-6.
(2020), Anti-corruption management in the public sector. Theory and practice. Application of the PN-ISO-37001 standard. Monographs and Studies of the Institute of Public Affairs of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków: Institute of Public Affairs, Jagiellonian University, ISBN 978-83-65688-59-0
(2019), Brand management of a local government employer, Krakow: Jagiellonian University Publishing House, ISBN: 978-83-23-34613-5
(2019), School management in conditions of environmental variability: prolegomena of research. Monographs and Studies of the Institute of Public Affairs of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków: Institute of Public Affairs, Jagiellonian University, ISBN 978-83-65688-51-4
(2019), Public auditing- continuity and change: 100 years of state control, Warsaw: CeDeWu Publishing House, ISBN 978-83-81-021860-9
(2019), Supreme Audit Office. Directions of changes. Organisation and management. Monographs and Studies of the Institute of Public Affairs of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków: Institute of Public Affairs, Jagiellonian University, ISBN 978-83-65688-29-3
(2018), Public administration in Poland: management: an outline of the issues: an academic textbook. Monographs and Studies of the Institute of Public Affairs of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków: Institute of Public Affairs, Jagiellonian University, ISBN 978-83-65688-27-9
(2018), Forensic Audit: in State-owned and municipal companies. Monographs and Studies of the Institute of Public Affairs of the Jagiellonian University, Kraków: Institute of Public Affairs, Jagiellonian University, ISBN 978-83-65688-26-2
(2017), Combating Corruption and Other Organisational Pathologies. Series: Studies in politics, security and society, Volume 6, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang International, ISBN 978-3-631-67351-5
(2014), Creating Public Trust: An Organisational Perspective. Series: New horizons in management sciences, Volume 3, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang International, ISBN 978-3-631-62807-2
(2004), Audit of public expenditure in the system of American democracy, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Sejmowe, ISBN 978-83-70-59673-6
Chapters and scientific articles
Dobrowolski, Zbysław (2021), The strategy of vaccination and global pandemic : how framing may thrive on strategy during and after Covid-19, European Research Studies Journal, 24(1), s. 532-541. DOI: 10.35808/ersj/1978
Dobrowolski, Zbysław (2021), Why some countries win and others loose from the COVID-19 pandemic? : navigating the uncertainty, European Research Studies Journal, 24(2), s. 1217-1226. DOI: 10.35808/ersj/2184
Dobrowolski, Zbysław (2021), Are the supreme audit institutions agile? : a cognitive orientation and agility measures. European Research Studies Journal, 24(1), s. 52-62. DOI:10.35808/ersj/1949
Sułkowski, Łukasz, Dobrowolski, Zbysław (2021), The role of supreme audit institutions in energy accountability in EU countries, Energy Policy, 156, 112413. DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2021.112413
Dobrowolski, Zbysław (2020), After COVID-19 : reorientation of crisis management in crisis, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 8(2), s. 799-810. DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2020.8.2(48)
Dobrowolski, Zbysław (2020), The supreme audit institutions readiness to uncertainty, Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, 8(1), s. 513-525. DOI: 10.9770/jesi.2020.8.1(36)
Dobrowolski, Zbysław, Sułkowski, Łukasz (2020), Implementing a sustainable model for anti-money laundering in the United Nations development goals, Sustainability, 12(1), 244. DOI: 10.3390/su12010244
Dobrowolski, Zbysław, Sułkowski, Łukasz (2020), Public ethnocentrism : a cognitive orientation and preventive measures, Journal of International Studies, 13(2), s. 178-190. DOI: 10.14254/2071-8330.2020/13-2/13
Dobrowolski, Zbysław, Szejner, Tomasz (2019), Enhancing innovation through implementation of the comprehensive approach to nurturing the compliance culture of the worldwide innovation ecosystem, Journal of Intercultural Management, 11(2), s. 21-46. DOI: 10.2478/joim-2019-0008
Dobrowolski, Zbysław (2016), The role of universities in XXI century, Przedsiębiorczość i Zarządzanie, Humanistyczne aspekty zarządzania wiedzą i kompetencjami, 17(7/1), 31-42. ISSN: 1733-2486
Dobrowolski, Zbysław (2014), Building Intra-organizational Trust, Zarządzanie Publiczne, 4(28), s. 341-354. DOI 10.4467/20843968ZP.14.028.2772
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