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Prof. dr hab. Marta Gancarczyk

Prof. dr hab. Marta Gancarczyk

Professor
Head of the Department of Finance and International Economics

ul. Prof. Stanisława Łojasiewicza 4, pok. 2.340, 30-348 Kraków
marta.gancarczyk@uj.edu.pl,USOS, +48 12 664 56 69

Polska wersja strony pracownika

Scientific activity

Research and publications focused on new institutional economics, the sector of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), entrepreneurship and innovation policies, industrial clusters and regional innovation systems.

Research projects

  • 2023-2024 – Conditions for the development of energy clusters in Poland; funds for statutory research of the Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University (principal investigator and project manager).
  • 2021 – Transformation of the bank and banking sector through digital technologies – economic and social aspects, Project “Excellence Initiative Research University”, Priority Research Area “Society of the Future”, Jagiellonian University (investigator).
  • 2020-2021 - The importance of intellectual resources and knowledge sharing in the contemporary economy), Project „Social and economic consequences of 4.0 industrial revolution” within the program Regional Excellence Initiative, Małopolska School of Public Administration of the Cracow University of Economics (investigator).
  • 2017-2019 - EU Regional and Innovation Policies and Peripheral Regions (EURIPER), co-financed by the European Commission under the Jean Monnet Projects Action of the Erasmus+ Programme (Project Reference: 587410-EPP-1-2017-1-ES-EPPJMO-PROJECT) (the Polish team leader, investigator).
  • 2017-2019 – Best practices of V4 countries for SMEs Development in Azerbaijan, International Visegrad Fund’s Visegrad University Studies Grant, Western Kaspian University, Azerbaijan (expert, investigator).
  • 2014-2017 – The process of SME growth. Combining resource-based and transaction cost approaches, National Science Centre, Poland, Nr 2013/09/B/HS4/01938 (principal investigator and project manager).
  • 2017 – Institutional analysis of socio-economic activity, Jagiellonian University Statutory Funds; supervisor of the workpackage: The protection of patients’ personal data in healthcare entities, Faculty of Management and Social Communication, Jagiellonian University.
  • 2013 – Structural changes in clusters, research based on the statutory funds, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland (principal investigator, project manager).
  • 2012-2013 – Strategy for developing innovation network of ZET Transport company, research and development project, co-financed by the European Union within the framework of the European Social Fund (principal investigator, project manager).
  • 2012 - Transaction costs in managing the company; research based on the statutory funds; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, MNiSW- DPNWDS-5111-11035-1/US/12. Decision 225/02/E-535/S/2012, 9.02.2012 (principal investigator, project manager).
  • 2011 - The theory of firm growth and the model of growth determinants (continued); research based on the statutory funds; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, MNiSW- DPN-WDS-5111-7773-1/LK/11. Decision 225/02/E-535/S/2011, 19.01.2011 (principal investigator, project manager).
  • 2010 - The theory of firm growth and the model of growth determinants; the research based on the statutory funds; Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, MNiSW- DPN-WDS-5111-4605-1-1/LK/10. Decision 225/02/E-535/S/2010, 11.02.2010 (principal investigator, project manager).
  • 2008-2009 – Conceptualization and operationalization of business services observatory, Polish Agency for Entrepreneurship Development, Warsaw (expert and reviewer in the project).
  • 2006-2008 – Evaluation of effectiveness and efficiency of SME policy, Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Poland, Nr 1 H02D 021 30 (principal investigator, project manager).
  • 2007 – Determinants of enterprise development in the Malopolska region, Office of the Malopolska Regional Government (principal investigator, project manager).
  • 2006 – Ranking of investment attractiveness of communes in the Nowy Sacz county, The Nowy Sacz Chamber of Commerce (investigator, project member).
  • 2003-2004 - The Formation of Networking Cooperation among Small Enterprises in Central Europe, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Chuo University, Tokyo (investigator, manager of the Polish research team in the international research project).

Didactic activity

  • Ekonomia kosztów transakcyjnych
  • Przedsiębiorczość
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Przedsiębiorczość w usługach
  • Małe i średnie przedsiębiorstwa
  • Seminarium doktorskie
  • Seminarium magisterskie
  • Master’s seminar

Functions

  • Chair of the Council of Economics and Finance Discipline at the Jagiellonian University
  • Head of the Chair of Finance and International Economics
  • Member of the Permanent Rector's Committee for Science
  • Member of the Council of the Institute of Economics, Finance and Management
  • Member of the Council of the Faculty of Management and Social Communication

Selected publications

  • Bohatkiewicz-Czaicka, J., & Gancarczyk, M. (2025). Industrial clusters in international value chains: conceptual advancement and empirical evidence from European ICT clusters. Taylor & Francis.
  • Bohatkiewicz-Czaicka, J., & Gancarczyk, M. (2024). Ewolucja koncepcji klastrów a uwarunkowania ich globalnej pozycji. Wydawnictwo UJ.
  • Gancarczyk, M., Najda-Janoszka, M., Gancarczyk, J., & Hassink, R. (2023). Exploring regional innovation policies and regional industrial transformation from a coevolutionary perspective: The case of Małopolska, Poland. Economic Geography, 99(1), 51-80.
  • Gancarczyk, M., Łasak, P., & Gancarczyk, J. (2022). The fintech transformation of banking: Governance dynamics and socio-economic outcomes in spatial contexts. Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 10(3), 143-165.
  • Gancarczyk, M., & Rodil-Marzábal, Ó. (2022). Fintech framing financial ecologies: Conceptual and policy-related implications. Journal of Entrepreneurship, Management and Innovation, 18(4), 7-44.
  • Gancarczyk, M., Łasak, P., & Gancarczyk, J. (2022). The fintech transformation of banking: Governance dynamics and socio-economic outcomes in spatial contexts. Entrepreneurial Business and Economics Review, 10(3), 143-165.
  • Łasak, P., & Gancarczyk, M. (2022). Transforming the scope of the bank through fintechs: Toward a modularized network governance. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 35(1), 186-208.
  • Gancarczyk, M., Ujwary-Gil, A., Gonzalez Lopez, M. (2021). Partnerships for Regional Innovation and Development: Implementing Smart Specialization in Europe. New York: Routledge.
  • Łasak P., Gancarczyk M., Systemizing the impact of fintechs on the efficiency and inclusive growth of banks’ services [w:] Marszk A., Lechman E., The Digitalization of Financial Markets: The Socioeconomic Impact of Financial Technologies, Routlege 2021.
  • Gancarczyk M., Gancarczyk J., Proactive international strategies of cluster SMEs, “European Management Journal” 2018, vol. 36, nr 1, s. 59-70. DOI 10.1016/j.emj.2017.03.002.
  • Gancarczyk M., The integrated resource-based and transaction cost approach to the growth process of firms, “Journal for Organizational Change Management” 2016, vol. 29, nr 7, s. 1189-1216, DOI 10.1108/JOCM-05-2016-0078.
  • Gancarczyk M., Enterprise- and industry-level drivers of cluster evolution and their outcomes for clusters in developed and less developed countries, „European Planning Studies” 2015, vol. 23, nr 10, s. 1932-1952, DOI 10.1080/09654313.2014.959811.