Prof. Wojciech W. GASPARSKI, Professor of Humanities, Dr. Sc. Director and founder of the Business Ethics Centre (www.cebi.pl) a joint unit of the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences (PAS) and the L. Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship and Management (LKAEM), Warsaw, Poland.
He is an immediate past Chairman of the Academic Council, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology PAS.
He is the Rector.s Plenipotentiary for Scientific Research at the LKAEM and a Distinguished Consulting Faculty at the Saybrook Graduate School and Research Centre, San Francisco, CA, as well as the Editor-in-Chief of Praxiology: The International Annual of Practical Philosophy and Methodology published by the Transaction Publishers (USA).
He is: a founder and Honorary President of the Learned Society of Praxiology and an active member of the Warsaw Learned Society, a honorary member of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (USA) and Ősterreichische Studiengeselschaft fűr Kybernetik, a co-founder and a Chairman of the Program Council, Polish Association for Business Ethics (EBEN Poland), a member of the Academy of Management (USA), Society for Business Ethics (USA), and International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics. He was a Fulbright Senior Visiting Scholar at the State University of New York (1981-82).
He visited universities in other countries, extensively contributed international conferences and published several books and three hundred articles as well as conference papers.
Areas of his interest are: praxiology, business ethics, organisational design, methodology, and systems theory.
He is involved in two EU 6th Framework Research Projects relateted to corporate social responsibility. Some of his publications are as follows: Lectures in Business Ethics-New Edition (in Polish, 2004); .Business Expectation Beyond Profit. (in: A. Habisch et al., eds., CSR Across Europe, 2004).
Beyond the Prose of Business. (in: L. Zsolnai, ed., Spirituality and Ethics in Management, 2004); Ethics and Decisions in Lobbying and Business (in Polish, 2003); .Codes of ethics, their design, introduction and implementation: A Polish case. (in: H. v. Weltzien-Hoivik, ed., Moral Leadership in Action, 2002), Business Ethics in Practical Application: Initiatives, Codes and Programs (in Polish published in co-operation with UNDP in relation to introducing Global Compact initiative in Poland, 2002); Human Action in Business: Praxiological and Ethical Dimensions (with L. V. Ryan, 1996).
