prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD.
Faculty: Faculty of Commerce
Department: Department of International Trade
Position: Professor
Scientific-pedagogical characteristics of the person
Second degree of higher education
Study field and programme: Economics and Management of Foreign Trade, 1983, School of Economics, Faculty of Commerce
Third degree of higher education
Study field and programme: Economics and Management of Foreign Trade, 1990, School of Economics, Faculty of Commerce
Associate professor
Study field and programme: Segment Economics and Commerce, 1995, University of Economics, Faculty of Commerce
Professor
Study field and programme: Commerce and Marketing, 2004, University of Economics, Faculty of Commerce
Current and previous employment
Full-time Professor
University of Economics, Faculty of Commerce, International Business Department
from 2020
Full-time Professor/Vice-Rector for Research and Development
School of Management/City University of Seattle, Bratislava
2008 - 2020
doctoral study program, post-doctoral study program, Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor
University of Economics/School of Economics, Faculty of Commerce, International Business Department/Foreign Trade Department
1983 - 2011
Development of pedagogical, professional, language, digital and other skills
Foreign language education - Russian, German, English, French, Latin
School of Economics/University of Economics Bratislava, Language School Bratislava, Foreign Trade Institute Bratislava
1979 - 2000
Courses in Education and ICT courses
School of Economics/University of Economics Bratislava
1983 - 2005
Formation des Formateurs - Gestion et Marketing (Education of Teachers - Management and Marketing)
Université IX - Paris, Dauphine
1990
Managing Managers, Buliding the Leadership Engine, Managing Foreign Expansion, Managing International Strategic Alliances, Strategic Human Resource Management, Orchestrating Winning Performance
Executive Education Center, Business School University of Michigan, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Executive Program, IMD Lausanne
1997 - 2000
Overview of activities within the teaching career at the university
Number of defended theses
Bachelor's (first degree): 24
Diploma (second degree): 205
Dissertation (third degree): 16
Overview of the research/artistic/other outputs
Number of the research/artistic/other outputs registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases: 32
Number of citations registered in the Web of Science or Scopus databases: 221
Number of invited lectures at the international, national level: 153
The most significant research/artistic/other outputs
FERENČÍKOVÁ, S. - Smith, A.: Inward Investment, Regional Transformations and Uneven Development in Eastern and Central Europe: Enterprise Case Studies from Slovakia. European Urban and Regional Studies, Great Britain, 1998, Vol. 5, N. 2, pp. 155 – 173, ISSN 0969 7764 FERENČÍKOVÁ, S.: Ten years later: A Comparative perspective on HRM Issues in Foreign-Affiliated firms in CEE (Case of Slovakia) Journal for Eastern European Management Studies, Germany, 2000, Vol. 5, N. 4, pp. 305 - 323, ISSN 0949-6181FERENČÍKOVÁ, S.: Transition at Whirlpool-Tatramat: From Joint Venture to Acquisitions. Transnational Corporations, UN/UNCTAD Switzerland, 2002, Vol.11, N.5, pp. 69 – 97, ISSN 1014-9562
DOUGLAS, Dow – FERENČÍKOVÁ, Soňa: More than just national cultural distance: Testing new distance scales on FDI in Slovakia. International Business Review, Oxford, 2010, Vol. 19, N.1, pp. 46-58, ISSN 0969-5931 FERENČÍKOVÁ, Soňa - FERENČÍKOVÁ, Soňa: Outward Investment Flows and the Development Path: The Case of Slovakia. Eastern European Economics, USA, M.E. Sharpe, 2012, Vol. 50, No. 2, March – April, pp. 91 – 120, ISSN 0012-8775/2012The most significant research/artistic/other outputs over the last six years
FERENČÍKOVÁ, S. Reverse knowledge transfer from Central to Western Europe: Selected Case Studies In: Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research, St. Louis, Missouri, 2020, Vol.7 No.1, pp. 1-11, ISSN 2328-8272, E-ISSN 2328-8280
FERENČÍKOVÁ, S. et al. Understanding careers around the globe. Edited by J. Bricsoe et al., Chapter 22 A hundred years of solitude and fight: careers in Slovakia across three generations in Central and Eastern Europe. Northampton, MA, USA: EE Edward Elgar, 2023, ISBN 978-1-03530840-8
FERENČÍKOVÁ, S. Internationalization of small and medium-sized enterprises from Central and Eastern Europe : a theoretical framework, In: Journal of Eastern European and Central Asian Research. - Minnesota: The IEECA Press, 2018, Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 1-10- ISSN 2328-8272, (Best Paper Award for 2018 in JEECAR)
ANDERSEN, M. et al., (FERENČÍKOVÁ, S. co-author) Careers in context: An international study of career goals as mesostructure between societies’ career-related human potential and proactive career behavior, In: Human Resource Management Journal. - Hoboken, USA: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019 - ISSN 1748-8583. - Special issue, pp. 1-27.
DELLO RUSSO et al., (FERENČÍKOVÁ, S. co-author) Still feeling employable with growing age? Exploring the moderating effects of developmental HR practices and country-level unemployment rates in the age – employability relationships, In: International Journal of Human Resource Management, Taylor and Francis, Print ISSN 0958-5192, 2020, Vol. 31, Issue 9, pp. 1180 – 1206, Online ISSN 1466-4399
The most significant citations corresponding to the research/artistic/other outputs
Topic: Cross-Cultural Collaboration on Contemporary Careers (5C), Research Lead: Emma Perry, Michael Dickmann, Cranfield School of Management, UK, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria, Participating institutions: 38 universities from 5 different continents, Research Lead representing Slovakia: Prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD., Research network active since 2011, Link https://5c.careers/about-5c/ Note: This is a voluntary research network with several branches and publications, without a common financial grant (the particular projects are financed within home universities of the researchers by their internal research grants and contributions) - for details please see the project above-mentioned website. The last project of the network Carreer Barometer 2021 is underway and Prof. Ferenčíková/Slovakia participate on it.
Topic: GLOBE 2020 (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) Participating institutions: 167 universities around the globe Coordinator: Prof. Rick Cotton, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada, Manson Javidan, Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA, Administration: Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, Country Co-Investigators (CCI) on the project for Slovakia: Prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD., Prof. PhDr. Anna Lašáková, PhD. Timeline: 2019 – 2023/Research network active since 2019 Link https://globeproject.com/ Note: This is a voluntary research project, one of the largerst in the world in social sciences, a follow-up to pioneer GLOBE 2000 project, however without a common financial grant (the particular projects are financed within home universities of the researchers by their internal research grants and contributions) - for details please see the project above-mentioned website.
Title and number of the project: Effects of Industry 4.0 on FDI in the Visegrad countries N. 21920068, Grant awarded by: Visegrad Fund Coordinator: University Vistula, Warsaw, PL, cooperating institutions: Vysoká škola manažmentu v Trenčíne, SK, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HU, Vysoká škola ekonomická Praha, CZ, Research Lead Slovakia: Prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD., Timeline: 2019 - 2020
Topic: Reverse knowledge transfer as the source of the increase of competitiveness and innovation capabilities of Slovak companies Grant VEGA, N.1/0086/20, Research Lead Prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD., VŠM Bratislava, Timeline: 2020
Topic: Competitive strategies of Slovak companies in the foreign markets: theories, analysis, ways how to increase their competitiveness Grant VEGA, N. 1/0647/15, Research Lead Prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD., VŠM Bratislava, Timeline: 2015 - 2017
Topic: Growth of Slovakia's innovative capabilities and competitiveness for foreign investors in post-covid deglobalization era from the aspect of knowledge creation and transfer, Grant VEGA N. 1/0270/22, Research Lead Prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD., EU Bratislava, Timeline: 2022-24
Participation in conducting (leading) the most important research projects or art projects over the last six years
Topic: Cross-Cultural Collaboration on Contemporary Careers (5C), Research Lead: Emma Perry, Michael Dickmann, Cranfield School of Management, UK, Wolfgang Mayrhofer, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Austria, Participating institutions: 38 universities from 5 different continents, Research Lead representing Slovakia: Prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD., Research network active since 2011, Link https://5c.careers/about-5c/ Note: This is a voluntary research network with several branches and publications, without a common financial grant (the particular projects are financed within home universities of the researchers by their internal research grants and contributions) - for details please see the project above-mentioned website. The last project of the network Carreer Barometer 2021 is underway and Prof. Ferenčíková/Slovakia participate on it.
Topic: GLOBE 2020 (Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness) Participating institutions: 167 universities around the globe Coordinator: Prof. Rick Cotton, Gustavson School of Business, University of Victoria, Canada, Manson Javidan, Thunderbird School of Global Management, USA, Administration: Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, Country Co-Investigators (CCI) on the project for Slovakia: Prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD., Prof. PhDr. Anna Lašáková, PhD. Timeline: 2019 – 2023/Research network active since 2019 Link https://globeproject.com/ Note: This is a voluntary research project, one of the largerst in the world in social sciences, a follow-up to pioneer GLOBE 2000 project, however without a common financial grant (the particular projects are financed within home universities of the researchers by their internal research grants and contributions) - for details please see the project above-mentioned website.
Title and number of the project: Effects of Industry 4.0 on FDI in the Visegrad countries N. 21920068, Grant awarded by: Visegrad Fund Coordinator: University Vistula, Warsaw, PL, cooperating institutions: Vysoká škola manažmentu v Trenčíne, SK, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, HU, Vysoká škola ekonomická Praha, CZ, Research Lead Slovakia: Prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD., Timeline: 2019 - 2020
Topic: Reverse knowledge transfer as the source of the increase of competitiveness and innovation capabilities of Slovak companies Grant VEGA, N.1/0086/20, Research Lead Prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD., VŠM Bratislava, Timeline: 2020
Topic: Competitive strategies of Slovak companies in the foreign markets: theories, analysis, ways how to increase their competitiveness Grant VEGA, N. 1/0647/15, Research Lead Prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD., VŠM Bratislava, Timeline: 2015 - 2017
Topic: Growth of Slovakia's innovative capabilities and competitiveness for foreign investors in post-covid deglobalization era from the aspect of knowledge creation and transfer, Grant VEGA N. 1/0270/22, Research Lead Prof. Ing. Soňa Ferenčíková, PhD., EU Bratislava, Timeline: 2022-24
Overview of organizational experience related to higher education and research/artistic/other activities
Member of the specialized committee
Ministry of Education, Research and Development, Slovak Republic
2019
Member of Scientific Board, Faculty of Commerce, University of Economics, Bratislava, lead/guarantor and co-lead/co-guarantor of doctoral and graduate study programs World Economy, International Business Management, International Management, Chairman and member of scientific and organizational committees of annual international conferences organized by Department of International Business and Faculty of Commerce - Slovakia in International Trade and Business, Chairman of state final committees for doctoral and graduate studies, Head of Department of International Business (2000 - 2001)
Faculty of Commerce, University of Economics, Bratislava
1997 - 2011
Member of Editorial Board
Journal of East-West Business, International Journal of Export Marketing (until 2010 also Nová ekonómia, Manažér, Studia comercialia Bratislavensia, News for Investors)
since 2000 (up to the present)
Advisory Board Member, reviewer of the articles in leading IB journals (Journal of World Business, Journal of International Business Studies, International Business Review), reviewer of papers at the top global and European conferences focused on international business
Advisory Board to the Director at the William Davidson Institute, Business School University of Michigan, Advisory Board to the Director of the Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Michigan, Advisory Board to the Rector/WHU Koblenz
2000 - 2010
Overview of international mobilities and visits oriented on education and research/artistic/other activities in the given field of study
Université IX Paris Dauphine, Paris, France
1.9.1990 - 31.12.1990,
Business School University Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
1.1.1997 - 31.8.1997,
Wirtschftsuniversität Wien, Institut für Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Vienna, Austria
1.10.1998 - 31.12. 1998,
University of Pisa, Pisa
one week, November 2018,
Erasmus Program
University of Vaasa, WHU Koblenz, ESCP - EAP Berlin/Paris/London/Madrid, IMD Lausanne, Universität von Hamburg, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie-Mellon University, Melbourne Business School, ESSCA Angers, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien, ESMT Berlín, University of North Carolina, University of South Carolina, Rollins School of Business, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, University of Marylad, University of Washington, Monterrey Business School atď., as seen from the name of the institution
1998 - 2024 (7 - 90 days depending on the program),
Visiting Professor