Milan Zeleny

• Bachelors: Prague School of Economics
• Masters: University of Rochester
• PhD: University of Rochester

• Human Systems Management
• Knowledge Management
• Multiple Criteria Decision Making
• Optimization & De Novo Programming
• Eco-Business and Self-Sustainability

• The BioCycle of Business: Managing Corporation as a Living Organism, 2008 (to appear)
• “Knowledge Management and Strategic Planning: A Human Systems Perspective,” in: Knowledge and Values in Strategic Spatial Planning for Small and Medium Sized Cities, edited by L. Fusco-Girard, Springer-Verlag, 2008
• “Autopoiesis”, in: International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, edited by S. R. Clegg and J. R. Bailey, Sage Publications, 2008
• “Strategy and Strategic Action in the Global Era: Overcoming the Knowing-Doing Gap,” Int. J. Technology Management, 2007.
• “From Knowledge to Wisdom: On Being Informed and Knowledgeable, Becoming Wise and Ethical,” International Journal of Information Technology & Decision Making, 2007.
• “Knowledge Management and the Strategies of Global Business Education: From Knowledge to Wisdom“, in: The Socio-EconomicTransformation: Getting Closer to What? edited by Z. Nahorski, J. W. Owsiński and T. Szapiro, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, 2007, Ch. 7, pp. 101-116.
• “Entering the Era of Networks: Global Supply and Demand Outsourcing Networks and Alliances,” in: Quantitative Methoden der Logistik und des Supply Chain Management, edited by M. Jacquemin, R. Pibornik, and E. Sucky, Verlag Dr. Kovač, Hamburg, 2006, pp. 85-97.
• “Innovation Factory: Production of Value-Added Quality and Innovation,” Economics and Management, 9(2006)4, pp. 58-65.
• “The Mobile Society: Effects of Global Sourcing and Network Organisation’, Int. J. Mobile Learning and Organisation, 1(2006)1, pp. 30–40.
• “Knowledge-Information Autopoietic Cycle: Towards Wisdom Systems,” International Journal of Management and Decision Making, 7(2006)1, pp. 3–18.

After Prague School of Economics (Ing., 1964), left Czechoslovakia in 1967 to get Ph. D. (1972) in Operations Research and Business Economics at the University of Rochester (M.S. in Systems Management, 1970).

Employment: 1971-1972, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Assistant Professor of Statistics and Management Science; 1972-1979, Columbia University, New York, Associate Professor of Business Administration; 1979-1980, Copenhagen School of Economics, Copenhagen, Professor of Economics; 1980-1981, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management (EIASM), Brussels. Since 1982 Professor at Fordham University at Lincoln Center.

Since 1998 also Tomas Bata University in Zlin, since 2004 Xidian University in Xi´an, China. During 2006 at Fu Jen University, Taipei, in 2007 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Recently published Information Technology in Business (Thomson International), co-edited New Frontiers of Decision Making for the Information Technology Era (World Scientific). His current book, Human Systems Management: Integrating Knowledge, Management and Systems, is to be followed by The BioCycle of Business: Managing Corporation as a Living Organism.

Earlier books include Multiple Criteria Decision Making (McGraw-Hill), Linear Multiobjective Programming (Springer-Verlag), Autopoiesis, Dissipative Structures and Spontaneous Social Orders (Westview Press), MCDM-Past Decades and Future Trends (JAI Press), Autopoiesis: A Theory of Living Organization (Elsevier North Holland), Uncertain Prospects Ranking and Portfolio Analysis (Verlag Anton Hain), Multiple Criteria Decision Making (University of South Carolina Press), Multiple Criteria Decision Making: Kyoto 1975 (Springer-Verlag), and others.

Served as the Editor-in-Chief of Human Systems Management over some twenty five years. Also on editorial boards of Operations and Quantitative Management, International Strategic Management, Operations Research, Computers and Operations Research, Future Generations Computer Systems, Fuzzy Sets and Systems, General Systems Yearbook and Prestige Journal of Management and Research. Currently on boards of International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making, International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organization, and International Journal of Innovation and Learning.