BIOGRAPHY
Born:
22. 1. 1942, Klucké
Chvalovice, district Čáslav, ČSR.
His father, Josef Zelený, was an entrepreneur (organizational consultant)
from a Czech family of Zelenys (descendant of Vácslav Vladivoj Zelený,
literary critic, friend of Smetana and Němcová). After 1948,
his father was transfered to mines (in Kladno) and so was his brother,
who was send to uranium mines in Jáchymov. This "mining background"
allowed to be admitted for a study at High school Sladkovského in Žižkov
and he graduated from VŠE (1959-1964) with
concentrations in political economy, finance and quantitative methods.
He was the best student of his class, valedictorian, - with the "red
diploma"After graduation he got a research position from Ota Šik
at the Economics Institute of ČSAV (Ekonomic-mathematical
laboratory). His co-workers at that time were Václav Klaus, Jaroslav Ježek
and some others. He entered and finally won a competition of the Univerisity
of Rochester in 1965. Thanks to Šik's intervention and resolution in the
Komárek-Kazan cas, he left for the USA already in August 1967 (by the
ship Queen Elisabeth).
He completed a military service during 1964-65 as a sub-lieutenant of
the Czechoslovak army, in the department of automatic computers, cybernetics
and management of the Ministry of National Defense in Prague.
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Education, titles:
Ph. D., Business Economics (University of Rochester, 1972)
M. S., Systems Management (University of Rochester, 1970)
Ing., Quantitative methods, political economy, finance (Prague School
of Economics, 1964)
Employment:
1964-1967, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, , Econometric laboratory;
Scientific worker
1971-1972, University of South Carolina, Columbia, College of Business
Administration; Assistant Professor of Statistics and Management Science
1972-1979, Columbia University, New York, Graduate School of Business;
Associate Professor of Business Administration
1979-1980, Copenhagen School of Economics, Copenhagen, Denmark, Professor
of Economics
1980-1981, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management
(EIASM), Brussels, Belgium; Professor of Management Sciences
1982-now: Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York, Graduate School
of Business Administration; Professor of Management Systems
1998-now: The Tomáš Baťa University in Zlín, Faculty of Management
and Economics (FaME); Professor of corporate economics and management
Research interests:
1. Management systems; knowledge management (KM); quality and customer-oriented management systems, self-management, employee co-ownership and profit-sharing, Japanese-style management, Bat'a-system, Integrated Process Management (IPM), high technology management, specialization vs. integration, decline of command hierarchies and lateral organizations, mass customization a trade-off-free management systems.
2. Economic Transformation to Market Economy; socio-economic conditions of socialism and its transition to capitalism, privatization and restructuralization processes in the industry and agriculture, employee-leveraged buyouts, history of economic thought, comparative analysis of socio-economic systems.
3. Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM); implications of the multiplicity of individual and group objectives in decision theory, mathematical programming, game theory, conflict resolution, micro- and macroeconomics, strategic management and decision support systems.
4. Applied areas of portfolio selection and risk analysis; measurement of consumer attitudes; human intuition, creativity and judgment; fuzzy sets and approximate reasoning; simulation models of biological organization and autopoiesis; artificial life (AL); osmotic growths; spontaneous social organizations; computer modeling (GPSS, APL, FORTRAN, BASIC).
Orientation:
He's an expert in the sphere of multicriteria decision making, productivity of work and operating systems: consultant of many companies, institutions and governments abroad (USA, Japan, Belgium, New Zealand, Poland, SSSR, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Portugal, and so on.). Scientific work is concentrated also in optimization and optimal systems with applications in manufacturing processes. A part of this academic work is directed towards simulation models and philosophy of autopoiesis (self-production) in biological and social systems, artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial life (AL).
Honors and awards:
1992, The Georg Cantor Award, International Society on MCDM
1992, Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
1990, USIA Fulbright Professor Award, Prague, Czechoslovakia
1990, A. Bernstein Memorial Fellowship, Tel-Aviv, Israel
1980, Alexander von Humboldt Award for Senior U. S. Scientists, Bonn, Germany
1979, Rockefeller Foundation Resident Scholar, Bellagio Study Center, Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy
1977, Norbert Wiener Award of Kybernetes
Membership:
AAAS, TIMS, ORSA, SGSR, HSM, SASE, Beta Gamma Sigma, Omega Rho, Club of Rome. Introduced in Who's Who in Science and Engineering (since 1992) a Who's Who in America (since 47. release)
Editorial boards:
International Journal of Information Technology and Decision Making
Prestige Journal of Management
Asia Pacific Journal of International Management
Computers and Operations Research
Fuzzy Sets and Systems
Human Systems Management
Future Generations Computer Systems
General Systems Yearbook
Adjunct positions:
CSIRO, Pretoria, South Africa, Mathematics and Statistics, Visiting Scientist, 1986
State University of New York at Binghamton, School of Advanced Technology, Professor in General Systems, 1986-1992
Program MBA (Master of Business Administration), Irish Management Institute (IMI), Dublin, Professor of Management Systems,1986-1990
Centro Studi di Estimo e di Economia Territoriale, Florence, Italy, Professor, 1992
Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento di Conservazione dei beni, Architettonici ed Ambientali, Naples, Italy, Visiting Professor of Environmental Economics, 1993-dnes
Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, Summer Professor on Multicriteria Decision Aid, 1994