Date and place of birth: August 2, 1950, Sâncraiu de Mures (Romania)
Education:
- Babes-Bolyai University Cluj (Romania), Faculty of Economic Sciences, 1973
- Ph. D. Babes-Bolyai University Cluj (Romania), Faculty of Economic Sciences, 1983
Professional experience:
- Professor, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca: 1998 -
- Associate professor (reader), Technical University of Cluj-Napoca: 1995-1998
- Lecturer, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj, Faculty of Economic Sciences:1990-1994
- Aassistant professor, Babes-Bolyai University Cluj, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Cluj-Napoca: 1978-1990
- Economist, Tehnofrig Company, Cluj-Napoca: 1973-1978
Professional activities:
- Teaching subjects:
- Political Economy
- General Marketing
- General Management
- Strategic Management
- Scholarships/fellowships/ international mobility programs:
- visiting professor, Southern Connecticut State University , June, July 1998
- visiting professor, Western Illinois University , June 1996
- Harvard Business School , Advanced Management Program, 111, 8 September-21 November l992
- Harvard Business School , Central and Eastern European Teachers Program, 25 June-31 July l993, in Strategic management and Organizational behaviour
- Harvard Business School , Executive Education Renewal Program, June 1994
- Harvard Business School , Executive Education Renewal Program, June 1996
- Harvard Business School , Executive Education Renewal Program, June, 1998
- Universite D'Aix Marseille II , TEMPUS, 10 May-20 June 1993 and 5-13 November, 1994, in Health Care Management
- Case Western Reserve University , Weatherhead School of Management, Conference for National Health Care Planning in Romania , 27 February-7 March 1992
- Technical University of Viena , TEMPUS, 6-13 December 1995 and December 1997
- Erlangen-Nurnberg University , Germany, TEMPUS, March 1996
- Ecole des Mines de Paris , TEMPUS , April 1997
- Technical University of Stuttgart , TEMPUS, August, September 1997
- Technical University Braunschweig , Germany, TEMPUS, March, 1998
- University of Central Lancashire , TEMPUS, May, 1998
- Technical University of Viena , TEMPUS, August, 1998
- University of Technology Chemnitz , Germany, SOCRATES -ERASMUS, March 1999
Research interests:
- Management:
- Management of health care
- Managerial behaviour during transition to the market economy
- Managerial resistance to change in the present socio-economic environment in Romania)
- Organizational culture
- Marketing
Publications: 124 several items (see selected list of publications )
4 monographies
9 books/textbooks
72 studies published in romanian economic reviews and conferences volumes
7 studies published in foreign reviews and conferences volumes
38 presentations at different national and international conferences and symposia
Membership in professional boards:
- Correspondent member of Journal for East European Management Studies's editorial board (Chemnitz, Germany)
Language abilities:
- English, Hungarian, French
Family:
- married ( Gheorghe-Alexandru Catana )
- one child (Radu-Nicolae, married to Daciana)
- one granddaughter (Nora-Ioana)
- most loved dog (Aris)
Hobbies: reading, social events, travelling
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