Pataki, Béla PhD

Subjects

• Change management
• Technology management

Research fields

• Change management
  Multidimensional modelling of reactions to change. Comparative analysis of role theories of change management and project management. Adaptation of organization-level change role theories to interorganizational changes.
• Technology management
  Development of tools for supporting technology strategic decisions, first of all technology roadmapping. Adaptation of technology roadmapping to special application fields.

Significant Fellowships and Honors

• Best Paper Award, Híradástechnika (journal of the Society for Telecommunications) 1985, 1988
• British Council Know How Fund fellowships, Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh Business School, Institute of Technology Management), 1991, 1995
• Best Tutor (students' vote), Budapest University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Telecommunications Major, 1995
• Distinguished Member of the Faculty, Budapest University of Technology, Faculty of Natural and Social Sciences, 1997
• Expert author of CEO Magazin (authors' vote), 2003
• Certificate of Merit from the Rector of Budapest University of Technology and Economics, 2012
• Medallion of the Faculty, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, 2021

Scientific and professional community activities

• Member of the Academy of Management (Organization Development and Change Division, Technology and Innovation Management Division)
• Member of the European Academy of Management
• Member of the IEEE Technology and Engineering Management Society
• Associate community fellow, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Section of Economics and Law, Committee on Business Administration

Further Information

• I can't supervise PhD students, because I've already retired, I'm just giving lectures as a retiree. So please, don't send me acceptance letters! About the PhD programme of our faculty see: https://www.gtk.bme.hu/en/for-applicants/ph-d-programme/
• Remix Co., Hybrid IC Division, process development engineer, 1981-1988
• Teaching at BME, 1988-
• Co-founder of Euro-Contact Business School, the Hungarian school of The Open University Business School, adaptor of course materials, tutor trained by The OU-BS, 1989-1998
• Management trainer course by the West Herts Management Centre, Watford College (UK), 1990
• Management consultancy course by the University of Skövde (Sweden), Centre for Small Business Counselling, and the Bohlin & Strömberg International Management Consultants (Göteborg), 1993
• Co-founder and co-editor of the Hungarian edition of Harvard Business Review, 1998-2011
• Member of the editorial board of CEO Magazin, 2005-2011